Hoesung Lee
Formerly, Chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC); President, Carbon Free Alliance
Dr. Hoesung Lee serves on the Advisory Board at the E-ledgers Institute. He is President of the Carbon Free Alliance, a public-private platform launched by the Government of the Republic of Korea to promote carbon-free energy globally, and previously served as Chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) from 2015 to 2023. In that role, he oversaw its Sixth Assessment cycle, which provided key scientific inputs to the first Global Stocktake under the Paris Agreement.
Lee is an economist specializing in climate change, energy, and sustainable development. He also serves on the COP31 Presidency Advisory Board. He served as Chair of the Asian Development Bank President’s Advisory Board on Climate Change and Sustainable Development and was the founding president of the Korea Energy Economics Institute. Previously, he served as Vice-Chair of the IPCC and Co-Chair of its Working Group III. He was named to the 2019 TIME 100 Most Influential People in the world.
Lee holds a B.A. from Seoul National University and a Ph.D. in economics from Rutgers University.