Hannah Ritchie

Dr Hannah Ritchie is a Senior Researcher in the Programme for Global Development at the Oxford Martin School, at the University of Oxford. She is also Deputy Editor and Science Outreach Lead at the online publication ‘Our World in Data’, which brings together the latest data and research on the world’s largest problems – from climate change, biodiversity loss, and air pollution to global poverty, health, and education – and makes it accessible to a general audience.

Her research appears regularly in global media including the BBC, WIRED, the New York Times, New Scientist, the Economist, the Financial Times, and Vox, among others. She regularly writes scripts and provides research for ‘Kurzgesagt’, the science communication YouTube channel, and has published widely in academic journals including Nature, Nature Human Behaviour, Nature Scientific Data, Global Environmental Change and Climate Policy. She was born in Falkirk, Scotland, and now lives in Edinburgh.

Not the End of the World: How We Can Be the First Generation to Build a Sustainable Planet was a Sunday Times bestseller.