Dr Trisos is the Director of the African Synthesis Centre for Climate Change, Environment, and Development (ASCEND) that hosts synthesis research teams to accelerate actionable research on climate change across Africa and globally.
Dr Trisos holds a doctorate from Oxford and spent three years as a postdoctoral fellow at the National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center at University of Maryland. He has advised on climate change risks and resilience building for the World Bank and UN Environment Programme, as well as for governments and other international organizations, and has participated in UN climate change negotiations on the Global Goal on Adaptation. He is a Schmidt Science Polymath award holder and is also the co-creator of a choose-your-own adventure game about climate change, called ‘Survive the Century’.
In 2019, Dr Trisos became a Coordinating Lead Author of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) 6th Assessment Report on climate change impacts, adaptation and vulnerability (published in 2022), and was also an author of the IPCC’s Synthesis Report published in 2023, for which he led the section on near-term risks and responses to climate change. In 2024, he provided an expert report in the International Court of Justice proceedings on the obligations of states in respect of climate change.
His current research interests include climate change risks to biodiversity, health, food, sport, and education, as well as how to adapt to climate change, track adaptation finance, and manage risk across interconnected social and environmental systems.
Dr Christopher Trisos also directs the Climate Risk Lab. The lab integrates data and methods from environmental and social sciences to better understand climate change risks and to help inform more rapid, just, and equitable responses to climate change across Africa and globally.