{{#badges: Climate change}} '''Syun Akasofu''' was the founder and director of the [[International Arctic Research Center]] of the University of Alaska Fairbanks from its establishment in 1998 until January of 2007. <ref> [http://www.iarc.uaf.edu/people/indiv/iarc_all_staff.php?photo=sakasofu, "Staff Profile"], IARC website, accessed February 2009. </ref> He is also a well-known climate change skeptic and a speaker at the [[International Conference on Climate Chage Change (2009)]].