Prof. Fatima Denton is Director of the United Nations University, Institute for Natural Resources in Africa (UNU-INRA) and Vice-Chair of IPCC Working Group II on Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability. Her research sits at the intersection of political economy, climate resilience, and development justice, with a particular focus on how extractive systems, governance failures, and unequal resource distribution embed and reproduce fragility, especially across African contexts. She holds the Prince Claus Chair in Equity and Development at Utrecht University. Directly relevant to this section, her Fragility and Resilience in Green Development in Africa: Intersections and tradeoffs and the forthcoming Operationalising Earth System Justice: Addressing Power and Inequality examine how structural and political-economic forces shape vulnerability and constrain resilience pathways.
Prof.Fatima Denton
Former Director