Dabo is a Distinguished Professor of Climate Change Economics at Department of Earth System Science, Tsinghua University, Chair at the Bartlett School of Construction and Project Management, University College London. He is also a senior member of St Edmund’s College, University of Cambridge. He specialises in environmental economics for international climate change mitigation, climate change adaptation, scenario analysis on environmental impacts, water resources accounting and management, input-output modelling and their applications in both developed and developing countries. He was a Lead Author for the Working Group III of the 5th Assessment Report (AR5) of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), Chapter 14 on Regional Development and Cooperation. He has authored over 50 publications, including articles published in Science, Nature, Nature Climate Change, Science and PNAS. He has received the Leontief Prize three times, and recently the Philip Leverhulme Prize (awarded to outstanding scholars who have made a substantial and recognised contribution to their particular field of study, recognised at an international level). Dabo was a Senior Lecturer at University of Leeds for three years and formerly a Senior Research Associate at the Cambridge Centre for Climate Change Mitigation Research (4CMR), the Department of Land Economy, and a Research Associate at Judge Business School, University of Cambridge. Previously, he worked for the World Wide Fund (WWF) as an economist.