Mohan Munasingheとは 意味・読み方・使い方

Mohan Munasinghe is a Sri Lankan physicist and economist. With a focus on energy, sustainable development and climate change, he is the Chairman of the Munasinghe Institute for Development, the Director-General of the Sustainable Consumption Institute at the University of Manchester, UK, and the Vice Chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC-AR4), that shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize with former Vice President of the United States Al Gore. He has been involved in IPCC from its inception. He currently serves on the Board of Directors of Green Cross International and is a member of the Club of Rome. Furthermore, he has been an honorary senior advisor to the Sri Lankan government since 1980 and served as Chancellor of the International Water Academy in Oslo and President-Emeritus and Founder of the Sri Lanka Energy Managers Assoc. (SLEMA). Also, Munasinghe was Advisor to the US President's Council on Environmental Quality (PCEQ) from 1990 to 1992, Senior Energy Advisor to the President of Sri Lanka from 1982 to 1987, and Senior Manager/Advisor at the World Bank until 2002. As an academic, he serves as professor of sustainable development at the University of Manchester, and visiting professor at the United Nations University in Tokyo. He has authored or co-authored over 90 academic books and several hundred journal articles. He is widely recognized for having first proposed the Sustainomics framework for making development more sustainable at the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, and more recently for proposing the Millennium Consumption Goals at the United Nations.