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Karen Seto is the Frederick C. Hixon Professor of Geography and Urbanization Science, Co-Director of the Yale Center for Geospatial Solutions, and Director of the Hixon Center for Urban Sustainability at Yale. A remote sensing scientist by training, she studies how urbanization will affect the planet, including climate change, biodiversity, and food systems. Currently, she is chair of the Policy and Global Affairs Division of the U.S. National Academies (NAS), co-chair of the NAS Subcommittee on U.S.-China Scientific Engagement, and co-chair of the NAS Climate Security Roundtable. She is an elected member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering. She is also a Foreign Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, an elected member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Prior to joining the Yale School of the Environment, she was faculty at Stanford University in the Woods Institute for the Environment and the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies.

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