Mohamed Abdel-Karim Aly Abdrabo is professor of environmental economics at the Institute of Graduate Studies and Research at the University of Alexandria. Mohamed is the executive director of an International Development Research Centre (IDRC) sponsored project for the establishment of the Alexandria Research Center for Adaptation to Climate Change (ARCA) at the University of Alexandria. He was a lead author and member of the Summary for Policy Makers core team for the upcoming Inter-Governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Fifth Assessment Report. Mohamed worked as advisor to the Center for Environment and Development for the Arab Region and Europe and as a consultant to a number of environment-related research projects in a number of countries in the region. His research work is in the fields of environmental and urban socioeconomic assessments, economics of the environment and vulnerability and adaptation to impacts of climate change. Mohamed received a Ph.D. from the University of Liverpool, UK.