Lisa Schipper

Lisa Schipper is an SEI Affiliated Researcher with SEI Headquarters.

She is an Environmental Social Science Research Fellow at the Environmental Change Institute (ECI) at the University of Oxford and a Visiting Researcher at the University of Vienna.

Her research looks at fairness in development in the context of climate change. Her focus is adaptation and vulnerability to climate change in the Global South. She is especially interested in the socio-cultural drivers of vulnerability including gender, culture and, in particular, religion.

She was Co-ordinating Lead Author of the Chapter 18 on ‘Climate Resilient Development Pathways’ for the IPCC 6th Assessment Report, Working Group II on Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability, which was published in February 2022. She was also an author of the 2021 UNEP Adaptation Gap Report, and is currently a member the Science Committee for the 2023 Adaptation Futures Conference, and a member of the Editorial Board of 10 New Insights in Climate Science 2022 for FutureEarth.

Lisa has been co-Editor in Chief of Climate and Development (Taylor and Francis) since October 2018, and was a founding Associate Editor of the journal for a decade before that.