Gail Whiteman

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Born1965 (age 58–59)
NationalityCanadian-British
Alma materQueen’s University
Occupation
  • Social Scientist
  • Professor

Gail Whiteman (born 1965) is a Canadian-British social scientist specialising in global risk. She founded the science outreach non-profit Arctic Basecamp[1] and is Professor of Sustainability at the University of Exeter’s Business School. [2]

Academic career

Whiteman is an expert on global risk arising from the systemic changes occurring in the natural environment. Her PhD is from Queen’s University where she studied management. Her field work was conducted in the subarctic region of Canada with the James Bay Cree. She has over 60 peer-reviewed scientific papers. She has published widely including in journals such as Nature, with coauthors including Christiana Figueres and Johan Rockstrom.

Her research uses organisation theory on information flows and sensemaking processes to analyse how companies, policymakers, civil society, and local communities make sense of and respond to ecological risk.

Arctic Basecamp

In 2017, Whiteman founded Arctic Basecamp, a non-profit science outreach organisation. She is its Executive Director. In 2021, she was named a PR Week Top Communicator of the Year for her work with Arctic Basecamp.[3]

References

  1. "Who is Gail Whiteman, founder of Arctic Basecamp, panelist at World Economic Forum?". Moneycontrol. 2023-01-13. Retrieved 2023-08-05.
  2. "Professor Gail Whiteman, Professor of Sustainability". University of Exeter. Retrieved 4 August 2023.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  3. "UK Communicators of the Year 2021 (numbers 20-16) revealed by PRWeek". www.prweek.com. Retrieved 2023-08-05.

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