Professor John E. Hay
John has over forty years of experience in academia, the private sector, and governmental organizations. His work has focused on bringing an interdisciplinary approach to the environmental sciences and to technical and policy-relevant assessments and guidance, especially in relation to the Pacific islands region, Antarctica, and climate variability and change.
As a Lead Author for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), John was a recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, awarded jointly to the IPCC and Al Gore. John is also a recipient of a prestigious fellowship from the Guggenheim Foundation.
In 2007 John co-authored the book Tourism and Climate Change: Risks and Opportunities. The sequel, Climate Change, and Tourism: From Policy to Practice, was published in June 2012. John is in the final stages of writing two further books. They will be published in 2022 and 2023, jointly by Elsevier and the Royal Meteorological Society – Science of Weather, Climate and Ocean Extremes, and Managing the Consequences of Weather, Climate and Oceanic Extremes in Our Warming World.
John is an Adjunct Professor at Auckland University in New Zealand, at Griffith University in Australia, and at the University of the South Pacific, a regional university. He works as a consultant and advisor to many national governments and regional and international organizations, including the United Nations, the World Bank, the Asian Development Bank, the Pacific Regional Environment Programme, the Secretariat of the Pacific Community, the governments of New Zealand and Australia, and Live and Learn International.
John’s Lecture Topics
- The Pacific – An Ocean of Islands
- Land Tenure in the Pacific
- Bountiful Pacific – Fisheries and Deep Sea Mining
- Addressing the ‘Climate Crisis’ – Much Talk; Little Action