H/T to Marcel Crok, who has noted the announcement of the Interacademies Panel, the group appointed by the UN to look at management and organisational issues at the IPCC in the wake of Climategate. There is a dedicated website for the review here.
The group will be headed by a Princeton economist, Harold T Shapiro, whose deputy will be Roseanne Diab, an emeritus professor of Environmental Science from South Africa. The rest of the panel are as follows:
- Carlos Henrique de Brito Cruz, scientific director of the Foundation for the Support of Research in the State of São Paulo, Brazil and professor at the Gleb Wataghin Physics Institute at the University of Campinas;
- Maureen Cropper, professor of economics at the University of Maryland, senior fellow at Resources for the Future in Washington, D.C., and former lead economist at the World Bank;
- Jingyun Fang, Cheung Kong Professor and chair, department of ecology, Peking University;
- Louise Fresco, University Professor, University of Amsterdam, and former assistant director-general at the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization;
- Syukuro Manabe, from Tokyo University and currently a senior meteorologist, Princeton University;
- Goverdhan Mehta, National Research Professor and Bhatnagar Fellow, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore; Nobel laureate
- Mario J. Molina (co-winner of 1995 Nobel Prize in Chemistry), a professor at the University of California, San Diego, and creator of a center in Mexico City for strategic studies of energy and the environment;
- Peter Williams, honorary treasurer and vice president, The Royal Society, London, chancellor of the University of Leicester, and chairman of the National Physical Laboratory;
- Ernst-Ludwig Winnacker, secretary general, Human Frontier Science Program, Germany; and
- Abdul Hamid Zakri, senior adviser to the prime minister of Malaysia, and Tuanku Chancellor Chair, Universiti Sains Malaysia.
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