Who We Are

Staff Educational Programme Associate

Dinara Dikhanbayeva

Dinara Dikhanbayeva is an Educational Programme Associate at UNU-FLORES.

Staff Head of ICT

Yared Dina

Expert Research Fellow, Environment-Conflict Nexus

Dr. Pınar Dinç is a political scientist specializing in environmental peace and conflict studies, with a particular focus on the interplay between political power, climate and environmental change, ecological degradation, authoritarianism, resistance, and migration.

Expert Research Consultant

Charmaine Distor

Charmaine Distor is a Research Consultant at the United Nations University (UNU-EGOV) since 2024. Prior to this, she was a Junior Research Assistant from August 2022 to September 2024.

Expert Researcher Policy Making

Dr. Daniel Domínguez Gómez

Expert Adjunct Professor, Participatory Management and Community Engagement

Prof. Nancy Doubleday

Nancy Doubleday holds a PhD degree from Queen’s University and specializes in international law of indigenous peoples and environment, and in paleo-ecological reconstructions of climate change and anthropogenic impacts.

Expert Receptionist

Mieke Drossaert

Mieke Drossaert is Student Affairs Officer at UNU-MERIT.

Staff Project Manager

Nicolas du Bois

Nicolas du Bois is a Project Manager in the Office of the Rector.

Expert Project Associate

Linda Du Roy

Linda works as a Project Associate within MCII’s Climate Risk Finance Solutions team. She is primarily involved in the Pacific Insurance and Climate Adaptation Program (PICAP), as well as in the development and implementation of a new global program on Climate and Disaster Risk Finance and Insurance.

Expert Chief, Administrative and Programme Services

Werner Dubbeling

Werner Dubbeling is the Chief, Administrative and Programme Services at the UNU-MERIT