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Richard J.T. Klein is a senior research fellow at the Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI) in Sweden and a visiting researcher at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) in Germany. At SEI he leads the Stockholm-based Climate and Energy team and co-ordinates climate policy research across all SEI centres. He also directs the joint PIK-SEI research project Formal Approaches to Vulnerability Assessment that Informs Adaptation (FAVAIA). Since 1992 Richard has conducted research and provided consultancy services on societal vulnerability and adaptation to climate variability and change for a range of national and international organisations. In addition, he has been a lead author in the IPCC Second and Third Assessment Reports and the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, and a co-ordinating lead author in the IPCC Special Report on Technology Transfer and the Fourth Assessment Report. To date he has produced over sixty journal articles, book chapters and reports, edited a book and two special journal issues and contributed to numerous national and international workshops and conferences. Richard holds a PhD magna cum laude in environmental geography from the University of Kiel and master’s degrees from the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam and the University of East Anglia in Norwich.