Diana Ürge-Vorsatz is a Professor in the Department of Environmental Sciences and Policy at the Central European University. She was elected Vice-Chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in July 2023. She was a Coordinating Lead Author of both the Fourth and Fifth Assessment Reports of the IPCC. She is Vice-Chair of the Hungarian Scientific Panel on Climate Change. She holds a PhD from the University of California, Berkeley and UCLA, and worked at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. She co-chaired the scientific steering committee of the largest conference to date on cities and climate change science, held in Edmonton in 2018. She has worked on and led many research projects for organisations such as the European Commission, the European Parliament, the Global Environment Facility, UNEP, the World Energy Council, the OECD and the World Bank.

She is a speker at AMO klima Conference: Making European food systems work for people, climate, and biodiversity.