The Climate Centre’s conflict work focuses on the intersection of climate change and armed conflict, where combined risks worsen food insecurity, health inequalities, and access to essential services. It supports organisations such as the ICRC in integrating climate risk into humanitarian operations through research, policy, and capacity building. The Centre also develops tools and approaches for disaster risk reduction and anticipatory action in fragile settings, helping practitioners better understand and respond to complex, overlapping risks affecting vulnerable populations.
Programme manager
Fleur Monasso
Head of Climate & Conflict (interim) / Head of Locally Led Adaptation
Fleur joined the Climate Centre in 2005 and is part of the programme management team. She specializes in the international public sector and studied international relations at the University of Amsterdam. Fleur leads the Centre’s work on Locally Led Adaptation and is the focal point for the Europe and Central Asia region.
Team members
Michaela Korodimou
Mikki is a Technical Adviser who works across a number of teams. She holds a PhD in Climate Change and Human Mobility and uses her skills as a researcher, educator and practitioner to support people in reorienting themselves to the realities of a quickly changing world.
Rana El Hajj
Rana, our focal point for Middle East and North Africa, has more than 20 years experience working at the interface of research, policy and practice on climate change in the region. She focuses on climate adaptation in vulnerable and conflict settings. Rana is seconded as the Regional Coordinator for WISER MENA program at the Met office of UK Government.
Renate Meyer
Renate works with the Conflict and Climate team as a Technical adviser. She has a Masters in Public and Environmental Health, and over 15 years of work experience in research at the intersection of memory/lived experience, displacement and rights based adaptation approaches. Renate is also the Focal Point for Southern Africa.
Sarah Gale
Sarah is a Technical Adviser working at the intersection of climate change and armed conflict, focusing on various thematics including protection and climate, as well as climate security and peacebuilding. She also coordinates the Climate Centre’s operational support to the ICRC. She has worked in complex humanitarian contexts and holds an LLM in International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights.
Cornelia Scholz
Cornelia is a GIS Technical Adviser with a focus on addressing complex challenges arising from the intersection of climate change and conflict. She has been supporting Climate Centre’s projects with open mapping and geospatial analysis.
Juliane Schillinger
Juliane Schillinger is a Technical Advisor with the Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre. She has a strong transdisciplinary research background, focusing on climate, natural resource management and disaster risk reduction in conflict settings. Juliane holds a PhD on water management and conflict from the University of Twente, and is a visiting researcher to the University of Twente’s Climate Centre[..]
Tesse de Boer
Tesse is a technical advisor at the Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre, focusing on climate integration in humanitarian action in fragile and conflict-affected settings. She coordinates climate integration at the ICRC and brings a multidisciplinary academic background in medicine, water management, and climate science.