National Coordinator,Save Nigerian Environment Initiative (SNEI).
Former Regional Programme Manager,WMO Regional Office for Africa.
Ernest Asi Afiesimama is a Nigerian environmental and climate scientist who has worked for the Nigerian Meteorological Agency and was a consultant in environmental and climate affairs at Stern Integrated Projects [1] He was also the Coordinator of Save Nigerian Environment Initiative.[2] He was with the World Meteorological Organization.
He joined the then Department of Meteorological Services of the Federal Service and was a national TV weather presenter in 1997.[3] He received an award for excellence in weather presentation. He was the head of international relations and protocols and also the general manager,numerical weather predictions (NWP)[4] of the Nigerian Meteorological Agency (NiMet).[5] He was the Regional Programme Manager,Regional Office for Africa at the World Meteorological Organisation in Geneva,Switzerland.
Afiesimama was a senior associate scientist of the International Centre for Theoretical Physics (Physics of Weather and Climate Group),Trieste,Italy from 2002 to 2014. He was the lead author of Nigeria's Second National Communication on the development of Climate Scenarios in Nigeria.
Later career
He was the managing director of Stern Integrated Projects.[6] These projects are related to the environmental training and consulting,environmental impact assessments and auditing,environmental vulnerability,mitigation and adaptation due to climate variability and change. In addition,he was the national coordinator of the Save Nigerian Environment Initiative (SNEI).,[7] a non-governmental,non-profit organization that strives to sensitize,educate and promote the protection,conservation and efficient use of the environment in a sustainable manner for socio-economic development.
He writes reports on environmental impact assessment,issues relating to socio-economic analyses on climate risks,mitigation options and adaptation strategies due to climate variability and change on local,national and international projects.[8][9] He was a member of the African Monsoon Multidisciplinary Analyses (AMMA-2050),[10][11] International Scientific Steering Committee (ISSC) in Europe [12][13] and the president of the scientific committee of AMMA in Africa.[14]
He is a member of professional bodies including the Nigerian Hydrogeological Association,the American Meteorological Society and the American Geophysical Union. He is currently a consultant and Managing Director at the STERN Integrated Projects Ltd,a leading consulting firm on Climate and Environment.
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