Tasneem Essop

Tasneem Essop is currently the executive director of Climate Action Network International. She has just completed her second term as commissioner of the National Planning Commission in South Africa, appointed by the president, and leads the work on climate change and the just transition. She previously headed the climate team at WWF International and served as its head of delegation at the UNFCCC. She became a member of the Provincial Parliament in the Western Cape in 1994 and held the positions of provincial minister of transport, public works and property management from 2001 to 2004, as well as provincial minister for the environment, planning and economic development from 2004 to 2008.