Dr. Cynthia A. Randles, founder of Randles Ozkul Consulting, is a climate science and technology leader specializing in methane and other short-lived climate pollutants (SLCPs). She brings more than 20 years of experience across academia, federal science agencies, industry, climate technology startups, and international multilateral institutions, with a focus on translating scientific insight into measurable climate outcomes. At the United Nations Environment Programme’s International Methane Emissions Observatory (IMEO), Dr. Randles led the founding team of the Methane Alert and Response System (MARS), the world’s first global operational framework linking satellite methane detections to mitigation action by governments and companies. The system put in place a transparent, performance-based approach to accelerate methane reductions. Earlier in her career, Dr. Randles served as a corporate climate advisor in the oil and gas sector and as a research scientist at NASA, where her work supported advances in atmospheric modeling and methane remote sensing. She currently serves as a Lead Author for the 2027 IPCC Methodology Report on Short-Lived Climate Forcers and previously served as a Lead Author for the 2019 Refinement to the 2006 IPCC Guidelines for National Greenhouse Gas Inventories. Dr. Randles holds a Ph.D. in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences from Princeton University and an S.B. in Earth, Atmospheric & Planetary Sciences from MIT.