Will Steffen
Will Steffen is Executive Director of the Climate Change Institute at the Australian National University (ANU) in Canberra, and a Senior Research Fellow at the Stockholm Resilience Centre, Sweden.He is also Co-Director of the Canberra Urban and Regional Futures (CURF) initiative, a joint venture of ANU and the University of Canberra. From 1998 to mid-2004, Steffen served as Executive Director of the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme, based in Stockholm, Sweden. His research interests span a broad range within the fields of climate and Earth System science, with an emphasis on incorporation of human processes in Earth System modelling and analysis; and on sustainability and climate change, with a focus on urban systems.