Dr. Dina Zayed
Independent Advisor andConsultant
Country : Egypt
Theme : Climate
Brief : Dr. Dina Zayed is an independent advisor and consultant with expertise in climate adaptation politics and finance, international development, global climate policy, and social and climate justice. An interdisciplinary social scientist, firmly rooted in understanding power relations and politics, Dr. Zayed is an Associate Fellow at the Carboun Institute. A participatory action researcher and practitioner, Dr. Zayed brings a career track record of bridging research, communications, grantmaking, partnerships, advocacy and programming and has worked across sectors focusing on social change and public participation, especially for climate resilience and equity in the Middle East and Africa. She is a former Programme Director with the Climate Emergency Collaboration Group (CECG), a philanthropic pooled fund, where she led CECG’s work on climate impacts and resilience, as well as the organization’s equity and inclusion strategy and grant making. She has previously worked and collaborated with a wide array of philanthropic, research, non-profit, and civil society groups, including the Institute of Development Studies (IDS), ODI Global, UNWomen, the International Development Research Centre, 350.org, the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition, the CGIAR Research Program on Agriculture for Nutrition and Health, and the International Finance Corporation. Earlier in her career, she was a Reuters Correspondent, serving in the Egypt, Sudan and South Sudan Bureau and covering the historic political upheaval across the Arab region. From 2014, she subsequently wrote on sustainability issues and climate change for the Thomson Reuters Foundation. Dina holds a PhD from the Institute ofDevelopment Studies at the University of Sussex, an MSc in Environmental Change and Management from the University of Oxford, and a BA in Political Science from the American University in Cairo.
Country : Egypt
Theme : Climate
Brief : Dr. Dina Zayed is an independent advisor and consultant with expertise in climate adaptation politics and finance, international development, global climate policy, and social and climate justice. An interdisciplinary social scientist, firmly rooted in understanding power relations and politics, Dr. Zayed is an Associate Fellow at the Carboun Institute. A participatory action researcher and practitioner, Dr. Zayed brings a career track record of bridging research, communications, grantmaking, partnerships, advocacy and programming and has worked across sectors focusing on social change and public participation, especially for climate resilience and equity in the Middle East and Africa. She is a former Programme Director with the Climate Emergency Collaboration Group (CECG), a philanthropic pooled fund, where she led CECG’s work on climate impacts and resilience, as well as the organization’s equity and inclusion strategy and grant making. She has previously worked and collaborated with a wide array of philanthropic, research, non-profit, and civil society groups, including the Institute of Development Studies (IDS), ODI Global, UNWomen, the International Development Research Centre, 350.org, the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition, the CGIAR Research Program on Agriculture for Nutrition and Health, and the International Finance Corporation. Earlier in her career, she was a Reuters Correspondent, serving in the Egypt, Sudan and South Sudan Bureau and covering the historic political upheaval across the Arab region. From 2014, she subsequently wrote on sustainability issues and climate change for the Thomson Reuters Foundation. Dina holds a PhD from the Institute ofDevelopment Studies at the University of Sussex, an MSc in Environmental Change and Management from the University of Oxford, and a BA in Political Science from the American University in Cairo.
Publications by Dr. Dina Zayed
Feb 24, 2026
