Fossil Free Research

Above Photo: A group of climate activists rally across from a courthouse where ExxonMobile was sued by the New York attorney general, November 2019. Justin Lane / EPA.

Fossil Free Research is a new campaign to end the toxic influence of fossil fuel money on climate change-related research in universities. It is coordinated by international student divestment and climate justice activists with the support of a wide range of academics, climate experts, and university members, as reflected by the letter below.

Our Letter

Dear University Presidents and Vice-Chancellors,

We are writing as academics and experts who are deeply concerned by universities’ collaboration with the fossil fuel industry. Universities across the United Kingdom and the United States currently accept substantial funding from fossil fuel companies for research aimed at solving the very problems this industry causes and continues to exacerbate. We believe this funding represents an inherent conflict of interest, is antithetical to universities’ core academic and social values, and supports industry greenwashing. Thus, it compromises universities’ basic institutional integrity, academic freedom, and their ability to address the climate emergency.

For these reasons, we are calling on U.K. and U.S. universities to institute a ban on accepting fossil fuel industry funding for climate change, environmental, and energy policy research.

Accepting fossil fuel industry funding for research meant to address the climate crisis undermines the academic integrity of climate-related research. To be clear, our concern is not with the integrity of individual academics. Rather, it is with the systemic issue posed by the context in which academics must work, one where fossil fuel industry funding can taint critical climate-related research. There is a clear parallel between accepting fossil fuel industry funding for climate change research and accepting tobacco industry funding for public health research. Already, numerous public health and research institutions reject tobacco money due to the industry’s extensive record ofspreading disinformationaround the public health consequences of its products. Today, the fossil fuel industry has employed disinformation tactics from the same playbook, working to sow doubt about climate science, silence industry critics, and stall climate action. How, then, can universities consider these companies appropriate partners for climate-related research?

Fossil fuel funding for climate-related research creates a conflict of interest that compromises researchers’ academic freedom. Academics must be free to determine their own research agendas, speak their minds, and declare their findings without fear of censorship, reprisal, or the withdrawal of funding for future projects. That freedom is compromised by reliance on funding from an industry whose core business model is diametrically opposed to science-led climate action. Numerous studies also demonstrate that industry-funded research can yield results that are favorable to industry interests, and that common safeguards like public disclosure of funding sources are often inadequate to mitigate this skew. We know that many of our colleagues who choose to accept fossil fuel funding strive to produce honest and independent research, often faced with few alternative funding pathways. However, the risk of skewed outcomes is endemic when research funding is dominated by companies with agendas that are in conflict with the goals of the funded research. Given the immense stakes of the climate crisis and the power of university research to shape public knowledge and policy around a rapid renewable energy transition, this is a risk we simply cannot take.

Furthermore, accepting fossil fuel research funding contravenes universities’ stated commitments to tackling the climate crisis. Fossil fuel companies have concealed, trivialized, and neglected the science of climate change for decades. Today, despite warnings from the world’s top energy organization that “no investment in new fossil fuel supply projects” can be made if the world is to limit global heating to 1.5°C, major fossil fuel companies continue to plan new extraction projects decades into the future and fail to align with the goals of the international Paris Agreement. Though they present themselves as leaders in sustainability, fossil fuel companies’ investments in oil and gas continue to dwarf their renewable energy investments, which represent just a few percent of their total capital expenditure. Even the investments that they present as directed toward climate solutions contribute to projects that are often far from sustainable. In short, fossil fuel companies’ claims to be leaders in a green transition should not be taken seriously. It is clear, therefore, that these companies cannot make for effective or good faith partners with universities seeking to pave the way for a sustainable future. Collaborating with these companies is inimical to academic institutions’ pledges for climate action.

University research partnerships with fossil fuel companies play a key role in greenwashing these companies’ reputations. When universities allow fossil fuel companies to buy and advertise connections to university research on key climate and energy issues, they inadvertently provide these companies with much-needed scientific and cultural legitimacy. This is incredibly valuable to fossil fuel companies, as it allows them to report to policymakers, shareholders, and the media that they are working with globally respected institutions on transition solutions, greenwashing their reputation and cleansing their records of climate destruction.

