Annett Möhner

Annett Möhner is the Secretary of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), effective 1 November 2026.  Möhner, currently a Senior Manager at the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), is an international climate leader with more than two decades of experience advancing global climate action at the intersection of climate science, sustainable development, and multilateral diplomacy.

She has been managing the delivery and follow-up to the first-ever Global Stocktake under the Paris Agreement at the UNFCCC since early 2023. Before that, she served as Secretary to the UNFCCC’s Governing Bodies and the Adaptation Committee, helping develop it into an authoritative expert body. Ms Möhner also led engagement with the IPCC, global research community, and development finance stakeholders, strengthening the science-policy nexus to enable well-informed, evidence-based policymaking.

Annett Möhner has degrees from Universität Greifswald and Louisiana State University. She is a German national. Ms Möhner’s biography is available here.