Jamie Williams

Senior Policy Advisor for Poverty Reduction, Islamic Relief

Jamie Williams is Senior Policy Advisor for Poverty Reduction for Islamic Relief Worldwide where he leads on the technical aspects of action on climate change. Current chair of the COP26 Friends Adaptation Loss & Damage group, he is a member of the CAN UK Adaptation and Resilience and CAN International Adaptation Loss and Damage working groups. He is an expert reviewer of the IPCC AR6 on the effects and mitigation of climate change. In the last year he has published a chapter on Islamic environmentalism and Muslim FBOs in Islam and International Development Insights for working with Muslim communities, the Islamic Relief’s report Adapting for Climate Justice, and the lead article in Humanitarian action in the era of climate change for EU-Voice.

Shahin Ashraf MBE

Head of Global Advocacy, Islamic Relief

Shahin Ashraf MBE is a highly experienced strategic, civil society leader with over 25 years’ experience in some of the most dynamic humanitarian, development and civil society organisations within the UK, USA and South Asia. Shahin comes with a wealth of knowledge on Gender, Faith, Civil Society, resilience and integration. Shahin is pioneering female founder of Islamic Relief USA. Shahin, is currently the Head of Global Advocacy at Islamic Relief Worldwide, leading on the organisations key Advocacy strategies on Gender, Climate Change, and Refugees. She has previously managed, directed and co-created faith-based organisations focusing on women, refugees to disability rights, targeting minority communities in the UK as well as the US. Shahin was recently elected and serves as the Treasurer and Chair of the Finance and Admin Committee on the Board of ICVA, based in Geneva. She is also a Board Member for World Humanitarian Action Forum, which aims to build encourage effective collaboration with Global south and Global North actors. In 2019, Shahin was elected to political office as a councillor for the Green Party and holds two portfolios, Governance and Education, she is currently the opposition Cabinet spokeswoman on Children Services. Her outstanding contribution was recognised by the Queen and she was awarded MBE for services to Interfaith and Community Cohesion.

Julian Eaton

Mental Health Director for CBM Global, and Assistant Professor at London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

Nouhad Awwad

Moderator

Nouhad Awwad is the Ummah for Earth project campaigner at Greenpeace-MENA. She holds a BSc. in environmental health and a master’s degree in Environmental Sciences with a concentration in environmental policy planning from the American University of Beirut. Nouhad is an online and offline environmental activist actively working on numerous grassroots campaigns for climate action (SDG13). After the adoption of Agenda 2030, Nouhad started working to achieve sustainable development goals. In 2018, she was elected as SDG8 focal point in the Arab world for UNMGCY. Since 2017, she has been SDGs ambassador for the Arab youth sustainable development network. Nouhad works on interreligious and intercultural dialogue in the MENA region and tries to achieve SDG16 by planning and contributing to peacebuilding activities in the region. Nouhad was part of the Lebanese official delegation to COP21 and COP22 and attended COP23, COP24, and COP25 as an observer. She had attended the Climate Chance Conference in Agadir as a keynote speaker and participated as COY12, COY13, and COY14. She was elected as YOUNGO focal point for 2017 in which she works to empower young people to have a voice at UNFCCC conferences, as well as to promote youth participation in climate change projects at the local and national levels. Nouhad likes to identify herself as a climate activist.