Dr. Kanat Baigarin is a Head of Kazakhstan Climate Change Coordination Center.
The Center is a working body of the Interagency Commission on Climate Change
Issues, it has been established to coordinate domestic efforts and manage
compliance with international obligations. This institution is also responsible
for implementation of the UNFCCC requirements, including development of a
national strategy on climate change mitigation, JI/CDM project development.
Since 1999 Dr. Baigarin is an appointed National Focal Point on Climate Change in Kazakhstan. Dr. Baigarin has been a key negotiator in the Fifth, Sixth, Seventh and Eighth Conferences of Parties to UNFCCC as a part of the official delegation of the Republic of Kazakhstan. During May in 2000 Dr. Baigarin was placed in Washington, USA to act as a climate change liaison between Kazakhstan and USA.
Dr. Baigarin received his Ph.D. in physics and mathematics in 1989 at I.V.Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy in Moscow, specializing in physics and chemistry of plasma. He took undergraduate studies in engineering and physics at Moscow Physical and Technician Institute. He has more than 40 publications in scientific magazines.
Dr. Baigarin started his working career in 1975 at I.V. Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy, Moscow. Since 1990 he was the Head of Laboratory of the Institute. Dr. Baigarin was the associate of the International Program Leadership on Environmental and Development (LEAD) in 1993-94. In the latest years he has served as a consultant to the Global Environment Division of Rockefeller Foundation on energy efficiency and renewable energy project in the CIS, to UNDP and Word Bank on Renewable Energy in Central Asian countries. In 1997 he together with ECN (Netherlands) finalized Market Development Study for Wind Energy in Kazakhstan.