潘家華，中國社會科學院城市發展與環境研究所所長，研究生院教授。1992年獲英國劍橋大學博士學位。中國城市經濟學會副會長、中國生態經濟學會副會長、中國能源學會副會長、國家氣候變化專家委員會委員、國家外交政策咨詢委員會委員、《城市與環境硏究》主編。

研究領域包括可持續發展經濟學、可持續城市化、土地資源經濟學、世界經濟等。任IPCC減緩氣候變化評估第三次（1997—2001）報告主編、主要作者，第四次（2003—2007）和第五次（2010—2014）報告主要作者。發表中英文論（譯）著300余篇（章、部）。獲中國社會科學院優秀科研成果一等獎（2004）和二等獎（2000, 2013）、孫冶方經濟科學獎（2011）。

Pan Jiahua, currently director-general, Institute for Urban & Environmental Studies, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS), and professor of economics at CASS Graduate School, Editor-in-Chief of the Chinese Journal of Urban & Environmental Studies. He received his PhD at Cambridge University in 1992. Areas of study include economics of sustainable development, energy and climate policy, world economy and environmental and natural resource economics. Lead author of the IPCC Working Group III 3rd, 4th and 5th Assessment Report on Mitigation; Member of China National Expert Panel on Climate Change; Member of National Foreign Policy Advisory Group. Vice president of Chinese Association for Urban Economy, vice president of the Chinese Society of Ecological Economists, vice president of Chinese Energy Association. Co-editor of Climate Change 2001: mitigation published by Cambridge University Press and author of over 300 papers, articles and books in both English and Chinese, Sun Yefang Award of Economic Sciences, 2011, China Green Person of the Year 2010/2011.