Robert "Bob" Corell, Ph.D.

• Nobel Laureate for Climate Change
• Former Head of Geosciences at National Science Foundation
• Principal  at Global Environment and  Technology Foundation
• Senior Policy Fellow at American Meteorological Society

Dr. Robert W. Corell is a Principal for the Global Environment Technology Foundation, an ambassador for ClimateWorks, Professor at the new UArctic Institute of Circumpolar Reindeer Husbandry, and on leave as Vice President of Programs at The Heinz Center to lead the Global Climate Action Initiative in aiding international negotiators in the COP 15 process.

Dr. Corell won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007 for his extensive work with the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) assessments. Before joining The Heinz Center in 2006, Dr. Corell served as an Affiliate of the Washington Advisory Group and a Senior Policy Fellow at the Policy Program of the American Meteorological Society.  He recently completed an appointment that began in January 2000 as a Senior Research Fellow in the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government. Dr. Corell is actively engaged in research concerned with the sciences of global change and the interface between science and public policy, particularly research activities that are focused on global and regional climate change, related environmental issues, and science to facilitate understanding of vulnerability and sustainable development. He co-chairs an international strategic planning group that is developing a strategy designed to harness science, technology, and innovation for sustainable development; serves as the Chair of the Arctic Climate Impact Assessment; counsels as Senior Science Advisor to ManyOne.Net; and is Chair of the Board of the Digital Universe Foundation. Dr. Corell was Assistant Director for Geosciences at the National Science Foundation where he had oversight for the Atmospheric, Earth, and Ocean Sciences and the global change programs of the National Science Foundation (NSF).  He was also a professor and academic administrator at the University of New Hampshire. 

Dr. Corell is an oceanographer and engineer by background and training, having received Ph.D., M.S., and B.S. degrees at Case Western Reserve University and MIT. He has also held appointments at the Woods Hole Institution of Oceanography, the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, the University of Washington, and Case Western Reserve University.

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