Finally, universities that maintain close ties to the fossil fuel industry incur a substantial reputational risk. We are proud that many universities have publicly committed to tackling climate change, notably by divesting their endowments from fossil fuels. Yet in allowing fossil fuel companies to fund climate-related research, universities violate their own policies and espoused principles, and undermine their core social and academic mission. Increasingly, fossil fuel industry sponsorship is eroding faith in scientific and cultural institutions’ commitments to climate action, leading a number of such institutions — including, most recently, the National Portrait Gallery in London — to sever ties with the industry. When universities have a pivotal role to play in global conversations about tackling the climate emergency, they cannot afford to have their voices compromised, which is precisely what will happen if they continue to make themselves dependent on the industry most responsible for climate breakdown.

Universities and the research they produce are vital to delivering a rapid, just transition away from fossil fuels. However, such efforts are undermined by fossil fuel industry funding. Academics should not be forced to choose between researching climate solutions and inadvertently aiding corporate greenwashing; our universities must provide an alternative. Wealthy universities in particular have a duty to lead the way in doing so. To all universities, at this moment of extreme crisis, we urge you to heed our call and cut damaging research ties with the fossil fuel industry.

FAQs

Who Is “Fossil Free Research” And Who Is Behind This Letter?

The letter is endorsed by a wide range of academics, climate experts, and university members calling on US and UK universities to urgently institute a ban on fossil fuel industry funding for climate change-related research. It was drafted by student coordinators of the new Fossil Free Research campaign, who are also organizers with Cambridge Climate Justice and Fossil Fuel Divest Harvard, in collaboration with leading academics and experts focused on climate change issues.

Why Does The Letter Only Address The Leadership Of US And UK Universities?

We want to see higher education institutions worldwide adopt this ban. We’re starting with US and UK universities because, as some of the most well-resourced and prestigious higher education institutions in the world, in two of the countries most responsible for historic global emissions, they have a responsibility to be the first movers in this effort. So many universities in these countries have also already committed to fossil fuel divestment or climate action, making their extensive ongoing research ties with the fossil fuel industry all the more indefensible. Enacting a fossil fuel funding ban for climate change, environmental, and energy policy-related research is an intuitive and urgently needed next step for these universities to become true climate leaders.

What Does The Proposed Ban Include?

As with divestment, it is clear that this is a policy that will be applied differently in different contexts, and so institutions may want to formulate the ban in slightly different ways. However, at a minimum, such a ban must include the Carbon Underground 200, a list of the world’s top 100 coal and top 100 oil and gas publicly traded companies and their subsidiaries. It must also include funding from any company engaged in building new fossil fuel infrastructure or exploring for new reserves, as this blatantly ignores the International Energy Agency’s finding that investment in new fossil fuel supply projects must cease immediately if the world is to limit planetary heating to 1.5 degrees Celsius and avoid runaway climate breakdown.

Why Do We Need A Ban On Fossil Fuel-Funded Climate Change-Related Research At Universities?

• Accepting funding for research meant to address the climate crisis from the industry most responsible for causing and perpetuating the climate emergency severely undermines the academic integrity and public credibility of crucial climate-related research.
• Reliance on fossil fuel industry funding for climate change-related research creates an unacceptable conflict of interest between the core business interests of the research funder and the purpose of the research itself. There is clear evidence to suggest that this skews the shape and outcomes of research in directions favorable to the fossil fuel industry. As such, this funding unacceptably infringes on researchers’ academic freedom, constraining their ability to conduct truly free, independent research and speak out against the fossil fuel industry’s record of environmental destruction.
• Publicly partnering with the fossil fuel companies responsible for driving the climate emergency fundamentally undermines universities’ stated commitments to tackling the climate crisis. For many universities, these commitments include pledges to divest their endowments from these very same companies on the basis that their business models are fundamentally incompatible with efforts to preserve a safe and liveable future.
• Public research partnerships between globally respected universities and fossil fuel companies play a key role in greenwashing these companies’ reputations. This helps to bolster the industry’s false claims that it is at the forefront of the green transition when it continues to invest the vast majority of its capital into fossil fuel exploration and extraction, in clear defiance of the scientific evidence. Indeed, the industry invests only a tiny fraction of its overall budget into renewable energy and low-carbon solutions, with many of these alleged solutions failing to meaningfully help curb emissions. By accepting fossil fuel companies as legitimate partners for sustainability research, universities signal to the world that these companies are actually committed to science-led climate action and deserve a seat at the table in deciding the future of our planet.
• Finally, universities that maintain close ties to the fossil fuel industry incur a substantial reputational risk through this clear violation of their core social and academic principles. This undermines public faith in academic institutions to speak authoritatively on this most pressing crisis at a time when the contributions of independent scientists are needed more than ever.

