Professor Stern is the IG Patel Professor of Economics and Government, Chairman of the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, and Head of the India Observatory at the London School of Economics. President of the British Academy, July 2013 – 2017, and was elected Fellow of the Royal Society in 2014.

Mr. Rachman Arief Dienaputra was born on June 27, 1966. He graduated as a Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.) in Geodetic Engineering, Institut Teknologi Bandung (ITB) and completed his Master of Engineering (M.Eng.) in Transport and System Engineering, at UNSECO-IHE in 1999. Currently, he serves as Director for Budget Planning and International Cooperation at the Ministry of Public Works and Housing, Indonesia.