IAASTD Secretariat

The Director of the Secretariat, Robert T. Watson (Chief Scientist, World Bank) and the IAASTD Chairs Judi Wakhungu (Executive Director, African Centre for Technology Studies) and Hans R. Herren (President, Millennium Institute) are responsible for the intellectual leadership of the project.

The IAASTD has a distributed Secretariat with the major component being in Washington DC and other components in FAO (Rome), UNEP (Nairobi), and UNESCO (Paris). The Secretariat is the technical arm of the Assessment and provides day-to-day management and oversight of the project.

Its responsibilities include:

  Organizing sessions of the Plenary, Bureau and the global assessment;

  Providing oversight and technical input for the Global and Sub-global Assessments;

  Proposing the annual budget and managing the Trust Funds;

  Monitoring the progress of IAASTD activities;

  Ensuring coordination among Global and Sub-global Assessments;

  Liaising with member governments, IAASTD Bureau, civil society organizations and all other relevant stakeholder organizations on IAASTD matters;

  Publicizing and disseminating the IAASTD Report to all relevant stakeholder groups; and

  Overseeing and coordinating all public information and outreach activities.

Points of Contact
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• Beverly D. Mcintyre
  Senior Technical Specialist
  Washington DC, USA
  bmcintyre@worldbank.org
• Pekka Jamsen
  Senior Technical Specialist
  Washington DC, USA
  pjamsen@worldbank.org
• Nalini Sharma
  Technical Specialist
  Nairobi, KENYA
  nalini.sharma@unep.org
• Jaime Yepez
  Information Officer/Web Developer
  Washington DC, USA
  jyepez@worldbank.org