Janos Pasztor (born 1955) is a retired Hungarian diplomat.
Before retirement, his last role was Senior Fellow at the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs and Executive Director of the Carnegie Climate Geoengineering Governance Initiative[1] until the initiative's planned closure at the end of 2023.
[5] Pasztor has extensive experience of working in the United Nations with previous roles including (2010-2012) Executive Secretary of the UN Secretary-General’s High-level Panel on Global Sustainability (GSP);[6] (2008-2010) Director of UN Secretary-General’s Climate Change Support Team; (2007) Director, UN Environment Management Group (EMG),[7] United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP); (1993-2006) Various positions at the secretariat of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), initially in Geneva, and later in Bonn.
From 2012-2015 he was Policy and Science Director, and from May 2015 Acting Executive Director for Conservation at WWF International; (1989-1990) he was a Research Associate, Stockholm Environment Institute; (1985-1986) Senior Programme Officer, Energy at the World Commission on Environment and Development (the “Brundtland Commission”);[8] (1984) Research Associate, The Beijer Institute;[9] (1979 – 1983) Director, Energy for my Neighbour Programme, World Council of Churches (WCC).
in Nuclear Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).