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Saleemul Huq
Senior Fellow, Climate Change, International Institute for Environment and
Development (IIED), London
Saleemul Huq currently serves as a Senior Fellow on Climate Change at the International Institute for
Environment and Development. Huq was the lead author of the chapter on Adaptation and Sustainable
Development in the third assessment report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
and the lead author of the chapter on Adaptation and Mitigation in the IPCC’s fourth assessment report.
He previously served as the Executive Director of Bangladesh Centre for Advanced Studies.
Andreas Merkl
Director, Global Initiatives, ClimateWorks Foundation, San Francisco
Andreas Merkl is the Director of Global Initiatives for ClimateWorks Foundation. From 1997
through 2007, he was a principal at California Environmental Associates, a San Francisco-based
consultancy. From 1989 through 1995, Mr. Merkl worked with McKinsey and Company, where
he co-founded the North American Environmental Practice. Mr. Merkl is also the Chairman of
SeaChange Capital, a San Francisco-based venture capital fund. Mr. Merkl has also worked in
senior position with CH2MHILL, and as founding director of the Conservation and Community
Investment Fund. He holds graduate degrees from Harvard University and UC Berkeley in Business
Administration and Natural Resource Analysis, respectively.
Rajendra K. Pachauri
Chairman, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC);
Director General, The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI);
Director, Yale Climate and Energy Institute
Rajendra K. Pachauri is the Chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change,
which carries out a comprehensive scientific assessment of all aspects of climate change.
Mr. Pachauri is also Director-General of The Energy and Resources Institute, New Delhi, India,
which works for the development of solutions to global problems in the fields of sustainable
development, energy and the environment. Beginning his career in the Indian Railways, Mr.
Pachauri has since taught at the Administrative Staff College of India, Hyderabad, where from
1979 to 1981 he served as Director of Consulting and Applied Research, and at the School of
Forestry and Environmental Studies of Yale University, USA (2000). He was an advisor on energy
and sustainable management to the Administrator, United Nations Development Programme
from 1994 to 1999, and since 1992 has served as President of the Asian Energy Institute.
Mr. Pachauri is the author of numerous books and articles and holds PhDs in industrial
engineering and in economics from the North Carolina State University, USA.