Parker Liautaud is an 18-year-old polar adventurer, environmental campaigner and speaker. Starting with his first in 2010 (when he was 15 years old), he has undertaken three separate expeditions to the North Pole.

Through his polar expeditions, Parker launched an organization called The Last Degree, a campaign advocating a research-based transformation to a sustainable economy, which has carried out new types of polar environmental research in partnership with institutions such as the University of Alberta and the IAEA.

He is a co-founder of the Polar Orbiter Project, an endeavor to create automatic, fully open-source research stations in Antarctica, using innovative new engineering. The stations will relay land-based meteorological data important to understanding climate change twice a day to an open platform accessible by any scientist.

In November 2013, Parker will attempt to walk to the South Pole at 19 years old, in a 45-day, 900km unsupported expedition starting from the coast of Antarctica.

Parker has contributed to The Independent and The New York Times. He was also the first person to check-in at the North Pole via Foursquare.

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