Who Supports This Ban?

This ban is supported by hundreds of leading academics, university affiliates, and experts from a broad range of disciplines in addition to climate, environmental, and energy sciences, economics, and policy. This list includes lead IPCC assessment authors, a Nobel Peace Prize recipient, the former President of Ireland, world-renowned economists, the former Archbishop of Canterbury, and university chancellors. This letter is also supported by numerous university fossil fuel divestment campaigns including Cambridge Climate Justice, Fossil Fuel Divest Harvard, and Sunrise GW.

What About Alternative Research Funding? Where Will The Money For This Research Come From If Not From Fossil Fuel Companies?

It is imperative that rich US and UK universities and governments lead the way in ensuring that critical climate change-related research receives the funding it requires. Many universities have large, well-established fundraising departments which have demonstrated a capacity to raise phenomenal sums. Indeed, philanthropic giving to US universities rose by 6.9% in 2021 alone, topping $52 billion dollars. Additionally, it is the duty of governments to step in to provide funding so clearly in the public good when and where it is needed.

Moreover, it is not clear how much funding for climate change-related research comes from the fossil fuel industry to US and UK universities for climate change-related research. That’s because of a strong lack of transparency and disclosure on these universities’ behalf, which raises serious doubts about these universities’ commitments to being responsible climate actors.

As we have already detailed, serious issues arise with any amount of fossil fuel industry funding for climate change-related research. By its very nature, such funding incurs the unjustifiably problematic risk of university climate change-related research being skewed in the direction of fossil fuel companies’ interests as well as being used to support their greenwashing and continued efforts to delay and control the direction of climate action, which has deadly consequences for our community and our planet. It must therefore be an urgent priority for governments and universities to pursue alternative funding pathways to ensure critical climate-related research can be conducted untainted by the biasing, greenwashing effects of fossil fuel industry funding.

Can’t Fossil Fuel Industry Funding End Up Funding Good Or Important Climate Research At Universities, Even If The Source Is Undesirable?

There is clear evidence to suggest that accepting fossil fuel industry funding for any climate change, environmental, and energy policy research creates significant conflicts of interest and skews research agendas and outcomes in directions favorable to the fossil fuel industry. This severely undermines the potential positive impact of such research.

Just as importantly, accepting this funding lends much-needed scientific legitimacy to companies who continue to fight against a rapid and just renewable energy transition. Note that no major fossil fuel company has yet aligned its business model with the goals of the Paris Agreement. In this context, affiliations with prestigious university research allow these companies to continue falsely representing themselves as leaders in a green transition they are actively blocking. Even in cases where climate change-related research funded by fossil fuel companies has not been distorted by this funding source, the appearance of compromised academic integrity will be there regardless and impossible to wash away just because disclosure of funding is made.

What Precedents Exist For This Ban?

There are numerous examples of institutions refusing money from certain industries on both scientific and ethical grounds. Since the late 1990s, tobacco companies have increasingly been barred from providing funding for clinical research at many public health institutions (notably including the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Cancer Research UK, and the British Heart Foundation) due to these companies’ extensive record of spreading misinformation about the public health harms of their products. This precedent is crucial given that fossil fuel industry funding of climate-related research presents a similar conflict of interest, with fossil fuel companies employing disinformation tactics directly from the tobacco industry’s playbook.

Over the last decade, we have also seen an overwhelming trend among higher education institutions, non-profit organizations, pension funds, and other major asset managers of divesting from the fossil fuel industry precisely because all of them recognize the industry’s behavior and core business model as being morally reprehensible and at odds with their core values. More recently, prestigious cultural institutions have reached a similar conclusion and begun to sever ties with the fossil fuel industry. For instance, the National Portrait Gallery recently decided to end its 30-year partnership with BP over the company’s appalling environmental record, and there is a major campaign for the Science Museum to do the same.

Why Are You Making This Call Amid The Russian Invasion In Ukraine And The Ripple Effects On Energy Supply?

The call to reject funding from fossil fuel companies for climate change-related research is particularly salient in the wake of the latest IPCC report and the Russian war on Ukraine, which has made abundantly clear the need for vast investment in and development of renewable energy infrastructure for the well-being and survival of our communities and future generations, and global security. Meanwhile, fossil fuel companies are cashing in on soaring energy prices to secure record profits and continue to invest tiny proportions of their overall capital budgets on renewables. As these companies exploit the humanitarian crisis for their own gain and work to sustain their deadly core business model, it is obvious that we simply cannot trust these companies with the future of our planet.  Shell’s decision to purchase a tankard of Russian oil in the midst of this crisis represents yet another example of the industry’s commitment to profit-making at the expense of all standards of basic morality and human decency.

