Biography
Katrina (Kate) Pugh is Auster Center’s Environmental Innovation Faculty Fellow and teaches at Tufts Gordon Institute's MS in Engineering Management. Dr. Pugh is a consultant, researcher, and educator focused on strategy, networks, and sustainability. Dr. Pugh leverages AI to analyze social systems — such as how conversation features influence outcomes. She employs systems thinking and quantitative modeling to improve knowledge sharing, open source, impact networks, and project performance. She co-leads sustainability conversation skills-building through the Conversation for Civility network and teaches changemakers on impact networks as a Partner with Weaving Futures. She has been published in various journals, including KM for Development Journal, MIT Sloan Management Review, and Harvard Business Review. She is the author of Sharing Hidden Know-How. Dr. Pugh is an Adjunct Professor for Columbia University’s Information and Knowledge Strategy master’s program, where she also served as Academic Director. She earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in economics from Williams College, a Master of Science degree and an MBA from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a PhD in ecology and environmental sciences from the University of Maine.