Dr. Shuchi Talati

Dr. Shuchi Talati

Dr. Shuchi Talati is currently a Senior Policy Advisor at Carbon180 where she focuses on policies to build sustainable and equitable technological carbon removal at scale. Prior to that, she was the Geoengineering Research, Governance and Public Engagement Fellow at the Union of Concerned Scientists where she worked to guide sound governance around solar geoengineering and carbon removal approaches to limit global warming. Dr. Talati was also the 2017-2018 AAAS/AIP Congressional Science Fellow in the offices of Senator Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) and Senator Al Franken (D-MN) where she focused on the climate and energy portfolio. Before working in Congress, she was a postdoctoral fellow in science policy at the American Meteorological Society and served at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy in the Obama Administration. Dr. Talati earned a BS in environmental engineering from Northwestern University, an MA in climate and society from Columbia University, and a PhD from Carnegie Mellon University in engineering and public policy.