Professor Dr. Walter Leal Filho holds the Chair of Environment and Technology at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK, and is Head of the Research and Transfer Centre “Sustainable Development and Climate Change Management” at the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences, Germany. He has over 400 publications authored/edited books, book chapters and papers published in refereed journals.
He is Lead Author at AR6´s Working Group II (Climate Change Adaptation) at the IPCC, Founding Editor of the International Journal of Climate Change Strategies and Management and heads the International Climate Change Information and Research Programme. He serves on the editorial board of various journals.