Research Associate

Kristina Donnelly is a Research Associate with the Pacific Institute's Water Program. Her research interests include: social, economic and policy implications for water conservation, conflict and conflict resolution/management over transboundary water resources, water policy and environmental justice in the Middle East, and soft path water planning.

During graduate school, Ms. Donnelly worked on several projects, including modeling hypoxia development in the Gulf of Mexico, identifying water valuation strategies for international businesses, and analyzing economic development strategies for Jordan. She was the 2008/09 Sea Grant Fellow with the Great Lakes Commission in Michigan. After that, she worked for the Center for Transboundary Water Management at the Arava Institute for Environmental Studies in southern Israel. Her work focused on conducting and implementing transboundary water research, projects, and educational opportunities between Israelis, Jordanians, Palestinians and other nationalities.

Ms. Donnelly received a M.S. in Natural Resources and Environment from the University of Michigan and a B.S. in Mathematics from American University.