Nebojsa Nakicenovic

Vice Chair, Group of Chief Scientific Advisors, European Commission and Honorary Emeritus Scholar and former Deputy Director General, IIASA

'Transformations toward a safe, just and beautiful future for all within planetary boundaries'

Nebojsa Nakicenovic is the Deputy Chair of the Group of Chief Scientific Advisors to the European Commission, Distinguished Emeritus and Honorary Scholar, and was the Deputy Director General and Acting Director General of the International Institute for Applies Systems Analyses (IIASA), as well as tenured Professor of Energy Economics at Vienna Technology University.

Among other positions, he is the Director of The World In 2050, a Fellow of the World Academy of Art and Science, International Science Council, and the Luohan Academy, Member of the Academia Europaea, the Montenegrin Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Earth League, and the Earth Commission.

His research interests include patterns of technological change, including the evolution of energy, mobility, settlements, digital technologies, economic development, and climate change.

Dr. Nakicenovic holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in economics and computer science from Princeton University and the University of Vienna, where he also completed his Ph.D. Heholds Honoris Causa Ph.D. degree in engineering from the Russian Academy of Sciences.

Google Scholar lists 850 publications by Dr. Nebojsa Nakicenovic, with some 66 000 citations and h-index of 80 (2024).

Dr. Nakicenovic is a recipient of the Austrian Grand Decoration in Silver for Science and Art; with a number of scientists from the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize for the research contribution to the IPCC; and with a number of scientists from the 2005 Sheikh Zayed Environmental Award for the research contribution to the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment under the leadership of Kofi Annan, UN Secretary-General.