Laurent Mascar Ngoma is an agro-environmentalist and development practitioner with 25 years of national and international experience in climate change, adaptation, environment and sustainable development programme formulation, implementation, monitoring and evaluation. He has led over 80 international missions for countries’ support and capacity-building, seminars, workshops and conferences on climate change and sustainable development (including the COPs under the UNFCCC). For the past decade, Laurent has served as a UN specialist in Climate Change Adaptation in various capacities - including as Programme Manager, Director, Chief Technical Advisor, National Technical Supervisor, and Senior Expert for environment, climate and sustainable development in the SIDS and Sub-Saharan Africa. Laurent is CEO and Founder of the Water Food Energy for All (WFE4A) programme, an integrated Pan-African response to climate change; and is the Global Technical Advisor of the Africa Climate Action Initiative (ACAI).