Clean Cooking Webinar: Driving Climate Action through Clean Cooking

Heather Adair-Rohani, Technical Lead on Energy and Health, WHO

Ms. Heather Adair-Rohani leads the work on energy and health at the World Health Organization Headquarters.  She has led the establishment of the Health and Energy Platform of Action, and the High-level Coalition on Health and Energy. Ms. Adair-Rohani co-led the coordination and development of the WHO guidelines for indoor air quality: household fuel combustion and is currently overseeing the work to support countries in the implementation of these Guidelines through the Clean Household Energy Solutions Toolkit.  She also actively participates and represents WHO at various global initiatives focused on health, air pollution and energy like UN Energy, Sustainable Energy for All, Inter-Agency Expert Group on Sustainable Development Goal Indicators, and the Global Strategy for Women, Children and Adolescent Health.

Shonali Pachauri, Research Group Leader, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis

Shonali Pachauri is Research Group Leader of the Transformative Institutional and Social Solutions Research Group in the Energy, Climate, and Environment Program at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis in Austria. Her research explores policy pathways for achieving universal access to basic services and technologies and assesses the wider impacts of this for sustainable development. She served as Adjunct Professor at the Yale School of the Environment in Fall 2016. She is a Lead Author for the IPCC WGIII AR6 report, serves on the Science Advisory Panel of the Climate and Clean Air Coalition, and on the Advisory Group of the International Network on Gender & Energy (ENERGIA).

Margaret Kim, CEO, Gold Standard

Margaret Kim is the CEO of the Gold Standard Foundation, whose standard ‘Gold Standard for the Global Goals’ allows climate and development interventions to quantify, certify and maximise impacts toward the Paris Climate Agreement and the Sustainable Development Goals. Ms. Kim was previously the Head of Green Climate Fund Liaison in the Office of Director-General for the Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI), where she also served as Head of Strategy & Integration. Margaret Kim has also held leadership roles in the private sector, including as General Manager, Sales, Strategy and Business Development for a leading biotechnology company.

Donee Alexander, Chief Science and Learning Officer, Clean Cooking Alliance

Donee Alexander provides vision, leadership, technical guidance, operational direction, and oversight for all research, evidence, and learning activities at CCA. Prior to joining CCA, she was a postdoctoral scholar at the University of Chicago where she managed a randomized controlled intervention trial evaluating household air pollution and pregnancy outcomes in Ibadan, Nigeria. She has over 15 years of experience evaluating the health effects of household air pollution in low-income countries and has published on both the maternal and child impacts of exposure to household air pollution. Donee Alexander sits on the National Institutes of Health’s Implementation Science Network Steering Committee, provides expert consultation to the World Health Organization’s Household Energy Programme, and is a regular peer reviewer for articles in multiple academic journals.

Sandra Cavalieri, Health Coordinator, Climate and Clean Air Coalition, UN Environment Programme
Sandra Cavalieri coordinates the Health Initiative and is responsible for donor reporting and overseeing the CCAC Trust Fund. Ms. Cavalieri joined the CCAC Secretariat in 2012 following six years at the Ecologic Institute in Berlin, Germany, where she led a number of multi-year stakeholder dialogues focused on Arctic environmental governance. She co-edited the book Arctic Marine Governance: Opportunities for Transatlantic Cooperation, published by Springer Berlin Heidelberg in 2014. Sandra Cavalieri received Master’s degrees in both Public Administration and Natural Resources Policy from North Carolina State University, and an undergraduate degree from Barnard College, Columbia University.

John Mitchell, United States Environmental Protection Agency

John Mitchell works at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency where he coordinates the Agency’s cookstoves/household energy activities to rapidly increase the sustained use of affordable, reliable, clean, efficient, and safe home cooking and heating practices and fuels.  He works closely with all US Government Agencies, other country governments, the Clean Cooking Alliance, and local and international partners around the world to reduce emissions from home cooking and heating that contribute to climate change, health and gender inequity, and directly affect the health and livelihoods of almost 40 percent of the world’s population.

Pallavi Pant, Program Manager, Health Effects Institute

Pallavi Pant is a Senior Scientist at the Health Effects Institute where she leads the institute’s Global Health program. She has more than a decade of experience in research and public engagement on air pollution, particularly in low- and middle-income countries. Her research has focused on urban air quality including source apportionment and exposure monitoring and assessment. She also has extensive science communication experience and is active in several initiatives to promote public understanding of air pollution and its impacts. She holds a Ph.D. in Environmental Health from the University of Birmingham, UK.

Asmau Jibril, Country Representative, Nigeria