Signed by:

• Peter Kalmus, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory; Associate Project Scientist at the UCLA Joint Institute for Regional Earth System Science and Engineering
• Michael Mann, Distinguished Professor of Atmospheric Science & Director of Earth System Science Center, Pennsylvania State University
• David Michaels Ph.D., MPH, Professor of Environmental and Occupational Health, George Washington University School of Public Health
• Peter Frumhoff, Former Director of Science & Policy and Chief Climate Scientist, Union of Concerned Scientists; Affiliate of Harvard University Center for the Environment
• The Rt Revd Dr. Rowan Williams, Former Archbishop of Canterbury, Chancellor, University of South Wales
• Robert Howarth, David R. Atkinson Professor of Ecology & Environmental Biology, Cornell University; Co-Editor in Chief, Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Research
• Mark Maslin, Professor of Earth System Science, University College London
• Jacquelyn Gill, Associate Professor of Paleoecology & Plant Ecology, School of Biology and Ecology and Climate Change Institute, University of Maine
• Cornel West, Dietrich Bonhoeffer Professor of Philosophy and Christian Practice at Union Theological Seminary; Professor Emeritus, Princeton University
• Julia Steinberger, Professor of Societal Challenges of Climate Change, University of Lausanne; former Professor of Social Ecology & Ecological Economics, University of Leeds; Lead Author for the IPCC’s 6th Assessment Report with Working Group 3
• Sir Roger Penrose, Emeritus Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics, University of Oxford; Recipient, 2020 Nobel Prize for Physics
• Mary Robinson, Adjunct Professor of Climate Justice, Trinity College Dublin, & former President of Ireland
• Eric Chivian MD, Founder and Former Director, Center for Health and the Global Environment, Harvard Medical School; Co-Founder, International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War; Recipient, 1985 Nobel Peace Prize
• Tim Jackson, Professor of Sustainable Development and Director of the Centre for the Understanding of Sustainable Prosperity (CUSP), University of Surrey
• Bill McGuire, Professor Emeritus in Geophysical & Climate Hazards, University College London
• Dr. Genevieve Gunther, Affiliate Faculty, Tishman Environment and Design Center, The New School; Founder and Director, End Climate Silence
• Eduardo Calvo, Environmental Scientist, Professor of San Marcos University
• Hans-O. Poertner, Professor of Integrative Ecophysiology, Alfred Wegener Institute
• Hamid Abakar Souleymane, IPCC Executive Committee
• Raj Patel, Research Professor, Lyndon B Johnson School of Public Affairs, University of Texas at Austin
• Karenna Gore, ​​Founder and Executive Director of the Center for Earth Ethics, Union Theological Seminary
• Gary W. Yohe, Huffington Foundation Professor of Economics and Environmental Studies, Wesleyan University, Senior member of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) that was awarded a share of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize
• Dr. Farhana Sultana, Associate Professor, Geography and the Environment Department, Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University
• Dame Marilyn Strathern, Emeritus Professor of Social Anthropology and Life Fellow, Girton College, University of Cambridge
• Philip Poole, Professor of Plant Microbiology, Fellow of Somerville College, University of Oxford
• Sir Jonathon Porritt CBE, Chancellor of Keele University; Visiting Professor at Loughborough University and University College London; Co-Founder of Forum for the Future
• Richard Heede, Director, Climate Accountability Institute
• Dr. Stuart Parkinson, Executive Director, Scientists for Global Responsibility
• Gaurab Basu, MD, MPH, Co-Director of the CHA Center for Health Equity Education and Advocacy; Instructor, Harvard Medical School
• Dr. Daniel Field, Lecturer in Vertebrate Paleontology; Fellow & Director of Studies in Earth Sciences, Christ’s College; Curator of Ornithology, University of Cambridge Museum of Zoology
• Professor J. Doyne Farmer, University of Oxford, Director of the Complexity Economics programme at the Institute for New Economic Thinking at the Oxford Martin School, Baillie Gifford Professor in the Mathematical Institute at the University of Oxford and External Professor at the Santa Fe Institute.
• Professor Neil Metcalfe, Professor of Behavioral Ecology, Institute of Biodiversity Animal Health & Comparative Medicine, University of Glasgow
• John Cook, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Climate Change Communication Research Hub, Monash University; former Assistant Professor, Center for Climate Change Communication, George Mason University
• Huw Price, Co-Founder, Cambridge Centre for the Study of Existential Risk; Emeritus Bertrand Russell Professor, Trinity College, Cambridge
• Michael Edgeworth McIntyre FRS, Emeritus Professor of Atmospheric Dynamics, University of Cambridge
• Professor Andrew Briggs, Department of Materials, University of Oxford
