Energy Intelligence is pleased to announce that Dr Hoesung Lee, 6th Chair Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), President of Carbon Free Alliance, Special Ambassador for Carbon Free Energy, ROK, has been named as Energy Intelligence’s Energy Economist of the Year for 2024.

Dr Hoesung Lee is one of the world’s foremost energy economists, who has been a leader the analysis of climate change and the international response to mitigate its impacts. He was the chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change from 2015 to 2023. During this period, the group authored the 2018 Special Report on 1.5˚C Global Warming that spurred the global push for to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050 and the 2023 IPCC Synthesis Report that laid the groundwork for the world’s first Global Stocktake of progress towards the Paris Agreement.

Dr Lee serves as the Republic of Korea’s Special Ambassador for Carbon-Free Energy alongside a variety of advisory roles in major economics, energy and climate organizations.

Dr Hoesung Lee

6th Chair Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), President of Carbon Free Alliance, Special Ambassador for Carbon Free Energy, ROK