Brianne Hendrickson-Smith

Brianne is the head of Geospatial Analytics within the Morgan Stanley Global Sustainability Office where she focuses on biodiversity and physical climate risks. She is a trained hydrometeorologist and former professor of Environmental Science. Her work in sustainability has spanned the range from on the ground threatened species surveys to designing sustainable drinking and wastewater solutions. Brianne’s academic research focused on urban flooding, high resolution rainfall data, and sustainable flooding solutions like bioswales. She was an author of the NYC Panel on Climate Change 2015 Report and led a City-funded team to investigate flooding risks and mitigation across NYC. Brianne received her bachelors and Master of Engineering degrees from Cornell University and her PhD in Environmental Engineering and Water Resources from Princeton University.