Farhana Yamin Farhana Yamin

Farhana Yamin is an internationally recognised environmental lawyer and climate change and development policy expert. She has advised leaders and ministers on climate negotiations for 30 years and has also been a lead author for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) for three of its five assessment reports. In addition to founding Track 0, she is an Associate Fellow at Chatham House, a Director of Impatience, Senior Advisor to SYSTEMIQ, a FRSA and Visiting Professor at the University of the Arts, London, and deputy chair of the Climate Vulnerable Forum expert advisory group. Farhana joined Extinction Rebellion in 2018 and has taken an active role in non-violent direct action, including glueing herself to Shell’s London offices in 2019 to protest in favour of declaring a climate emergency.