ISSUE 48/DEC2022 - Flipbook - Page 64
Africa’s Most Influential Women | EVERYDAY HEROES
Dr. Yasmine Fouad
EGYPT
Minister of Environment
CLIMATE CHANGE & ECOLOGY ADVOCATE
Photo: Convention on Biological Diversity
Egypt’s environment minister is not only an
academic, but an ecological champion and
diplomat as well. An environmental scientist with
wide experience in the academia, government,
non-government organizations and international
organisations, Fouad is also well known for
leading in policy discussion on the climate change
and the Nile Basin, climate finance, desertification,
land degradation and terrestrial ecosystems.
According to the World Economic Forum, Fouad
has extensive experience in climate change and
has supported the Earth Institute in designing a
Centre of Excellence for Adaptation to Climate
Change and supported the African Ministerial
Conference on the Environment (AMCEN)
President in leading and managing two climate
change initiatives mainly the African Adaptation
Initiative (AAI) and African Renewable Energy
Initiative (AREI).
She has also supported the Nile Basin Discourse
— a regional NGO — in designing a proposal and
policy paper on the impact of climate change on
water resources in the Nile Basin.
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Madeleine Diouf Sarr
SENEGAL
Chair: Least Developing Countries (LDC) Group
Head: Climate Change Division Ministry of
Environment and Sustainable Development
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Photo: LDC Group
A seasoned negotiator, Madeleine Diouf Sarr
is the first ever woman to head the powerful
Least Developing Countries (LDC) Group since
it was established as a negotiating bloc in the
UN Framework Convention on Climate Change
(UNFCCC) some 22 years ago.
Madeleine who is a biologist by training and an
environmental engineer heads Senegal’s Climate
Change Directorate and has been involved in the
global climate negotiations for over two decades
championing for the climate justice rights of
developing nations.
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