Dr Paul Desanker is a Manager in the Adaptation Division of the secretariat of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), and oversees the work on support to the Least Developed Countries (LDC), National Adaptation Plans (NAP) and, Loss and Damage under the Convention and Paris Agreement. He has extensive experience working on issues related to adaptation to climate change, ecological modeling, remote sensing, integrated assessment, and has served as Coordinating Lead Author of the Third Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Prior to his current position, Dr Desanker served as a member and Chair of the Least Developed Countries (LDC) Expert Group, he was an Associate Professor of Geography at Pennsylvania State University after working as a Research Assistant Professor at University of Virginia, in the United States. He holds a Masters degree in Mathematics and a PhD in Forest Biometrics from Michigan Technological University in United States.
