Board Member

Laurent A. Lambert is a Geographer and Associate Professor at the School of Economics, Administration and Public Policy of the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies, in Qatar. He also taught climate risks and energy transition policies at Sciences Po Paris, in France, at the African Union’s Pan-African University, in Tlemcen, and at Qatar University, in Doha. He previously was senior policy analyst at the Social and Economic Survey Research Institute (SESRI) and senior administrator of the Qatar Humanitarian Innovation Lab initiative, both at Qatar University.

Laurent has been working as a sustainable development researcher, project/program manager, consultant, and government adviser in the fields of international risks, public policy and resource-based conflicts with several governments and international organizations over the past 18 years. He is a former Advisory Board member of the United Nations Climate Convention’s center in charge of green technology transfer (the CTCN), a former representative of the research community at the United Nations climate negotiations (UNFCCC), and an expert reviewer for the AR6 synthesis report of the Inter-Governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Laurent holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees (Summa Cum Laude) in Development Geography from the Université de Paris 1 Sorbonne, and a PhD. from the Oxford University School of Geography and the Environment.