Richard Moss

Vice President and Managing Director for Climate Change
World Wildlife Fund(WWF)

Richard H. Moss is Vice President and Managing Director for Climate Change for the World Wildlife Fund-US. Moss is leading WWF’s efforts to bring about rapid greenhouse gas emissions reductions. He is also Visiting Senior Research Scientist at the Earth Systems Science Interdisciplinary Center of the University of Maryland.

From 2006-2007, Moss was Senior Director of the U.N. Foundation Energy and Climate Program, where he served as a Coordinating Lead Author of Confronting Climate Change and Realizing the Potential of Energy Efficiency, among other projects. From 2000-2006, he directed the US Climate Change Science Program Office and led the preparation of the CCSP’s 10-year research plan and climate science reports. He has been a lead author and general editor of several Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Assessments, Special Reports and Technical Papers.

Moss currently Co-Chairs the IPCC Task Group on Data and Scenario Support for Impact and Climate Analysis. He also Co-Chairs the IPCC Steering Committee on new integrated scenarios of socio-economic futures, emissions and climate change. He serves on the editorial board of Climatic Change and is a member of the UN Scientific Expert Group on Climate Change and Sustainable Development.

He was named a Distinguished Associate of the U.S. Department of Energy in 2004, and a fellow of the Aldo Leopold Leadership Program in 2001.

He received an M.P.A. and Ph.D. from Princeton University (Public and International Affairs) and his BA from Carleton College in Northfield, MN.