Dr Leanne Webb

Science Lead, Asia-Pacific Climate Intelligence, CSIRO

Dr Leanne Webb is currently working as the science lead for the CSIRO Asia-Pacific Climate intelligence team. In this position Leanne draws on more than two decades of experience gained from studying climate change impacts and related adaptation strategies, across many sectors, including agriculture, electricity, finance and health. Agriculture has been Leanne’s foundational research domain, with her doctoral research published in 2007 exploring the potential impacts of climate change on the Australian wine industry.
Over the past seven years, Leanne’s role has shifted to focus on the Pacific region. Here, Leanne has been involved with extracting, evaluating, and processing climate model output for use in Pacific-focused case studies, again across multiple sectors, with the purpose of better informing future planning decisions. Currently, Leanne represents CSIRO’s involvement across multiple Pacific focussed climate-related committees and panels.