She holds a Ph.D. in economics from MIT, completed an MSc in environmental management and B.A. in jurisprudence at Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar. She is the editor of The Shale Dilemma: A Global Perspective on Fracking and Shale Development (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2017). She has conducted work for the World Bank, the Environmental Protection Agency and Human Rights Watch. She was recently selected for the Bley Stein Visiting Professorship at the Arava Institute for Environmental Studies. Her peer-reviewed publications are in the areas of energy, environment, health and development policy.