Will Steffen
Will Steffen is Executive Director of the Climate Change Institute at the Australian National University (ANU) in Canberra.
Prof. Will Steffen is an Earth System scientist, a Councilor on the publicly funded Climate Council of Australia that delivers independent expert information about climate change, an Emeritus Professor at the Australian National University (ANU) in Canberra, a Senior Fellow at the Stockholm Resilience Centre, Sweden, and a Fellow at the Beijer Institute of Ecological Economics, Stockholm.
Dr. Steffen is the chair of the jury for the Volvo Environment Prize; a member of the International Advisory Board for the Centre for Collective Action Research, Gothenburg University, Sweden, and a member of the Anthropocene Working Group of the Sub-Committee on Quaternary Stratigraphy. His research interests span a broad range within 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.
Prof. Steffen contributed with classes for Module 1 of the MOOC “The Earth System as a Global Common”.
