Kristin Ludwig serves as the Assistant Director for Resilience Science & Technology at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP). In this role, she provides government-wide interagency leadership on using science and technology to inform resilience to a wide range of disruptions including natural hazards and climate change. She co-chairs the National Science & Technology Council’s Subcommittee on Resilience Science and Technology and the Science for Disaster Reduction interagency working group.
Ludwig is detailed to OSTP from the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), where she was the Science Advisor for Risk Reduction in the Natural Hazards Mission Area and contributed to multiple efforts in disaster risk reduction and community resilience. She was part of the Department of the Interior’s Strategic Sciences Group and co-led the 2013 deployment for Hurricane Sandy recovery and the 2018 SSG response to the Kilauea eruption.
Ludwig transitioned into science policy in 2011 as an American Association for the Advancement of Science Science and Technology Policy fellow placed at the National Science Foundation and later at USGS. Prior to federal service, she managed communications for the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program at the Consortium for Ocean Leadership where she supported response to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Ludwig has also worked in science, technology, engineering, and math education, including developing programs and exhibits for Seattle’s Pacific Science Center and teaching earth science policy at George Mason University.
Ludwig holds a PhD in oceanography from the University of Washington and a BS in earth systems from Stanford University.