UNFCCC Adaptation Committee

International Labour Organization (ILO)

United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)

Andrew Harper currently serves as the Special Advisor on Climate Action to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in Geneva. He currently works to provide strategic guidance, oversight, and expertise to shape UNHCR’s response to the climate emergency. He has previously worked for the Australian Embassy in Turkey and the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA), and in various field locations with UNHCR, including Central and Southeast Asia, the Western Balkans, Islamic Republic of Iran, and Ukraine.

Children and youth constituency of the UNFCCC (YOUNGO)

Rose Kobusinge is a passionate and driven Climate Action advocate hailing from Uganda, with a strong focus on driving individual, political, and non-state stakeholders to take action against climate change. Her mission is centred on amplifying underrepresented African voices in climate action and enhancing the resilience of vulnerable communities, including refugees, children, and youth.

United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)

Henny is the Global Policy Advisor on Forced Displacement at UNDP and is the global lead on the intersection of climate crisis, development, financing, forced displacement and refugee responses. She co-authored UNDP’s Turning the Tide report on Development Solutions to Internal Displacement and previously served at the Office of the UN Secretary-General’s Special Advisor on Solutions to Internal Displacement.

With 20+ years of experience across Asia and Africa, she’s led programmes on poverty reduction, governance reform, and environmental justice, as Assistant Country Director at UNDP China. Her career spans frontline humanitarian work—from protection in Darfur, governance strengthening in Timor Leste to post-tsunami recovery and peace process in Aceh with Caritas—along with refugee resettlement in China with UNHCR and voluntary return programmes with IOM UK. Passionate about innovation, AI, and inclusive tech solutions, she’s committed to shaping sustainable solutions to address forced displacement.

Refugees International (RI)

Jocelyn Perry serves as the Senior Advocate and Program Manager of the Climate Displacement Program at Refugees International. She has worked in advocacy, policymaking, research, and direct service on climate change and with displaced populations. She specializes in stakeholder involvement in policymaking, supporting the design of frameworks and provision of resources for civil society groups to more meaningfully take part in UN and government processes.

International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC)

Ezekiel Simperingham is the Global Lead on Migration and Displacement for the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC). He is an international lawyer with more than 17 years of experience with expertise in climate-related displacement. Previously, he served as the Asia Pacific Coordinator for IFRC.

Platform on Disaster Displacement (PDD)

Atle Solberg is the Head of the Secretariat of the Platform on Disaster Displacement (PDD). His areas of expertise include disaster displacement and other forms of human mobility in the context of the adverse effects of climate change, protection and human rights, comprehensive risk management, risk modelling and assessment, preparedness, disaster risk reduction, solutions and sustainable development and strategic coordination. Previously, he served as the Head of the Secretariat at the Nansen Initiative and as Country Director for the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC).

Network of environmentalist experts from Burkina Faso; UNFCCC Least Developed Countries Expert Group

Idrissa Semde has been the executive of the Ministry in charge of the environment of Burkina Faso since 1996 and is a member of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Least Developed Countries Expert Group (LEG). He led the development of Burkina Faso's first National Determined Contribution in 2015 and Burkina Faso's first biennial report in 2017.

International Organization for Migration (IOM)

Mariam TRAORE CHAZALNOËL is the Chief of the Climate Action Unit at the International Organization for Migration (IOM) Headquarters in Geneva. With a focus on the intersection of climate change and migration, Mariam has been tackling policy and programmatic challenges in this area since 2013. She has written and edited numerous articles and publications on the subject. Since joining IOM in 2008, Mariam has held various roles in Geneva, Bamako, and New York.

Executive Committee of the Warsaw International Mechanism for Loss and Damage

• Senior expert in natural resource management and Climate Change with 35 years of experience in the development, monitoring and evaluation of integrated rural development projects and in sustainable management of forest, rangeland, land and water resources
• Over 25 years of experience in Climate Change negotiations
• Senior Engineer of Rural Engineering, Water and Forests (AgroParisTech Alumni-France)
• Director of the water prospective planning unit, project manager of the project: Elaboration of vision and strategy “Water 2050”
• Member of the Executive Committee of the Warsaw International Mechanism for Loss and Damage associated with the Impacts of Climate Change (WIM ExCom)
• Lead Coordinator of African Group of Negotiators on agriculture
• Member of National Designated Authority of the Green Climate Fund (GCF)

Lawyer, Supreme Court of Bangladesh; Executive Committee of the Warsaw International Mechanism for Loss and Damage

Executive Committee of the Warsaw International Mechanism for Loss and Damage

Ministry of the Environment, Sweden; Executive Committee of the Warsaw International Mechanism for Loss and Damage

Kajsa Fernström Nåtby is the Head of Section of the Climate Division in the Ministry of the Environment in Sweden and serves as Co-chair for the Task Force on Displacement and is an Executive Committee of the Warsaw International Mechanism for Loss and Damage (WIM ExCom). She works on mainstreaming youth, gender, and indigenous perspectives in climate action and is a part of the EU Team and the Swedish Delegation to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) negotiations. Previously, she served as a Sustainability Advisor at the Group Sustainability Office, Svenska Handelsbanken and was a Youth Delegate in the Swedish delegation to COP 23.