She has served as a consultant to the United Nations Development Programme, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, and the World Bank. Previously, she worked in urban environmental conservation and sustainable development in the U.S. Lisa supervises outreach and communications related to YCEC research findings and oversees program strategy and operations. Lisa Fernandez is the Associate Director of the Yale Center for Environmental Communication, YCEC, at the Yale School of the Environment. George Mason University Center for Climate Change Communications in 2009 named him its “Climate Change Communicator of the Year.”Īn elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), he is a member of SEJ and of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) and the American Meteorological Society (AMS). In 1988 he established Environment Writer for journalists covering natural resources and environmental issues.Ī co-founder of the Society of Environmental Journalists (SEJ) in 1989, he has served as a frequent environmental analyst for NPR’s “All Things Considered” and “Morning Edition,” and he founded and managed the foundation-funded Central European Environmental Journalism Program.Īn Advisory Editor for the Oxford University Second Edition of Encyclopedia of Climate and Weather (2007), and an adviser in 2007/2008 to the United Nations Development Program, he administered the jury for the Grantham Prize for Excellence in Reporting on the Environment throughout the six-year history of that prize. Congress’s National Commission on Air Quality, before founding The Environmental Forum magazine in 1982.

He later served as Assistant Director of the U.S. He started his environmental journalism career in 1974. He is also the host of Climate Connections.īud Ward is Editor of Yale Climate Connections. He is a recipient of the Friend of the Planet Award from the National Center for Science Education and a Mitofsky Innovator Award from the American Association of Public Opinion Research. Kennedy School of Government (Harvard University), the United Nations Development Program, the Gallup World Poll, and the World Economic Forum. He has served as a consultant to the John F. He also conducted the first global study of public values, attitudes, and behaviors regarding sustainable development and has published more than 200 scientific articles, chapters, and reports. He conducts research at the global, national, and local scales, including many studies of the American public. He is an expert on public environmental beliefs, attitudes, policy preferences, and behavior, and the psychological, cultural, and political factors that influence them. Anthony Leiserowitz, Ph.D., is Director of the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication, the Yale Center for Environmental Communication, and a Senior Research Scientist at the Yale School of the Environment.

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