# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/hoesung-lee
# Generated: 2026-09-07T20:59:49.028Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/hoesung-lee"
name: "Hoesung Lee"
slug: "hoesung-lee"
description: "Hoesung Lee is a South Korean economist who served as the chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) from 2015 to 2023. He is professor in the economics of climate change, energy and sustainable development in the Graduate School of Energy, Environment, Policy & Technology at Korea University."
tagline: "South Korean chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Hoesung_Lee.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "South Korea"
  isoCode: "KR"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1945-12-31"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           42.1
  momentum:             0.625
  historical:           9.410404
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://www.ipcc.ch/people/hoesung-lee/"
sources:
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    title: "Hoesung Lee"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "هويسونج لى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "И Хьо Сънг"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoesung_Lee"
    title: "Hoesung Lee"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoesung_Lee"
    title: "Hoesung Lee"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoesung_Lee"
    title: "Hoesung Lee"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoesung_Lee"
    title: "Hoesung Lee"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoesung_Lee"
    title: "Hoesung Lee"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%B9%E0%A5%8B%E0%A4%B8%E0%A5%81%E0%A4%82%E0%A4%97_%E0%A4%B2%E0%A5%80"
    title: "होसुंग ली"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoesung_Lee"
    title: "Hoesung Lee"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%9D%B4%ED%9A%8C%EC%84%B1_(%EA%B2%BD%EC%A0%9C%ED%95%99%EC%9E%90)"
    title: "이회성 (경제학자)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump