Václav Smil

Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Climatologist, University of Manitoba

Canada

Václav Smil is a Distinguished Professor Emeritus in the Faculty of the Environment at the University of Manitoba in Canada. He is the author of 45 interdisciplinary books on energy, history of technical advances, global change, food and nutrition, growth and public policy, with nearly half of them translated into many foreign languages. Václav Smil is a Member of the Order of Canada and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (Science Academy). He graduated from the Charles University in Prague and from the Pennsylvania State University.