Tanja Srebotnjak
Tanja Srebotnjak
Post Doctoral Research Associate
Ph.D., Yale University, 2007
Contact Information:
Parrington Hall, Room 408
tanjas@u.washington.edu
206.685.7303
Areas of Specialization:
Development of Composite Indicators; Methods for Missing Data; and Performance Measurement and Evaluation in Environmental, Health and Social Policy
Tanja Srebotnjak joined the Evans School in 2006 as a consultant and has worked as a part-time lecturer and post doctoral research associate since 2007. Her research and teaching interests include the development of composite indicators, methods for missing data, and performance measurement and evaluation in environmental, health and social policy.
Prior to coming to the Evans School, Srebotnjak worked as a statistician from 2006-07 for the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, and project director from 2003-06 for the Environmental Performance Measurement Project at the Yale Center for Environmental Law and Policy. She has also served as a teaching assistant at the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies and Dortmund University in Germany.
Srebotnjak is the recipient of several awards and fellowships and fellowships from the Martin Schmeisser Foundation in Dortmund, Germany, and the Deutsche Studienstiftung in Bonn, Germany.
Outside of academics, Srebotnjak worked as a statistician from 2000-03 for the United Nations Statistics Division in New York.
She is a member of The International Environmetrics Society and American Statistical Assocation, Section on the Environment.
Srebotnjak holds a Ph.D. from the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and School of Forestry and Environmental Studies at Yale University, a MA from Yale University, a MS in statistics from the University of Auckland in New Zealand, and a Diploma in statistics from Dortmund University in Germany.
Publications
2008 Environmental Performance Index with Daniel C. Esty, Marc A. Levy, Christine H. Kim, Alexander de Sherbinin, and Valentina Mara. New Haven: Yale Center for Environmental Law & Policy, 2008
“Environmental Performance Index” edited by E. Melnick and B. Everett for the Encyclopedia of Quantitative Risk Assessment, Wiley New York, Oxford, in press.
“Biofuels: Silver Bullet or Pipedream” for Environment: Yale Magazine, Fall 2007
“Understanding the North-South Knowledge Divide and Its Implications for Policy: A Quantitative Analysis of the Generation of Scientific Knowledge in the Environmental Sciences” with Sylvia Karlsson and Patricia Gonzales for the Journal of Environmental Science and Policy, 10:668-684; 2007
“The Role of Environmental Statisticians in Environmental Policy: The Case of Performance Measurement” for the Journal of Environmental Science and Policy, 10:405-418; 2007
Pilot 2006 Environmental Performance Index with Daniel C. Esty, Marc A. Levy, and Alexander de Sherbinin. New Haven: Yale Center for Environmental Law & Policy, 2006
The Performance of the ASEAN Member State in the 2005 Environmental Sustainability Index (ESI): A Synthesis of Findings for the 3rd ASEAN State of the Environment Report, 2005
“Pushing the Frontier of Benchmarking National Environmental Stewardship” with Daniel C. Esty for the Yale Journal for International Affairs, 1(1): 156-168; 2005
“A Critical Analysis of the 2005 Environmental Sustainability Index as a Tool for Environmental Policymaking” for the Proceedings of the Eminent Environmental Economist Symposium at the 5th Ministerial Conference on Environment and Development in Asia, Seoul, South Korea, March 24-25, 2005
2005 Environmental Sustainability Index: Benchmarking National Environmental Stewardship with Daniel C. Esty, Marc Levy, and Alexander de Sherbinin. New Haven: Yale Center for Environmental Law and Policy, 2005
“Young Environmetricians Profile” for The International Environmetrics Society (TIES) Newsletter, 10 (2): 10-11; 2004
Deriving a Model for Missing Date in the 2002 Environmental Sustainability Index for the Proceedings of the 2002 Joint Statistical Meetings of the American Statistical Association, New York, 2002
“Environmental Sustainability Indicators – Developing Measures for Quantitative Analysis of Environmental Sustainability” for the International Human Dimensions Programme on Global Environmental Change Newsletter, UPDATE 2: 14, 2002
“Imputing Missing Values” with Kobi A. Abayomi and Andrew Gelman for the 2002 Environmental Sustainability Index. New Haven: Yale Center for Environmental Law and Policy, 2002