• Rand Wentworth, Louis and Gabrielle Bacon Senior Fellow in Environmental Leadership and Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School; President Emeritus of the Land Trust Alliance
• Bill McKibben, Scholar in Residence in Environmental Studies, Middlebury College; Co-Founder, 350.org; Founder, Third Act
• David Humphrey, Professor of Environmental Policy, Open University
• Bevis Longstreth, former Member, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission; former Adjunct Professor, Columbia Law School
• Paul Chatterton, Professor of Urban Futures, University of Leeds
• Dr. Andrew Fanning, Data Analysis & Research Lead at Doughnut Economics Action Lab, and a Visiting Research Fellow in the Sustainability Research Institute, University of Leeds
• Mr. Navraj Singh Ghaleigh, Senior Lecturer in Climate Law, University of Edinburgh
• Sir Thomas Blundell, Emeritus Professor of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge
• Clair Brown, Professor of Economics and Director of the Center for Work, Technology, and Society at the University of California, Berkeley
• Robert Brulle, Visiting Professor of Environment and Society, Brown University
• Dr. Simon Boxley, Senior Lecturer in Education, Programme Leader for the MA Liberal Arts, and Head of the Centre for Climate Change Action, University of Winchester
• Dr. Jonathan Busch, Research Fellow, Sustainability Research Institute, University of Leeds
• Sarah J. Darby, Associate Professor, Environmental Change Institute Energy Programme, University of Oxford
• Juliet Schor, Professor of Economics and Sociology, Boston College
• Jerry Rivers, Environmental Scientist, North American Climate, Conservation and Environment
• Holly Caggiano, Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellow, Andlinger Center for Energy & the Environment, Princeton University
• Dr. Ankur R. Desai, Professor, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Madison
• Gina Barnes, Professor Emeritus, Durham University; Project Affiliate, Earth Sciences, Durham University; Professorial Research Associate, SOAS University of London
• John Geissman, Professor Emeritus of Geosciences and Ex-Department Head, University of Texas at Dallas; Professor Emeritus, University of New Mexico
• Sir William Timothy Gowers, Director of Research at the University of Cambridge and Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge; Professor holding the Combinatorial Chair at the Collège de France; Recipient of the Fields Medal
• Dr. Geoffrey Supran, Research Associate, Harvard University; former Director of Climate Accountability Communication, Climate Social Science Network, Brown University
• Professor Jason Hickel, Institute for Environmental Science and Technology (ICTA-UAB), Autonomous University of Barcelona; Visiting Senior Fellow, International Inequalities Institute, London School of Economics
• Mark Miesch, Research Scientist, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado Boulder
• Judith Enck, Visiting Professor, Bennington College; Former Regional Administrator, US Environmental Protection Agency
• Nathan Phillips, Professor of Earth and Environment, Boston University
• Dr. Harriet Thew, UKRI COP26 Research Fellow, School of Earth and Environment, University of Leeds
• Henry Shue, Professor Emeritus, Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for International Studies, University of Oxford
• Elizabeth Cripps, Senior Lecturer in Political Theory, University of Edinburgh
• Dr. Gabriel Filippelli, Chancellor’s Professor of Earth Sciences, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis
• Professor John Barry, Professor of Green Political Economy & Co-Director of the Centre for Sustainability, Equality and Climate Action, Queen’s University Belfast
• Professor Aled Jones, Director of Global Sustainability Institute, Anglia Ruskin University
• Michael Dove, Margaret K. Musser Professor of Social Ecology Professor, Yale University; Curator, Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History
• Sandra Susan Smith, Daniel & Florence Guggenheim Professor of Criminal Justice, Harvard Kennedy School; Professor of Sociology, Harvard Faculty of Arts & Sciences; Carol K. Pforzheimer Professor, Harvard Radcliffe Institute
• David Humphreys, ​​Professor of Environmental Policy, The Open University
• Jason Scott Warren, Professor in Modern Literature and Culture, Fellow of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge
• Kevin Kruse, Professor of History; Director of the Center for Collaborative History, Princeton University
• Parke Wilde, Professor at the Friedman School, Tufts University
• Mary Laven, Professor of Early Modern History, Fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge
• Simon Lewis, Professor of Geography, University College London
• Suzanne Blier, Allen Whitehill Clowes Professor of Fine Arts and Professor of African and African American Studies, Harvard University
• David Armitage, Lloyd C. Blankfein Professor of History, Harvard University
• Dr. Gareth Dale, Associate Head of the Department of Social and Political Sciences and Senior Lecturer in Political Economy, Brunel University London
• Dr. Thomas Jeffrey Miley, Professor of Political Sociology, University of Cambridge
