About the Speaker

Ruth Morgan is the Director of the Centre for Environmental History at the Australian National University in Canberra. She has published extensively on the water and climate histories of Australia, the British Empire and the Indian Ocean world, including the co-authored book, Cities in a Sunburnt Country: Water and the Making of Urban Australia, published by Cambridge University Press in 2022. She was a Lead Author on the latest report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and her latest book is Climate Change and International History:  Negotiating Science, Global Change and Environmental Justice (Bloomsbury, 2024).