Mohan Munasinghe

Mohan Munasinghe
Education	Royal College, Colombo, Cambridge University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), McGill University and Concordia University
Occupation	Economist, Sustainable Development Expert
Employer	Munasinghe Institute for Development (MIND)
Known for	Vice Chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC-AR4)
Title	Professor
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Mohan Munasinghe

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.^[1] 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.

Education

Prof. Munasinghe was schooled in Royal College, Colombo. He received the B.A. (Hons.) and M.A. degrees in Engineering from Cambridge University, U.K. in 1967, S.M. and Ph. E.E. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, U.S.A. in 1970, Ph.D. in Solid State Physics from McGill University, Canada, in 1973, and M.A. in Development Economics from Concordia University, Canada, in 1975.

Other Select Honours

• Anita Garibaldi Gold Medal for meritorious services to humanity (Brazilian government,2007)^[2]
• Sarvodaya (Sri Lanka) Award for Humanity, Peace and Development(2007)
• Zayed International Prize for Environment (jointly with other authors) for contributions to the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (2006)
• Order of Fellowship (honoris causa) of the Independent University of Bangladesh for exceptional contributions to energy, economics and environment (Bangladesh,2005)
• Outstanding lifetime achievements award from 16 major professional bodies (Sri Lanka, 2003)
• Adelman-Frankel prize for unique and innovative contributions to energy research from the USAEE (US,2003)
• Green award for exceptional contributions to sustainable development from the Int. Federation of Environmental Journalists (1998)
• International best treatise award and medal for sustainable water resource management presented at the 1994 World Water Congress (Abu Dhabi,1994).
• Award for outstanding contributions to energy economics from the Int. Assoc. of Energy Economists (US,1986)
• Sinha Gold Medal for outstanding scientific achievement from the Lions Clubs International (Sri Lanka,1985)
• Albert M. Grass Prize (MIT, 1968)
• J. W. Beauchamp Prize(UK,1966)^[3]

Select bibliography

Prof. Munasinghe has authored over 90 academic books listed on his website. Recent publications include:

• Munasinghe, Mohan (2010). Making development more sustainable: sustainomics framework and practical applications (second edition). MIND Press. ISBN 9789551672003. 
• Munasinghe, Mohan (2009). Sustainable development in practice: sustainomics methodology and applications. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521895408. 
• Munasinghe, Mohan (2006). Macroeconomic policies for sustainable growth: analytical framework and policy studies of Brazil and Chile. Edward Elgar. ISBN 1845424948. 
• Rosa, Luiz Pinguelli; Mohan Munasinghe (2002). Ethics, equity, and international negotiations on climate change. Edward Elgar. ISBN 1843760487. 
• Munasinghe, Mohan; Osvaldo Sunkel, Carlos de Miguel (2001). The sustainability of long-term growth: socioeconomic and ecological perspectives. Edward Elgar. ISBN 1840645156. 
• Jepma, C. J.; Mohan Munasinghe, Netherlands, Stockholm Environment Institute, Beijer International Institute of Ecological Economics (1998). Climate change policy: facts, issues and analyses. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0521596882. 

References

1. ^ The Nobel Peace Prize for 2007
2. ^ https://www.intelligencesquared.com/people/m/mohan-munasinghe
3. ^ http://dsds.teriin.org/2003/speakers/munasinghe.htm

External links

• MIND - Munasinghe Institute for Development - private, nonprofit organization, established to play a key role in nurturing communities of scholars and practitioners who will address sustainable development issues worldwide and explore viable means of achieving this goal in Sri Lanka and elsewhere without compromising economic, environmental and socio-cultural integrity.
• IPCC - Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

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