Dr. Riccardo Valentini

Dr. Riccardo Valentini is the Director of the Division of Climate Impact at the

Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Changes. He received the 2007 Nobel Peace

Price for his activities within the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

Valentini was researcher at the University of Tuscia, the Department of Plant Biology of

the Carnegie Institution of Washington, and at the Joint Research Center of the

European Commission. Since 2000, he is a Professor at the University of Tuscia in the

Department of Science of the Forest Environment and its Resources and has been

Director of the department since 2002. His research activity focuses on subjects in

ecology, in agricultural-forest systems, and problems connected with implementing

international conventions for global environmental protection. He is a pioneer in

research related to the role of agricultural-forest systems in climate change and the

greenhouse effect and has been published multiple times in prestigious scientific

international publications including Science and Nature.