COP27 Side-event

Prof. Dr. Aarti Gupta

Wageningen University & Research @AartiGupta17 @Transgov_wur

Aarti Gupta is principal investigator of the TRANSGOV project. She is a Professor of Global Environmental Governance with the Environmental Policy Group, Department of Social Sciences, Wageningen University. Her research is in the field of global environmental and climate governance, with a focus on transparency and accountability and the challenges of anticipatory governance of novel technologies, including climate engineering. She has published extensively in these fields, including the edited volume, Transparency in Global Environmental Governance: Critical Perspectives (2014, MIT Press). She holds a PhD from Yale University and is a member of the Scientific Steering Committee of the International Earth System Governance Research Alliance.

Mr. R. R. Rashmi

The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) @teriin 

Mr. R. R. Rashmi is Distinguished Fellow of the Energy and Resources Institute, Delhi. As a former civil servant with over 35 years’ experience of public service, Mr Rashmi has been involved with climate change policy making in India in the run up to and after the Paris Agreement. He was India’s key negotiator for climate change for several years. He held the position of Special Secretary, Ministry of Environment & Climate Change, Govt of India and later the Chief Secretary, Govt of Manipur.

He has been a member of the Sub Committee of the Ministry of Finance on Climate Finance. Currently, he is a Member of the Technical Advisory Body of the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) and the Environment Advisory Group of the National Human Rights Commission.

Dr. Masumur Rahman

South Asia Co-operative Environment Programme (SACEP) @Sacep_org

Dr. Masumur Rahman, nominee of the Government of People’s Republic of Bangladesh assumed duties as the Director General of SACEP on 9th August 2021 for a non-renewable period of three years.

Prior to his assumption of duties as the Head of Mission of SACEP, he was the Director General of Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Government of Bangladesh. Dr. Rahman joined the Bangladesh Civil Service in the year 1998. During his carrier, he performed his duties in different capacities such as Joint Secretary to the Government of Bangladesh in the Ministry of Public Administration (MOPA), Deputy Commissioner and District Magistrate (DCDM) in the field administration of Bangladesh, Private Secretary to Hon’ble Minister for Environment, Forests and Climate Change and for the Food and Disaster Management Ministry, Deputy Secretary in the Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change. He also worked as Magistrate First Class, Assistant Commissioner, Senior Assistant Commissioner, Revenue Deputy Collector, Assistant Commissioner (Land) and in Bangladesh Secretariat as a Deputy Secretary and Senior Assistant Secretary in different Ministry.

Emily Ojoo-Massawa

ARUA Centre of Excellence in Climate and Development African Climate and Development Initiative (ACDI) @ARUA_CD @Acdi_uct

Emily Ojoo-Massawa is currently working with Mott MacDonald as Climate Resilience Lead for Africa, based at the Nairobi office. She is also an associate of the ARUA Centre of Excellence at the African Climate Development Initiative at the University of Cape Town. She has  over 25 years’ experience in the development and implementation of national and international climate change policy across sectors including energy, agriculture, water resources, and infrastructure.

Emily has lead climate negotiations for the Government of Kenya for over a decade, holding positions of Focal Point to the UNFCCC and the Designated Authority for the CDM. Emily was also the Chair of the Consultative Group of Experts on National Communications and has continued to work on transparency issues under the UNFCCC, serving as a lead reviewer of national communications.

Dr. Romain Weikmans

Finnish Institute of International Affairs (FIIA) Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) @RomainWeikmans @Fiia_fi

Dr. Romain Weikmans is Senior Research Fellow at the Finnish Institute of International Affairs and Adjunct Professor at the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) / Free University of Brussels. His main research interests centre on international climate finance, climate transparency, and climate adaptation. He has published widely on these topics, including in Nature Climate Change, Climate Policy and Global Environmental Politics. Coverage of his work can be found in Nature, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Guardian and various other news outlets.

He is a lead author of the 2020 UNEP Adaptation Gap Report and a contributing author to the IPCC’s Sixth Assessment Report (WG2). From 2018 to 2021, Romain Weikmans was the Vice-Chair of the Working Group ‘Energy-Climate’ of the Belgian Federal Council for Sustainable Development.

Dr. Laode M. Syarif

The Partnership for Governance Reform (Kemitraan) @Kemitraan_ind

Dr. Syarif is an expert in good governance, transparency issues, particularly anti-corruption and legal/judicial reform. At present he is the Executive Director of Partnership for Governance Reform (Kemitraan), a leading Indonesian national organisation in the issue of good governance in Indonesia. KEMITRAAN major field of work are: Anti-Corruption, Democratization, Law Enforcement Reform, Sustainable Economic and Environmental Governance. He was the Commissioner of Indonesia Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) for the period of 2015-2019.

Dr. Syarif also teaches at Hasanuddin University, Faculty of Law, Makassar, Indonesia. He taught Environmental Law, International Environmental Law, and developed Anti-Corruption and Environmental Law Clinics in several Law Schools in Indonesia. He also served as one of the principal trainers of the Supreme Court of Indonesia in the area of Environmental Law and Judicial Code of Conduct since early 2000 and a regular guest lecturer at the University of Sydney Law School, University of Melbourne, School Government, University of South Pacific Law School in Port Villa, National University of Singapore Law School, and Cebu University Law School. He widely published in the issue of transboundary pollution, environmental law, and anti-corruption.