Professor Dr Joy Jacqueline Pereira

Biography

Professor Dr. Joy Jacqueline Pereira is a Principal Research Fellow at Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia’s Southeast Asia Disaster Prevention Research Initiative (SEADPRI-UKM) and Fellow of the Academy of Sciences Malaysia. Professor Pereira is Co-Chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Working Group 3 on Mitigation of Climate Change. She was Coordinating Lead Author for the Asia Chapter of the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report released in March 2014; Review Editor for the 2012 IPCC Special Report on Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to Advance Climate Change Adaptation (IPCC-SREX); and Lead Author for the IPCC-AR5 Synthesis Report. Prof. Pereira is also a Member of the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) Asia Pacific Science, Technology and Academic Group (ASTAAG), which supports governments in science-based decision making to implement the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction. She is a Director of the Asian Network on Climate Science and Technology (ANCST), working closely with University of Cambridge. Professor Pereira chairs the Malaysia Research Network on Climate, Environment and Development (MyCLIMATE) and serves as a Resource Person to the Malaysian Government in negotiating international agreements. She is a professional geologist registered with the Board of Geologists Malaysia, Past President of the Geological Society of Malaysia and Fellow of the Institute of Geology Malaysia. She was active in the Commission on Geoscience for Environmental Management of the International Union of Geological Sciences (IUGS-GEM) for about a decade and retired after serving as Chair from 2004 to 2008.

Last updated: 16 June 2024