Speakers

Mohan Munasinghe is vice chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), where he shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize for work on climate change. Currently, he is chairman of the Munasinghe Institute of Development (MIND); honorary senior advisor to the Sri Lanka government, and visiting professor at the United Nations University, Tokyo. He has served as senior energy advisor to the president of Sri Lanka, advisor to the United States Presidents Council on Environmental Quality, and senior advisor to the World Bank. He has authored 90 books and over three hundred technical papers on economics, sustainable development, climate change, power, energy, water resources, transport, environment, disasters, and information technology.