Dr. Asuncion Lera St. Clair is a Senior Principal Scientist at DNV GL who has over 20 years experience researching solutions to poverty, development and climate change issues. She currently focuses on private sector engagement for climate adaptation and sustainable development. She has held leadership roles in numerous organizations, published extensively, and led several climate projects related to governance, standards, and engaging the private sector.

1. DNV GL Headquarters, Veritasveien 1, P.O.Box 300, 1322 Høvik, Norway. Tel: +47 67 57 99 00. www.dnvgl.com
StClair 4 page CV 02-17.docx
Dr. Asuncion Lera St. Clair is Senior Principal Scientist at the
Climate Programme of DNV GL Group Technology and Research.
(DNV GL is an international certification body and classification
private sector company with main expertise in technical
assessment, advisory, and risk management). Spanish citizen
currently residing in Norway, Asun holds an M.A. in Philosophy and PhD in Sociology. Asun
has over 20 years of experience on solutions oriented research in the interface between
poverty, development and climate change, and more recently on the linkages between
science, technology and the private sector, and public and private climate governance. Asun is
the UNFCCC Business and Industry (BINGO)stakeholder representative to the Adaptation
Committee for the technical examination process on adaptation (TEP-A) working group, and
member of Future Earth Engagement Committee.
Her work has contributed to the development of ISSC social science agenda for global change
and ICSU science review of the SDGs. She was Lead Author for IPCC AR5 Working Group II on
Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability. She is former Scientific Director of the Comparative
Research Programme on Poverty (CROP) under the International Social Science Council and
Professor at the University of Bergen. She has participated in many events at COPs, was part
of SBSTA Expert Structured Dialogues 2013-2015 representing IPCC and is member of Future
Earth Norway Committee. Asun has also served as an Associate to the Global Environmental
Change and Human Security (GECHS) project under the International Human Dimensions
Programme for a number of years and she also was President of the International
Development Ethics Association (IDEA). Her current work focuses on private sector
engagement for climate change adaptation and sustainable development solutions, in
particular on the co-production of climate services with the private sector, and on hybrid
forms of climate governance where the private sector has a key role to play, guidelines and
standards. Asun co-developed the framework for structuring the Assessment of the UN Global
Compact done by DNV GL IMPACT: Transforming Business, Changing the World - The United
Nations Global Compact (2015), and more recently led the development of the Climate
Technology Center and Network (CTCN) Private Sector Engagement Strategy and co-
developed the concept of the CTCN Engagement Forum. Asun was Professor of Sociology at
the University of Bergen until 2011, and Research Director at CICERO-Oslo Climate Research
Center until 2014 with a special focus on Climate change and Development. She continues her
dedication to sustainable development, ethics and justice issues through serving at the
Programme Advisory Committee and the Board of Governors of ICIMOD, remains engaged
with IDEA, gives lectures, coauthors academic papers, and participates in teaching and
networking efforts.
RESEARCH LEADERSHIP
 Member Future Earth Engagement Committee
 BINGO representative to the Adaptation Committee working group for the technical
examination process on adaptation (TEP-A)
 Member of the Board of Governors and Programme Advisory Committee of the
International Centre of Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD)
 Member of the Editorial Board Global Opportunity Report and Network

2. Page 2 of 4
StClair 4 page CV 02-17.docx
 Member Expert Committee UNDESA Review on Social Development
 Member, Future Earth Norway Advisory Committee
 Observer, Working Group on Climate Change Adaptation Standards, CEN CENELEC
 Board Member, London School of Economics Laboratory for Advanced Research on
the Global Economy at the Centre for the Study of Human Rights Human Rights
 Member Expert Panel for JPI Climate ERANET for Climate Services
 Member of the Advisory Committee for Horizon 2020 SC5 Societal Challenges,
Norwegian Research Council
 Member Joint Programming Initiative “Connecting Climate Knowledge for Europe (JPI
Climate) Working Group IV Decision Making
 Board Member Swedish Research Council FORMAS Climate and Environment
Programme (until 2013-2015)
 Panel Member Norwegian Research Council Climate Change Program Plan 2012-2013.
