Emilio Lèbre La Rovere is Full Professor of the Energy Planning Program, Head of the Environmental Sciences Laboratory (LIMA) and of the Center for Integrated Studies on Climate Change and the Environment (CENTRO CLIMA) at COPPE/UFRJ – Institute for Research and Graduate Studies of Engineering, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro.

Graduated in Engineering, and in Economics, and M.Sc. in Systems Engineering, by COPPE/UFRJ; Ph.D. in Economics, by the School of High Studies in Social Sciences, University of Paris, France (1980).

Co-Author of several IPCC reports, contributing since 1992 to the award of 50% of the Nobel Peace Prize to the IPCC in 2007, was a member of the High Level Commission on Carbon Prices that published the Stiglitz – Stern Report in 2017.