Dr. Kilaparti Ramakrishna is the Director of United Nations Sub-regional Office for East and North-east Asia. He comes to this position from United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the Woods Hole Research Center (WHRC). At UNEP he was the Principal Policy Advisor to the Executive Director and at WHRC, he was Vice President, Director of Policy and Holder of Sara Shallenberger Brown Chair in Environmental Law and Policy. He is a lead author of current assessment (and many before it) by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. In addition Ramakrishna taught at a number of law schools including at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Harvard Law School, Boston University and Boston College Law Schools and at Yale University. He is an elected life member of the US Council on Foreign Relations and the World Academy of Arts and Sciences.