Timon McPhearson

Dr. Timon McPhearson is Director of the Peri-Urban & Urban Systems, Lab and Associate Professor of Urban Ecology at The New School in New York City. He is a Senior Research Fellow at The Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies and Associate Research Fellow at Stockholm Resilience Centre. He is an IPCC Lead Author focusing on urban resilience in cities, contributing author to IPBES, and co-chair Future Earth Urban Knowledge Action Network. In 2019 he was awarded the Sustainability Science Award and the Innovation in Sustainability Science Award by the Ecological Society of America. He is published widely in scientific journals (Nature, Nature Climate Change, Nature Sustainability, BioScience, Global Sustainability), books (e.g. Urban Planet), popular press (The Nature of Cities), and in the press (The New York Times, The Guardian, The Nation, New York Times Magazine, and others).