Prof. Prem C Jain

Prem Jain is Professor in Physics at the University of Zambia.  He founded the disciplines of Solar Energy and Climate Change in the 1980s in the Physics Department and has held the UNESCO Chair in Renewable Energy and Environment since 2000.  

As United Nations Development Program (UNDP) (Namibia) Chief Technical Advisor to the government of Namibia, Prof Jain founded and successfully accomplished the Namibian Renewable Energy Program during 2004-06. Subsequently, as UNDP (Zambia) Technical Coordinator, he founded and spearheaded the Climate Change Facilitation Unit (CCFU) in Zambia during 2009-12. More recently he founded the Solar Energy Centre of Excellence at the University of Zambia.