Dr. Hope Thompson (she/her)

Dr. Hope Thompson is an expert on climate adaptation policy, comprehensive risk management, and equitable disaster resilience. At NRDC, her advocacy focuses on improving homeowners' insurance availability and affordability, especially for low-income and minority communities. Dr. Thompson brings more than eight years of federal policy experience from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), where she provided strategic and policy guidance across disaster resilience programs, spearheaded development of the agency's strategy to instill equity as a foundation of emergency management, and co-led FEMA's support of Puerto Rico's $139 billion recovery plan following Hurricane Maria. Her earlier academic research examined climate adaptation strategies in Nepal, Pakistan, and East Africa. Dr. Thompson holds a PhD in public policy and economics from the University of Michigan, where she was a National Science Foundation graduate research fellow, and a bachelor's from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. She is based in NRDC's Washington, D.C., office.