Members & staff
The people behind ClimateWatch.
ClimateWatch brings together climate policy specialists, researchers, educators, engineers and communicators working across Pakistan and international climate processes.
- Team members
- 34
- Divisions
- 9
- Based in
- Pakistan
Our team works between mountain communities, national policy institutions and international climate negotiations.
Directory
Organised across nine divisions.
Each division carries its own programme responsibilities while contributing to shared research, policy and education work.
01
Directorate
01 member
Institutional leadership, strategy and organisational representation.
02
International Climate Policy
06 members
UNFCCC processes, negotiation tracking, climate finance and policy analysis.
03
Research and Development
07 members
Evidence generation, climate data, glaciology and applied research methods.
04
Education for Sustainable Development
04 members
Curriculum design, training, climate literacy and youth engagement.
09
Human Resources
04 members
Recruitment, staff development and organisational policy.
Rayyan Butt
Interim Head of Division
Divisional leadership, recruitment and organisational policy.
National Advisory
Specialists who advise and review the substance of our work.
Pakistan-based advisors, consulted on the projects and publications where their expertise is required. They review technical and analytical content before it is published.
11 advisors
Ms. Mehnaz Parveen
Technical Advisor — Gender and Social Inclusion
Policy, gender and climate security specialist based in Islamabad. Advised ClimateWatch on the Women and Gender Module for the Glacier School.
Dr. Fozia Tahir
External Advisor — Climate Literacy and Literacy based action
Environmental scientist and Assistant Professor at the Aga Khan University's Faculty of Arts and Sciences. A World Economic Forum Young Global Leader and a board member of WWF-Pakistan, she works on environmental education and sustainability curricula.
Mr. Amjad Ali
Technical Advisor — Environmental Economics and Mountain Development
Assistant Professor and Head of the Department of Development Studies at Karakoram International University, Hunza Campus. A SANDEE-trained environmental economist working on climate vulnerability and ecosystem services.
Dr Tasawar Baig
Technical Advisor — Climate and Environmental Governance
Associate Professor of Politics and International Studies and Director of Advanced Studies and Research at Karakoram International University, Gilgit-Baltistan. Founding faculty member since 2003 and co-editor of Mountain Studies.
Dr. Sitara Parveen
External Advisor — Cryosphere and Socio-Hydrology
Associate Professor at Fatima Jinnah Degree College for Women, Gilgit, with a Heidelberg doctorate on glacier change and irrigation in Gilgit-Baltistan. She works on cryosphere dynamics and water security across the Karakoram, Hindu Kush and Himalaya.
Ms. Anam Rathor
Technical Advisor — Climate Finance
Programme Lead for Pakistan at the Climate Vulnerable Forum and V20 Finance Ministers (CVF-V20), with fifteen years in climate finance, climate policy design and multi-level stakeholder engagement.
Sidra Riaz
External Advisor — Youth Climate Diplomacy and UNFCCC Engagement
UN Youth Delegate to COP29 and COP30, member of the UNFCCC Youth Policy Team, and founder of Environmental Change Makers. PhD scholar in Public Affairs at Florida International University.
Mr. Ahmad Rafay Alam
Technical Advisor — Climate Litigation and Environmental Law
One of Pakistan's leading environmental lawyers and co-founder of Saleem, Alam & Co. He has served on the Pakistan Climate Change Council and the Punjab Environment Protection Council, and teaches at LUMS.
Dr Imran Saqib Khalid
Technical Advisor — Water Governance and Environmental Policy
Water Resource Governance Technical Expert on the FCDO-funded Catalytic Fund for Water Resource Accountability in Pakistan at Oxford Policy Management, and formerly Director of Governance and Policy at WWF-Pakistan.
Dr. Muhammad Faisal Nadeem Khan
External Advisor — Energy Transition and Clean Technology
Associate Professor of Power Systems at UET Taxila and Director of its Next-Generation Mobility and Energy Systems Lab, working on electric vehicles, smart grids and renewable energy integration.
Dr. Ahmad Mahmood
External Advisor — Soil Science and Agroecosystem Resilience
Environmental scientist at the National University of Sciences and Technology, with a doctorate from the University of Yamanashi, Japan, and a publication record on soil and agroecosystem resilience.
International Advisory
Advisors working on climate policy beyond Pakistan.
Specialists based outside Pakistan who advise on the international rules and standards ClimateWatch's work has to sit inside. Consulted on the projects and publications where that expertise is required.
04 advisors
Dr. Michael W. KimweleKenya
External Advisor — Data Science and Digital Systems
Senior Lecturer in Information Technology at Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology and former Director of its School of Computing and Information Technology, with over twenty years in information security, machine learning and data science.
Dr. Daniele SaviettoGermany
External Advisor — Climate Communication and Media Literacy
Climate communication and education specialist with over fifteen years of international experience, a member of the UNESCO Media and Information Literacy Alliance, and an experienced hand on Horizon Europe and Creative Europe projects.
Dr. Eman AhmadEgypt
External Advisor — MRV and Greenhouse Gas Accounting
IPCC AR7 Lead Author and UNFCCC expert with over twenty years in urban climate work. She has built greenhouse gas inventories and MRV systems for the World Health Organization and Egypt's Ministry of Housing.
Mr. Tomasz KowalczewskiPoland
External Advisor — Carbon Market Methodologies and GHG Standards
Climate Policy Director at Green Alchemy and a UNFCCC Article 6.4 Expert Reviewer for 2026–2028, with seventeen years in climate policy and carbon markets.
Governance
The board that carries institutional responsibility.
The Board of Directors holds responsibility for institutional direction, oversight and accountability.
08 members
Mr. Iqbal Badruddin
Chairman
Founder of Fridays For Future Pakistan and a COP26 delegate. Holds a Master's in Climate Change from the University of Waterloo and is completing an MBA at the Ivey Business School.
Mr. Syed Kiram Ali
Executive Director
Also Director, ClimateWatch
A climate activist and youth leader from Chitral, and a 2023 Prime Minister's Youth Innovation Award recipient for his contribution to SDG 4.
Mr. Kamran Ali
Director
Co-founder of Fridays For Future Pakistan and a COP28 delegate. Cluster Head at the Plant-for-the-Planet Foundation, working on nature-based solutions, carbon markets and corporate sustainability.
Ms. Sajida Jan
Director
Founder of the Cycle Care Campaign and a PhD student in neuroscience and pharmaceutical sciences at the University of Rhode Island. Her fieldwork on health in Gilgit underpins her work on climate justice.
Mr. Irshad Qabool
Director
Legal Associate at MOL Pakistan Oil and Gas Company B.V. and a 2025 LUMS law graduate, formerly Executive Director of the Organisation for Educational Change. His interests lie at the intersection of corporate regulation, environmental law and sustainability.
Ms. Sajina Rehmat
Director
A forester with interests in environmental sustainability and community development. Holds a BS in Forestry from Karakoram International University, Gilgit, and led the Fridays For Future Gilgit-Baltistan chapter.
Ms. Nida Khan
Director
Social Development student at Aga Khan University and former Canada-to-Pakistan Ambassador for a Day. Youth advocate working on gender equality, women's empowerment, climate action and community engagement.
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