Ghulam Rasul

Country : Pakistan

Climate Change Expert

+92 301 5577145 rasulpmd@gmail.com

Ghulam RASUL is presently Advisor for China-Pakistan Joint Research Center after serving as Head of Climate Change Program of IUCN in Pakistan and worked on enhancing the community resilience against changing climate in Gilgit Baltistan and the Indus Delta through Nature Based Solutions. Through an extensive consultation engaging all the stakeholders prepared First Climate Change Gender Action Plan of Pakistan including six priority actions in collaboration of Ministry of Climate Change funded by Green Climate Fund. With the help of French Embassy in Pakistan started the Gender Climate Award for young women climate leaders working in six priority actions including food security and DRR.

He has led MENRIS Program at ICIMOD for three years with initiatives on SERVIR HKH, Regional Database System and Climate Services in 8 regional member countries. As co-lead with UK Met Office launched Asia Regional Resilience to Changing Climate (ARRCC) project activities in 4 South Asian Countries from the coast to the HKH mountains. Geospatial Information System of NASA was digitized and integrated on the disasters experienced by the South Asian Region including floods, drought, GLOF, heat waves, storm surges, landslides, and forest fires. Several new tools such as HIWAT, RDMOS, NWP etc. were developed using climate services complemented with satellite technology through digital integration, machine learning and artificial intelligence. Regional Drought Monitoring and Outlook System (RDMOS) was developed for the South Asian Region extending to Afghanistan with the technical support of NASA and US Scientific Team. The RDMOS is not limited to Afghanistan rather provides wholistic water balance picture in the region with high confidence level.

Dr Rasul is a climate scientist with professional career over 3-dacades served in diverse range of disciplines such as agrometeorology, marine meteorology, Glaciohydrology, satellite meteorology, climate change research as well as impact based weather forecasting and retired as head of Pakistan Meteorological Department. He spearheaded PMD team in GLOF-I project of Adaptation Fund updated glaciers and glacial lakes inventories of Pakistan in 2014 and established EWSs in 3 pilot valleys of Gilgit-Baltistan and Chitral. Based on this success story GLOF-II received funding from GCF and its execution is in progress. He is recipient of two international research awards in climate modeling. He has served the Asia-Pacific Region from WMO platform initially as Regional Coordinator of Climate Services for Agriculture and DRR and late as Vice President. Working with Global Earth Observation System of Systems (GEOSS) as co-chair of Asian Water Cycle Initiative developed Data Integration and Analysis System (DIAS) on Drought, Flood and Climate Change initiatives for 19 Asian River Basins which is replicated 8 north African countries on drought.

He has published more than 100 research papers in international journals, written 3 books and contributed chapters in 9 books.