Dr. Carol Chouchani Cherfane
Director, Arab Centre for Climate Change Policies; Cluster Leader, Climate Change and Natural Resource Sustainability Cluster UNESCWA - Lebanon
Dr. Carol Chouchani Cherfane directs the Arab Centre for Climate Change Policies and leads the Climate Change and Natural Resource Sustainability Cluster at the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA).She has over 25 years of experience supporting regional initiatives, inter-governmental processes and inter-agency partnerships on water, energy, food security and the environment under a changing climate in the Arab and Mediterranean regions. This includes coordinating the Regional Initiative for the Assessment of Climate Change Impacts on Water Resources and Socio-Economic Vulnerability in the Arab Region (RICCAR) since 2011. Prior to joining ESCWA, she worked at the Harvard Institute for International Development and the World Bank. She completed her graduate degree and doctoral studies at the Fletcher School for Law and Diplomacy (Boston) and undergraduate degree from Georgetown University (Washington, DC) in international environment and resource policy, development economics, and law and development.