--- title: Hannah Ritchie | TIME description: Ritchie, PhD, is Senior Researcher in the Programme for Global Development at the University of Oxford and Deputy Editor and Lead Researcher at the highly influential online publication Our World in Data. In 2022, Ritchie was named Scotland’s Youth Climate Champion and New Scientist called her “The woman who gave COVID-19 data to the world” canonical: https://time.com/author/hannah-ritchie/ og:title: TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates og:description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. og:url: https://time.com/author/hannah-ritchie/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 300 og:image:height: 300 og:image:alt: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. og:type: profile twitter:card: summary twitter:title: TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates twitter:description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Hannah Ritchie ## Hannah Ritchie Ritchie, PhD, is Senior Researcher in the Programme for Global Development at the University of Oxford and Deputy Editor and Lead Researcher at the highly influential online publication _Our World in Data_. In 2022, Ritchie was named Scotland’s Youth Climate Champion and _New Scientist_ called her “The woman who gave COVID-19 data to the world” ## Hannah Ritchie *  Jan 5, 2024 ### [How 'Urgent Optimism' Can Save the World](https://time.com/6552329/urgent-optimism-climate-action-essay/) 'If we want to get serious about tackling the world’s environmental problems, we need to be more opt... [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) Meta: null ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Organization","@id":"https://time.com/","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/","name":"Home"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/author/hannah-ritchie/","name":"Hannah Ritchie"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Person","@id":"https://time.com/author/hannah-ritchie/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/author/hannah-ritchie/"},"name":"Hannah Ritchie","jobTitle":null,"description":"Ritchie, PhD, is Senior Researcher in the Programme for Global Development at the University of Oxford and Deputy Editor and Lead Researcher at the highly influential online publication Our World in Data. In 2022, Ritchie was named Scotland’s Youth Climate Champion and New Scientist called her “The woman who gave COVID-19 data to the world”","url":"https://time.com/author/hannah-ritchie/","worksFor":{"@type":"Organization","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/"}}] ```