Prof David Griggs

David Griggs is an adjunct Professor of Sustainable Development at Monash University. He was the founder and Director of the Warwick University Institute for Global Sustainable Development, prior to which he was Director of the Monash Sustainable Development Institute and CEO of ClimateWorks Australia (now the ClimateWorks Centre). Previous positions he has held include UK Met Office Deputy Chief Scientist, Director of the Hadley Centre for Climate Change, and Head of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change scientific assessment unit.  David is a past vice-chair of the World Climate Research Programme. David was heavily involved in the development of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), including representing the Science and Technology Major group in the SDG negotiations at the UN and writing two of the first papers on SDGs in Nature.