James Michael
GRABERT

Mr. Grabert has been working for the United Nations Climate Change Secretariat (UNFCCC) for 30 years. He heads the Mitigation Division of the UNFCCC, leading the work on market-based approaches to climate change mitigation.

Prior to 2006 he served as a greenhouse gas emissions specialist and worked in numerous expert groups of the United Nation's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Before joining the United Nations, he was an industry and regional analyst for the World Economic Forum in Geneva, Switzerland.

Education
Mr. Grabert holds a B.A. in Economics and International Relations from Wheaton College, Master of International Economics from the Institut de Hautes Études Internationales in Geneva, and has undertaken post-graduate studies in Management at Stanford University, University of Navarra (IESE) and London Business School, and in Development at Harvard University.