Dakota Gruener leads Reflective, a nonprofit climate research initiative focused on accelerating rigorous, transparent research on sunlight reflection.

Dakota's background spans global health, technology governance, and climate. She previously served as aide-de-camp to the CEO of Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, supporting vaccine manufacturing negotiations and large-scale fundraising, and later as founding Executive Director of ID2020, where she worked on international standards-setting during the COVID-19 pandemic. Dakota graduated magna cum laude from Brown University with dual degrees in Biology and Political Science.