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Rajendra K. Pachauri
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Indian academic (1940-2020)
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- Works
- 1
Top works
- Reducing Inequalities
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Key facts
- Preceded by
- Robert Watson
- Succeeded by
- Hoesung Lee
- Born
- Rajendra Kumar Pachauri , ( 1940-08-20 ) 20 August 1940, Nainital , United Provinces , British India , (now in Uttarakhand , India )
- Died
- 13 February 2020 (2020-02-13) (aged 79), New Delhi , India
- Spouse
- Saroj Pachauri
- Alma mater
- La Martiniere College , Lucknow; North Carolina State University ( MS 1972, PhD 1974)
- Occupation
- Former chairman, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change , Former chairman and director general, The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI)
- Awards
- Padma Vibhushan, Nobel Peace Prize (on behalf of IPCC)
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Dominion of India
- Place of birth
- Nainital
- Occupation
- environmentalist
- Position held
- president
- Educated at
- La Martiniere Lucknow
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Religion
- Hinduism
- Official website
- www.rkpachauri.org
- Image
- Ragendra Pachauri.jpg
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- Rajendra Pachauri
- date of birth
- 1940-08-20
- on focus list of Wikimedia project
- WikiProject Climate change
- date of death
- 2020-02-13
- manner of death
- natural causes
- cause of death
- heart disease
- name in native language
- Rajendra Pachauri
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Encyclopedic overview
Rajendra Kumar Pachauri (20 August 1940 – 13 February 2020) was the chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) from 2002 to 2015, during the fourth and fifth assessment cycles. Under his leadership the IPCC was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007 and delivered the Fifth Assessment Report, the scientific foundation of the Paris Agreement. He held the post from 2002 until his resignation in February 2015 after facing multiple allegations of sexual harassment. In March 2022, he was exonerated of the sexual harassment allegations (The Court of Additional Sessions Judge in Saket Court). He was succeeded by Hoesung Lee. Pachauri assumed his responsibilities as the chief executive of The Energy and Resources Institute in 1981 and led the institute for more than three decades and demitted office as executive vice chairman of TERI in 2016. Pachauri, universally known as Patchy, was an internationally recognized voice on environmental and policy issues, and his leadership of the IPCC contributed to the issue of human-caused climate change becoming recognized as a matter of vital global concern.
Background
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Rajendra K. Pachauri” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.