Lisa Palmer

Lisa Palmer is the author of Hot, Hungry Planet: The Fight to Stop a Food Crisis in the Face of Climate Change and currently serves as Journalist-in-Residence and Senior Research Scholar in Science Communication at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) in Laxenburg, Austria. She has spent more than two decades reporting and writing on the intersection of science, society, and the environment, covering issues such as climate change, food security, sustainability, biodiversity, and cities for major U.S. and international publications. She has worked and been supported by the Pulitzer Center, the Wilson Center, and National Geographic. She has also educated the next generation of science communicators at The George Washington University and Georgetown University. Across her career, she has advanced the public understanding of complex environmental challenges through compelling narrative journalism, education, and global collaboration.