Karen Seto

Karen Seto is a geographer, urbanisation and land change scientist, and the Frederick C. Hixon Professor of Geography and Urbanisation Science at Yale University. She is one of the world's leading experts on urbanisation and sustainability, and satellite remote sensing.

Seto was the co-lead for the chapter on urban mitigation in Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) 6th Assessment Report and IPCC 5th Assessment Report. From 2014 to 2020, she was the co-editor-in-chief of the scientific journal ''Global Environmental Change''. She is an elected member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences (NAS), the Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering (CASE), the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Council on Foreign Relations, and a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). Provided by Wikipedia