Andrea Cristina is  with Eastern Research Group as an Economist focused on Resilience and Environmental Justice. ERG is a multidisciplinary consulting firm with a strong climate change and sustainability practice. Concurrently, she serves as a technical expert on the New York Climate Impact Assessment and a committee member for the Committee on Extreme Weather and Climate Change Adaptation for the Transportation Research Board with the National Academy of Sciences.  Andrea Cristina is interested in research on topics at the intersection of climate change, transportation, and inequality through causal inference.

Previously, Andrea Cristina managed the Environment, Energy, and Climate Change sector at J-PAL. Previously, Andrea Cristina was the lead for environmental economics analysis for the Chief Economist office at the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey and held a variety of policy-oriented research positions with the World Bank Climate Change group, Miami Dade County Office of Resilience, and the Embassy of Ecuador in Washington D.C. Andrea Cristina holds a degree from Columbia University School of International Public Affairs and a B.S. in Economics from The George Washington University.