Zbigniew Władysław Kundzewicz (born 4 December 1950 in Augustów, Poland) – is a Polish hydrologist and climatologist,[1] a professor of Earth Sciences,[1] and a corresponding member of the Polish Academy of Sciences and of Academia Europaea.

Zbigniew Kundzewicz earned his undergraduate degree from the Department of Electronics at the Warsaw University of Technology.

[3] Since 1994 he has been one of the experts of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), including as a four-fold Co-ordinating Lead Author.

He has received the Prince Sultan bin Abdulaziz International Prize for Water (2020),[12] the International Hydrological Prize (Dooge Medal) (2017),[7][13] the Grand Golden Seal Award of the City of Poznań (2008),[4] the Tison Award of the International Association of Hydrological Sciences (1987)[4] and the Award of the Secretary General of the Polish Academy of Sciences (1986).

[4] He contributed to the work of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which in 2007 earned a collective Nobel Peace Prize.