Stacy-ann Robinson is an associate professor of environmental sciences at Emory University in the United States having held previous appointments at Colby College, Yale University, Brown University, and the University of Pennsylvania.

Robinson’s scholarship investigates the human, social, and policy dimensions of climate change adaptation in small island developing states, with a special focus on climate justice, and adaptation finance, an area in which she holds a certification. She was a contributing author to Chapter 15 (Small Islands) of Working Group II’s contribution to the Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which was released in February 2022. Her work has appeared in Nature, Nature Climate Change, Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews (WIREs): Climate Change, Climate Policy, and other leading journals.

Outside of academia, Robinson has 15 years’ experience in the government, nonprofit, and private sectors, including time spent representing the government of Jamaica in the Second Committee (Economic and Financial) of the United Nations General Assembly and the International Seabed Authority.