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Biographies of Contributors 1753Erika Palin (UK) is a Climate Change Consultant at theMet Office Hadley Centre. She obtained a first-class Masterof Natural Sciences degree from the University of Cambridgein 2000, and remained at Cambridge for her PhD,which she completed in 2003. Subsequently, she worked inacademic research at the Royal Institution of Great Britainand the University of Cambridge, and published eighteenpeer-reviewed papers during her academic career. Shejoined the Met Office Hadley Centre in 2008, where herrole involves assisting commercial and government customersto understand the potential impacts of climate changeon their operations. She has recently worked on projects involvingthe assessment of climate risk in various Africancountries; seasonal forecasting of winter wave heights inthe North Sea; and understanding the effects of climatechange on energy infrastructure in the Northeast USA.Address: Dr Erika Palin, Met Office Hadley Centre, FitzRoyRoad, Exeter, Devon EX1 3PB, United Kingdom.Email: .Website: .Jean Palutikof (United Kingdom), Ph.D., is Director of theNational Climate Change Adaptation Research Facility atGriffith University. She took up the role in October 2008,having previously managed the production of the IntergovernmentalPanel on Climate Change (IPCC) Fourth AssessmentReport for Working Group II (Impacts, Adaptationand Vulnerability), while based at the UK Met Office. Priorto joining the Met Office, she was a Professor in the Schoolof Environmental Sciences, and Director of the ClimaticResearch Unit, at the University of East Anglia, UK, whereshe worked from 1979 to 2004, and a Lecturer at the Departmentof Geography, University of Nairobi, Kenya, from1974 to 1979. Her research interests focus on climatechange impacts, and the application of climatic data to economicand planning issues. She specializes in the study ofchanges in extreme events and their impacts, especiallywindstorm. She was a Lead Author for Working Group IIof the IPCC Second and Third Assessment Reports. Shehas authored more than 200 papers, articles and reports onthe topic of climate change and climate variability. Herproudest moment to date was attending the ceremony in2007 at which the IPCC was awarded the Nobel PeacePrize.Address: Prof. Dr. Jean Palutikof, NCCARF, Gold CoastCampus, Griffith University, Queensland, Australia 4222.Email: .Martin Parry OBE (United Kingdom), Ph.D., was recentlyCo-Chair of Working Group II (Impacts, Adaptation andVulnerability) of the Intergovernmental Panel on ClimateChange (IPCC). Formerly he was Professor of Geographyat the Universities of Oxford, University College London,Birmingham and the University of East Anglia. He is currentlya visiting professor at Imperial College, University ofLondon. He was chairman of the UK Climate Change ImpactsReview Group, and a coordinating lead author in theIPCC’s first, second and third assessments. His main researchinterests concern impacts and adaptation on agriculture.He has published 5 books and about 150 scientific paperson climate change impacts.Address: Prof. Dr. Martin Parry OBE, Grantham Instituteand Centre for Environmental Policy, Imperial College London,South Kensington Campus, London SW7 2AZ, UK.Email: .Mark Pelling (UK) is Reader in Human Geography, andChair of the Environment, Politics and Development ResearchGroup King’s College London. Before this he wasLecturer in Geography at the University of Liverpool (UK)and University of Guyana (Guyana). His PhD on a politicalecology of social vulnerability to urban flooding in Guyanawas awarded by the University of Liverpool in 1998. His researchfocuses on social vulnerability and adaptation to environmentalrisks including those associated with climatechange with a particular interest in urban governance andpoverty alleviation. His publications include: Adaptation toClimate Change: A Progressive Vision of Human Security(London: Routledge, 2010); (with Ben Wisner, Ed.): DisasterRisk Reduction: Cases from Urban Africa (London:Earthscan, 2009); The Vulnerability of Cities: Natural Disasterand Social Resilience (London: Earthscan, 2003) and(Ed.) Natural Disasters and Development in a GlobalizingWorld (London: Routledge, 2003). He has been a consultantwith UN-HABITAT, UNDP, DFID and the ProVentionConsortium. He has acted as chair of the Climate ChangeResearch Group, Royal Geographical Society, 2004-2009;as a member of the International Advisory Committee forthe ProVention Consortium, 2005–2010, and; as a Lead Authorin the IPCC Special Report on Managing the Risks ofExtreme Events and Disasters to Advance Climate ChangeAdaptation, 2008–2011. As an active member of the InternationalHuman Dimensions Programme (IHDP), he hasserved as an associate of the Global EnvironmentalChange and Human Security (GECHS), and Urban GlobalEnvironmental Change (UGEC) research programmes andalso on the UK Committee for Human Dimensions of GlobalEnvironmental Change.Address: Dr. Mark Pelling, Department of Geography,King’s College London, Strand, London WC2R 2LS, UK.Email: .Website: .Ariel Macaspac Penetrante (Germany/Philippines): PhDcandidate at the universities of Vienna and Cologne. He iscoordinator of the Processes of International Negotiationat the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis(IASA), where he researches on international negotiation incollaboration with the United Nations, the ComprehensiveNuclear Test Ban Organisation (CTBTO) and the UnitedStates Institute for Peace. He holds a M.A. in political science,sociology and education from the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universityin Munich and a M.A. in Mediation fromthe Vriadrina European University in Frankfurt (Oder) andHumboldt University in Berlin (Germany). His areas of interestare mediation, conflict management, climate change,negotiation, small arms and light weapons, circular migration,and education of migrants. He has worked with the