Gifford Wong

Dr. Gifford Wong (he/him) is currently a Senior Policy Advisor at the California Office of Energy Infrastructure Safety supporting the Wildfire Safety Advisory Board. Prior to working for the state of California, Gifford worked for six years as a Research Staff Member at the IDA Science and Technology Policy Institute (STPI) in Washington, DC. Before joining STPI, he served as a Foreign Affairs Officer in the Office of Chinese and Mongolian Affairs at the U.S. Department of State through a AAAS Science and Technology Policy Fellowship, and as a climate and environment adviser to Senator Sheldon Whitehouse while on an American Geosciences Institute Congressional Science Fellowship. He holds a doctorate in Earth sciences from Dartmouth College, an Honours in Antarctic Studies from the University of Tasmania at Hobart, and a bachelor’s in Asian American Studies from the University of California at Berkeley.