Asun Lera St. Clair
Asun Lera St. Clair is a philosopher and a sociologist. She is Director of the Digital Assurance Program in DNV Group Research and Development and Senior Advisor for the Earth Services Unit of the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC). She is member of the Advisory Committee for Sustainable Development of the Catalan Government (CADS), and serves on the Boards of international, multilateral and intergovernmental organizations, including the European Commission Horizon Europe Mission Board for Climate Change Adaptation and Societal Transformations and the Sustainability in the Digital Age Initiative of Future Earth. In 2014, she was Lead author for IPCC Fifth Assessment Report WG2, where she addressed issues such as the impact, vulnerability and adaptation to climate change. She has over 30 years of experience with designing and directing interdisciplinary user-driven and solutions-oriented research for global challenges in the interface between sustainable development and climate change, and more recently on providing trust in digital technologies and leveraging these for sustainable development.