Principal Editor Bios:

William Solecki is a Professor in the Department of Geography at Hunter College, City University of New York (CUNY). From 2006-2014 he served as the Director of the CUNY Institute for Sustainable Cities at Hunter College. He also served as interim Director of the Science and Resilience Institute at Jamaica Bay. He has co-led several climate impacts studies in the greater New York and New Jersey region, including the New York City Panel on Climate Change (NPCC). He was a Lead Author of the Urban Areas chapter in the Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), and a Coordinating Lead Author of the Urbanization, Infrastructure, and Vulnerability chapter in the Third National Climate Assessment (US). He is a co-founder of the Urban Climate Change Research Network (UCCRN), co-editor of Current Opinion on Environmental Sustainability, and founding editor of the Journal of Extreme Events. His research focuses on urban environmental change, resilience, and adaptation transitions.
 
Minal Pathak is an Associate Professor at the Global Centre for Environment and Energy at Ahmedabad University, India. She is a Senior Scientist with the Technical Support Unit of Working Group III of the IPCC for its Sixth Assessment cycle. She has contributed to two IPCC Special Reports, co-edited the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report, and contributed to the recently published IPCC Sixth Assessment Synthesis Report. She heads the South Asia Hub of the UCCRN, headquartered at the Columbia Climate School. She was a Visiting Researcher at Imperial College London (2017-2023) and a Visiting Scholar at MIT (2016-2017). Her research focuses on climate change mitigation strategies for urban settlements, transport, and buildings, and their co-benefits/interlinkages with development.
 
Martha Barata is Coordinator of the Latin America Hub of the UCCRN, headquartered at Columbia Climate School. Barata is a collaborating researcher at the Oswaldo Cruz Institute (Fiocruz) and CentroClima (COPPE/UFRJ), following retirement from the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation in 2017. She was a Visiting Scholar in the Center for Climate Systems Research at Columbia University in 2014, conducting research on climate risk management in cities.
 
Aliyu Salisu Barau is a Professor in Urban Development and Management at the Department of Urban and Regional Planning and Fifth Dean of the Faculty of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Bayero University in Kano, Nigeria. He is a transdisciplinary researcher with interests in climate change, landscape ecology, clean energy, socio-ecological systems, sustainability agenda setting, informally and formally protected ecosystems, special economic zones, and inclusive and innovative planning. He contributes to the research, policy, and action agenda in Nigeria and globally through engagements with UN Environment, IPCC, Future Earth, IUCN, IPBES, IIED, UNICEF, and UN Habitat. He is also the director of the West Africa Center for the UCCRN at Columbia University in New York.
 
Maria Dombrov is a Research Associate II at the Climate Impacts Group, co-located at NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies and Columbia University's Center for Climate Systems Research, in New York City. Ms. Dombrov is UCCRN’s Global Coordinator and the Project Manager of UCCRN’s Third Assessment Report on Climate Change and Cities (ARC3.3). Her work focuses on understanding the risks and vulnerabilities that climate change and extreme events present to cities and their metropolitan regions around the world.
 
Cynthia Rosenzweig is a Senior Research Scientist at the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS), Adjunct Senior Research Scientist at the Columbia University Earth Institute, and Professor in the Department of Environmental Science at Barnard College. At NASA GISS, she heads the Climate Impacts Group, whose mission is to investigate the interactions of climate on systems and sectors important to human well-being. Dr. Rosenzweig is co-director of the Urban Climate Change Research Network (UCCRN). She is a co-founder and co-leader of the Agricultural Model Intercomparison and Improvement Project (AgMIP). Dr. Rosenzweig was Coordinating Lead Author of the Food Security chapter for the IPCC Special Report on Climate Change and Land and Coordinating Lead Author on observed climate change impacts for the IPCC Working Group II Fourth Assessment Report.