Dr. Jeremy Porter is the Head of Climate Implications research for First Street Foundation. As such, he serves as the chief researcher in the development of implications focused peer-reviewed research and internal reports built off of First Street’s climate hazard models. His work primarily focuses on the integration of social and economic implications as downstream derivatives of risk and/or exposure in the areas of real-estate economics, population redistribution, and many other risk related implications. Over his career, his contributions to this area include his authoring of 3 books, 100+ peer-reviewed research articles, and dozens of research/policy reports.

Dr. Porter came to First Street from the academic world, where he served as the founding Executive Officer and Chair of the Quantitative Methods in the Social Sciences Department at the CUNY Graduate Center and taught for over a decade in Columbia University’s Environmental Health Sciences program. In addition, Dr. Porter is Founding Editor-in-Chief of the academic journal Spatial Demography, the Founding Lead Social-Science Editor of the Journal of Maps, and the Founding Editor of Springer’s book series in Spatial Demography. 

Prior to these appointments he was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Rice University with a focus on Demography and Applied Statistics and holds a Ph.D. in Demography with Ph.D. minors in Applied Statistics and Geospatial Technologies.