Nebojsa Nakicenovic

Nebojsa Nakicenovic is an energy economist, born in Belgrade in 1949, originally from Montenegro and now a citizen of Austria. He studied economics at Princeton University and took his master's and doctorate in economics and computer science at the University of Vienna. He was deputy director general of the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis in Laxenburg, Austria, and a full professor of energy economics at the Vienna University of Technology. He has taken part in all the assessment reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, published the Special Report on Emissions Scenarios in 2000 with Robert Swart, and directed the Global Energy Assessment, which appeared in 2012. He sat on the steering committee of REN21 and on the United Nations Secretary-General's group on Sustainable Energy for All, and from 2020 to 2025 he was a chief scientific adviser to the European Commission.