New Member of Water Environment Forum Board & EXCOM
Dr. Qamar uz Zaman Chaudhry
Climate Change & Disaster Risk Management Expert
Climate Change & Disaster Risk Management Expert
Dr. Chaudhry is a climate scientist by
profession and since 2003 associated with the UN-World Meteorological
Organization, first as a Member of Executive Council and then Vice President
from the Asia Region. He also served as Secretary, UN-ESCAP/WMO
Intergovernmental Panel on Tropical Cyclones 2003-2012. He has been involved in
some of the most important international scientific reports and initiatives,
including most recently as an expert reviewer of IPCC’s SREX and AR5 reports,
the World Bank’s ‘turn down the heat’ report. Recently UN-WMO Secretary General has appointed him his Special Advisor on DRR and Climate Services
for Asia. He has contributed more
than 60 research papers in national and international journals, and presented
at major international conferences and forums.
He is also the recipient of Pakistan’s National Civil Awards of
Sitara-e-Imtiaz (2011) and Pride of Performance (1999) and also received
the SAARC Best Young Climate Scientist Research Award (1993).
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