Dr Anthony Patt

Anthony Patt (b. 1965) grew up on a New England apple farm. After years devoted to competitive sports and later environmental law, he turned to research and teaching in public policy, earning a PhD from Harvard University in 2000, and becoming Professor of Climate Policy at ETH Zurich, the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, in 2013. He is one of the leading scientists to view climate change as a technological transitions problem, and to evaluate public policies not in terms of their success at reducing carbon emissions in the short-term, but rather their long-term contribution to providing affordable, secure, and completely fossil-free energy to everyone. He has received numerous grants and awards for this work, including a prestigious award from the European Research Council. He was a key contributor to the Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. He lives with his family in a farming community near Zurich.