Dr Pamela McElwee is Professor of Human Ecology at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. Her research covers environmental governance, ecosystem services, and biodiversity and climate policy, with a focus on Vietnam and Southeast Asia. From 2021 to 2024, she was Co-Chair of the IPBES Nexus Assessment on the interlinkages among biodiversity, water, food, health and climate change, and she is now a Lead Author for the IPCC Seventh Assessment Report. She was earlier a lead author of the IPBES Global Assessment and the IPCC Special Report on Climate Change and Land.