Hannah Ritchie
Data scientist at Our World in Data; author of Not the End of the World and Clearing the Air.
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- Hannah Ritchie is a Scottish data scientist who works on sustainability: climate, energy, food, biodiversity and air pollution.
- She is deputy editor and lead researcher at Our World in Data and a senior researcher at the University of Oxford's Oxford Martin School.
- She joined Our World in Data as head of research in 2017 and built its COVID-19 dashboard.
- Her books are Not the End of the World (2024) and Clearing the Air (2025), and she writes the newsletter By the Numbers.
Key facts
- Born
- 1993, Falkirk, Scotland1
- Education
- Undergraduate degree in environmental geoscience, master's in carbon management and a PhD on food systems, University of Edinburgh1
- Our World in Data
- Head of research from 2017; deputy editor and lead researcher from 20231
- Books
- Not the End of the World (2024); Clearing the Air (2025)1
- Recognition
- Scotland's Youth Climate Champion (2022); honorary fellow of the Royal Statistical Society (2024); elected to Scotland's Just Transition Commission (2024)1
- Newsletter
- By the Numbers on Substack (called Sustainability by Numbers on Wikipedia)2
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