Karen Ching-Yee Seto is a geographer, urbanisation and land change scientist, and Frederick C. Hixon Professor of Geography and Urbanisation Science at Yale University. She is an expert on contemporary urbanisation and sustainability, and satellite remote sensing. She is the co-lead for the chapter on urban mitigation in Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) 6th Assessment Report and was the co-lead of the chapter on "Human Settlements, Infrastructure and Spatial Planning," for the IPCC 5th Assessment Report. She serves as the co-editor-in-chief of the scientific journal Global Environmental Change. She is an elected member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences (NAS), the Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering (CASE), and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, an