
Janos Pasztor is currently Assistant Secretary-General on Climate Change in the Executive Office of the Secretary-General (EOSG) of the United Nations in New York. A national of Hungary (and later also of Switzerland), he received his MS and BS degrees at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Previously, his assignments included Policy and Science Director for Conservation at WWF International and Executive Secretary of the UN Secretary-General’s High-level Panel on Global Sustainability.