Anthony Leiserowitz
Founder and Director, Yale Program on Climate Change Communication; Senior Research Scientist, Yale School of the Environment
Anthony Leiserowitz is the founder and director of the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication and a senior research scientist at Yale School of the Environment. An expert on public climate change beliefs, attitudes and policy support and the factors that shape them, he conducts research globally. Leiserowitz hosts the widely broadcast radio program “Climate Connections,” has published more than 350 scientific pieces and has worked with the National Academy of Sciences, U.N. Development Program and the World Economic Forum, among others. His honors include the National Center for Science Education’s Friend of the Planet Award and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Environmental Innovator award. In 2020, Reuters named him the second-most influential climate scientist in the world (of 1,000).
Previously
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