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Surabi Menon

VP, Global Intelligence

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    Dr. Surabi Menon is a leading climate scientist with over 25 years of experience in the field of climate change and vice president of Global Intelligence at ClimateWorks Foundation.

    At ClimateWorks, Surabi plays a pivotal role advancing climate philanthropy by offering a global perspective on climate solutions, identifying investment trends, funding gaps, and action on high-impact opportunities. In 2023, Surabi served as the Executive Director of Partnerships for the UAE government for the Conference of Parties (COP28) in the UAE.

    Surabi is currently a member of the advisory council of the Integrated Assessment Modeling Consortium, and Chair of the Science Advisory Council for the Carbon Technology Research Foundation, based in Oxford, UK. She was a charter member of the U.S. EPA’s Science Advisory Board (2012-2018) and has served on many other Boards and advisory councils.

    Prior to joining ClimateWorks, Surabi was a climate scientist at Columbia University and NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York and later a staff scientist and leader of the Heat Island Group at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, California. She has published numerous peer-reviewed publications and co-authored the 2007 IPCC report that was awarded a Nobel Peace Prize. She has a Ph.D. in Atmospheric Science and an MBA in Sustainable Management.