Kenza Khomsi

Kenza Khomsi is head of the Air Quality Department within the National Climate Center at the Observation Systems

Direction in the General Directorate of Meteorology in Morocco since March 2016. In the Department, she mainly

works on air quality and its interactions with the general atmospheric circulation and the impact on health. She is

member of the WMO Study Group for Integrated Health Services and the Study Group on Integrated Urban Services.

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 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 a certified mentor, trainer and is a senior professional coach. These qualifications helped her to be part of many scientific research programs and to create a coaching program for scientific researches. The coaching program

added to the scientific ones are insuring the sustainability of the scientific activity and productivity and the handover among the research team.