Bob Doppelt

Bob Doppelt founded and coordinates the International Transformational Resilience Coalition (ITRC), a network of mental health, social service, and other organizations working to enact policies and organize programs to prevent and heal the mental health and psychosocial impacts of the climate crisis. He is trained in both counseling psychology and environmental science and has combined the two fields throughout his career. He is also a Graduate of the International Program on the Management of Sustainability, in Ziest, The Netherlands, a Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Instructor, and a meditation teacher. In addition, Bob is a former Fellow of the Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Center.

Early in his career, Bob worked as a counselor with troubled youth and their families. Later in his career, he directed the Climate Leadership Initiative at the University of Oregon, a climate change research and technical assistance program that was one of the first in the U.S. to assist private and public entities in developing climate mitigation and adaptation plans. For many years he also taught systems thinking and global warming policy at the university. Through this work, Bob realized that the mental health and psychosocial impacts of the climate crisis were a very significant but largely unaddressed problem. This led him in 2013 to organize the ITRC.

Due to his many years of work, in 2015 Bob was named one of the world’s “50 Most Talented Social Innovators” by the World CRS Congress.

Bob is the author of a number of books on the interface between individual, organizational, and community resilience and ecological regeneration. His newest book, Preventing and Healing Climate Traumas: A Guide for Building Resilience and Hope in Communities (Routledge Publishing), was released in March 2023.