Debora Ley

Dr. Debora Ley is the Chief of the Energy and Natural Resources Unit of the UN Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean.  She is the Lead Author of IPCC’s Sixth Assessment Report Working Group II (Impacts, Vulnerability, and Adaptation) and the Lead Author of IPCC’s Special Report on Global Warming at 1.5°C, focusing on adaptation, sustainable development, and renewable energy.  She is the Coordinating Lead Author for the Nexus Assessment of IPBES.  She has a DPhil in Geography and the Environment from the University of Oxford, an MSc in Civil Engineering from the University of Colorado-Boulder, USA, and a BSc in Electromechanical Engineering.  She has worked at Sandia National Laboratories in the US and has been a consultant with numerous organizations, focusing on topics of renewable energy, energy poverty, rural electrification, sustainable development, and climate change mitigation and adaptation.