Naomi Oreskes

Naomi Oreskes is Professor of History and Science Studies at the University of California, San Diego, Adjunct Professor of Geosciences at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, and an internationally renowned historian of science and author. She started her career as a geologist, received her B.S. (1st class Honours) from the Royal School of Mines, Imperial College London, and then worked for three years as an exploration geologist in the Australian outback. In 1990 she received an inter-disciplinary Ph.D. in geological research and history of science from Stanford University. Professor Oreskes has lectured widely in diverse venues and has won numerous prizes, including, most recently the 2011 Climate Change Communicator of the Year. More recently, she has primarily been interested in the problem of anthropogenic climate change. Her opinion pieces have appeared in The Times (London), The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, Frankfurter Allgemeine, and elsewhere.