Tariq Banuri is Director of the Division for Sustainable Development of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs as well as Head of Office of the Conference Secretary-General for the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio20).
Previously he served as a Senior Fellow and Director of Future Sustainability Programme at Stockholm Environment Institute. He was a Coordinating Lead Author on the Nobel Prize-winning Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change.
He started his career in the Civil Service of Pakistan and held several key positions including as the founding Executive Director of the Sustainable Development Policy Institute.
He received a PhD in Economics from Harvard University.
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