About The Speaker
Elena López Gunn
Dr Elena Lopez Gunn is Founder and CEO of ICATALIST, a research company specialized in climate change adaptation and sustainability. She is also a Senior Research Fellow at the Royal Elcano Institute. She is a member of the European Scientific Advisory Board on Climate Change (ESABCC) and Lead Author of IPCC Working Group II on Adaptation, vulnerability and impacts. She is an EU Climate Pact ambassador, and part of the UNESCO Task Force on a Science Based Water Assessment. research company specialized in climate change adaptation and sustainability.
She has a PhD in Geography from King’s College, a Masters from the University of Cambridge and a Master in Investigative Journalism data and Visualization from Juan Carlos I University. She was a Cheney Fellow at the University of Leeds (United Kingdom), an Associate Professor at IE Business school in Madrid (Spain), and a Senior Fellow at the Botin Foundation Water Observatory and a Fellow at the London School of Economics (United Kingdom).