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Piers Forster is Professor of Physical Climate Change and founding Director of the Priestley Centre for Climate Futures at the University of Leeds. He has played significant roles authoring Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) reports, including the Fourth (2007), Fifth (2013) and Sixth (2021) assessment reports and the IPCC Special Report on 1.5°C (2018).

As well as his research career, Piers helped establish the United Bank of Carbon, a UK charity that researches and protects trees and forests. He has several roles advising industry and government. He was appointed as a member of UK Climate Change Committee in 2019 and appointed as its Interim Chair in 2023.

Research recognition awards include: Royal Society Wolfson Merit Award (2011); Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (2019); Natural and Environmental Research Council Research Impact Award (2023); Web of Science Clarivate Analytics highly cited researcher (2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023).