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 (honorary), 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 working group 1, Switzerland;
    • François Ravetta, Sorbonne University, France;
    • Jennifer Ulrick, Education international, Spain.

     

    Permanent guests

    • Pierre Léna, Académie des sciences;
    • Sonia Bahri, 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 15 qualified members:

    • Ivonne Albarus, Climate Scientist, Senior Science Officer IPCC Working Group I Technical Support Unit (WG1 TSU), Germany;
    • Apurva Barve, Biologist and Science Educator, Coordinator, Centre for Resources, Maharashtra State Faculty Development Academy, Pune, India;
    • Anne Marie Bihirabake, Agricultural Engineer and Gender Equality Specialist, Federation of African Greens (FEVA), Burundi;
    • Jelle Boeve-de Pauw, Associate Professor of Science Education at the Freudenthal Institute, Utrecht University, Nederland;
    • Laurent Bopp, Research Director at the Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique, ENS, France;
    • Caroline Côté, Pedagogical Advisor, Centre de Services Scolaire de Navigateurs, Québec, Canada;
    • Clotilde Dubois, Oceanographer and Climate Scientist, Météo-France, France;
    • Sherine El Wattar, Science Network Officer for the Working Group II TSU of the IPCC, Egypt;
    • Myriam Gaujoux, General Inspector in the School Subject and Pedagogical Expertise Group, MEN (IGESR), France;
    • Shanu Misser, Deputy Director for Biodiversity Education and Public Engagement, South African National Biodiversity Institute, South Africa;
    • Cliona Murphy, Associate Professor at the Institute of Education, Dublin City University, Ireland;
    • Benjamin Quesada, Climatologist, Director of the Earth System Sciences program at the School of Sciences and Engineering, Universidad del Rosario, Colombia.
    • Christopher Trisos, Director, Climate Risk Lab & ASCEND, South Africa;
    • Anwar Rumjaun, Associate Professor at Mauritius Institute of Education, Mauritius;
    • Jenny Schlüpmann, Physicist, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany.