Prof. Chukwumerije Okereke is the Director of the Centre for Climate Change and Development at Alex Ekwueme Federal University Ndufu-Alike and a Visiting Professor at the universities of Reading and Oxford, UK. He is a globally recognized scholar on global climate governance and international development with expertise in climate justice, national green growth transition in Africa, climate adaptation and business climate strategies. Over the last 20 years, Professor Okereke has maintained an extensive high-impact engagement with national governments, businesses and NGOs in Africa and led several high-profile international projects on climate change policy, mainstreaming and green economy transition in Africa, including the UNDP-funded Africa Adaptation Initiative (AAI) commissioned by the Committee of African Heads of State on Climate Change (CAHOSCC), the Analysis of the Adaptation Components in Africa’s Nationally Determined Contribution (NDCs) commissioned by the African Development Bank and the Rwandan Green Growth and Climate Resilience Project, the first-ever national low-carbon plan in Africa. Furthermore, he was the Coordinating Lead Author of the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Sixth Assessment Report. He has served as Lead Author on other major global scientific assessment projects including the IPCC Special Report on 1.5-degree global warming and the Fifth Assessment Report of the IPCC, the United Nations Environment Programme’s Urbanization, Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services Assessment. Professor Okereke is a member of the editorial board of several highly reputed journals including Global Environmental Politics, Business and Sustainable Development, Earth Systems Governance and International Studies Review, and he has published widely in the field, given countless keynote speeches and been interviewed by leading media houses in the world including BBC News, BBC World Services, France24 and several others.