Meggan Spires

Dr Meggan Spires is the Director of the Climate Change, Energy and Resilience Workstream at ICLEI Africa. The workstream she manages serves ICLEI Africa’s network of over 400 cities, towns and regions in over 25 African countries, in terms of supporting their journeys towards climate resilience. Meggan and team manage a suite of multi-year, multi-country programmes and projects in fields such as energy access, climate change adaptation, climate change mitigation, disaster risk reduction, coastal management and ecosystem-based adaptation. The work involves capacity building, policy development, on-the-ground implementation, and unlocking climate finance at the city-scale. She has also performed the role of principal investigator for a number of cutting-edge research into development programmes on the continent.