Ian Pickard
Director of the International Climate Change Policy Unit, Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA), UK
Ian Pickard is a senior policy adviser in the UK Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra). He negotiated the Kyoto Protocol for the UK / EU and was Chair of the Annex I Expert Group from 1996 to 1999 and, after working on the UK Sustainable Development Strategy and the 2005 UK presidency of the EU and G8, he returned to the climate change community as head of the international climate change policy unit in Defra's Global Atmosphere Division.