• Richard Ivry, Distinguished Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of California, Berkeley
• Efthimios Kaxira, John Hasbrouck Van Vleck Professor of Pure and Applied Physics, Chair of the Department of Physics, Harvard University
• John D. Hanson, Alan A. Stone Professor of Law, Faculty Director of The Systemic Justice Project, and Director of The Project on Law and Mind Sciences, Harvard Law School
• Priyamvada Gopal, Professor of Postcolonial Studies, Fellow of Churchill College, University of Cambridge
• Professor Michael Lamb, Editor, Journal of Psychology, Public Policy and Law, University of Cambridge
• Renaud Morieux, Professor of British and European History, Fellow of Pembroke College, Cambridge
• Vicki Rosen, Professor of Developmental Biology and Chair of the Department of Developmental Biology, Harvard School of Dental Medicine
• Gilbert Achcar, Professorial Research Associate & Senior Teaching Fellow, Department of History of Art and Archaeology, School of Arts, SOAS University of London
• Nadje Al-Ali, Professor of Anthropology and Middle East Studies, Robert Family Professor of International Studies, Brown University
• Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Georgetown University
• Bernard Nickel, Professor of Philosophy, Harvard University
• David Nally, Associate Professor of Geography and Fellow of Jesus College, University of Cambridge
• Erin Coughlan de Perez, Research Director, Dignitas Professor, Feinstein International Center, Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, Tufts University; Senior Advisor, Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre
• Joyce Chaplin, James Duncan Phillips Professor of Early American History, Harvard University
• Timothy Patrick McCarthy, Harvard University
• Richard Parker, Lecturer in Public Policy and Senior Fellow of the Shorenstein Center, Harvard Kennedy School
• David Elmer, Department Chair, Department of the Classic and Eliot Professor of Greek Literature, Harvard University
• Dipesh Chakrabarty, Lawrence A. Kimpton Distinguished Service Professor of History, South Asian Languages and Civilizations, and the College, Department of History, University of Chicago
• James Engell, Gurney Professor of English and Professor of Comparative Literature, Harvard University
• Virginie Greene, Professor of French, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, Harvard University
• Leah Horowitz, Assistant Professor, Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies and the Department of Civil Society and Community Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison
• Dr. Bill Burgwinkle, Professor of Medieval French and Occitan Literature, University of Cambridge
• Sidney Chalhoub, Professor of History, Harvard University
• Alexander Rehding, Fanny Peabody Professor of Music, Harvard University
• Shruthi Mahaliangaiah, Assistant Professor of Environmental, Reproductive, and Women’s Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
• Keri Facer, Professor of Educational and Social Futures, University of Bristol
• Dr. Bogdan Roman, Senior Researcher, Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics, University of Cambridge
• Walter Willett, Professor of Epidemiology and Nutrition, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
• Doris Sommer, Ira Jewell Williams Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures, Director of Graduate Studies in Spanish, Harvard University
• Ann Hochschild, ​​Chair of the Department of Microbiology, Maude & Lillian Presley Professor, Harvard Medical School
• Philip Connell, Professor of Literature and History, University of Cambridge
• Mette Eilstrup-Sangiovannie, Professor, Department of Politics and International Studies, University of Cambridge
• Joel Schwartz, Professor of Environmental Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
• Mahzarin R. Banaji, Richard Clarke Cabot Professor of Social Ethics, Harvard University
• Alexander Riehle, Assistant Professor of the Classics, Harvard University
• Alfonso Caramezza, Daniel and Amy Starch Professor of Psychology, Harvard University
• Dan Smail, Frank B. Baird, Jr. Professor of History, Harvard University
• Dr. Andrew Jenkins, Associate Professor in the Social Research Institute, University College London
• Regina LaRocque, Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
• Caren Solomon, Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
• Ben Franta, Leslie Parker Hume Graduate Fellow, Stanford University
• Professor Martyn Pickersgill, Personal Chair of the Sociology of Science and Medicine, University of Edinburgh
• Jesse B. Bump, Executive Director, Takemi Program in International Health and Lecturer on Global Health Policy, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health; Member of the Bergen Center for Ethics and Priority Setting, University of Bergen
• Tina Shull, Assistant Professor History and Affiliate, Latin American Studies, UNC Charlotte
• Dr. David Hillman, Associate Professor of English Literature, University of Cambridge
• John Womack, Jr., Robert Woods Bliss Emeritus Professor of Latin American History and Economics, Harvard University
