Coordinator, Climate Youth Initiative
As a Research Associate under the Climate Change Governance programme, Jennifer organizes the Learning Hub events which is a knowledge sharing event for the policy-makers and development practitioners from both government and private organizations. Before working for the governance team, she worked as the seminar manager in the Gobeshona programme and helped organize the 1st Gobeshona Conference in 2015. Jennifer finished her masters degree from Independent University, Bangladesh (IUB) in Climate Change and Development in 2015. Her thesis focused on the unplanned urbanization in the eastern fringe areas of Dhaka city. She has field work experience in Vietnam and Brazil under the project ‘CapWater’ at Cologne University of Applied Science, Germany. These field-works mainly comprised of different aspect of water management in areas facing fresh water scarcity. Jennifer also helped organize the CBA10 Youth conference in April 2016 and currently helping with the ‘Vision 2100 Essay Competition’. Jennifer has research interest in water, gender, youth and knowledge management. Apart from working, she likes spending time with her family and close friends.