Laura Kuhl is an Assistant Professor in the School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs and the International Affairs program at Northeastern University. Her research examines climate adaptation and resilience in developing countries. Current projects examine global adaptation finance, transformational adaptation, and resilience and transformation in Puerto Rico. She has studied innovation, technology transfer and adoption for adaptation as well as mainstreaming adaptation in development policy in East Africa and Central America. She completed a post-doctoral fellowship at the Climate Policy Lab at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, where she also received her PhD in International Relations and a MA in International Environmental Policy and Development Economics. She has a bachelors in Environmental Studies and Anthropology/Sociology from Middlebury College.