Neil Adger is Professor of Human Geography. He teaches, supervises graduate students, and researches in the areas of environmental geography, ecological and institutional economics, and global environmental change.

He is currently leading research on social dynamics of well-being, health, migration and climate change with collaborators in the UK, Ireland, Ghana, South Asia and in Australia. 

He has been a Highly Cited Researcher from 2015 to 2022 and Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences. He was a founding member of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research at the University of East Anglia. 

For the IPCC he was Lead Author and Convening Lead Author for the Third, Fourth and Fifth Assessment Reports. He served as Lead Author for the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment that defined and popularised ecosystem services; as a Commissioner for the Lancet Commission on Climate and Health 2015, and as Lead Expert for UK Foresight on Migration and Global Environmental Change in 2011. 

Neil has been recognised for contribution to climate research through award of the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge prize in climate change in 2020, awarded jointly with Karen O’Brien and Ian Burton, and listed in the top 20 of Most Influential Climate Researchers in the Reuters Hot List in 2021.