Ed Carr is a tenured associate professor in the Department of Geography at the University of South Carolina. From September 2010 to September 2011, he was an AAAS fellow serving as the climate change coordinator for the Bureau for Democracy, Conflict and Humanitarian Assistance at the United States Agency for International Development.  He is now serving the second year of his AAAS fellowship as a climate change science advisor on the Climate Change Team in the Bureau for Economic Growth, Agricultural and Trade at USAID.  For more than 14 years he has worked in rural sub-Saharan Africa on issues of globalization, development and environmental change, living among and working with the poorest of the poor.  He is the author of more than 30 publications on issues of development, adaptation to climate change, and the changing global environment.  Ed has served as a lead author of two global environmental assessments (the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment and UNEP’s Fourth Global Environment Outlook).  In June 2010 he was named to Working Group II of the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report, where he will serve as the review editor for a chapter rural areas. 

Ed has been awarded a Science and Technology Policy Fellowship from the American Association for the Advancement of Science, a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship, and a Mellon Fellowship in the Humanities from the Woodrow Wilson Foundation.  His research has been supported by the National Science Foundation, the National Geographic Society, The University of South Carolina, The University of Kentucky, and Syracuse University.