Richard Klein

Senior Research Fellow, Climate and Energy Programme and Co-ordinator, SEI Climate Policy Research

Dr Richard J.T. Klein is a Senior Research Fellow at the Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI) in Sweden. His research interests include methodological aspects of climate risk and vulnerability assessment, the process of climate adaptation in society, and integration of climate and development policy. Much of his current work focuses on international adaptation governance and finance. He has been involved in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change since 1993, most recently as coordinating lead author in the Fourth Assessment Report. He contributed to the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, the Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change, and Tony Blair's report Breaking the Climate Deadlock. In addition, he has advised various governments, United Nations programmes and agencies, and non-governmental organisations. Before joining SEI in 2006, he spent almost eight years at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), where he was deputy head of the department of Global Change and Social Systems. He started his career at the Institute for Environmental Studies of the VU University in Amsterdam, and also spent a year at the University of East Anglia in Norwich. To date he has produced over seventy journal articles, book chapters and reports, edited two books and two special journal issues and contributed to numerous workshops and conferences. He is the founder and editor in chief of the new academic journal Climate and Development.