Paul Desanker

Paul is a Manager in the Adaptation Division of the secretariat of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), and oversees the work on support to the LDCs; National Adaptation Plans (NAPs); and, Loss and Damage under the Convention and Paris Agreement. He has extensive experience working on issues related to adaptation to climate change, ecological modeling, remote sensing, integrated assessment, and has served as Coordinating Lead Author of the Third Assessment Report of the IPCC. Prior to his current position, he served as a member and Chair of the LDC Expert Group, was an Associate Professor of Geography at Penn State University after working as a Research Assistant Professor at University of Virginia, in the USA. He run the Miombo Network under the IGBP and START from 1994 to 2006, which had an active GOFC-GOLD involvement. Paul holds a Masters degree in Mathematics and a PhD in Forest Biometrics from Michigan Technological University, USA.