18 Facts About James Skea

Sir James Ferguson "Jim" Skea CBE FRSE is a British academic.

James Skea is currently Chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change for its seventh assessment cycle, and a Professor of Sustainable Energy at Imperial College London.

James Skea was a founding member of the UK Government's Committee on Climate Change and currently chairs Scotland's Just Transition Commission.

In July 2023, James Skea was elected as Chair of the IPCC.

James Skea studied at the University of Edinburgh, where he graduated with a BSc in Mathematical Physics with first class Honours in 1975.

James Skea gained his PhD in Energy Research from Clare College, Cambridge in 1978.

From 1978 to 1981, James Skea was a research assistant in the Cavendish Laboratory at the University of Cambridge.

James Skea then worked at the Department of Engineering and Public Policy at Carnegie-Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, as a research associate and later visiting assistant professor from 1981 to 1983.

James Skea was employed at the Science Policy Research Unit at the University of Sussex as a Research Fellow, Senior Research Fellow and a Professorial Fellow.

James Skea was Director of the Policy Studies Institute from 1998 to 2004.

James Skea has held an appointment as Professor of Sustainable Energy at Imperial College London's Centre for Environmental Policy since 2009.

James Skea was elected as Chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change on 26 July 2023.

James Skea has been involved with the IPCC since it was created in the 1990s.

James Skea has served as a member of the Bureau since 2008, first as vice-chair of Working Group III, and then as co-chair from 2015.

James Skea was appointed as Director of the Economic and Social Research Council's Global Environmental Change Programme from 1995 to 1998.

James Skea was Research Director at the UK Energy Research Centre from 2004 to 2012.

James Skea was a member of the United Kingdom's Committee on Climate Change from its inception in 2008 until 2018.

James Skea was President of the Energy Institute from 2015 to 2017 and has been an Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council Senior Fellow since 2017.