Rajendra K. Pachauri

Chairman, Intergovernmental panel on climate change, Nobel Peace Prize 2007.

Dr. Rajendra Kumar Pachauri is the Chair of the Nobel Peace Prize-winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the scientific intergovernmental body that provides decision-makers and the public with an objective source of information about climate change. He is also Director General of TERI (The Energy and Resources Institute), an independent research organisation providing knowledge on energy, environment, forestry, biotechnology, and the conservation of natural resources. Dr Pachauri is a prominent researcher on environmental subjects, recognised internationally for his efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change. He is active in several international forums dealing with the subject of climate change and its policy dimensions. He was recently awarded the second-highest civilian award in India, the ’Padma Vibhushan’ and received the ’Officier De La Légion D’Honneur’ from the Government of France in 2006.