Björn-Ola Linnér

He is advisor to international organisations, ministries and agencies as well as industry and civil society organisations. He has been scientific expert in the Swedish delegation to negotiations of the Synthesis Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. He held the Research and Independent NGO constituency's address at the High-level segment of UNFCCC Conference (Copenhagen 2009). He is a fellow of the Royal Swedish Academy of Agriculture and Forestry and a member of the Research Council of the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency.

Björn-Ola Linnér (born 1963) is a Swedish climate policy scholar and professor at Linköping University. He is program director of Mistra Geopolitics, a research programme that critically examines and explores the interplay between the dynamics of geopolitics, human security, and global environmental change. He is also affiliated at the Institute for Science, Innovation and Society at Oxford University and the Stockholm Environment Institute.

Linnér was born in 1963, Sweden. He received a PhD degree in 1998 on the dissertation The world household: Georg Borgström and the postwar population–resource crisis., which was later reworked into the book The Return of Malthus: Environmentalism and Postwar Population–Resource Crises, where he analyses neo-Malthusianism in conservationism, environmentalism and in international politics in the 20th century. In 2008, he was appointed professor at the Department of Thematic Studies – Environmental Change at Linköping University.