Minette Nago

Minette Nago holds a PhD in political science with a specialisation in environmental governance from the Georg-August University Göttingen in Germany, where she worked for many years as a researcher on forest and climate change cooperation politics. She has also worked as a climate policy expert/consultant at the UNFCCC and in numerous research organisations in Central Africa. For several years, she has been teaching forest and climate diplomacy at the universities of Göttingen in Germany and Montpellier in France. Through the AFORPOLIS initiative she co-founded in 2017, she is currently engaged in strengthening North-South knowledge transfer on climate change mitigation and adaptation and has so far led the organisations of numerous capacity building workshops on this issue in Africa. She has also published articles on climate and forest policy in various peer-reviewed journals and served as reviewer for many other peer-reviewed journals.