2023 Benazir Bhutto & Ahmed Ispahani International Lecture

The Climate Crisis and International Relations

Dr. Hakima El Haité is a former Minister of Environment of Morocco. In 2015, she was elected Vice President of the United Nations Paris Climate Conference. President François Hollande of France awarded her the Chevalier de la Legion d’Honneur insignia in December 2016. In the same year, she was appointed High Level Climate Champion of the Conference of Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change for COP22. She holds two PhDs: one in Environmental Studies from the University of Meknes and one in Environmental Engineering from the Ecole des Mines de St Etienne, France. As a liberal politician from Africa, she is the first President of Liberal International from a non-European country. She was named one of the “100 Most Influential People in Climate Policy” by Apolitical in 2019, 2022 and 2023. In April 2023, the Secretary General of the United Nations appointed her a member of his Advisory Board of Eminent Persons on Zero Waste. Click here to view the event flyer.

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