Dr. Robert W. Corell is actively engaged in research concerned with the sciences of climate and global change and the interface between science and public policy, particularly research activities that are focused on global and regional climate change, related environmental issues, and the science to facilitate taking knowledge and scientific understanding to evidence-based planning and hence to adaptation and sustainable development. He is a recognized expert regarding climate and other global-scale changes. For many years, he served as Chairman of the multiple federal climate and global change research program and has and continues to serve as a senior climate and global change advisor to the White House for both Republican and Democratic administrations starting with President Ronald Reagan. Example, he was responsible for well over a decade to the White House’s Office of Science and Technology Policy for the multi-agency U.S. Climate and Global Research Program, as well as the Assistant Director of the National Science Foundation (NSF responsible for all research and education programs in the sciences of the ocean, the atmosphere and meteorology sciences, geology and the earth sciences as well as the nation’s research programs in the two polar regions. He was recognized with the other scientists for the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize awarded to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Corell also served as Senior Research Fellow at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government. Currently is a Principal at the Global Environment Technology Foundation and Leads its Center for Energy and Climate Solutions and holds academic appointments in the US and Norway.