Author:
Lisa McNamara

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Author:
Lisa McNamara

Lisa leads CDKN's knowledge management work, focussed on providing developing countries with useful and relevant knowledge to inform climate action.

Lisa previously led CDKN’s Africa knowledge management programme from 2011-2014, and then provided strategic input and oversight of both the KM programme and CDKN's delivery of country programmes in Kenya and Rwanda from 2014-2017.

Prior to 2011, Lisa worked as a climate change specialist in the Environmental Management Department of the City of Johannesburg (CoJ), where she focussed on city-level adaptation planning, awareness-raising initiatives, as well as sustainable energy in low-income housing. Her Master’s degree focussed on the governance of climate change within the City of Johannesburg municipality, in particular the management of urban flood risk in low-income areas. She holds a BA honours in Development Studies and MSc in Environmental Studies.

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