Mr. Mukul Sanwal
Former Coordinator UNFCCC and
Former Joint Secretary, Ministry of Environment & Forests

Mr. Mukul Sanwal was appointed to the Indian Administrative Service in 1971, and as Joint Secretary in the Ministry of Environment and Forests represented India in the negotiations leading to the Climate Change Convention, the Forest Principles and Agenda 21, and co-chaired the negotiation group that developed the Rio Declaration, in 1992. He subsequently moved to the United Nations, in 1993, as Policy Adviser, first to the Executive Director of UNEP and later to the Executive Secretary of UNFCCC, and retired from the UN in 2007. He advised the Ministry of Science and Technology in the development of the National Action Plan on Climate Change, in 2008. He has been a member of a number of expert groups and has published extensively on sustainable development, multilateral treaties and conservation. He has a Masters in Public Administration from Harvard University.