Alexandria Miskho

Alexandria Miskho

Abrams Environmental Clinic Fellow, Lecturer in Law

Alex Miskho is a Fellow at the Abrams Environmental Law Clinic. Her experience on climate and environmental issues has spanned clean energy engineering, climate risk modelling and assessments, and law and policy. Her work at the Clinic focuses on climate advocacy across international and domestic law.

Prior to joining the Clinic, Alex served in the Biden-Harris Administration as a Senior Advisor to Secretary John Kerry in the Office of the Special Presidential Envoy for Climate. In this role, she negotiated international climate agreements on behalf of the United States in multilateral fora, including under the Paris Agreement, UN General Assembly, and UN Environment Assembly. She sat on the board of multilateral climate funds, including the Fund for Responding to Loss and Damage. She also led diplomatic efforts and interagency policy on resilience issues and at the intersection of climate with health, migration, security, ocean action, and more.

Alex was previously the Interim Policy Director for the Yale Center for Environmental Law and Policy and a senior consultant at Oliver Wyman. She received her Bachelors of Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2017, and her JD from Yale Law School in 2022.

Education

Yale Law School

JD, June 2022

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

B.S. In Engineering as recommended by the Department of Chemical Engineering, 2017
Tau Beta Pi Engineering Honors Society

Experience

U.S. Department of State

Office of the Special Presidential Envoy for Climate; Senior Advisor to then-Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John F. Kerry, (July 2023 – January 2025)
Heyman Federal Public Service Fellowship, Office of Global Change, (December 2022 – July 2023)

Yale Center for Environmental Law & Policy

Postdoctoral Associate & Heyman Federal Public Service Fellowship Recipient, (June 2022 – December 2022)
Interim Policy Director, (April 2025 – July 2025)

Council on Environmental Quality

Student Law Clerk, Executive Office of the President, (October 2021 – April 2022)

Allard K. Lowenstein International Human Rights Clinic

Student Clinic Director, (August 2021 – May 2022)
Student Clinician, (August 2020 – May 2021)

Oliver Wyman

Senior Consultant, (January 2019 – May 2019)

Bar Admissions

District of Columbia (2022)