Rajendra K. Pachauri
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Rajendra Kumar Pachauri 20 August 1940 Nainital, United Provinces, British India (now Uttarakhand, India) |
| Nationality | Indian |
| Alma mater | North Carolina State University and La Martiniere Lucknow |
| Occupation | Former Chairman, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Former Chairman and Director General, TERI |
| Spouse(s) | Saroj Pachauri |
| Children | Rashmi Pachauri-Rajan (daughter). Shonali Pachauri |
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Rajendra Kumar Pachauri (born 20 August 1940) was the chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). He held the post from 2002 until his resignation in 2015, during which time the organization was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. He resigned from IPCC in February 2015. Following a media trial, The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) Governing Council asked him to step down from the post of Director-General of the institute. The Governing Council of TERI in a meeting in February 2016 appointed Ashok Chawla, a Gujarat cadre Indian Administrative Service Office who was former Union Finance Secretary and former Chairman of the Competition Commission, as its new chairman. Ajay Mathur, a technocrat in the Bureau of Energy Efficiency, was appointed as the Director General of TERI by the Governing Council in July 2015.
R.K Pachauri was born in Nainital, India. He was educated at La Martiniere College in Lucknow and at the Indian Railways Institute of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering in Jamalpur, Bihar. He belongs to the Special Class Railway Apprentices, 1958 Batch, an elite scheme which heralded the beginning of mechanical engineering education in India. He began his career with the Indian Railways at the Diesel Locomotive Works in Varanasi. He joined North Carolina State University in Raleigh, United States, where he obtained an MS in Industrial Engineering in 1972, and a PhD with co-majors in Industrial Engineering and Economics in 1974. His doctoral thesis was titled, A dynamic model for forecasting of electrical energy demand in a specific region located in North and South Carolina. He is a strict vegetarian, largely because of "the environmental and climate change implications."
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