Asher Siebert
Postdoctoral Research Scientist, International Research Institute for Climate and Society, Columbia University.
Asher Siebert is a geographer and applied climate scientist working at the International Research Institute for Climate and Society (IRI) at Columbia University, since 2016. At IRI, he works on seasonal and sub-seasonal climate forecasting to help address food security challenges in half a dozen countries in Africa and has worked on projects sponsored by a range of development and scientific organizations (including USAID, UK Department for International Development, World Meteorological Organization, and the World Bank).
Prior to his work at IRI, he was a Climate Futures Initiative postdoc at Princeton in 2015-16 working with an interdisciplinary team on issues at the intersection of climate change, carbon taxation, economics, population and public health. He holds a PhD in Geography from Rutgers, an MA in Climate and Society from Columbia and a BA in Geosciences from Princeton.