Brian O’Neill is the Leader of the Population and Climate Change (PCC) Program and a Scientist III in the Institute for the Study of Society and Environment (ISSE) at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder, Colorado. He holds a Ph.D. in Earth Systems Science and an M.S. in Applied Science, both from New York University.

He has worked as a member of the science staff of the Environmental Defense Fund in New York, and as an Assistant and Associate Professor (Research) at Brown University’s Watson Institute for International Studies. He first came to IIASA in 1996 as part of the Young Scientists Summer Program and returned full time in 2002. In 2004, he received a European Young Investigator (EURYI) award which provides principal funding for the PCC Program.

His research interests are in integrated assessment modeling of the climate change issue, climate policy, and population-environment interactions. He has published in a variety of journals, including Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Science – USA, and Population and Development Review. He also served as a lead author for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s Fourth Assessment Report, in a volume on impacts, adaptation and vulnerability (Working Group II), and for the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment in a volume on Scenarios.

Recent profile in Science

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