Sir James Ferguson "Jim" Skea CBE FRSE (/skiː/ sk-EE; born 1 September 1953) is a British academic.

He is currently Chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) for its seventh assessment cycle,[1] and a Professor of Sustainable Energy at Imperial College London.

He was a founding member of the UK Government's Committee on Climate Change and currently chairs Scotland's Just Transition Commission.

He then worked at the Department of Engineering and Public Policy at Carnegie-Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, as a research associate and later visiting assistant professor from 1981 to 1983.

[8] Skea was appointed as Director of the Economic and Social Research Council's Global Environmental Change Programme from 1995 to 1998.