SOAS Middle East Institute Climate Finance at COP28

The SMEI is a member of the International Advisory Board of Think 28 (T28), an official research and policy advisory platform for the global climate change conference COP28 (UAE, November and December 2023).

As part of this role, SOAS experts Dr Harald Heubaum, Felicia Jackson and Dr Jon Philips are presenting to COP28 policy papers and recommendations on climate finance.

Members of the SMEI team will be present at COP28 in Dubai.

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Project team

Director, SOAS Middle East Institute

Professor Lina Khatib

Dr Lina Khatib is an internationally renowned authority on the Middle East and Director of the SOAS Middle East Institute.

Senior Lecturer in Sustainable Development

Dr Jon Phillips

Climate change mitigation, Energy geographies, Resource development, Infrastructure, Environmental justice, Sub-Saharan Africa.

Senior Lecturer in Global Energy & Climate Policy

Dr Harald Heubaum

Climate and energy policy and governance; climate and sustainable finance; economic analysis and evaluation of climate adaptation and resilience-building interventions; political economy of energy transitions; risk and policy analysis.

Teaching Fellow - Global Energy and Climate Policy

Felicia Jackson

Global finance, sustainability and climate change; energy and climate policy and governance; energy transition; systemic change; climate risk, financial resilience; the economics of climate change; data for climate and sustainable finance.