![](https://cdn.carnegiecouncil.org/media/people/_400x400_crop_center-center_none_ns/MichaelThompson_headshot.jpg?v=1719360303)
Michael Thompson was senior outreach consultant for the Carnegie Climate Governance Initiative (C2G).
Before joining C2G, Thompson was a co-founder of the Forum for Climate Engineering Assessment, a researcher at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC, and a policy advisor with the Natural Resources Defense Council and The Energy and Resources Institute in Delhi, India.