Moustapha Kamal Gueye
Moustapha Kamal Gueye served as Senior Programme Manager – Environment Cluster at ICTSD between 2006 and 2009, before joining UNEP Economics and Trade Branch as an Economic Affairs Officer. He works on the Green Economy Initiative.
Previously, he worked and researched for over ten years across Asia, managing policy research projects on energy and environment in China and India at the Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES) in Japan. From 1994-1995, he consulted for the FAO on fisheries law and policy in Africa.
Kamal advised Toyota Motor Corporation World Convention 2003 on environmental and social initiatives for sustainable development in Africa. He is a visiting lecturer at the University of Tokyo.
His academic background includes a Ph.D. in Foreign Investment and Regional Economic Integration in Southeast Asia from Nagoya University, Japan; a post-graduate degree and LL.M. in International Economic Law from Dakar University, Senegal, and several executive certificates including from the World Bank Institute in Washington; the Foundation for Advanced Studies on International Development (FASID) in Japan; and the Integrated Research and Action for Development (IRADe) in India.
He was a lead author of UNEP Global Environment Outlook (GEO-4), a co-editor of Linking Trade, Climate Change and Sustainable Energy, ICTSD 2006 and author of several other policy studies on energy, climate change, and fisheries. A citizen of Senegal, Kamal speaks English, French, Japanese and Wolof.