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• Led engagement of Climate Impact Advisory Team with GCF’s Private Sector Facility, identifying entry points for collaboration with accredited entities and direct access entities from private sector.
• Led engagement of Climate Impact Advisory Team for Latin American and Caribbean partners.
• Led analysis of climate hazards addressed by GCF projects to identify programming gaps.
• Developed guidance to effectively communicate the climate basis and climate impact potential of private sector proposals.
• Supported project origination for successful initiatives, including providing guidance on developing a robust climate narrative and demonstrating climate impact potential.
• Appraised projects based on climate impact potential.

Panama

- Expanded portfolio of anticipatory action programmes in Latin America (from 2 countries in 2020 to 8 in 2023), securing USD1.2 million for capacity development- Co-wrote WFP's first successful ECHO proposal for Central America, which included anticipatory action (EUR600,000)- Led WFP engagement in key climate science forums, including the Central America.

Pasadena, California, United States

- Doctoral research conducted jointly with JPL- Research consisted of identifying remote sensing indicators that can predict transitions from stable food security conditions to food crises

Los Angeles, California, United States

- Taught class on remote sensing analysis for land use classification, with a focus on identifying invasive willow species in the Patagonian region of Argentina- Additional subjects taught include: geospatial analysis, writing reports, writing for journal articles, data analysis- Led work for remote groundtruthing using Google Earth (due to travel.

Home-based; East Asia And Pacific Region

Vulnerability analysis- Develop analytical frameworks to evaluate the relationships between climate change and education including: how climate change impacts on education outcomes, how education can be a pathway to achieve climate change goals, and how climate change adaptation can benefit resilience in the education sector Review of climate change.

Food security analysis - Geospatial analysis of food security and vulnerability for Pacific Island Countries and TerritoriesDesign- Wrote and designed the final report, including cartographic analysis and infographics

Bangkok

Project management• Managed a large ($2 million) project focused on climate risk analysis and innovative climate change adaptation programmes in the WFP Asia Region.Climate risk analysis• Developed the Consolidated Livelihood Exercise for Analysing Resilience – an innovative tool for mapping livelihoods and analyzing climate impacts on livelihoods and food.

Home-based

Policy and strategy Country situation analysis to identify main risks and challenges with respect to food and nutrition security, and disaster risk management Analysis of government capacity to support SDG2 (‘End hunger’) and SDG 13 (‘Climate Action’) objectives Analysis of government policies and current capacity gaps in food and nutrition security.

Home-based

Climate risk analysis- Developed an analytical framework for adaptive capacity in the Middle East & North Africa region using regional and global datasets- Geospatial analysis of vulnerability; analysis of climate risk hotspots. Design- Designed and developed a 10-pager summarizing key climate risks for the Middle East and North Africa region. - Designed.

Roma Y Alrededores, Italia

Climate services-Supported integration of climate information and analysis into WFP-Oxfam America pilot R4 Rural Resilience Initiative-Supported WFP participation in the Global Framework for Climate ServicesClimate risk analysis-Developed national-level risk assessments using geostatistical methods including climate trend analysis, NDVI trend analysis.

Roma Y Alrededores, Italia

Vulnerability analysis• Carried out geospatial and statistical analysis of vulnerability and developed methods for assessment of climate change impacts on food security. The method was tested in Mali, Senegeal, Ethiopia, and Nepal.• Developed Hunger and Climate Vulnerability Index (results published in Global Environmental Change)• Supported integration of.

Environmental Science And Engineering, Gpa 4.0

Certificate, Leadership In Sustainability

Master Of Science (Msc), Environmental Studies, Distinction

Bachelor Of Science (Bsc), Environmental Studies, First Class (Hons)