Abdalah Mokssit has accepted an offer to become Secretary of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) starting on 1 July 2016. This is a staff member position at the IPCC Secretariat based in Geneva, Switzerland.
Mr Mokssit is the current Director of the National Meteorological Service of Morocco and the Third Vice-President of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). He is a former Vice-Chair of IPCC Working Group I, which deals with the physical science basis of climate change.
“I am pleased that Abdalah Mokssit will join the IPCC Secretariat team. He has contributed substantively to the work of the IPCC over the years, supporting its assessment reports and outreach activities. Most recently, in 2015 he oversaw a regional outreach event in Morocco to raise awareness about the findings of our last assessment, AR5, how climate change is affecting Africa and the potential solutions,” said the Chair of the IPCC, Hoesung Lee. “I believe that his experience at the national and international levels will help us to advance our objectives for the Sixth Assessment cycle, enhance the involvement of developing countries in the work of the IPCC and further improve our communications and outreach with a greater responsiveness and relevance to all our stakeholders.”
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