Angela Bednarek is a director at The Pew Charitable Trusts in the environmental science division. She oversees the group’s efforts to connect science, policy, and resource management. Angela seeks to improve the connections between scientific research and the needs of resource managers and decision-makers. Before joining Pew, Angela was an AAAS Diplomacy Fellow at the U.S. Department of State, where she negotiated U.S. positions on multilateral development bank projects and chemicals agreements, and served as the U.S. representative to the UN Dams and Development Project. She has held several fellowships in environmental policy, including at Columbia University. Angela has a Ph.D. in biology from the University of Pennsylvania.