Rizaldi Boer, is a Professor at the IPB University and head of the International Research Institute for Environment and Climate Change. He received doctoral degree from University of Sydney, Australia in 1994. He has been working on climate change mitigation and adaptation, particularly on agriculture, forest and other land uses since 1998. He is very active in conducting several studies related to policies low carbon and climate resilience development.
He had been appointed as Chairperson of the RA-V Region Agricultural Meteorology Working Group (2002-2009) for WMO (World Meteorological Organization) and member of the Task Force Bureau for the IPCC Greenhouse Gas Inventory (2008-2015), and now serves as Chairman of the Expert Board of the Indonesian Agriculture Meteorology Society, as well as Member of the Advisory Board for the Asian Greenhouse Gas Inventory Working Group (WGIA), and the Asian Low Carbon Research Network (LoCARNet).