 President of the International Development Ethics Association (2011-2015)
 Member, Editorial Board, Journal of Global Environmental Change; Journal of Global
Social Policy; Journal of Global Ethics; Journal Globalizations; Journal of Global
Governance; Journal of Global Social Policy; Encyclopedia of Global Justice, Springer;
Journal Sustainability.
 Convener and co-convener of many international conferences and panels.
 Invited Speaker to many international conferences and forums
PROJECTS, GRANTS AND AWARDS
 Project leader, After COP 21: An analysis of the climate services market for DNVGL
 Project leader, Governance for climate solutions: the role of standards and
recommended practices
 Private Sector Engagement Strategy for ICIMOD: Recommendations
 Task Manager, Private Sector Engagement for the Climate Technology Centre and
Network (CTCN)- DNV G-CTCN Strategic Partnership.
 Project Leader, IPCC AR5 In Europe: Usability, Framing, and Communication of
Scientific Information, RCN and Joint Programming Initiative on Climate (JPI
Climate).2013-2016
 Project leader, Making Climate information meaningful and actionable, DNV GL
Strategic Research & Innovation internal project. 2015.
 Project leader; Governance for Climate Solutions. DNV GL Strategic Research &
Innovation internal project. 2015.
 Project leader, Statkraft Climate Information Project. 2014.
 Project leader CICERO components. Black Carbon in the Himalayas: Science and
mitigation options, with ICIMOD and SEI, funded by Norwegian ministry of Foreign
Affairs (CICERO Leader) 2014-2017

3. Page 3 of 4
StClair 4 page CV 02-17.docx
 Project leader CICERO components. Climate Services Action: The Global
Framework for Climate Services Adaptation Programme in Africa .WMO lead with
WHO, WFP, Red Cross, CGIR-CCFAS, and CMI. 2014-2016
 Project Leader, Himalaya Climate Change Adaptation (HICAP), (2011-2016) with
ICIMOD and UNEP Grid Arendal. Funded by Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
 St.Clair, A.L. and Aalbu, K. Business action for climate resilient pathways: the role of
standards, DNV GL Position Paper, available at https://www.dnvgl.com/technology-
innovation/climate-resilient-pathways
 Sundqvist, G., Gasper, D., St.Clair, A.L., Hermansen, E., Yearley, S., Wynne,B., and Østevo,
I. 2016. One world or two? Science-policy interactions in the climate field, (under peer
review)
 Tabara, J.D. St.Clair, A:L., Hermansen, E. Transforming knowledge production and
communication processes to address high-end climate change. The case of Spain,
forthcoming Environmental Science and Policy 2017.
 Fløttum, K. Gasper, D. and St.Clair, A.L. 2016. The four IPCC “worlds” – a comparison of
topics and frames in the Fifth Assessment Report; Global Environmental Change , 38,
118–129.
 St.Clair, A.L. and Aalbu, K. 2016. The four transformative governance shifts emerging
from COP21. University of Oslo Academy of Global Governance Working paper.
 Hackmann, H., Moser, S., and St.Clair, A.L. 2014. The Social at the Heart of Global
Environmental Change; Nature Climate Change; V. 4. 1 August 2014. 665,
 Burkett, V.R., A.G. Suarez, M. Bindi, C. Conde, R. Mukerji, M.J. Prather, A.L. St. Clair, and
G.W. Yohe, 2014: Point of departure. In: Climate Change 2014: Impacts, Adaptation,
and Vulnerability. Part A: Global and Sectoral Aspects. Contribution of Working Group
II to the Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
[Field, C.B., V.R. Barros, D.J. Dokken, K.J. Mach, M.D. Mastrandrea, T.E. Bilir, M.
