Aurélie Ceinos is a senior policy advisor with IISD’s Resilience program. Her work focuses on gender equality and social inclusion (GESI) and their intersections with climate change adaptation. Since joining IISD in 2022, her focus has been on supporting government partners to mainstream GESI into their national adaptation plan (NAP) processes to ensure these processes deliver equitable benefits for the most vulnerable people, especially women and girls.
With over 15 years of experience as a climate change adaptation and gender specialist, Aurélie has led the implementation of gender-responsive and locally led adaptation programs and worked with partners to support adaptation planning processes at international, national, and local levels. Before joining IISD, Aurélie held several roles at CARE International, including Climate Change Program Manager, Head of the Latin American and Asia Program Unit, and Senior Climate Adaptation Advisor for CARE. While at CARE, she co-created the CARE Climate Academy, provided technical support to more than 40 different country teams and facilitated several trainings on gender and climate change and gender-sensitive vulnerability analysis.
Aurélie has a master’s degree in management of not-for-profit organizations from EDHEC Business School in France and master’s-level training in agroecology. Based in Lyon, France, Aurélie is fluent in French, English, and Spanish.