Renee Karunungan is a Filipino researcher, academic, media and communications practitioner based in the United Kingdom. She has worked as a climate change communicator for over a decade and currently works as the communications strategist for the Deep Decarbonization Pathways Project of IDDRI. Her research as a dr in Political Communication at Loughborough University includes social media and politics, media and international development, and the impacts of social media in activist movements.