Peter Schwartzstein

Peter Schwartzstein is an award-winning British-American journalist and researcher, who has reported on water, food security and particularly the conflict-climate nexus across more than thirty countries in the Middle East, Africa and occasinally further afield. His writing appears in National Geographic, the New York Times, BBC, Bloomberg Businessweek and many other outlets. He is a Global Fellow with the Wilson Center's Environmental Change and Security Program, a TED fellow and a fellow at the Center for Climate and Security.

Based in Athens, Greece, he consults for UNDP, UNEP and Amnesty International, among other organisations, and regularly speaks at climate security and other environmental conferences. The Heat and the Fury is his first book.