Manjana Milkoreit

Manjana Milkoreit is a Post-doctoral Research Fellow with the Walton Sustainability Solutions Initiative at ASU’s Wrigley Global Institute of Sustainability. Her research focuses on the role of cognition in climate change politics, and more generally the way cognitive processes such as imagination or scientific knowledge impact the search for and implementation of solutions to climate change. She is interested in the use of scientific knowledge and moral reasoning in political processes, and in the role of ideologies in advancing or preventing effective societal responses to climate change. At ASU Manjana has initiated the Imagination and Climate Futures Initiative. She is a core faculty member of the Center for Social Dynamics and Complexity (CSDC) and a research affiliate with the Consortium for Science, Policy and Outcomes (CSPO). One of her current research projects investigates people’s beliefs, learning and imagination concerning the Anthropocene.

Manjana’s dissertation analyzed whether and how cognitive processes influence the search for cooperative multilateral solutions in the UNFCCC. She has also studied the changing role of the emerging powers (China, India, Brazil, South Africa) in the global climate negotiations.

Manjana is a Fellow of the Earth System Governance Project, and an active member of international, multidisciplinary research networks on complexity and resilience, including the Resilience Alliance Young Scholars. She holds a Master in Public Policy from the Harvard Kennedy School and a Ph.D. in Global Governance from the University of Waterloo. Her professional experiences include international organizations, the public, non-profit, and private sectors.