Vicki Arroyo has been the director of policy analysis for the Pew Center on Global Climate Change since 1998.  

She has had over 20 years of experience in the environmental field. Prior to joining the Pew Center, she practiced environmental law with the Washington, DC, office of Kilpatrick Stockton, where she represented clients on a variety of air quality, Superfund, and other  environmental issues. She served in two offices of the US Environmental Protection Agency-- overseeing development of air toxics standards in the Office of Air and Radiation from 1987 - 1988, and reviewing development of criteria air pollutant regulations in the Office of Research and Development from 1993 -1994.   In between her two stints at EPA, she served in Louisiana as Environmental Advisor to Governor Buddy Roemer and as Director of Policy Analysis for the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality (from 1988 - 1991). 

Arroyo holds a bachelor of science in biology, magna cum laude, from Emory University (double major in philosophy); a master's of public administration from Harvard University, and a Juris Doctor, magna cum laude, from Georgetown University Law Center, where she served as editor-in-chief of the Georgetown International Environmental Law Review.

• Advancing an Agenda for Climate Action (April 19, 2006)