Scientific coordinator for AICCRA in Senegal (under ILRI's Livestock, Climate and Environment Program). providing leadership and guidance, ensuring the delivery of outputs and outcomes for AICCRA's activities in Senegal, including partnership strengthening and the generation and dissemination of climate smart agriculture knowledge from research and innovations.
She has more than 20 years of experience working on climate change challenges, system modelling and forest resource management. I graduated from the University of Bonn (Germany) with a PhD in Agronomy focused on crop modelling. This helps her to have a systems approach perspective to ensure holistic approaches for the most relevant key issues to be addressed along project impact pathways. She is leading a concept of science of delivery through ICT based evidence-based solutions to build sustainable business models in climate smart services while providing connections between international, regional and national teams to maximize knowledge, innovation sharing, capacity building and inputs to solutions for the needs of our stakeholders in climate adaptation.
Countries of experience: Sénégal, Mali, Burkina Faso, South Africa, Bénin.