39th Annual Meeting

R.K. Pachauri
 

R.K. PACHAURI has been the chief executive of the Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) since 1981, latterly as director-general. In April 2002 he was elected chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which was established by the World Meteorological Organization and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) in 1988. He has been on several international and national committees, including the Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister of India and the Advisory Board on Energy (ABE) which reported directly to the Prime Minister of India. He was a senior advisor to the administrator of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). He has been president (1988) and chairman (1989-90) of the International Association for Energy Economics (IAEE). He has been president of the Asian Energy Institute since 1992. He has held faculty positions at North Carolina State University, West Virginia University, the Administrative Staff College of India, and, more recently, Yale University.