BIO
Kerry Emanuel is Cecil & Ida Green Professor post tenure of Atmospheric Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (United States), where he has headed both the Center for Meteorology and Physical Oceanography and the Program in Atmospheres, Oceans and Climate. He is also co-founder with Daniel H. Rothman and a former director of the Lorenz Center, an MIT think tank that fosters creative approaches to understanding climate change. A specialist in moist convection in the atmosphere, and tropical cyclones (hurricanes and typhoons), he is the author of over 300 papers and several books, among them Divine Wind: The History and Science of Hurricanes and What We Know about Climate Change. Emanuel is an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society, as well as an elected foreign member of Britain’s Royal Society, and has been distinguished with the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Climate Change and Environmental Sciences.
