NAIROBI, July 29 – The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) completed its elections in Nairobi this morning. During the four-day long 59th Session, the member governments elected the new IPCC Bureau comprising 34 members, including the new IPCC Chair and three Vice-Chairs. The Panel also elected the 12 members of the Task Force Bureau on National Greenhouse Gas Inventories (TFI).
The elections, which took place in Nairobi from 25 to 28 July, mark the end of the IPCC’s sixth assessment cycle and the beginning of the seventh assessment.
The newly elected members of the IPCC Bureau are:
IPCC Chair
Jim Skea (United Kingdom)
IPCC Vice-Chairs
Ladislaus Chang’a (United Republic of Tanzania)
Diana Ürge-Vorsatz (Hungary)
Ramón Pichs-Madruga (Cuba)
Working Group I Co-Chairs
Robert Vautard (France)
Xiaoye Zhang (China)
Working Group II Co-Chairs
Bart van den Hurk (Netherlands)
Winston Chow (Singapore)
Working Group III Co-Chairs
Katherine Calvin (United States of America)
Joy Jacqueline Pereira (Malaysia)
Task Force Bureau on National Greenhouse Gas Inventories Co-Chairs
Takeshi Enoki (Japan)
Mazhar Hayat (Pakistan)
Working Group I Vice-Chairs
Nana Ama Browne Klutse (Ghana)
Aida Diongue (Senegal)
Maheswar Rupakheti (Nepal)
Inés Camilloni (Argentina)
Sherilee Harper (Canada)
Edvin Aldrian (Indonesia)
Sonia Seneviratne (Switzerland)
Working Group II Vice-Chairs
Adelle Thomas (Bahamas)
Fatima Denton (Gambia)
Cromwel Lukorito (Kenya)
Raman Sukumar (India)
Laura Gallardo (Chile)
Carlos Mendez (Venezuela)
Zinta Zommers (Latvia)
Mark Howden (Australia)
Working Group III Vice-Chairs
Jan Sigurd Fuglestvedt (Norway)
Siir Kilkis (Türkiye)
Oliver Geden (Germany)
Eduardo Calvo (Peru)
Malak Al Nory (Saudi Arabia)
Noureddine Yassa (Algeria)
Gervais Itsoua Madzous (Republic of the Congo)
The 12 newly elected members of the Task Force Bureau are:
Hamid Abaka Souleymane (Chad)
Samir Tantawi (Egypt)
Amjad Abdulla (Maldives)
Irma Fabiola Ramirez-Hernandez (Mexico)
Melissa Weitz (USA)
Giacomo Grassi (Italy)
Mohammad Rahimi (Iran)
Yasna Rojas (Chile)
Laura Elena Dawidowski (Argentina)
Joni Jupesta (Indonesia)
Mohd Talib Latif (Malaysia)
Maria José Sanz Sanchez (Spain)