Speaker Details
Prof Graciela Chichilnisky
Director, Columbia University Consortium for Risk Management
Prof Graciela Chichilnisky has worked extensively in the Kyoto Protocol process, creating and designing the carbon market concept that became international law in 2005. Prof Chichilnisky also acted as a lead author of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which received the 2007 Nobel Prize. A frequent keynote speaker, special adviser to several UN organisations and heads of state, her pioneering work created new ways to manage catastrophic risks, uses innovative market mechanisms to reduce carbon emissions, conserve biodiversity and ecosystem services and address the global wealth divide. She is a Professor of Economics and Mathematical Statistics at Columbia University and the Sir Louis Matheson Distinguished Professor at Monash University. She is also a Senator and Director of Columbia Consortium for Risk Management (CCRM) and is Managing Director of Global Thermostat Inc.: www.chichilnisky.com. Her most recent book is Saving Kyoto, authored with K. Sheeran: www.chichilnisky.com/savingkyoto.php
