Mikiko Kainuma
Career. Kainuma received her B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in applied mathematics and physics from Kyoto University, Japan. Since 1977, she has worked on air pollution and climate change at the National Institute for Environmental Studies (NIES), where she is currently the Chief of Climate Policy Assessment Research Section. She is a lead author on the Fourth and Fifth Assessment Report of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Her projects include the Asia-Pacific Integrated Model (AIM) and the Integrated Environmental Assessment sub-project of Asia-Pacific Environmental Innovation Project (APEIS).