Valérie Masson-Delmotte is a paleoclimatology specialist, she’s working on changes in climate taken on the scale of the entire history of Earth. Research director at the Climate and Environment Sciences Laboratory among the French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission, she has been co-chair of the Working group 1 of IPCC (Group of intergovernmental experts specialized on climate evolution). Member of the French Research Strategic Council, she’s been part of interviewed experts during the Citizens' Convention on Climate. Valérie Masson-Delmotte is the author of several general audience books. Among them, there is “Climat, Le vrai et le faux” (Climate, real and fake) which countered climate-skeptics’ arguments with scientific rigor. Moreover, following her 2 expeditions north of Greenland, she published “Les expéditions polaires”. For her reputed expertise, she already received several rewards (the following list is not exhaustive):

• 2007 : associated with the Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Al Gore and the IPCC

• 2013 : Irène Joliot-Curie prize for the woman scientist of the year

• 2019 : Silver medals of CNRS