Ibidun Adelekan is a geographer by training and an Associate Professor in the Department of Geography, University of Ibadan, Nigeria where she is engaged in teaching and research. Her research interests are in the areas of climate-society interactions and human dimensions of global environmental change, including vulnerability/resilience of human-environment systems to climate change. She has published in reputable international scientific journals and books and was a contributing author to the Africa chapter of the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report. She is a member of the scientific panel of the International Geographical Union (IGU) International Year of Global Understanding.