Maxwell Boykoff

I am a Professor in the Environmental Studies department at the University of Colorado Boulder. I am also a Fellow in the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences. I have ongoing interests in science and environmental communications, science-policy interactions, and political economics and the environment. I have experience working on six continents, and am a co-author and editor of seven books and edited volumes, along with many articles, reports and book chapters.

I lead the Media and Climate Change Observatory (MeCCO) while I co-Direct Inside the Greenhouse. Among my other activities, I was a Contributing Author to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Sixth Assessment ‘Mitigation and Policy’ Report, I am part of the Independent Science Panel for the Deep South Challenge in New Zealand, I am Deputy Editor for the social sciences/history team for the Journal of Climatic Change for over a decade.

I earned a PhD in Environmental Studies at the University of California Santa Cruz, an MBA from the University of Colorado Boulder, and a BS in Psychology from The Ohio State University.