PROF. JOY JACQUELINE PEREIRA

Professor Dr. Joy Jacqueline Pereira is a Principal Research Fellow at Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia’s Southeast Asia Disaster Prevention Research Initiative (SEADPRI-UKM) and Fellow of the Academy of Sciences Malaysia (ASM).

She is Co-Chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Working Group III on Mitigation of Climate Change. She served as Vice-Chair of the IPCC Working Group II on Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability in its Sixth Assessment Cycle. She has been involved in the preparation of several major IPCC Reports since 2010. Professor Pereira also leads the Asian Network on Climate Science and Technology (ANCST), working closely with University of Cambridge and the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction Asia-Pacific Science and Technology Advisory Group (UNDRR AP-STAG), where she served as a member until 2023.

Professor Pereira chairs the Committee on Climate Change and Disaster Risk Reduction of the Academy of Sciences Malaysia, the Malaysia Research Network on Climate, Environment and Development (MyCLIMATE), and serves as a Resource Person to the Malaysian Government. She is a professional geologist and Member of the Board of Geologists Malaysia, Past President of the Geological Society of Malaysia and Fellow of the Institute of Geology Malaysia. She was active in the International Union of Geological Sciences Commission on Geoscience for Environmental Management (IUGS-GEM) for about a decade, and retired after serving as Chair from 2004 to 2008. 

She obtained her Ph.D. from University of Malaya in 1996, Master of Science from University of Leicester in 1991 and Bachelor of Science with Honours from Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia in 1989, specialising in the field of geoscience. She has graduated about 40 doctoral and masters candidates through research supervision and published over two hundred peer reviewed articles.