Royal Society Research Professor of Climate Change Science
University of East Anglia
Corinne Le Quéré CBE FRS is Royal Society Research Professor at the University of East Anglia (UEA)’s School of Environmental Sciences. She conducts research on the interactions between climate change and the carbon cycle, including those mediated by marine ecosystems. Le Quéré instigated and led for 13 years the annual update of the ‘global carbon budget’, an international effort to keep track of global carbon emissions and their fate in the environment. She was founding Chair of the French Haut conseil pour le climat, member of the UK Committee on Climate Change for over a decade, and Director of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research. She authored three assessment reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Le Quéré holds a PhD in oceanography from Sorbonne University (formally Pierre and Marie Curie). She received several awards for her research and engagement, most recently the Vernadsky Medal of the European Geophysical Union.