Stephen Lezak

Stephen Lezak is a Gates Scholar at the University of Cambridge Scott Polar Research Institute and Programme Manager at the University of Oxford Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment. He is also a research fellow at the Berkeley Carbon Trading Project, within the University of California, Berkeley.

His essays, reporting, and research appear in several academic journals and edited books, as well as The New Republic, Emergence, Grist, The Independent, Alaska Public Media, High Country News, Colorado Public Radio, and The Arizona Republic. His research has been covered by The Washington Post, The Financial Times, Al Jazeera, The Times (UK), and translated into Spanish, Arabic, Mongolian, and Indonesian.

He served as an expert reviewer for the IPCC's 6th Assessment Report and has advised two U.S. presidential campaigns on climate policy.