RESILE Leadership
Mark Borsuk, Ph.D., Faculty Director
Mark Borsuk’s research concerns the development and application of mathematical models for integrating scientific information on natural, technical, and social systems. He is a widely-cited expert in Bayesian network modeling with regular application to environmental and human health regulation and decision making. He is also the originator of novel approaches to climate change assessment, combining risk analysis, game theory, and agent-based modeling. Borsuk’s highly collaborative research has been funded by NSF, EPA, NIH, NIEHS and USFS, and he has authored or co-authored 90+ peer-reviewed journal publications and 6 book chapters.
Email: mark.borsuk@duke.edu
Lydia Olander, Ph.D., Program Director
Lydia Olander is a Program Director at the Nicholas Institute for Energy Environment & Sustainability at Duke University and adjunct professor at the Nicholas School of the Environment. She works on improving policy and accelerating evidence-based implementation of climate resilience, nature-based solutions, natural capital accounting, and environmental markets. She leads the National Ecosystem Services Partnership and sits on the Universities Climate Commitment action team. She recently spent two years with the Biden Administration at the Council on Environmental Quality as Director of Nature based Resilience and before that spent five years on the Environmental Advisory Board for the US Army Corps of Engineers. She is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Email: lydia.olander@duke.edu
Mercy Berman DeMenno, Ph.D., MBA, Executive-in-Residence
Dr. Mercy Berman DeMenno is an expert in climate-related financial risk, regulation, and resilience. Her research focuses on financial markets and regulation, energy and environmental policy, regulatory governance, and corporate sustainability. She also has extensive applied experience advising financial services and energy sector executives and regulators on strategies to manage complex systemic risks and build economic and environmental resilience.
Email: mercy.demenno@duke.edu
Sara Oliver, M.U.P., Executive-in-Residence
Sara Oliver is the Director of the Master of Engineering in Climate and Sustainability Engineering at Duke University and an Executive in Residence in the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department. Sara is passionate about empowering engineering leaders of the future with the technical knowledge and skills needed to innovate and design solutions to climate challenges within our uncertain and rapidly changing world. Through her working on large scale infrastructure projects and in partnership with communities who are impacted both by those infrastructure projects and climate change – she has a unique perspective on the increasing demand for engineers equipped to synthesize the big picture of the climate landscape with the technical skills expertise required to implement engineering solutions.
Email: sara.oliver@duke.edu
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