Boccaletti Giulio

Giulio Boccaletti is the Scientific Director of the CMCC Foundation, an Italian research institution focused on climate change. He holds a PhD in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences from Princeton University, earned as a NASA Earth Systems Science Fellow, and previously worked as a research scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) on ocean circulation and turbulence theory. Currently, he teaches a course on 'Strategy for Earth' at the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, Oxford University, and co-founded Chloris Geospatial, a venture-backed firm leveraging remote sensing and machine learning to assess natural assets.

• Trained as a physicist at the University of Bologna
• PhD in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences (Princeton, NASA Fellow)
• Research Scientist at MIT

His research spans interdisciplinary areas including climate modeling, water resource security, sustainability strategy, and AI applications in environmental science. He has led global water programs for The Nature Conservancy and advised governments and corporations on natural resource strategy. His publications focus on computational methods in climate prediction and geospatial analytics for natural asset evaluation.

Scientific Awards:

• Young Global Leader by World Economic Forum (2014)
• NASA Earth Systems Science Fellowship

As an author, his book Water: A Biography (Pantheon Books, 2021) was recognized as one of The Economist's Best Books of 2021. He contributes to Project Syndicate and Il Foglio, and is executive producer of a PBS/BBC Studios series on 'the future of nature.'