Rune Kier Nielsen is a social anthropologist living in Denmark. He has worked as a government speechwriter for mayors in the Danish Capital of Copenhagen, the Danish Ministry for Climate and Energy as well as the Ministry for the Environment. He's won two of the prestigious Cicero Speechwriting Awards while also writing for activists and idealists as part of the Danish Climate Movement and TEDx. He is currently the Climate Action Communication Coordinator for the United Nations Environment Programme—the UN's authoritative voice on the environment.