# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/james-skea
# Generated: 2026-08-13T05:26:49.336Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/james-skea"
name: "James Skea"
slug: "james-skea"
description: "Sir James Ferguson \"Jim\" Skea CBE FRSE is a British academic. He is currently Chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) for its seventh assessment cycle, and a Professor of Sustainable Energy at Imperial College London. Before being elected as chair, Skea was co-chair of Working Group III of the IPCC. He was a founding member of the UK Government's Committee on Climate Change and currently chairs Scotland's Just Transition Commission. He was a co-author of the IPCC 2018 Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5 °C. In July 2023, Skea was elected as Chair of the IPCC."
tagline: "British academic"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Professor_Jim_Skea.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1953-09-01"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           42.4
  momentum:             1.758793969849246
  historical:           5.683514666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "James Skea"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Skea"
    title: "James Skea"
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  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Skea"
    title: "James Skea"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Skea"
    title: "Jim Skea"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Skea"
    title: "James Skea"
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  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Skea"
    title: "Jim Skea"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q20027894"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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