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Richard H. Moss

Director, Climate Change Science Program Office

Richard H. Moss is Director of the US Climate Change Science Program Office. He also holds an appointment as Staff Scientist at the Joint Global Change Research Institute (University of Maryland ( College Park) and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory). From 1993-1998, he served as Director of the Technical Support Unit of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) impacts, adaptation, and mitigation working group. He has served as a lead author and general editor of several IPCC Assessments, Special Reports, and Technical Papers. He has also served as program officer at the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme in Stockholm, Sweden, where he co-authored an IGBP report that provided a framework for research on land use and land cover change. Moss served on the faculty of Princeton University. He currently co-chairs the Task Group on Data and Scenario Support for Impact and Climate Analysis of the IPCC and serves on the editorial board of Climatic Change. He was named a Distinguished Associate of the U.S. Department of Energy in 2004, and a fellow of the Aldo Leopold Leadership Program in 2001. He served on the editorial board of Annual Review of Energy and the Environment from 1994-1999. He received an M.P.A. and Ph.D. from Princeton University and his B.A. from Carleton College in Northfield, MN.