Shobhakar DhakalShobhakar Dhakal is an Associate Professor in the Energy Field of Study at the Asian Institute of Technology in Thailand. His areas of expertise are in urbanization, cities and climate change, and energy policies and modeling. He has been a visiting esearcher at the National Institute for Environmental Studies, Japan since 2012. Dhakal is one of the Coordinating Lead Authors of Working Group III for the Fifth Assessment Report of the IPCC. He serves as a member of the scientific steering committee of the Global Carbon Project, the premier scientific program under Future Earth. He was a guest research scholar at International Institute for Applied System Analysis in Austria from 2010 to 2013. Dhakal has served as a lead author for the Global Energy Assessment, principal scientific reviewer for UNEP's Global Environmental Outlook-5, member of the Consensus Panel on Low Carbon Cities of the Academy of Sciences of South Africa, member of the Cities Energy Modeling Group of the International Energy Agency, and an international expert to the Taskforce on Urban Development and Energy Efficiency of the China Council for International Cooperation on Environment and Development, among others. Dhakal is also one of the editors-in-chief of the journal Carbon Management. Read More Read Less