Nathalie Flores

Vice-Chair, UN Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice

Nathalie is an international public policy specialist with 13 years of experience providing senior services on climate change policy, international development and environmental issues. Since 2010 Nathalie has contributed to help understand, develop and enforce the climate change agenda in her various roles in the government of the Dominican Republic.

During her MSc studies at the University of Wolverhampton, she had the opportunity to work in the United Kingdom under the frame of the European Regional Development Fund as Climate Change Researcher, focusing on the changes and behavior of elderly social housing tenants from the installation of solar panels to lower their energy bills. At the Secretariat of the Coalition for Rainforest Nations in New York City she held Senior technical and administrative positions providing assistance to 55+ member countries, including legal assistance to negotiate carbon markets approaches under the UNFCCC and GHG inventories training for the AFOLU sector.

In her Sustainability Coordination at the British Chamber of Commerce in the Dominican Republic Nathalie is helping businesses, civil society and academia in taking their part to reverse the adverse impacts of climate change. Nathalie served as Director for Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation at the Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources of the Dominican Republic for the past three years and now, while performing Strategy and Government Affairs consulting, she serves as voluntary Senior Advisor to the Government of DR for the UN Climate Change Negotiations. She was the country’s Art. 6 – Paris Agreement, Lead Technical Negotiator and in-sessions currently serves as Deputy Head of Delegation.

In June 2023 Nathalie was elected Vice-Chair of the Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice of the Convention, which she’ll perform during the Bonn Climate Talks and at the Conferences of the Parties (CoPs) within a two years mandate.