Lisa Goddard *95

Director, International Research Institute for Climate and Society, and Senior Research Scientist, Columbia University.

Goddard is director of Columbia University’s International Research Institute for Climate and Society where she leads research on understanding and predicting near-future climate change. Her research largely focuses on diagnosing and extracting meaningful information from climate models and observations. Goddard is a globally recognized expert on El Niño and La Niña, decadal prediction and near-term climate change. She received her Ph.D. from Princeton in atmospheric and oceanic sciences.