Nicholas Institute Staff

Nicole St. Clair Knobloch
Nicole St. Clair Knobloch is associate director of the DC office of the Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions at Duke University. Prior to joining the Nicholas Institute staff this fall, she was director of communications for the Climate Campaign at Environmental Defense. In 2004 and 2005, St. Clair served in a similar capacity for the Natural Resources Defense Council. Before that, she was director of strategic communications for Ceres, a Boston-based coalition of environmental organizations and investment funds, where she worked with some of the nation’s largest institutional investors and major companies on the concept of “climate risk.” Her efforts at Ceres netted some of the first coverage of global warming in the nation’s financial press, as well as the engagement of Wall Street analysts in the issue and attention from Congress. Earlier in her career she worked on health policy at the Michigan Council for Maternal and Child Health. While at MCMCH, Ms. St. Clair Knobloch co-led and developed policy through a statewide initiative to increase and streamline funding for early childhood education and care.