Tom Maycock

Science Editor

IPCC

Tom Maycock serves as the Science Editor for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Working Group III Technical Support Unit (TSU). He has more than a decade of experience editing and producing national and international climate assessments, and his efforts are focused on enhancing the accuracy, clarity, and accessibility of these important and influential reports.

Tom is employed by North Carolina State University’s North Carolina Institute for Climate Studies in Asheville, NC. He served as an editor on the Third, Fourth, and Fifth US National Climate Assessments, the U.S. Global Change Research Program’s Climate and Health Assessment, and the North Carolina Climate Science Report.

Tom was also part of the IPCC Working Group I TSU during the Sixth Assessment Report (AR6) cycle, serving as the science editor for both the Special Report on 1.5°C of Global Warming and the WGI contribution to the AR6. He also contributed to the development of the AR6 report websites and provided document management support for the approval sessions of the 1.5°C report and the WGI, WGII, and WGIII AR6 contributions.

Mr. Maycock holds a bachelor’s degree from Northwestern University, with a double major in physics and English literature, and a Master of Liberal Arts and Science degree from the University of North Carolina Asheville.