Diana Liverman

Quick Facts

Full Name	Diana Liverman
Occupation	Geographer
Date Of Birth	May 15, 1954(1954-05-15)
Age	70
Birthplace	Accra
Country	Ghana
Birth City	Greater Accra Region
Horoscope	Taurus

Diana Liverman Biography

Diana Liverman is one of the most popular and richest Geographer who was born on May 15, 1954 in Accra, Greater Accra Region, Ghana. Diana Liverman (born May 15 1954 in Accra, Ghana) is a Regents Professor in Geography and Development, and former co-director of the Institute of the Environment at the University of Arizona, USA. The professor is an authority in the human dimension that global change in the environment as well as the effects of climate change on the human condition. She co-authored the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) October 8th Special Report for 2018 about Global Warming of 1.5oC.

She also has led many large collaborative research projects that were funded mostly through US in addition to European agencies. In 2011, she made up a team that briefed Dalai Lama Dalai Lama (2011) on climate change.

Professor Liverman was elected as a member of the Earth Commission in 2019 and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2020.

In April of 2020, Professor Liverman was elected to the National Academy of Sciences.

In 2003, she was appointed to the very first chair of Environmental Science at the University of Oxford (where she was the first woman to be elected to chair within the School of Geography), and then became the director of the Environmental Change Institute, a institute for teaching, research and outreach about the environment in Oxford University. In five years, she grew the size, income and visibility of ECI and hired a range of highly regarded scholars , and working with organizations like the Tyndall Centre and James Martin 21st Century School. In 2009, she returned to Arizona to direct ECI’s Institute of the Environment, in collaboration alongside Professor. Jonathan Overpeck until 2016 when the University changed the structure of the senior staff.

Diana Liverman Net Worth

Diana Liverman is one of the richest Geographer from Ghana. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Diana Liverman 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Liverman studied the human impact of drought from the 1980s, as well as the effects of climate changes on food systems by using the first climate modelling techniques, as well as crops simulation models. In recognizing the limitations of models as well as the limitations of fieldwork, research in Mexico was conducted, which focused on the risk of natural hazards to the agriculture sector and the possible impacts of climate changes to food production systems. Liverman is also studying the impacts from neoliberalism in Latin American society and environmental systems, especially in the border region between Mexico and the United States.

Diana Liverman was born in Accra, Ghana to British parents. Her family later returned into the UK. She was a geography student in University College London, the University of Toronto, and UCLA where she completed her doctorate in 1984. She was a postdoc and student in the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) located in Boulder, Colorado from 1982-1985 in collaboration alongside Steve Schneider. She later instructed geography in the University of Wisconsin-Madison where she was also a part of the Institute for Environmental Studies and at Penn State University where she was the Director of the Associate Department at the Earth System Science Center directed by Eric Barron. She transferred from Arizona’s University of Arizona in 1995 to be the Director for Latin American Studies.

Professor Liverman has served as the Director of the School of Geography and Development at the University of Arizona since 2019.

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Diana Ranked on the list of most popular Geographer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Ghana. Diana Liverman celebrates birthday on May 15 of every year.