Senior Research Associate

Dr. Juliet Christian-Smith is a Senior Research Associate with the Pacific Institute's Water Program. Her interests include agricultural water uses, comparative analyses of water governance structures, watershed restoration, and climate change.

Prior to coming to the Pacific Institute, Dr. Christian-Smith was in Portugal on a Fulbright Fellowship studying the implementation of the European Union Water Framework Directive and examining agricultural water usage in the Alentejo region. During graduate school, she worked on several water policy projects in California through the University of California Cooperative Extension, managing the field work and data collection for one of the first voluntary and empirical studies of agricultural water demand in California.

Dr. Christian-Smith holds a Ph.D. in Environmental Science, Policy and Management from UC Berkeley and a B.A. in Biology from Smith College.