About this speaker
Joyeeta Gupta won the highest academic recognition in the Netherlands – the Spinoza prize in 2023 (1.5 M € for 2024-2029). Professor Gupta has a European Research Council Advanced Grant (€2.5 M for 2021-2026) for climate research.
Joyeeta Gupta was co-chair of UNEP’s Global Environment Outlook-6: Healthy Planet, Healthy People (2016-2019). She is completing her co-chair role of the Earth Commission (2019-2024) which has published 20 papers including in Nature and presented results at the World Economic Forum on 18 January in the WEF in Davos, 2023 and 2024. She has just been appointed by the UN Secretary General as co-chair of the Ten High-Level Representatives of Civil Society, Private Sector and Scientific Community to Promote Science, Technology and Innovation for the SDGs for 2024-2025. She has been teaching and researching on water law and governance for the last 30 years.
