Jon Palfreman is an independent television producer and founder of the Palfreman Film Group, Inc. who, among many other things, in 2000 produced the award-winning "What's Up With the Weather?" as a NOVA/Frontline Special. That two-hour piece on the science and politics of global warming won the National Association of Science Writers' "Science-in-Society Journalism Award" (an award Palfreman now has won three separate times) and the American Institute of Physics' Science Writing Award. In addition to also winning the Gran Prix Leonardo award for the best film on climate, it was nominated for an enemy for outstanding coverage of a continuing news story.

Palfreman, a veteran of television in the U.S. and in the United Kingdom, has made more than 40 BBC and PBS one-hour documentaries, and he has been the producer or senior producer for a number of Frontline, WGBH-TV, NOVA, and BBC-TV projects over the past two decades. He has also produced and written numerous nonbroadcast productions, and has written two books, and numerous articles. In 2002 he was awarded a Kaiser Media Fellowship, and the previous year he won the Victor Cohn Prize for Excellence in Medical Writing, for sustained excellence over an extended period (evaluating five years of work). He is the only television producer to have received that respected award named after the now-deceased New York Times and Washington Post science reporter.

In 2001, he made a presentation on "The Decline of Television Science Journalism" to the World Congress of science Producers meeting in Sydney, Australia. He is a three-time winner of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) writing prize, and a three-time winner of the National Association of Science Writer's (NASW) "Science-in-Society" Journalism Award.

The winner of a Writers Guild Award for best script, Palfreman has written two books, and he is an adjunct professor at Tufts University, Boston University, and Suffolk University.

He has a B.S. in physics from the University College, London, and an MS in history and social studies of science from Sussex University, also in London.