Maria Carmen Lemos

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Maria Carmen de Mello Lemos
EducationPh.D. Political Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology – MIT

MSc. Political Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology – MIT

B.S. Economics, Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora – UFJF (Brazil)

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Occupation(s)Climate policy analyst, professor, senior policy scholar, author, science communicator, mentor
Organization(s)Icarus (Initiative on Climate Adaptation Research and Understanding through the Social Sciences)
Known forEnvironmental policy writer, climate adaptation analyst
Notable workIPCC-AR5 —Chapter 20: Climate-resilient Pathways, NCA4—Chapter 21: Midwest, IPCC-AR4 — Group 7: Industry, Settlement and Society
HonoursJames Martin 21st Century School Fellowship, Kavli Fellow,

Maria Carmen de Mello Lemos is Professor of Environment and Sustainability and co-director of the Great Lakes Integrated Sciences and Assessments Center at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and Senior Policy Scholar at the Udall Center for the Study of Public Policy at the University of Arizona. Lemos is an established climate policy analyst whose research focuses primarily on environmental public policymaking in Latin America and the U.S., especially related to climate change adaptation and adaptive capacity building.

Early life and education

Lemos earned her B.S. in Economics from the Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora, as well as a MSc. and a Ph.D. in Political Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.[ citation needed ]

Career

Research

Lemos has overseen and empirically investigated numerous co-production projects, has worked with a number of knowledge networks, and has decades of experience leading interdisciplinary teams to convey scientific information across diverse audiences. She is also involved in research on the socioenvironmental vulnerability of poor inhabitants of the Mexico/U.S. border region.

During 2006-2007 she was a James Martin 21st Century School Fellow at the Environmental Change Institute at Oxford University. She was a lead author of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Fifth Assessment Report (IPCC-AR5Chapter 20 [1] Climate-resilient Pathways) and the Fourth US National Climate Assessment (NCA4Chapter 21 [2] [3] Midwest), as well as a contributing author to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Fourth Assessment Report (IPCC-AR4 — Group 7: Industry, Settlement and Society [4] ).

Lemos has served in a number of US National Research Council of the National Academies of Sciences committees, including Restructuring Federal Climate Research to Meet the Challenges of Climate Change (2007 and 2009), America’s Climate Choice Science Panel (2010), the Board on Environmental Change and Society (2008-2014), the Council Committee to Advise the U.S. Global Change Research Program (2011-2013), the Societal Expert Action Network (SEAN) (2021–present), and the Board for Atmospheric Sciences (BASC, 2023–present). [5] She is also the co-founder of Icarus (Initiative on Climate Adaptation Research and Understanding through the Social Sciences), which seeks to foster collaboration and exchange between scholars focusing on vulnerability and adaptation to climate change.

Notable publications

National and synthesis reports

Other affiliations

Awards and achievements

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