Ratia Tekenet

Ratia Tekenet is the Staff intern for the Wilson Center’s Environmental Change and Security Program. She will be supporting the award-winning blog, New Security Beat. She is a second-year graduate student studying Global Governance, Politics and Security at the School of International Service at American University.

Her research interests focus on the nexus between governance, environment, and conflict. Ratia was previously based at the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) in Nairobi, where her work focused on global environmental policy, strategic communications, and multilateral environmental engagement.