• Barbara Evans, Professor of Public Health Engineering, University of Leeds
• Samuel Gershman, Professor of Psychology, Harvard University
• Nick Hopwood, Professor of History of Science and Medicine, University of Cambridge
• Revd Jeremy Caddick, Dean of Emmanuel College, University of Cambridge
• Professor David Buscher, Professor of Experimental Astronomy, University of Cambridge
• Howard Woodhouse, Professor Emeritus and Co-Director, Saskatchewan Process Philosophy Research Unit, Department of Educational Foundations, University of Saskatchewan
• David M. Weinstock MD, Professor, Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Associate Member, Cancer Biology, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard; Lavine Family Chair, Preventative Cancer Therapies, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
• Alyssa Battistoni, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Barnard College
• Patricia Fairfield, Associate Professor, McDonough School of Business Georgetown University
• Nicholas Till, Professor of Opera and Music Theatre, University of Sussex
• Aliyah Sohani, MD, Associate Professor of Pathology, Harvard Medical School; Director of Surgical Pathology, Massachusetts General Hospital
• Dr. Charalampos Tsoumpas, Professor of “Quantification in Molecular Diagnostics & Radionuclide Therapy” at the University of Groningen; Honorary Lecturer, University of Leeds
• Dr. Isabela Butnar, Senior Research Associate, University College London Institute for Sustainable Resources
• Dr. Sarah Royston, Senior Research Fellow, Global Sustainability Institute, Anglia Ruskin University
• Dr. Beth Breeze, Director, Centre for Philanthropy, School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research, University of Kent
• Oliver Broad, Senior Research Fellow, UCL Institute for Sustainable Resources
• Professor Kate Jeffery, Experimental Psychology, University College London
• Dr. John Fairfield, Professor of History, Xavier University
• Dr. Mike Bithell, Assistant Director of Research in Computing, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge
• John E. McDonough DrPH, MPA, Professor of Public Health Practice, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
• Peter Der Manuelian, Barbara Bell Professor of Egyptology, Harvard University
• Ken McIntosh, Professor of Pediatrics, Affiliate of Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School
• Dr. Emily Cox, Research Associate, Department of Psychology, Cardiff University, School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford
• Jonathan E. Grindlay, Robert Treat Paine Professor of Astronomy, Harvard University
• Deidre Shauna Lynch, Ernest Bernbaum Professor of Literature, Harvard University
• Dr. Janine Maegraith, Special Supervisor, Newnham College, University of Cambridge; Department of Economic and Social History, University of Vienna
• Brett D. Nelson, MD, MPH, DTM&H, Associate Professor, Harvard Medical School
• Tracey Rosen, Lecturer, Social Studies, Harvard University
• ​​Sadath Sayeed MD, JD, Assistant Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School
• Carmen Arnold-Biucchi, Damarete Curator of Ancient Coins Harvard Art Museums; Lecturer, Department of the Classics, Harvard University
• Meera Subaratnam, Reader in International Relations, SOAS University of London
• Jacqueline Olds, Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School
• Julia Koehler, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School
• Regan H Marsh MD, MPH, Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine, Harvard Medical School
• Gregg Greenough MD, MPH, MS, Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine, Harvard Medical School
• Sudha Natarajan Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine
• Thom Davies, Assistant Professor, School of Geography, University of Nottingham
• Nancy Krieger Professor of Social Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
• Alison M. Friedman, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School
• Christina Ullrich MD, MPH, Assistant Professor in Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School
• Katie McLaughlin, Professor of Psychology, Harvard University
• Jonathan Buonocore ScD, Research Scientist, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
• Joyce Li MD, MPH, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics and Emergency Medicine, Harvard Medical School
• Abby Spinak, Lecturer in Urban Planning and Design, Harvard Graduate School of Design
• Kathryn S. Brigham MD, Instructor in Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School
• Martha C. Sola-Visner, Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School
• Darshan Mehta, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
• Brian Claggett, Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School
• Sion Kim Harris, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School
• Edward Franz Pace-Schott, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School
• Jeremy D. Richmond MD, Associate Professor of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Harvard Medical School
