Pankaj Bhatia

Global Director
Greenhouse Gas Protocol

Pankaj Bhatia is the Global Director of GHG Protocol at the World Resources Institute. Pankaj is one of the leading experts and authority on the GHG Protocol standards and tools, particularly in the areas of corporate, scope 3, mitigation action, and city accounting. He launched and led the three-year global process that involved more than 2,300 stakeholders to develop the GHG Protocol Scope 3 and Product Standards released in October 2011. He led GHG Protocol teams to develop new global standards for mitigation goals, policies, and actions, for the agriculture sector and cities, and to implement new GHG programs in key major economies including China, India, and Brazil. From 1998 to 2000, he was Vice President of Tata Energy & Resources Institute, a not-for-profit research organization based in Virginia and affiliated with The Energy & Resources Institute (TERI), New Delhi, India. He holds a Master's in process engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, and a Bachelor's in chemical engineering from the India Institute of Technology, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India.