Jiahua Pan

PAN Jiahua is a professor and executive director of the Centre for Global Climate Strategies at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou). He serves as vice chair of China’s National Expert Panel on Climate Change, lead author of Working Group III (Mitigation) for the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report (AR6, 2021), and a member of the Independent Group of Scientists convened by the UN Secretary-General for the 2023 Global Sustainable Development Report. His previous academic and professional appointments include director-general of the Institute of Eco-civilization Studies, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences; director of the Institute of Eco-civilization Studies, Beijing University of Technology; member of the Foreign Policy Advisory Committee of China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs; and president of the Chinese Society of Urban Economists. His research focuses on sustainable development economics, energy and climate policy, and ecological economics. He has authored 16 books and published more than 300 peer-reviewed and general academic papers in both English and Chinese. As a lead author of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), he shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize awarded to the IPCC. His academic honors also include the Sun Yefang Prize in Economic Science (2010).