• Morana Lasic MD, Assistant Professor of Anesthesia, Harvard Medical School
• Shahin Lockman, Associate Professor, Harvard Medical School
• Jennifer Kasper MD, MPH, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics and Global Health & Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School
• Rachael Clark MD, Ph.D., Professor of Dermatology, Harvard Medical School
• Carlos Camargo MD, DrPH, Professor of Emergency Medicine, Harvard Medical School
• Malcolm Mackenzie, Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School
• Nii Tetteh, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
• Emmerich Davies, Assistant Professor of Education, Harvard Graduate School of Education
• Dr. Alexander J. Golby MD, Professor of Neurosurgery and Radiology, Harvard Medical School
• Jean C. Lee, Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Associate Microbiologist, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
• Sam Andrew Tanyons MD, Instructor in Medicine, Harvard Medical School
• Bertal H. Atlas, Assistant Professor, Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Associate Molecular Biologist, Medicine, Brigham And Women’s Hospital
• Jessica Haberer MD, MS, Professor, Harvard Medical School; Director of Global Health Research, Massachusetts General Hospital
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• Elizabeth Ludlow, Associate Professor in English Literature, Anglia Ruskin University
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• Tony Warne, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, University of Cambridge
• Sam Marsh, University Teacher, School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Sheffield
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• Lesley McFadyen, Senior Lecturer in Archaeology, Birkbeck, University of London
• Dr. Kat Hill, Senior Lecturer in History, Birkbeck, University of London
• Brandon DL Marshall, Associate Professor of Epidemiology, Brown University School of Public Health
• James C. Scott , Sterling Professor of Political Science and Anthropology, Yale University
• Dr. Tristram Wyatt, Senior Research Fellow, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford
• Dr. Monica Moreno Figueroa, Associate Professor in Sociology, University of Cambridge
• John David Rhodes, Director, Centre for Film and Screen,University of Cambridge
• Julie Barrau, Associate Professor in British Medieval History, Faculty of History, University of Cambridge
• Sally Haslanger, Ford Professor of Philosophy and Women’s & Gender Studies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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• Dr. Reuben Binns, Associate Professor of Human Centered Computing, University of Oxford
• Rebecca Bromley-Trujillo, Associate Professor of Political Science, Research Director of the Wason Center for Civic Leadership, Christopher Newport University
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• Noel Healy, Associate Professor Geography & Sustainability, Salem State University
• Teresa Kramarz, Associate Professor, Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, University of Toronto
• Prakash Kashwan, Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Connecticut, Storrs
• Peter Newell, Professor of International Relations, University of Sussex
• Jennie C Stephens, Professor and Director, School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs, Northeastern University,
• Danielle Falzon, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Sociology, Brown University
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• Marco Grasso, Professor of Political Geography, University of Milan-Bicocca
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• John M. Meyer, Professor of Politics, California Polytechnic State University
• Andy Scerri, Associate Professor, Political Science & International Studies,Virginia Tech
• Phil Brown, University Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Health Sciences; Director, Social Science Environmental Health Research Institute Northeastern University
• Rachel Wetts, Assistant Professor of Environment and Society and Sociology, Brown University
• Duncan McLaren, Research Fellow, Lancaster Environment Center, University of Lancaster.
• Debra Javeline, Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Notre Dame
• Craig Callender, Professor of Philosophy, Co-Director of the Institute for Practical Ethics, UC San Diego
• Jeremy Walker, Director, C-SERC (Climate, Society and Environment Research Center), University of Technology Sydney
• Dr. Saphira Rekker, Senior Lecturer Sustainable Finance, University of Queensland
• Kristoffer Ekberg, Researcher in Environmental History, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
• Dr. Andrea Brock, Lecturer in International Relations, Co-director, Center for Global Political Economy, University of Sussex
• Jim Recht, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School
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• Dr. Susan Blackwell, Department of Philosophy, University of Utrecht
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