Dr Alex de Sherbinin

Dr. Alex de Sherbinin is director of the Center for Intergrated Earth System Information (CIESIN) and a senior research scientist and adjunct professor in the Columbia Climate School. He also serves as manager of the NASA Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center (SEDAC). He is a geographer whose research interests focus on the human aspects of global environmental change and geospatial data applications, integration, and dissemination. He has authored or co-authored more than 75 journal articles, and is the lead author of articles appearing in Annual Reviews of Environment and Resource, Climatic Change, Environmental Research Letters, Global Environmental Change, Science, and Scientific American. His research centers on climate vulnerability mapping; climate change and migration; environmental indicators; citizen science data; and remote sensing applications. He is a co-author of the World Bank’s Groundswell report series, and the biennial Environmental Performance Index (EPI).