Francesco Femia is a frequently-cited commentator on the security implications of a changing climate. Femia is co-founder and research director of the Council on Strategic Risks (CSR), co-founder of the Center for Climate and Security, and co-founder and senior advisor of the International Military Council on Climate and Security (IMCCS). 

He has published extensively on the security implications of climate change, water stress and natural resource mismanagement in Syria and North Africa. Previously, Femia served as chief executive officer of the Council on Strategic Risks, president of the Center for Climate and Security, and co-chair of the Climate and Security Advisory Group – the primary forum for climate and security dialogue in the U.S. national security community. Before that, he was program director at the Connect U.S. Fund, where he led programs ranging from climate resilience to mass atrocity prevention and response.

Femia holds a master’s degree from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), where he focused on European foreign policy, security and defense issues, and serves on the Advisory Board of the Nuclear Security Working Group.