David Karoly is an honorary Professor Emeritus at the University of Melbourne and a Councillor on the Climate Council. He retired from full-time employment in the CSIRO Climate Science Centre at the end of January 2022.
David is an internationally recognised expert on climate change and climate variability and a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science.
From 2018 until June 2021, David was Leader of the Earth Systems and Climate Change Hub in the Australian Government’s National Environmental Science Program, based in CSIRO. From 2007 to February 2018, he was Professor of Atmospheric Science at the University of Melbourne and in the A.R.C. Centre of Excellence for Climate System Science.
He was a member of the National Climate Science Advisory Committee during 2018-19. During 2012-2017, he was a member of the Climate Change Authority, which provides advice to the Australian government on responding to climate change, including targets for reducing greenhouse gas emissions. He was involved in the Assessment Reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in 2001, 2007, 2014 and 2021 in several different roles.
Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science