The Emerging Climate Crisis: Challenges in Regional Contexts
Panel 1 will bring together the Foreign Ministers of Egypt, Tuvalu, Singapore, Mexico, and Kenia to highlight regional perspectives, challenges and approaches to the emerging climate crisis as a threat to peaceful societies. They are also invited to share their insights as to which role science, data and technology may play for enabling stronger early warning systems, tailored and proactive capacity building and innovative prevention and adaptation strategies.
H.E. Teo Chee Hean
Senior Minister and Coordinating Minister for National Security
Mr. Teo Chee Hean is Singapore’s Senior Minister and Coordinating Minister for National Security. He is Chairman of the Inter-Ministerial Committee on Climate Change, and oversees the National Climate Change Secretariat. He also oversees the Smart Nation and Digital Government Group, National Security Coordination Secretariat, and National Population and Talent Division under the Prime Minister’s Office. He was Deputy Prime Minister from 2009 to 2019, and has served as the Minister for Home Affairs, Minister for Defence, Minister for Education, and Minister for the Environment. He also served as Minister of State in the Ministries of Finance, Communications and Defence. Prior to entering politics in 1992, he was the Chief of Navy holding the rank of Rear Admiral. Mr Teo graduated with a Bachelor of Science (First Class Honours) in Electrical Engineering and Management Science from the University of Manchester. He holds a Master of Science (Distinction) in Computing Science from Imperial College and a Master in Public Administration from Harvard University.
H.E. Simon Kofe
Minister for Justice, Communication & Foreign Affairs of Tuvalu
Simon Kofe is a member of parliament of Tuvalu, and the Minister of Justice, Communication and Foreign Affairs. He is a lawyer by profession and has previously held positions as an associate in private practice in Fiji, Crown counsel in the Attorney General’s Office of Tuvalu, Assistant People’s Lawyer of Tuvalu, Legal Adviser of the Fisheries Department of Tuvalu, and more recently the Senior Magistrate of Tuvalu.
H.E. Thomas B. Amolo
Kenya’s Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the Federal Republic of Germany, (representing: H.E. Raychelle Awuor Omamo, Foreign Minister of Kenya)
Ms. Claire Doole
Moderator
A former BBC correspondent (Brussels, Berlin, Geneva, London) and radio presenter, as well as spokesperson for the UN Refugee Agency, WWF International and the International Federation of the Red Cross, Claire Doole specializes in moderating discussions on many of the geopolitical and socio-economic issues facing our world such as sustainability, equity, inclusion and diversity.
In 2019 she moderated at the Climate Security Conference organised by the German Foreign Ministry, and since then has moderated at many events such as the Climate Adaptation Summit, the Swiss International Cooperation Forum on climate change and sustainable development, the UN Disaster Risk Reduction European Congress, UN World Data Forum, and the WTO Public Forum.