Dr Tariq Banuri is a Professor in the Department of City and Metropolitan Planning at the University of Utah, USA. He was Chairman of the Higher Education Commission of Pakistan from 2018 to 2022 and, before that, briefly Executive Director of the Global Climate-Change Impact Studies Centre, the research arm of the Ministry of Climate Change. Earlier, he was Director of the Division for Sustainable Development at the United Nations. He began his career in the Civil Service of Pakistan and later joined the United Nations as a Research Fellow at the World Institute for Development Economics Research. He adopted the same model as founding Executive Director of the Sustainable Development Policy Institute. He has chaired the Board of Governors of the International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development, was a founding member of the Great Transition Initiative, and has served on the central board of the State Bank of Pakistan and the Pakistan Environmental Protection Council. He was also Member/Secretary of the Presidential Steering Committee on Higher Education. He was a Coordinating Lead Author for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize. He holds a PhD in Economics from Harvard University, USA.