Prof. Dr. Mizan R. Khan has a Ph.D in Environmental Policy and Management from the University of Maryland School of Public Policy, MD, USA. Currently he serves as the Technical Lead & Coordinator of the LDC Universities’ Consortium on Climate Change (LUCCC), which is an official program of the LDC governments. He served as Deputy Director of the Int’l Centre for Climate Change & Development (ICCCA) at Independent University during May 2019 to March 2024. Dr. Khan served at North South University (NSU), Dhaka as Chair of the Department of Environmental Science & Management (DESM) during 2003-2009 and had been Director of External Affairs at NSU during 2015. He was an Adjunct Professor at the Natural Resources Institute (NRI), University of Manitoba, Canada, during 2009-2013. Dr. Khan had been a Visiting Professor/Fellow at the School of Public Policy, University of Maryland at College Park, MD, USA during Fall 2018; Universite de Poitiers, France in February 2015 & at Brown University, USA during the Fall 2024, Spring & Fall of 2012, Spring of 2013 and Fall of 2016.  

Prof. Khan was a Lead Author of tAR5 of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).  Currently, he serves as the Coordinating Lead Author of the Global Environment Outlook (Geo-7) being drafted under UNEP sponsorship. From August 1981 he served at the Bangladesh Institute of International & Strategic Studies (BIISS), Dhaka, where he was a Research Director during May 1998–June 2001.  Before joining NSU, he served for more than four years (Jan 1999- March 2003) as UNDP Environment Policy Specialist, working with the Govt. of Bangladesh.  In the early 1990s, he worked for 3 years as a Senior Researcher at the Centre for International Development and Conflict Management (CIDCM) of the UMCP, MD. He was Vice Chair of the LDC Expert Group under the UNFCCC during 2002-2004.  Since 2001, Dr. Khan was involved in writing all the climate change-related national documents submitted to the UNFCCC secretariat. The latest is the NAP of Bangladesh, where he has written the financing strategy for NAP.  He was one of the 20 –member Advisory Body nominated by the Government to guide the formulation of the 8^th 5YP. He attends climate negotiations as the lead on climate finance with the Bangladesh delegation since 2001.  He serves as an invited speaker in global expert meetings on climate change.  

Dr. Khan has a wide range of publications, including three books:  The Paris Framework for Climate Change Capacity Building (Lead of four authors: London, Routledge: 2018), Toward a Binding Climate Change Adaptation Regime: A Proposed Framework (London & New York: Routledge 2014, 2015), and Power in A Warming World: The New Politics of Climate Change and the Remaking of Environmental Inequality   (co-authored with David Ciplet & Timmons Roberts, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2015). He also authored several book chapters and journal articles. Current he is involved with CCJ-B as a Senior Advisor.