Owen Gow is the Deputy Director at the Atlantic Council’s Adrienne Arsht-Rockefeller Foundation Resilience Center (Arsht-Rock), where he manages the Extreme Heat Initiative. He joined the Arsht-Rock team in early 2020, led the development of its Heat Action Platform, and supported the launch of the Extreme Heat Resilience Alliance (EHRA) and the centre’s heat health early warning system initiative. Gow has held previous positions at several humanitarian organizations and think tanks, including the Migration Policy Institute, Mercy Corps, and the International Rescue Committee. He has co-authored several publications, including Deploying Distributed Renewable Energy to Reduce the Impacts of Extreme Heat on the Urban Poor (2021) and The Impact of Extreme Heat Exposure on Pregnant People and Neonates: A State of the Science Review (2023).