Speakers and Panellists
Piers Forster
Director, Priestley Centre for Climate Futures
Piers Forster is Professor of Physical Climate Change and founding Director of the Priestley Centre for Climate Futures at the University of Leeds. He has played significant roles authoring Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) reports, including the Fourth, Fifth and Sixth assessment reports and the IPCC Special Report on 1.5°C. He was appointed as a member of UK Climate Change Committee in 2019 and appointed as its Interim Chair in 2023.
Bart van den Hurk
Co-Chair, Working Group II, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
Professor Bart van den Hurk was elected Co-Chair of Working Group II for the seventh assessment cycle in July 2023. He was a Lead Author of the Sixth Assessment Report. An expert in the field of weather and climate information, he is currently the Scientific Director at Deltares, Delft in The Netherlands.
Robert Vautard
Co-Chair, Working Group II, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
Robert Vautard is currently the co-chair of IPCC Working Group I on the physical science basis of climate change. He is a research director at National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) and works at the Pierre-Simon Laplace Institute (IPSL), a major research institute in environmental sciences in France.