Overview
Eilish Zembilci is a Ph.D. student in the joint Public Policy and Political Science program at Duke University. She specializes in global environmental politics and environmental security with a particular emphasis on food security, human mobility, and energy and infrastructure in fragile contexts. Her research interests broadly include climate change adaptation, geopolitics of development and the energy transition, and the efficacy (and now absence) of U.S. foreign assistance.
Eilish has produced policy analysis for prominent development and policy institutions such as the CSIS Global Food and Water Security Program, the World Food Program USA, the U.S. Agency for International Development and U.S. Department of State, the U.S. Institute of Peace, the UN International Organization on Migration (IOM), as well as Duke University’s own Nicholas Institute for Energy, Environment and Sustainability.
Eilish received her master’s degree in public policy as a Carlucci Fellow of Security Studies from the Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke University and her bachelor’s degree in international affairs with a concentration in global public health and a minor in sustainability studies from the George Washington University.