Biography

Elsy Milan is a COP29 climate negotiator, focused on carbon markets. She is a PhD candidate at Imperial College London and the Grantham Institute where she focuses on assessing current market-based policies and aims to develop a new holistic policy framework for de-risking financial investment in CCUS and Blue Hydrogen for decarbonising hard-to-abate sectors.

Chosen as one of five most influential youths in tackling climate change in the MENA region by UNDP Climate in 2022, her career emancipates from academia as a research assistant to community work with GreenPeace MENA and a formal civil servant with the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA).

Heavily engaged in community work and promoting NetZero in her region, the Middle East, she encourages women to cease their place in the energy transition, by finding their passion in such a male dominated field. Her efforts to secure a safe and healthy future for the future generations has been recognised by diplomatic figures and governments notably among members of the European Union and the World Bank Group. She has become a frequent international personality outlet where she is frequently hosted to reflect on current climate change events. In November 2023, she was invited by the French Presidency to give the opening speech to the Paris Peace Forum, sending a call to finance heavy decarbonisation and bridge between countries of the North and the South.