Diána Ürge-Vorsatz

Diana Ürge-Vorsatz is a Professor at the Department of Environmental Sciences and Policy at the Central European University (CEU).

She was elected as Vice Chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in July 2023. In the Sixth Assessment cycle she served as Vice-Chair of IPCC’s Working Group III. (Mitigation). She was a Coordinating Lead Author in both the Fourth and Fifth Assessment Reports (AR4 and AR5) of the IPCC. She is VicePresident of the Hungarian Scientific Panel on Climate Change. She holds a PhD from the University of California,Berkeley, and UCLA and worked in Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

She has worked on and directed many research projects for organisations including the European Commission, the European Parliament, the Global Environment Facility, UNEP, the World Energy Council, OECD, and the World Bank. She has been serving on the Governing and Advisory boards of several organizations and companies. She is regularly invited to high-level review panels, such as for the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, the EU’s Joint Research Centre, and several panels in the European Research Council.