Scott Slovic, Ph.D., is a Senior Scientist in the Decision Research Center at ORI and University Distinguished Professor of Environmental Humanities at the University of Idaho. He currently edits the Arithmetic of Compassion website.

He served as chair of the English Department at Idaho from 2014 to 2018. The founding president of the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE) from 1992 to 1995, he edited ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, the central journal in the field of ecocriticism, for twenty-five years before completing his term in 2020. He has worked for many years, as a teacher and writer, on topics related to environmental literary studies, environmental communication, and interdisciplinary approaches to the environmental humanities.

Much of his current research focus is on how information is collected, communicated, and received in the contexts of humanitarian and environmental crises, extending the work of the 2015 volume Numbers and Nerves: Information, Emotion, and Meaning in a World of Data (Oregon State University Press), which he co-edited with Paul Slovic.

He co-edits the book series Routledge Studies in World Literatures and the Environment and Routledge Environmental Humanities. He is also a faculty fellow and associate director of the HIBAR Research Alliance, an international organization devoted to encouraging research that emphasizes cross-sectoral co-leadership to pursue both new knowledge and responsiveness to societal needs. Since October 2020, he has lived in Eugene, Oregon.