Corinne Le Quéré


Marie Corinne Lyne Le Quéré is a French-Canadian scientist. She is Professor of Climate Change Science and Policy at the University of East Anglia and former Director of Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research.

Education

Le Quéré received her B.Sc. in physics from University of Montreal, an M.S. in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences from McGill University, and a Ph.D. in oceanography from University of Paris VI.

Career and research

She was co-Chair of the Global Carbon Project from 2009 until 2013. Since 2014 she has been a member of the Scientific Committee of the Future Earth platform for sustainability research. Within the GCP, she initiated and directs the annual publication of the Global Carbon Budget.

Honours and awards

Le Quéré was awarded the Claude Berthault award from the French Academy of Sciences in 2012, the first Copernicus medal of the Copernicus Gesellschaft e.V. in 2013/2014, and was the annual Bolin lecturer in Stockholm University in 2014.
In 2015, she received a Blaise Pascal Medal for Earth and Environmental Sciences from the European Academy of Sciences.
In 2016, Le Quéré was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society
In 2016, she was also listed among the 20 "women making waves in the climate change debate" on the Road to Paris.
Le Quéré was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 2019 Birthday Honours for services to climate change science.
In 2019, she also won the Prince Albert I Medal and was made a Chevalier of the French Legion of Honour.
In 2020, she received the Heineken Prize for Environmental Sciences for her interdisciplinary research on the interactions between climate change and the carbon cycle.