Scientific advisory panel

Drew Shindell is the current Chair of the Climate and Clean Air Coalition (CCAC) Scientific Advisory Panel. He is Professor of Climate Sciences at the Nicholas School of the Environment, Duke University. From 1995 to 2014 he was a scientist at the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York City. Dr. Shindell taught atmospheric chemistry at Columbia University for more than a decade. His research concerns natural and human drivers of climate change, linkages between air quality and climate change, and the interface between climate change science and policy. He has been an author on more than 200 peer-reviewed publications and received awards from Scientific American, NASA, the EPA, and the NSF.

Marielle Saunois is an assistant professor at Université de Versailles Saint Quentin associated to the Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l’Environnement since 2011. Her research addresses the assessment of global methane sources and sinks. She works with global chemistry transport models and uses 4D-var inversion systems to constrain the methane cycle using atmospheric observations. She is co-leading the Global Methane Budget – methane initiative of the Global Carbon project. Before being hired at LSCE she works on tropospheric chemistry, including ozone and its precursors, using a chemistry transport model, and in-situ and remote observations at the Laboratoire d’Aérologie and the National Center for Atmospheric Research.

Dr. Aben is a senior scientist in the Earth group at SRON. The group focuses primarily on the interpretation of satellite remote sensing data of greenhouse gases (CO2 and methane) and related species as part of the Carbon cycle research. Dr. Aben is the Dutch Co-Principal Investigator and co-initiator of the TROPOMI instrument on the Sentinel-5 Precursor mission. She leads the SRON TROPOMI team responsible for safeguarding the scientific performance of the TROPOMI SWIR channel measuring CO and methane. The team has in the past defined the SWIR science requirements, instrument requirements, provided support to instrument development and trade-offs, calibration of the SWIR channel, and development of the SWIR L2 algorithms. Dr. Aben is responsible for a number of projects in her group focusing on detection and emission quantification of methane localised and area sources funded through different funding agencies (NWO, UNEP, EDF, ESA), and several projects for the delivery of methane products from different satellites (ECMWF CAMS and C3S, ESA CCI+).

N’Datchoh E. TOURE is a researcher at the Laboratoire des Sciences de la Matière, de l'Environnement et de l'Énergie Solaire (LASMES) of the Université Félix Houphouët-Boigny (UFHB) in Côte d’Ivoire. She completed her Ph.D. in 2015 from the Federal University of Technology Akure (FUTA) in Nigeria. Her Ph.D. work focused on the West African aerosols and their climate impacts within the framework of West African Science Service Centre on Climate Change and Adapted Land Use (WASCAL) and International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) Sandwich Training Educational Programme (STEP) scholarships. Following her graduation, she earned a postdoctoral position in Laboratoire d’Aerologie of Toulouse (France) where she worked on climate modeling and investigating uncertainties in African biomass emission inventories and atmospheric pollution impact on human health. Her team research in LASMES focuses on air pollution and its impacts on climate, weather, and human health in the West African region. Within this team, she focuses on aerosols and their impacts, as well as climate change. She has co-authored about twenty peer-reviewed articles published in international climate journals. She is contributing as coordinating lead author African Assessment of Air Pollution and Climate Change. She is also a member of the implementation team of the African Group on Atmospheric Sciences (ANGA), an International Global Atmospheric Chemistry (IGAC) working group.

Kenza KHOMSI is currently an independent researcher. She mainly works on air quality and its interactions with the general atmospheric circulation and the impact on health. She is member of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) Study Group for Integrated Health Services and the Study Group on Integrated Urban Services. She is a member of the International Society of Environmental Epidemiology and is the Deputy Chair of the Eastern Mediterranean chapter (ISEE-EM). Kenza is the Morocco focal point of the Global Atmosphere Watch at the WMO and the Morocco health focal point at the WMO for health-related research and services in Morocco. She is a member of the World Health Organization (WHO) Global Air Pollution Technical Advisory Group and member of Desert Dust and Health and climate change, air pollution and health working groups. She is also a coordinating lead author of the Africa integrated assessment of air pollution and climate change led by the Climate and Clean Air Coalition (CCAC). She holds a PhD in Environmental Epidemiology (since 2022), a PhD in Climatology and Climate Change (since 2014), a Master in Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (since 2009), and an engineering degree in Atmospheric Science (since 2004). Kenza is an ICF-PCC (International Coaching Federation-Professional Certified Coach), a mentor and a trainer. These qualifications helped her to be part of many scientific research programs and to implement a coaching program for scientific researches.

Eric Zusman is a senior policy researcher/area leader at the Institute for Global Environmental Studies in Hayama, Japan. Dr. Zusman holds a bachelors degree in Mandarin Chinese from Rutgers University, a dual Masters Degree in public policy and Asian studies from the University of Texas at Austin and a Ph.D. in political science from the University of California, Los Angeles. For much of the past two decades he has conducted research on environmental issues in Asia. This has included working with China’s Yellow River Conservancy Commission, the Chinese Research Academy on Environmental Science, Woodrow Wilson Center’s China Environment Forum as well as Taiwan’s Academia Sinica. He has published books and articles on water scarcity, air pollution regulation, environmental law, multilevel governance, sustainability transitions, low carbon development and the Sustainable Development Goals. He is currently serving as a lead author for the sixth assessment report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (Chapter 17).

Dr. Graciela B. Raga, born in Argentina, did her undergraduate studies in meteorology at the Universidad de Buenos Aires and received a PhD in Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Washington (USA) in 1989. Postdoctoral work at Environment Canada and at the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UK) gave her opportunities to develop research on cloud-aerosol interactions through in-situ measurements with research aircraft. She has been a scientist and professor at UNAM since 1995, having authored 76 peer-reviewed publications and several chapters in books, and supervised 16 master and PhD theses. Her research in Mexico focused more on aerosol urban pollution, providing a new direction by bringing a physical context to the pollution research. She has developed several graduate level courses and has taught systematically over the last 20 years. She has been a member of several international committees including the International Global Atmospheric Chemistry (IGAC), International Commission of Clouds and Precipitation (ICCP), Aerosol-Cloud-Precipitation-Climate (ACPC) Initiative of the International Global Biosphere Programme (IGBP) and a membe of the Joint Scietific Committee of the World Research Climate Programme (WCRP). She was the Chief Editor of the journal Atmosfera, a member of the Mexico Academy of Sciences, of the National System of Research (SNI, level III) of the National Research Council of Mexico (CONACYT) and of the Third World Organization for Women in Science. She is currently a Senior Associate of the International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP). She was Lead Author for Working Group I of the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change (IPCC), including participation in the Summary for Policy Makers and the Technical Summary of the Assessment. Recently, she co-chaired the Regional Assessment on SLCP in Latin America and the Caribbean, whose Summary for Decision Makers was presented at the UNEA meeting in 2016. She is also a member of the Committee to Prevent Extreme Climate Change (CPECC), chaired by Drs. Ramanathan, D. Zaelke and M. Molina.