Andy Pitman is a Professor in climate science at the University of New South Wales. He is the Director of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate System Science. He has broad interests extending across climate modeling, climate change, climate impacts and land cover change. He was a lead author on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change 3rd and 4th assessment reports and he is a Review Editor of the 5th assessment report. He won the NSW Climate Scientist of the Year in 2010 and won both the Priestley Medal and the AMOS medal from the Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society. He was appointed to the Australian Federal Government's science advisory panel to the Climate Commission in 2011.