Corinne Le Quéré is a French-Canadian climatologist. She is Professor of Climate Change Science at the University of East Anglia where she leads a research group on carbon emissions and sinks. She directed the Tyndall Center on Climate Change, the annual synthesis of the “Global carbon project”, and was the author of three synthesis reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). She is a Fellow of the UK Academy of Sciences and sits on the Climate Change Committee which advises the UK government on its climate policies.