Patricia Cochran

Patricia Cochran, Inupiaq Elder, was born and raised in Nome, Alaska. Ms. Cochran serves as Executive Director of the Alaska Native Science Commission (established in 1994), an organization that brings together research and science in partnership with Alaska Native communities. Ms. Cochran served as Chair of the 2009 Indigenous Peoples’ Global Summit on Climate Change and was Co-Chair of the Indigenous Peoples’ Global Network on Climate Change. She is the past Chair of the Inuit Circumpolar Council, an international organization representing 160,000 Inuit of Alaska, Canada, Russia, and Greenland; former Chair of the Indigenous Peoples’ Secretariat to the 8-nation Arctic Council; and Arctic Representative to the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues. Ms. Cochran currently serves as Former Chair of the American Indian, Alaska Native, Native Hawaiian Caucus of the American Public Health Association, President of the Arctic Health Foundation, Board Member of the Alaska Forum on the Environment, and a member of the Robert Wood Johnson National Advisory Committee for Health and Climate Solutions.