Hakima El Haité

Hakima El Haité, Founder of EauGlobe, is currently an advisor of Senegal’s President Macky Sall for his zero waste initiative. A former Minister of Environment of Morocco, she was elected Vice-President of the United Nations Paris Climate Conference in 2015. In 2016, she was appointed High Level Climate Champion of the Conference of Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change for COP22. She holds two PhDs, one in environmental studies from the University of Meknes and one in Environmental Engineering from the Ecole des Mines de St Etienne, France. Hakima El Haité was listed in 2019, 2022 and 2023 as one of the “100 most influential people in climate policy” curated by Apolitical.