Hannah Ritchie
Data scientist and researcher
Hannah Ritchie is a Scottish data scientist and deputy editor at Our World in Data. She wrote Not the End of the World.
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British Born 1993 in Falkirk, United Kingdom
About Hannah Ritchie
Hannah Ritchie was born in 1993 and holds a senior research post at Oxford University, in the Oxford Martin School. She is also deputy editor at Our World in Data, a publication that helps non-experts make sense of research on major global problems. Her research looks at sustainability, from climate change and energy to farming, biodiversity, air pollution, deforestation and public health. She has also studied how the world could feed everyone a nutritious diet without damaging the environment. In 2022 she was named Scotland's Youth Climate Champion. She has published two books: Not the End of the World in 2024 and Clearing the Air in 2025.