Diana Liverman studied geography in Toronto and obtained her Ph.D. at the University of California in Los Angeles. She held faculty positions in geography at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Penn State and the University of Arizona. At present she teaches geography at Oxford University and is director of the Environmental Change Institute. Professor Liverman is program leader for research on post-2012 climate policy at the British Tyndall Centre for Climate Change and chair of the science advisory committee for the international program Global Environmental Change and Food Security. Her research has focused on the human dimensions of global environmental change, the social causes and consequences of land use change, and environmental management in the context of globalization. She was contributor and reviewed three assessments of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, including the most recent one, and gave evidence to congressional and parliamentary committees in the USA and the United Kingdom.