Dr. Kanwar Muhammad Javed Iqbal has a Ph.D. in Environmental Governance and is working as a senior researcher at the National Institute of Maritime Affairs (NIMA), Bahria University, Islamabad, Pakistan. Dr. Iqbal is an expert on the environment and climate change, including policy and governance, and has more than 20 years of professional experience at the national and international levels. As a visiting fellow/member advisory board/board Member, he is also associated with many national and international think tanks and institutions. As an official CSO representative for Asia-Pacific, he has served on the UN-REDD Policy Board and World Bank's FCPF, carbon fund, and climate investment funds (CIF). He has supervised several graduate and undergraduate students in the domain of environment and climate change. He has published over two dozen research papers in well-reputed journals, Scopus-indexed two book chapters, and has many research reports and policy papers. He also writes newspaper articles in national English dailies.