Winston Chow is Lee Kong Chian Professor of Urban Climate based at Singapore Management University’s (SMU) College of Integrative Studies, and is the research pillar lead for urban systems at SMU's Urban Institute. He is also Senior Research Fellow and Lead for Adaptation & Resilience with SMU’s Singapore Green Finance Centre. 

He leads inter-disciplinary research on how Singapore’s urban climate risks will change as its climate warms, as well as examining measures to reduce these risks. He also teaches Undergraduate, Masters and Executive Development courses on climate change and urban sustainability. In 2023, he was elected as Co-Chair of the Working Group on Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's (IPCC), which is the official United Nations body for assessing the science related to climate change. Dr. Chow helps to leads the Seventh Assessment Cycle for the IPCC during a critical decade of global climate action.