Joyce Yao

Joyce Yao was an intern at Global Public Policy Institute, Berlin, during the spring of 2009. She was born and raised in Taipei, Taiwan, and has since moved to the United States to pursue her undergraduate Bachelors degrees in History and Political Science - International Relations from Rice University, in Houston, Texas. For the spring of 2009, Joyce is studying politics and the German language through an exchange program between New York University and the Humboldt University.

Prior to interning at GPPi, Joyce worked as a research intern at the James A. Baker III Institute of Public Policy's Energy Forum, focusing on issues regarding conventional and alternative energy, the environment and climate change mitigation. Beyond Science: The Economics and Politics of Climate Change, is a major report that she helped to compile. Joyce also interned at the Houston Mayor's Office of Communications, where she shadowed the Director of Communications during the summer of 2008. She was involved in writing press releases, organizing press conferences, internal and external communications for the mayor. She also organized the registration campaign to register Houstonians for the 211 emergency evacuation assistance. This internship was conducted as part of the Leadership Rice fellowship's Summer Mentorship Experience.

Joyce's areas of interest include international affairs and cooperation, environmental and energy policy. She assissted GPPi Associate Director, Jan Martin Witte, with the publication of "OPEC at 50: Between Power and Impotence" as a research intern in GPPi's energy program, “Changing Rule of the Game: Global Energy Governance in the 21st Century.”