Mark Lynas

Mark Lynas is an author, campaigner and speaker/facilitator. He is science advisor to the former President of the Maldives, Mohamed Nasheed, now Secretary-General of the Climate Vulnerable Forum, an alliance of 74 developing countries and small island states. He is policy lead with WePlanet, a pro-science environmental advocacy network active in over 20 countries. He has co-authored peer-reviewed papers on vaccines, climate and GMOs focusing on scientific consensus and misinformation, and won the inaugural Breakthrough Paradigm Award in 2012. He has written for the Guardian, New York Times and Washington Post among many other media outlets; and appeared in the films Pandora's Promise, The Age of Stupid and The Island President. His climate book Six Degrees won the Royal Society science books prize in 2008 and was translated into 22 languages. He is based in the UK on the Welsh borders, where he volunteers locally to support rewilding.