Jean P. Palutikof is a climate scientist and is founding director of the National Climate Change Adaptation Research Facility (NCCARF) at Griffith University in Queensland, Australia.
Prior to this, Palutikof was based at the UK Met Office during which time she managed the production of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Fourth Assessment Report for Working Group II (Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability).
She was present in Oslo at the ceremony at which the organization received the Nobel Peace Prize.
[2] Between 1974 and 1979 Palutikof worked as a lecturer in the Department of Geography at the University of Nairobi.
These were titled "The Role of International Treaties in Tackling Climate Change" and "Adaptation Strategies: A Poor Man's Solution?".