Gary Yohe earned his PhD in economics from Yale University in 1975. As a senior member of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) from 1995 through 2017, he shared its 2007 Nobel Peace Prize. His primary research, assessment and communication efforts have been focused on exploring describing the economic and social risks from climate change and elaborating ways to defend against them through mitigation (reducing the likelihood of extreme climate risks by limiting concentrations of greenhouse gases), adaptation (reducing the natural, human and economic consequences or climate change impacts, or suffering (recognizing that no combination of responses will ever totally eliminate a climate induced risk.
He has published nearly 200 peer-reviewed papers in the academic literature and more than 85 opinion and communication pieces in reputable media outlets. Yohe served as Vice-Chair of the 2014 Third National Climate Assessment in the Obama Administration and on many panels for the US National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. He has testified multiple times before both houses of Congress in the United States, and he has been Co-Editor-in-Chief of the international journal Climatic Change since 2010. {200 words}
