Professor Ann Henderson-Sellers
Climate Change Researcher
Professor Henderson-Sellers holds an Australian Research Council Professorial Fellowship in the Department of Physical Geography of Macquarie University.
Until 2007, the Director of the World Climate Research Programme http://wcrp.wmo.int (WCRP) based in Geneva at the headquarters of the World Meteorological Organisation, Ann Henderson-Sellers is an international leader in climate science. She has championed the scientific need for action to mitigate and adapt to climate change for over 35 years.
Dr Henderson-Sellers has been an Earth Systems scientist all her life spearheading the description and prediction of the influence of land-cover and land-use change on climate and human systems. She has a BSc in mathematics, undertook her PhD in collaboration with the U.K. Meteorological Office and earned a D.Sc. in climate science in 1999. She is an elected Fellow of Australia’s Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering and was awarded the Centenary Medal of Australia for Service to Australian Society in Meteorology in 2003.
Ann is an ISI “most highly cited” author of over 500 publications, including 14 books (http://hcr3.isiknowledge.com/) and an elected Fellow of America’s Geophysical Union and the American Meteorological Society. In the 1990s she served as a member of the International Geosphere-Biosphere’s Science Council and as a Convening Lead Author for the Second IPCC Assessment Report. She has chaired the Australian National Committee for Climate and Atmospheric Sciences and has been a member of Australia’s Science and Technology Council, its Greenhouse Science Advisory Committee and various Academy of Sciences' National Committees.
Dr Henderson-Sellers served as the President of International Association of Meteorology and Atmospheric Sciences’ International Commission for Climate between 1991 and 1995 and has led the WCRP Global Energy and Water Cycle Experiment’s Project for the Intercomparison of Land-surface Parameterisation Schemes since 1992 (see http://www.pilps.mq.edu.au/ ). Prior to leading the WCRP she headed the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation’s Institute for Nuclear Geophysiology, and was previously Deputy Vice Chancellor at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology and Director of the Climatic Impacts Centre at Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia.