Robin Bronen

Robin Bronen

Robin Bronen lives in Alaska and works as a human rights attorney and senior research scientist at the University of Alaska-Fairbanks on the climate-forced relocations of Alaska Native communities. She is also the co-founder and executive director of the Alaska Institute for Justice.   She has worked with the White House Council on Environmental Quality to implement President Obama’s Climate Change Task Force recommendation to address climate displacement. Internationally, she works as an expert on climate-forced planned relocations with the UNFCCC Warsaw Mechanism on the Loss and Damage Task Force on Displacement and is a member of the advisory group for the Platform on Disaster Displacement, a national government-led process intended to build consensus on the development of a protection agenda addressing population displacement caused by climate change.