Sissel Waage, Ph.D., author and environmental scientist, who 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 has edited two non-fiction books, including Ignition: What You Can Do 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's articles have appeared in The Economist, The Guardian, Environmental Leader, GreenBiz, Corporate Environmental Strategy, and Environmental Finance. She has a Ph.D. and an M.S. in Environmental Science, Policy and Management from the University of California, Berkeley, as well as a B.A. in Political Science from Amherst College. In addition, Sissel has studied at the National University of Singapore, as an exchange student, and the University of Oslo's Institute of Human Rights as a Fulbright Scholar.
