Location Palisades, New York, United States Regions Greater New York Area, East Coast, Northeastern US Gender Male
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Robert S. Chen is the Director of CIESIN and a Senior Research Scientist. He has managed the NASA Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center (SEDAC), one of the distributed active archive centers in NASA’s Earth Observing System Data and Information System, for more than 20 years.
Mr. Chen is currently a co-chair of the Thematic Network on
Sustainable Development Data of the United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network (UNSDSN). Robert was a member of the ICSU ad hoc Strategic Coordinating Committee on Information and Data.
He received his Ph.D. in geography from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and holds master’s degrees in technology and policy and in meteorology and physical oceanography from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
