Lecture: The Future of Our Planet: Sustainable Development Goals and South-South Cooperation

Time: 15:30-16:30, 19 March

Venue: Room 114, Mingjing Building, Tongji Siping Campus

Lecturer: Munyaradzi Chenje

Munyaradzi Chenje is the Director for the UNEP Regional Support Office (RSO). He has many years of experience in environmental assessment, policy and governance at sub-regional, regional and international levels. Prior to this appointment, Munyaradzi was the Deputy Director of UNEP's New York Office at UN Headquarters, where he was integral to supporting UN member states during the General Assembly's consultations on resolutions on UNEP as a follow-up to the Rio +20 conference outcome document - The Future We Want. He was a member of the UNEP team to the Rio +20 Conference in Brazil and active in the post-2015 follow-up processes in New York.

Before joining UNEP in 2000, Munyaradzi was the founding Director of the Musokotwane Environment Resource Centre in Southern Africa based in Harare, Zimbabwe, and produced the first State of the Environment report in southern Africa.

Munyaradzi is a member of the Zimbabwe Academy of Sciences, the Integrated Assessment Society (TIAS) and the IUCN Commission on Education and Communication.