Dr Jaci Brown is the Hub Lead for the NESP Climate Systems Hub, providing strategic leadership as the hub delivers its final years of research and impact. She is focused on maximising the hub’s legacy by strengthening collaboration, ensuring research is decision-ready, and supporting partners to apply climate knowledge where it matters most.
Jaci brings deep expertise across climate science, modelling and applied decision support. Her research has spanned agricultural climate, tropical oceanography, climate projections, fisheries, and seasonal atmospheric processes, with a strong emphasis on translating complex climate information into practical use.
Previously, Jaci was the Research Director of the CSIRO Climate Intelligence Program, which translates vast and complex climate information into decision-ready formats and applications. The program’s strengths include extreme weather analysis—such as floods, droughts and heatwaves—and coastal sea level modelling and projections, supporting stakeholders across emergency management, private industry, finance and insurance, government policy, agriculture, Indigenous communities, and Australia’s defence force. Prior to this, she led CSIRO’s Climate Science Centre, encompassing atmospheric, oceanic and climate observations and modelling.
Jaci has represented CSIRO at COP27 and COP28 and is a graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.
