Ilan Kelman#
| Membership Number: | 7368 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | SOCIAL CHANGE AND SOCIAL THOUGHT |
| Affiliated section(s): | HUMAN MOBILITY, ENVIRONMENT, SPACE AND SUSTAINABILITY |
| Elected: | 2026 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Homepage(s): | https://profiles.ucl.ac.uk/40787-ilan-kelman |
| ORCID: | 0000-0002-4191-6969 |
| X: | @ILANKELMAN |
| Bluesky: | @ilankelman.bsky.social |
| Facebook: | https://www.facebook.com/ilan.kelman |
| Linkedin: | https://uk.linkedin.com/in/ilankelman |
| Publication Link: | https://www.ilankelman.org/publications.html |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2019, 10 to present - Professor of Disasters and Health - Department of Risk and Disaster Reduction and Institute for Global Health, University College London (UCL), UK.
- 2013, 11 to 2019, 09 - Reader in Risk, Resilience, and Global Health - Institute for Risk and Disaster Reduction and Institute for Global Health, University College London (UCL), UK.
- 2007, 12 to 2013, 10 - Senior Research Fellow - Center for International Climate and Environmental Research - Oslo (CICERO), Norway.
- 2005, 07 to 2007, 11 - Postdoctoral Fellow - Center for Capacity Building, National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), Colorado.
- 2002, 10 to 2005, 05 - Postdoctoral Fellow - Cambridge University Centre for Risk in the Built Environment (CURBE), University of Cambridge, UK.
- 1998, 08 to 1999, 05 - Development Project Officer - Organization for Cooperation in Overseas Development (a Canadian non-governmental organisation), based in Barbados.
Fields of Scholarship
- Disasters
- Disaster diplomacy
- Island Studies
- Global health
- Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation
- Sustainability
- Polar studies
- Disaster risk reduction/management
- Migration/Mobility
Honours and Awards
- 2026, Professor Douglas Paton Distinguished Researcher Lifetime Legacy Award.
- 2026, World Economic Forum’s GAEA Award winner for Bridging Evidence to Action: The Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change, on which I am an author leading one indicator.
- 2025, UK National Champion for Frontiers Planet Prize: The Lancet Countdown 2023 report, on which I am an author, leading one indicator.
- 2013, European Forum for Disaster Risk Reduction’s Damir Čemerin Award for Local Change for my work to link disaster risk reduction with climate change adaptation.
- 2003-2004, Royal Society Short Term Visit (Tenable Overseas) award (for six months in New Zealand).
- 2003, The National Trust, Arkell European Fellowship.
