The OCE

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    The founding members of the Office for Climate Education are: Météo France, the Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD), Sorbonne University and the association Météo et Climat. The OCE has been a centre under the auspices of UNESCO since 2020.
     

    The OCE has its own governance structures: 

    • a Governing Board;
    • a Scientific and Pedagogical Committee;
    • an Operational team based in Paris.

    Governing Board

    The Governing Board decides on the missions and development of the OCE, establishes an annual action plan, votes on the budget, and appoints the members of the Scientific and Pedagogical Committee, among others. The Governing Board of the OCE is composed of:

     

    Ex-officio members

    • Jean Hubac, French Ministry of Education (DGESCO);
    • Won Jung Byun, UNESCO.

     

    Qualified members

    • Nicolas Arnaud, CNRS, France;
    • Monique Dupuis, French Ministry of Education, France;
    • Ada Gavira Erazo, Fundación Hidrosfera, Colombia;
    • Eric Guilyardi, Institut Pierre-Simon Laplace, France.
    • Valérie Masson-Delmotte, CEA, France;
    • Carol O’Donnell, Smithsonian Science Education Center, USA;
    • Sonia Seneviratne, IPCC, Switzerland;
    • François Ravetta, Sorbonne University, France;
    • Jennifer Ulrick, Education international, Spain.

     

    Permanent guests

    • Hélène Combel, Inspector, French Ministry of Education, acting as Government Commissioner;
    • Pierre Léna, Académie des sciences, Honorary President of the OCE and La main à la pâte;
    • Yves Saint-Geours, President of the Commission nationale française pour l'UNESCO;
    • David Wilgenbus, Executive Director of the OCE.

     

    Éric Guilyardi is the Chair of the Governing Board of the OCE.

     

    Scientific and pedagogical committee

    The Scientific and Pedagogical Committee ensures that the actions carried out by the OCE (in particular, the production of educational resources and teachers’ professional development) are evaluated.

    The Committee is composed of 18 qualified members:

    • Juan Carlos Andrade, Pedagogical Coordinator "Science for All Program", Veracruz State Secretary of Education, Mexico;
    • Badin Borde, Education project manager, Siemens Stiftung, Germany;
    • Apurva Barve, Biologist and Science Educator (Coordinator, Centre for Resources, Maharashtra State Faculty Development Academy, Pune, India)
    • Nada Caud, Outreach manager, IPCC WG1 TSU, France;
    • Caroline Côté, Pedagogical advisor, Centre de Services Scolaire de Navigateurs, Québec, Canada;
    • Sanny Djohan, Director of PT Kuark Internasional, Indonesia;
    • Clotilde Dubois, Oceanographer and climate scientist, Météo-France, France;
    • Jean-Louis Dufresne, Research Director at the National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), France;
    • Serge Janicot, Climate scientist at the Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD), France;
    • Pramod Kumar Sharma, Senior Director of Education, Foundation for Environmental Education, Danemark;
    • Benjamin Mallon, Assistant Professor of Geography and Citizenship Education, Dublin City University, Ireland;
    • Claudia Martinez, Executive Director, Educator Programs and California Subject Matter Project, Diversity and Engagement, University of California Office of the President, USA;
    • Cliona Murphy, Associate professor at the Institute of Education, Dublin City University, Ireland;
    • Minal Pathak, Senior Scientist,  IPCC Working Group III Technical Support Unit, India;
    • Pilar Reyes, Executive director ECBI program, University of Chile, Chile;
    • Anwar Rumjaun, Associate Professor at Mauritius Institute of Education, Mauritius;
    • Jenny Schlüpmann, Physicist, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany;
    • Gabrielle Zimmermann, Biologist and teacher trainer, Fondation La main à la pâte, France

    Cliona Murphy and Anwar Rumjaun are both acting Co-Chair of the Scientific and pedagogical committee of the OCE.