Diana Ürge-Vorsatz

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Diana Ürge-Vorsatz is a Hungarian scientist who specializes in environmental science and climate policy. She is a professor of Environmental Sciences at Central European University and serves as Vice-Chair of the IPCC Working Group III. She also directed the Center for Climate Change and Sustainable Energy Policy (3CSEP) at CEU and has published widely on climate change mitigation and energy policy.

Life and education:
She was born in 1968 in Berlin and grew up in Budapest. She earned a master’s degree in physics from Eötvös Loránd University in 1992, with a focus on astrophysics and environmental physics. She studied as a visiting student at Brunel University London (1990–1991) and completed a postgrad program in Environmental Science at Central European University in 1992. She was a Fulbright Scholar at UCLA and UC Berkeley, where she earned a PhD in Environmental Science and Engineering in 1996; her doctoral work examined electricity conservation potentials in the US lighting sector.

Career highlights:
Ürge-Vorsatz became an associate professor at CEU in 2001, and a full professor in 2007. She has led CEU’s Center for Climate Change and Sustainable Energy Policy (3CSEP) since 2007. She has served on the UN’s Scientific Expert Group on Climate Change and led work on the Global Energy Assessment of buildings. She was a coordinating lead author for IPCC’s Fourth and Fifth Assessment Reports (AR4 and AR5). The IPCC, which shared the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007 with Al Gore for its work on climate change communication, recognizes her role in AR4 and AR5. Since July 2023 she has been Vice-Chair of IPCC Working Group III. In 1984 she won the Hungarian national championship in orienteering.