Jean Palutikof

Jean P. Palutikof is a climate scientist and is founding director of the National Climate Change Adaptation Research Facility (NCCARF) at Griffith University in Queensland, Australia. She has held this position since 2008. Prior to this, Palutikof was based at the UK Met Office during which time she managed the production of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Fourth Assessment Report for Working Group II (Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability).

Palutikof is one the scholars of climate change adaptation and was lead author and review editor for several assessments of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. She was present in Oslo at the ceremony at which the organization received the Nobel Peace Prize. Provided by Wikipedia