Speakers

Laurie Goering

Climate Change Journalist & Extreme Heat Editor, Climate Resilience for All

Laurie Goering is an award-winning climate change journalist and editor, with a passion for storytelling and working with young frontline journalists across the world to develop other great climate change storytellers.

She created and for 14 years ran the Thomson Reuters Foundation's news website on the human impacts of a warming planet, recruiting and managing a team of Global South freelance writers in sub-Saharan Africa, Asia and Latin America, many of them in the most climate-vulnerable parts of the globe.

Prior to coming to the Thomson Reuters Foundation, Laurie was a foreign correspondent for the Chicago Tribune newspaper based for 15 years in Brazil, Cuba, Mexico, South Africa, India and the UK. She opened the first post-revolution U.S. newspaper bureau in Cuba in 2000 and covered the Second Gulf War in Iraq in 2003. She has written about and run coverage on a broad range of climate change issues for more than 20 years.

Currently she is Extreme Heat Editor for Climate Resilience for All, managing journalism around growing global heat risk linked to climate change.