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🌏 Meet our Esteemed Kenote Speaker! 🌱

Join us in welcoming Genevieve Maricle, a trailblazer in global development and climate action, as our esteemed keynote speaker. With an illustrious career, she is currently the Director of Global Development at the National Security Council, White House.

🌱 Genevieve's expertise spans diverse roles - from Senior Advisor for Climate and Environment at USAID, to Director of Climate Policy Action at WWF-US. She spearheaded WWF's climate ambition, led the America Is All In coalition (5000+ entities dedicated to climate action), and championed the Forest, Food, and Land Challenge for the Global Climate Action Summit.

🌟 Notably, she played a pivotal role in USUN, working on the Paris Agreement, Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and as a deputy lead U.S. negotiator.

🌎 Her contributions extend to USAID, where she guided policy efforts on the 2030 Development Agenda/SDGs, Rio+20 Conference on Sustainable Development, and more. She crafted USAID's first Climate Change and Development Strategy and shaped strategic budget priorities for the Global Climate Change Initiative.

🎓 Genevieve's journey includes a BA in mathematics and environmental science from Northwestern University, and a PhD from the University of Colorado at Boulder in climate science policy.

🔥 Brace for an enlightening keynote, as Genevieve Maricle ignites our passion for impactful change and visionary climate action.

Following the prospective participant community gathering in Benin, Climate Innovation Challenge will be making an appearance in Bangladesh next week! This time, we will be hosting an info session at the renowned University of Dhaka on Monday, May 15. For students in Dhaka University, come forth to meet your peers, get to know CIC better, and have a great time. Application is closing soon so remember to send them in !
Looking forward to meeting our talented new cohort soon...
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