C-PREE Bradford Seminar: Expectations from the 28th Conference of the UNFCCC Parties (COP28) and Likely Outcomes | Princeton School of Public and International Affairs

Date & Time Oct 09 2023 12:15 PM - 1:15 PM

Location Wallace Hall

300

Topics Climate Change, Environment, Energy Finance, Fiscal and Monetary Policy Globalization, Foreign Policy, Trade International Development Science, Technology, Innovation

Department Center for Policy Research on Energy and the Environment (C-PREE) High Meadows Environmental Institute Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment Julis-Rabinowitz Center for Public Policy and Finance

Speaker(s)

Farrukh Khan, Senior Diplomat, Foreign Service of Pakistan

Audience Open to the Public, Registration Required

Link C-PREE Event Page

Farrukh Khan is a senior Pakistani diplomat. He joined the Foreign Service of Pakistan in 1995. He has served in several national and international positions, including Chef De Cabinet and Deputy Chef De Cabinet to the 75th President of the UN General Assembly and Senior Manager (Climate Finance) at the Executive Office of the then UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon. He has been the Director General of the United Nations, the Organization of Islamic Conference (OIC), and Economic Coordination and Economic Diplomacy at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He has also served in the Pakistan Missions to the UN in Geneva and New York.

He was Pakistan’s lead negotiator on Climate Change during 2010-2014 and spokesperson for the developing world at Rio +20 Conference (2012). He led international negotiations on establishing Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the UN High-Level Political Forum. Later, he co-chaired the UNEP Working Group that established the UNEP’s World Environment Assembly.

Mr. Khan was a member (later its Chairperson) of the Adaptation Fund Board. He has also served as a member of the Green Climate Fund Board and the International Transitional Committee that designed the Green Climate Fund. Currently, he is a member of the Governing Board of the Integrity Council for the Voluntary Carbon Market (IC-VCM) and co-chair of its Standard Oversight Committee.

Amongst his academic positions, he serves as Visiting Scholar with the Perry World House, University of Pennsylvania, and non-resident Advisor to the International Institute of Peace (IPI). He served as Senior Fellow with the Mossavar-Rehmani Center for Government and Business at the Harvard Kennedy School.

He is a Columbia University (USA) graduate in International Affairs and Law. He did his law and economics undergrad at the University of Punjab (Pakistan).

The David Bradford Energy and Environmental Policy Seminar Series is coordinated by the Center for Policy Research on Energy and the Environment (C-PREE), and co-sponsored by the High Meadows Environmental Institute (HMEI). This seminar is also co-sponsored by the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment and the Julis-Rabinowitz Center for Public Policy and Finance.

This in-person event is open to the public. Princeton University community members do not need to RSVP. Members of the community should RSVP to ccrosby@princeton.edu and will be accommodated as space allows.

The seminars are also usually livestreamed at http://mediacentrallive.princeton.edu/ and videos of the recordings are posted on C-PREE's YouTube channel within a week or two after the event.