Erica Key, PhD

Dr. Erica Key is the US Global Hub Director for Future Earth, based in Boulder, Colorado. She brings to the role more than a decade of experience leading systems approaches to global change. Prior to joining Future Earth, Erica was Executive Director of the Belmont Forum, an international partnership of funding, resource, and science coordination organizations committed to transdisciplinary, transnational approaches to global environmental change. She led membership and strategic development for the Forum, building a funding ecosystem capable of supporting a range of knowledge types and geographies in collaborative research and action with stakeholders. Erica also supported the implementation of the Forum’s Open Data and Open Access Policy and Principles in all elements of its funding and review program, including targeted funding for innovative re-use of Belmont Forum data and digital objects. She is a co-founder and Executive Committee member of the annual global Sustainability Research and Innovation Congress, a Special Advisor to the UN Science-Policy-Business Forum, and a member of the Conseil d’Orientation Strategique of the Institute for Research and Development of France. Erica draws on her experience as a program director at the U.S. National Science Foundation, interagency agreements lead, and a global change researcher. She holds a Ph.D. in meteorology and physical oceanography from the University of Miami’s Rosenstiel School for Marine Sciences.