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Björn Ola Linnér, born in 1963, is a Swedish climate policy researcher and professor at Linköping University. He is program director of Mistra Geopolitics, a research programme that critically examines and explores the interplay between the dynamics of geopolitics, human security, and global environmental change. He is also affiliated as a researcher at the Institute for Science, Innovation and Society at Oxford University and the Stockholm Environment Institute. Linnér attained his doctorate in 1998 at Linköping University with the dissertation The world household: Georg Borgström and the postwar population–resource crisis. Linnér analyses the postwar politics and public debates on population and natural resources degradation by focusing on the Swedish-American food scientist Georg Borgström, who internationally assumed a mediating role between science, politics and society. The dissertation was reworked into the book ''The Return of Malthus: Environmentalism and Postwar Population–Resource Crises published by Whitehorse Press, where he traces the evolvement of the concerns of growing population and food scarcity in conservation ideology and post-war geopolitics until the turn of the century.

Between 2006 and 2010, Linnér was director of the Centre for Climate Policy Research (CSPR) at Linköping University. Since 2008 he is a professor at the Department of Thematic Studies – Environmental Change at the same university.

His climate policy research focuses on societal transformations to sustainability linkages between climate and sustainable development policy, international climate governance    and tools for climate visualization. He has also published research on the distributional consequences of climate adaptation, including The Political Economy of Climate Adaptation (Palgrave Macmillan), co-authored with Benjamin Sovacool.

Linnér initated research on climate visualisation at Linköping University, which has been presented at, for example, the climate negotiations and EU ministerial meetings. It has resulted in several webtools, such as VisAdapt ™, which assist Nordic homeowners to adapt to a changing climate, as well as the Norrköping Decision Arena, which is used for analysis and decision-making among researchers, students, politicians, officials and companies.