# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jean-pascal-van-ypersele
# Generated: 2026-08-13T21:34:20.351Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jean-pascal-van-ypersele"
name: "Jean-Pascal van Ypersele"
slug: "jean-pascal-van-ypersele"
description: "Jean-Pascal van Ypersele de Strihou is a Belgian academic climatologist. He is a professor of Environmental Sciences at the UCLouvain (Belgium). As a previous vice-chair of the IPCC, Van Yp is one of the forerunners of climate change mitigation through strong decrease of fossil fuel consumption."
tagline: "Professor, scientist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Jean-Pascal_van_Ypersele.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1957-04-14"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           40.1
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.343449333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     44.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm13865708/"
    handle:    "nm13865708"
sources:
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%96%D0%B0%D0%BD_%D0%9F%D0%B0%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B0%D0%BB%D1%8C_%D0%B2%D0%B0%D0%BD_%D0%86%D0%BF%D0%B5%D1%80%D1%81%D0%B5%D0%BB%D1%8C"
    title: "Жан Паскаль ван Іперсель"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B3%D9%83%D8%A7%D9%84_%D9%81%D8%A7%D9%86_%D9%8A%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%B1%D8%B3%D9%8A%D9%84"
    title: "جان باسكال فان يبيرسيل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Pascal_van_Ypersele"
    title: "Jean-Pascal van Ypersele"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Pascal_van_Ypersele"
    title: "Jean-Pascal van Ypersele"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Pascal_van_Ypersele_de_Strihou"
    title: "Jean-Pascal van Ypersele de Strihou"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Pascal_van_Ypersele"
    title: "Jean-Pascal van Ypersele"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q165870"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/5750330"
    title: "Jean-Pascal van Ypersele"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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