Sissel Waage, Ph.D. is a writer and environmental scientist, who has devoted her career to global reforestation, biodiversity conservation, and climate change mitigation. She has worked for the World Wildlife Fund’s (WWF’s) Africa Program, Sustainable Northwest, The Natural Step, Forest Trends, and Business for Social Responsibility. She is the editor of two non-fiction books on the environment, Ignition: What You Can Do to Fight Global Warming and Spark a Movement (Island Press, 2007), and Ants, Galileo, and Gandhi: Designing the Future of Business through Nature, Genius, and Compassion (Routledge, 2003). Sissel has also authored 100+ articles that have been published in The Economist, The Guardian, Environmental Leader, GreenBiz, Corporate Environmental Strategy, and Environmental Finance, as well as in numerous scientific, peer-reviewed journals including, Society & Natural Resources, Political Geography, the Journal of Sustainable Forestry, and the Journal of Cleaner Production. She has taught courses at the University of California, Santa Barbara's Bren School and the Presidio Graduate School. A prize winner for creative writing, Sissel's awards include the Lili Fabilli and Eric Hoffer Fiction Essay Prize and the Prism Prize for Climate Literature. Sissel has a Ph.D. and a M.S. in Environmental Science, Policy and Management from the University of California, Berkeley, as well as a B.A. from Amherst College. She was also an exchange student at the National University of Singapore, and a Fulbright Scholar the University of Oslo’s Institute of Women's Rights.