Who's who?
UNESCO’s work on climate change is carried out by a large number of staff at UNESCO Headquarters and in the UNESCO Field Offices. Today, all of UNESCO’s Sectors and intergovernmental and international programmes feature important climate change activities. In additional, several UNESCO Institutes and Centres, as well as UNESCO Chairs, are actively engaged in climate change work.
In order to facilitate coordination and cooperation among Field Offices, with and within Headquarters, UNESCO has established an ‘Intersectoral Platform for Action to Address Climate Change’ tasked to oversee the UNESCO Climate Change Initiative and the associated UNESCO Strategy for Action on Climate Change.
Intersectoral Platform on Climate Change
Ms Wendy Watson-Wright
Lead ADG for the Intersectoral Platform on Climate Change
Assistant Director-General and Executive Secretary, Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC)
UNESCO
Mr Peter Dogsé
Manager of the Intersectoral Platform on Climate Change
Programme Specialist, Division of Ecological and Earth Sciences, MAB Programme
UNESCO
Sector Climate Change Focal Points
Education Sector
Ms Julia Heiss
Ms Yoko Mochizuki
Natural Sciences Sector and Man and Biosphere Programme
Mr Peter Dogsé
Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission
Mr Albert Fischer
Mr Jorge Luis Valdes
International Hydrological Programme
Mr Siegfried Demuth
Mr Anil Mishra
Energy and Renewable Energies
Mr Osman Benchikh
Social and Human Sciences Sector
Mr John Crowley
Culture Sector
Mr Marc Patry
Communication and Information Sector
Mr Fackson Banda
Small Island Developing States Platform
Mr Douglas Nakashima
Mr Hans Thulstrup
Africa Platform
Mr Cheikhna Sankare
Ms Shamila Nair-Bedouelle
Office of the Director-General - Division for Gender Equality
Ms Sara Callegari
Bureau of Strategic Planning
Ms Clare Stark
Management of Support Services
Mr John Miller
Field Office Climate Change Focal Points
See the Directors of the respective Field Offices.
UNESCO Institute and Centres
International Centre for Theoretical Physics ICTP, Trieste (Italy)
Mr Filippo Giorgi
UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education, Delft (The Netherlands)
Mr András Szöllösi-Nagy
Contact
For general information about UNESCO's climate activities, please send an email to the Platform Manager, Mr Peter Dogsé: p.dogse(at)unesco.org
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