BIO
Kerry Emanuel is Cecil & Ida Green Professor of Atmospheric Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (United States). From 1989 to 1997 he headed the Center for Meteorology and Physical Oceanography of MIT’s Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences (EAPS) and from 2009 to 2012 led the EAPS Program in Atmospheres, Oceans and Climate. 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, he is the author of over 200 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 the uRoyal Society, and has been distinguished with the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Climate Change.
