"Our hope is that CIFF’s journey will be useful for all
who aim to make development more impactful."

Farhana Yamin is a Portfolio Manager, Climate Change. She has close to twenty years of experience in the field of climate change law and policy. From 2003-2009, as a Research Fellow at the Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, she undertook research and advisory work on a range of environment issues, specializing in the development dimensions of climate change and working closely with policy-makers from BASIC (Brazil, India, China and South Africa) countries. From 1991-2002, she worked at the Foundation for International Environmental Law and Development and was Director of its highly acclaimed Climate Change and Energy Programme which provided legal and policy support to the Alliance of Small Island States. She has been a lead author with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and has been Director of numerous global research and consulting efforts, including coordinating the consortia that advised the European Commission from 1998-2002 on the legal and policy framework of European Emissions Trading Scheme. In addition to her legal qualifications as a UK solicitor, she holds a Masters in Politics, Philosophy and Economics from Oxford University and an LLM in Environmental Law from King’s College, University of London.