Mark New

Director, African Climate and Development Initiative, University of Cape Town

Mark New is Director of the African Climate and Development Initiative at the University of Cape Town, and AXA Research Chair in African Climate Risk. He is also a coordinating lead author on the IPCC 6th Assessment Report, responsible for Chapter 17 of Working Group II, Decision Making Options for Managing Risk, and an editor for Global Environmental Change and Environmental Research Letters. He serves on the Science Committees of the World Adaptation Science Programme and the South African Global Change Science Programme. His research has spanned climate change detection, attribution, impacts and adaptation. His recent research has focused on quantifying and adapting to the changing risks of damaging climate events in southern Africa, on climate adaptation knowledge systems, and on understanding barriers and enablers to effective climate adaptation responses.

Experience

2011–present

Director, African Climate & Development Initiative, University of Cape Town
2014–present

Professor of International Developement, University of East Anglia
2011–2014

Professor of Climate Science, University of Oxford
1999–2011

Lecturer / Reader in Geography, University of Oxford
1995–1999

Senior Research Associate, University of East Anglia

Education

1998

University of Cambridge, UK, PhD Geography
1992

University of Cambridge, UK, MPhil Environment and Development
1987

University of Cape Town, South Africa, BSc Honours Geology
1986

University of Cape Town, South Africa, BSc Geology

Grants and Contracts

2018

Role:

Director, African Climate and Development Initiative

Funding Source:

National Research Foundation