Mohan Munasinghe is a Sri Lankan physicist, engineer and economist with a focus on energy, water resources, sustainable development and climate change.
He was the founder chairman, of the Computer and Information Technology Council (CINTEC), and served on the Presidential Commission that determined national telecommunications policy.
[3] He was involved with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change since its inception in 1988 and had served as Chancellor of the International Water Academy in Oslo.
He also served on the board of directors of Green Cross International and was a member of the Club of Rome.
[4] He is widely recognised for having first proposed the Sustainomics framework[5] for making development more sustainable at the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, and more recently for proposing the Millennium Consumption Goals[6] at the United Nations.