Ms. Marina Djernaes
Director of the EcoPeace Center of Environmental Peacebuilding, EcoPeace Middle East
Marina Djernaes is the Director of EcoPeace’s Center for Environmental Peacebuilding that will be set up in Washington DC in the fall of 2016 after having been the Executive Operating Officer of EcoPeace Middle East with responsibility for operational development and strategic planning since 2014. She has in excess of twenty years of experience in sustainable international development and strategic management in Middle East, USA, Latin America, Asia, Africa, Central and Eastern Europe. Recent publication includes Evaluation of Environmental Peacemaking Interventions Strategies in Jordan-Israel-Palestine in the Journal of Peacebuilding & Development. As co-author to a World Bank policy framework on climate change impact, she worked on risks, environmental impact, and adaptation strategies in the Arab World considering human development, sustainable livelihoods, capacity building, good governance, land and water use, biodiversity, and natural resources. Prior work include among others being director at Greenpeace, and co-founder of an educational enterprise New Advisory Group. She has a Master of Environmental Science from Johns Hopkins University and an MBA from the American University in Washington DC.