CGM webinar: Increasing Regional Climate Resilience

Please note that the event link is: https://app.islamicmarkets.com/live/climate-governance-malaysia-investing-in-regional-climate-resilience

YBhg. Tan Sri Dr Jemilah will be sharing her views on the climate emergency and how the region needs to focus on increasing resilience. After her keynote speech, the conversation with this renowned speaker will be moderated by YBhg. Datuk Johan Raslan.

Keynote Speaker 

Tan Sri Dr. Jemilah Mahmood was recently appointed as the first Asian Senior Fellow of the Arsht-Rockefeller Centre at the Atlantic Council where she will be working with global experts on strategies to increase resilience of 1 billion people at climate risk by 2030. She is also the Special Advisor to the Prime Minister of Malaysia on Public Health, and began her mandate in April 2020. She is also a member of the Government of Malaysia’s Economic Action Council and is actively engaged in the COVID-19 response. Prior to this, she was the Under Secretary General for Partnerships at the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) in January 2016 until June 2020.  Her other international positions included being the Chief of the World Humanitarian Summit at the United Nations in New York, and the Chief of the Humanitarian Response Branch at the United Nations Population Fund.  She is an accomplished humanitarian and well known as the founder of MERCY Malaysia, a Malaysian humanitarian organisation working globally.

This conversation will be moderated by Dato' Seri Johan Raslan.