Gustė Gurcinaite

Biography

Gustė Gurčinaite is a Lithuanian student at New York University Abu Dhabi majoring in Political Science with minors in Environmental Studies and Legal studies. Gustė's professional and academic experiences are centered around the intersection of climate change and social inequality. As a policy researcher, Gustė has worked on a United Nations at a Middle East Institute in Washington D.C. and helped to build a sustainable transportation roadmap for the MENA region. Subsequently, Gustė joined the EIT Climate-KIC in Europe and designed a novel blockchain-based solution aimed at democratizing funding for climate innovation projects and diverting more funds to underrepresented climate areas. In her undergraduate thesis, Gustė is currently probing how energy poverty affects public support for clean energy transition policies in Europe.