Vicki Arroyo

Director of Policy Analysis

Vicki Arroyo is Director of Policy Analysis for the Pew Center on Global Climate Change, a position she has held since July 1998.  The Pew Center works to inform the climate change debate through analyses that add facts and perspectives in the areas of international and domestic policy, economics, science and environmental impacts, and practical solutions.  In her role as Director of Policy Analysis, Vicki directs the Pew Center’s domestic program, including oversight of analysis, reports, and workshops focusing on domestic policy issues, economics, and science/environmental impacts.  She has overseen the development of over 50 published reports, briefs and white papers, and was Managing Editor of the Pew Center’s book:  Climate Change: Science, Strategies, and Solutions.

Vicki has over 20 years of experience in the environmental field.  Just prior to joining the Pew Center, she practiced environmental law for four years with Washington, DC office of Kilpatrick Stockton, where she represented clients on a variety of air quality, Superfund, and other environmental issues.  She served in two offices of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency -- overseeing development of air toxics standards in the Office of Air and Radiation from 1987 - 1988, and reviewing development of criteria air pollutant regulations in the Office of Research and Development from 1993 -1994.   In between her two stints at EPA, she served in Louisiana as Environmental Advisor to Governor Buddy Roemer and as Director of Policy Analysis for the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality (from 1988 - 1991). 

She has also worked at the local level on environmental issues in Charleston, West Virginia (on emergency release issues for the National Institute of Chemical Studies), as a town planner in Braintree, Massachusetts, and as an environmental technician monitoring oil-spill clean-up in the Gulf of Mexico.  She interned for National Audubon Society’s Capitol Hill office in 1983.

Vicki holds a Bachelor of Science degree in biology, magna cum laude, from Emory University (double major in philosophy); a Masters of Public Administration from Harvard University, where she received the top award in her program for “academic achievement and commitment to public service,” and a Juris Doctor degree, magna cum laude from Georgetown University Law Center, where she served as Editor-in-Chief of the Georgetown International Environmental Law Review.

She serves on the Editorial Board of the Climate Policy Journal, on the Advisory Council to the National Center for Atmospheric Research, and on advisory committees to the National Academy of Sciences and the U.S. Climate Change Science Program.  She has served as an adjunct faculty member at Catholic University and George Mason University teaching undergraduate and graduate courses in environmental policy, and at Tulane University Law School.