Inez Fung

Inez Fung, Sc.D., is an atmospheric scientist and one of the world’s leading experts on climate and the carbon cycle – how carbon dioxide moves throughout the land, oceans, and the atmosphere – and how its movement both depends on and alters our planet’s climate. An immigrant to the United States from Hong Kong and a contributor to the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, she is a Professor of Atmospheric Science at the University of California, Berkeley, and was the second woman to graduate from MIT with a doctorate in meteorology.