William Neil Adger (born 1964) is Professor of Human Geography at the University of Exeter.

[2] Neil Adger is Northern Irish, born in Ballymena.

[4] Adger, an environmental economist by training, has been a significant contributor to debates about how social conditions and culture shape our vulnerability to climate change and our ability to adapt to it, with over 140,000 citations as of 2024.

[5] He has largely worked on group projects synthesizing cases and data, but has also worked closely on coastal vulnerability and migration resulting from climate change in Vietnam and Bangladesh.

[6] He has been a Co-ordinating Lead Author for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, contributing significantly to reports in 2001 and 2007.