Courtney Weatherby is a Fellow and Deputy Director with the Southeast Asia and Energy, Water, & Sustainability programs. Her research takes a multi-disciplinary lens to explore connections and challenges related to energy infrastructure, online scam operations, critical minerals, water governance, and geopolitics, with particular focus on water, energy, and governance issues in the Greater Mekong Subregion.
Weatherby was authored and co-authored a range of technical and policy studies such as The Accountability Gap: Tackling Cyber Fraud Across Legal Frameworks; Opportunities for Singapore to Drive ASEAN’s Green Transition and Delivering on Vietnam’s COP26 Commitments. She led the Mekong-U.S. Partnership Track 1.5 Policy Dialogue series of eleven deep dive workshops from 2020-2025 to identify actionable insights and recommendations for policymakers on issues ranging from advancing the digital economy to combatting online cyber scam operations to water governance. She also provides data and analytical support for data dashboards and decision support tools, such as the Mekong Dam Monitor, a platform for near-real time monitoring of dams and environmental impacts in the Mekong Basin, and the Mekong Infrastructure Tracker, a platform to track, monitor, and quantify the development of energy, transportation, and water infrastructure in South East Asia.
In 2019, she served as a US-Japan-Southeast Asia Fellow at the East-West Center, focusing her research on US-Japan collaboration on energy infrastructure in Southeast Asia. Before joining Stimson in 2014, Weatherby held internships with the Center for Strategic International Studies, State Department, and Human Rights Watch. She holds a M.A. in Asian Studies from the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University and a B.A. in East Asian Studies with honors from Dickinson College.
