Annett Möhner

Annett Möhner has been appointed Secretary of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), effective 1 November 2026. She brings more than two decades of experience in international climate policy, including extensive work at the interface between scientific assessment and intergovernmental decision-making.

Since 2004, Annett has served at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) secretariat in Bonn in progressively senior roles supporting major processes under the Convention and the Paris Agreement. She led the first Global Stocktake under the Paris Agreement through its conclusion at COP28, overseeing a complex process that brought together scientific, technical and policy inputs across the UN climate regime.

As the UNFCCC focal point to the IPCC, she has coordinated collaboration between the two organizations and worked closely with IPCC leadership, Working Groups and technical experts. She has also managed the UNFCCC agenda item on research and systematic observation. As Secretary of the Governing Bodies of the UNFCCC, she coordinated support to COP Presidencies and the Bureau during COP26 in Glasgow, and COP27 in Sharm el-Sheikh. Her responsibilities have also included leading the preparation and negotiation of UNFCCC biennial programme budgets and managing teams across the UNFCCC secretariat.

Annett previously worked with the German development agency GIZ in Delhi, where she supported the development of a regional adaptation strategy and the OECD Environment Directorate in Paris, contributing to country studies examining the links between climate resilience and sustainable development priorities.

Annett holds an MSc in Environmental Science, Environmental Policy and Management from Louisiana State University and undergraduate degrees in Landscape Ecology and Political Science from Greifswald University in Germany.