Victoria Keener is a Senior Research Fellow at the East-West Center, the Lead Principal Investigator of the NOAA Pacific Regional Integrated Sciences & Assessments program, and is the Lead Author of the Hawaiʻi and Pacific Islands chapter of the 4th US National Climate Assessment. Keener also serves as the Chair of the City & County of Honolulu Climate Change Commission. She earned a PhD in Agricultural & Biological Engineering from the University of Florida, specializing in hydro-climatological research.