Seth Klein is an author and storied political scientist. He is the Team Lead and Director of Strategy of the Climate Emergency Unit (a 5-year project of the David Suzuki Institute that Seth launched in early 2021). Prior to that, he served for 22 years (1996-2018) as the founding BC Director of the Canadian Centre for PolicyAlternatives, a public policy research institutecommitted to social, economic and environmental justice.

Seth wrote A Good War: Mobilizing Canada for the Climate Emergency, a book that looks at how Canada responded to the emergency of WW2 and what we can apply today during the climate crisis.