Visiting Fellow Khadeeja Naseem

Khadeeja Naseem is a climate change expert from the Maldives who previously served as the Maldives’ Minister of State for Climate Change. She was also the lead negotiator from the Maldives in international climate change negotiations and represented the Alliance of Small Island States on the Transitional Committee of the Fund for responding to Loss and Damage. She played a key role in setting up the architecture for the new fund. Presently she serves as a Senior Advisor to the Climate Emergency Collaboration Group and she is also a Global Facilitator for the Systematic Observations Financing Facility of the World Meteorological Organization. 

She has over a decade of experience in managing sustainable development programs, establishing strategic partnerships, and engaging in climate diplomacy both domestically and internationally. Khadeeja holds an undergraduate degree in Human Ecology from the College of the Atlantic in the USA and a Masters degree in Climate Policy from the University of Melbourne in Australia.