Margaux Granat

Margaux Granat supports the Global Environment Facility-funded Implementing Sustainable Low and Non-Chemical Development in Small Island Developing States (ISLANDS) initiative, coordinating gender-responsive approaches and women’s empowerment within projects and their operations. As a global gender and environment specialist, she has been leading and providing technical guidance, research, analysis and capacity building to strengthen planning, implementation and monitoring for more than a decade.

Granat spent nearly five years  with the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) programming intergovernmental and member initiatives for mainstreaming gender. She then brought her expertise to projects in Small Island Developing States as an independent consultant. In 2020, she founded EnGen Collaborative, a consultancy firm that works to ensure that women's empowerment, gender equality and social justice are at the core of its clients' environmental policies and projects.

Granat is a contributing member of the Society of Gender Professionals and the UN Women’s Major Group. She is also involved with the UNFCCC Women and Gender Constituency, CBD Women’s Caucus and UNEP Global Major Groups. She holds an MS in Climate Science and Policy from the Bard Center for Environmental Policy and an MA in Education for teaching environmental sciences.