Director
Alexander More
Dr. Alexander More is an award-winning sustainability leader, climate and health scientist, and economist. At the Daniels Family Sustainable Energy Foundation, he advises and leads the board, advancing scalable climate solutions designed to address the health impacts of the climate and heat crises on the world’s most vulnerable populations.
Dr. More brings more than 20 years of leadership in sustainability and environmental health to bear on his advisory work. As one of the first scientists to discover the links between climate and environmental change on the health of populations and ecosystems, he brings a global and highly interdisciplinary perspective to our humanitarian work. In addition to guiding the deployment of carbon-neutral climate solutions, Dr. More also advises on the Foundation's overall sustainability policies and compliance with ESG best practices and GRI reporting processes.
His commitment to humanitarian need is complemented by his holistic approach to climate and health, as a scientist and economist. He has served for many years as Group Leader for Climate and Health at Harvard University (SoHP), where he also earned his PhD and has taught and conducted research for the past 20 years. Dr. More is also Associate Professor of Environmental Health at the University of Massachusetts, Boston, where he directed the Climate & Health Communications and Research Program, dedicated to forging partnerships between journalists and scientists, in the fight against science misinformation. Thanks to funding from the Burroughs Wellcome Fund, Dr. More also founded the Burroughs Wellcome Fellowship in Climate & Health Journalism. His CHCR project was a collaboration with the Climate Change Institute, at the University of Maine, the world’s premier institute for the study of global climate change, where he has been affiliated as a research professor since 2017.
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In his academic research, Dr. More focuses on the impact of environmental change on human and ecosystem health and on the economy. His discoveries include the impact of a massive climate anomaly on the Spanish Flu Pandemic (the largest in human history) and resetting standards for lead air pollution. His research and interviews have been featured in The New York Times, The Washington Post, CNN, The Guardian, Popular Science, Natural History Magazine, and more than 150 other print and online publications worldwide.
He is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, the Royal Society for Public Health, and the Explorers Club among other honors. He has served on the boards of the Greenwater Foundation (2024-), Blue Ocean Watch (2018-) and the World Ocean Forum (2018-19). Raised and educated in southern Italy and Greece, Dr. More moved on his own to New York City to complete his secondary education. He later attended college in Chicago and Washington University in St. Louis before entering a fully funded interdisciplinary PhD program at Harvard University, where he earned multiple awards and remains affiliated today.