Ana Vivas Thomas

Ana Vivas Thomas serves as a Policy Analyst for Citizens for Responsible Energy Solutions (CRES) where she conducts research on energy policy, sector emissions and reliability, climate change mitigation, and incentives for innovative technologies. Prior to CRES, she interned with the Center for Climate and Energy Solutions (C2ES) where she provided research support on various work streams of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), such as the global stocktake, climate finance, and loss and damage (L&D). She also researched ways to enhance private sector engagement on mitigation and climate finance through the Marrakech Partnership for Global Climate Action.  

She holds a Master of Public Policy from Georgetown University, with a focus on climate, environmental and energy policy, and a Bachelor of Arts in international development studies from UCLA.