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Dr. Rathana Peou Norbert-Munns

Individual Cambodia, Asia

Dr. Rathana Peou Norbert-Munns has worked at Utrecht University with the Copernicus Institute as Policy Researcher and the Southeast Asia Scenarios Coordinator within CCAFS since 2017, prior to which she was attached to Oxford University at the Environmental Change Institute (ECI). She joined the CCAFS scenarios team in 2012, first as the Scenarios Coordinator for South Asia and is based in Cambodia, since 5 years now, where she provides technical support on Climate Smart Agriculture and builds capacity on foresight-based policy formulation in Agriculture, Food Security and Climate Change. She built close network and institutional partnerships with regional institutions working in development, climate, and foresight. In 2018-2019, she developed the first climate parliamentary diplomacy training tailored to the needs of parliamentarian staff of the region. Dr. Rathana's research interests lies in the "4 inviolate principles": food security, water security, energy security and social "health" security. Her current research concerns the futures of Food Security, Agriculture and Climate Change within the ASEAN Member States (AMS). She holds a PhD in Political Science majoring in Philosophy. Prior to joining the CCAFS team, she worked for 3 years in Bangladesh where she was the deputy director of the Center for Sustainable Development (CSD) and an associate professor at ULAB. Before 2009, Rathana worked as an international consultant and humanitarian worker in Sudan, Pakistan and Bangladesh. She has 12 years of experience working in implementing development projects and climate policy formulation. She consulted for agencies such as DFID, USAID, ECHO, DIPECHO, AFD, EU, ADB, CTA and different INGOs and NGOs.

Operating in:
Cambodia

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