Dr Ruane is a Research Physical Scientist at the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies. He is also co-Director of the GISS Climate Impacts Group and an adjunct Associate Research Scientist at the Columbia University Center for Climate Systems Research in New York City. He is the Research Coordinator and Climate Team Leader for the Agricultural Model Intercomparison and Improvement Project. He is Coordinating Lead Author for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Sixth Assessment Report (IPCC AR6), Working Group 1 Chapter 12: ‘Climate information for regional impact and for risk assessment’ and a member of the Core Writing Team for the IPCC Synthesis Report. He founded and Co-Chairs the Vulnerability, Impacts, Adaptation, and Climate Services (VIACS) Advisory Board for the Sixth Phase of the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP6). He also sits on the Expert Committee for the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) Global Risk Assessment Framework (GRAF), as part of which he co-chairs the ‘Fostering Systems Thinking’ Working Group.
