Raekwon Chung served as the Republic of Korea’s first Ambassador for Climate Change, Principal Advisor on Climate Change to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, and Director of the Environment and Development Division of the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP).

He contributed as a lead author to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Special Report on Methodological and Technological Issues in Technology Transfer (2000). In 2007, the IPCC was jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize with Al Gore.

Raekwon Chung serves on the board of the Ban Ki-moon Foundation for a Better Future and chairs the International Award Committee of the Global Energy Prize. He promotes the concepts of Green Growth and New Climate Economics, which seek to combine climate action with economic development and job creation.

He graduated from Sungkyunkwan University in the Republic of Korea and holds a master’s degree in diplomacy from Georgetown University in the United States. He has received honorary doctorates from Moscow State University and the National Research University Moscow Power Engineering Institute (MPEI), as well as an honorary professorship from the Russian Presidential Academy.