Chatterjee, K.L. Ebi, Y.O. Estrada, R.C. Genova, B. Girma, E.S. Kissel, A.N. Levy, S.
MacCracken, P.R. Mastrandrea, and L.L. White (eds.)]. Cambridge University Press,
Cambridge, United Kingdom and New York, NY, USA,
 St.Clair, A.L. 2014. The four tasks of development ethics at times of a changing climate.
Journal of Global Ethics . 10:3, 283-291, DOI: 10.1080/17449626.2014.974111
 St. Clair, A. L. Response-Able Science. Changing Global Environments, World Social
Science Report 2013, Paris: ISSC/ UNESCO/OECD http://www.oecd-
ilibrary.org/social-issues-migration-health/world-social-science-report-
2013_9789264203419-en .
 Gasper, D.R. Portocarrero, A.V., Lera St. Clair, A. The framing of climate change and
development: A comparative analysis of the Human Development Report 2007/8 and

4. Page 4 of 4
StClair 4 page CV 02-17.docx
the World Development Report 2010. Journal of Global Environmental Change 23
(1):28-39. 2013.
 Dugard, J. St. Clair, A.L. and Gloppen, S. (eds). 2013. Climate Justice, rights and the poor.
Special Issue of the South African Journal of Human Rights 29.
 Tschakert, P, van Oort, B., St. Clair, A.L., and Lamadrid, 2013. Inequality and
transformation analyses: a complementary lens for addressing vulnerability to climate
change. Climate and Development 5(4):340-350
 Gloppen, S. and St. Clair, A. L. Climate change lawfare, 2013. In Climate Change and
Global Governance: International Regimes in a Changing Environment . OC Ruppel / C
Roschmann / K Ruppel-Schlichting (Eds) Nomos Publishers, Germany.
 Hackmann, H. and A.L. St.Clair. 2012. Transformative cornerstones of Social Science
research for Global change. report of the international Social Science council. Paris.
http://www.worldsocialscience.org/documents/transformative-cornerstones.pdf
 St.Clair, L.A. and D. Gasper (eds). 2012. Development Ethics: A Reader, London:
Ashgate.
 McNeill, D. And A.L. St.Clair, 2011. Global Poverty, Ethics, and Human Rights: The Role
of Multilateral Organisations; New York and London: Routledge.
 McNeill, D and St Clair A.L. ‘The World Bank’s Expertise: Observant Participation in
WDR 2006 Equity and Development’ in Terms of Reference: The Anthropology of
Expert Knowledge and Professionals in International Development. D.Mosse (ed.);
Oxford: Berghahn Press.
 McNeill, D and St Clair A.L. 2010. “Poverty, Human Rights and Global Justice: The
Response-Ability of Multilateral Organisations,” Journal Globalizations.
 O’Brien K, A. L. St. Clair, B. Kristoffersen (eds.) 2009. Climate Change, Ethics and
Human Security. Cambridge University Press.
 St.Clair, A.L. 2009.Climate Change and Poverty: The Responsibility to Protect” in
Climate change, Ethics and Human Security , in O’Brien K., A. L. St. Clair, B.
Kristoffersen (eds.)Cambridge University Press.
 O’Brien K., A. L. St. Clair, B. Kristoffersen. 2009. ‘The Framing of Climate Change: Why
it Matters’ in Climate change, Ethics and Human Security, Cambridge University Press.
 O’Brien K., A. L. St. Clair, B. Kristoffersen. 2009. Towards a New Science for Climate
Change’, in Climate change, Ethics and Human Security Cambridge University Press.
 Human Rights and Globalization: Addressing the challenges of equitable and fair
sustainability, London School of Economics (LSE) , 1 May 2014
http://www.lse.ac.uk/humanRights/events/2014/Globalization.aspx
 “Global social policy in a changing climate”; New Directions in Social Policy. United
Nations Research Institute on Social Development (UNRISD), Geneva. April 7-8, 2014
Languages
Spanish, English, French, Norwegian, Catalan