Simon Sambou is the C40 Regional Technical Advisor for Air Quality, West Africa. He engages with cities to identify local priorities and needs, and to develop high-impact clean air technical assistance projects, through the African Cities for Clean Air (AC4CA) Initiative.
Prior to this role, Simon served as Climate Action Planning (CAP) City Advisor for Dakar, providing technical assistance to the city in developing its Climate Action Plan to identify and deliver high-impact mitigation and adaptation actions, in line with the Paris Agreement.
Before joining C40, he worked as a research associate in climate change, nature-based carbon sequestration and environmental sustainability at the Institute of Environmental Sciences (ISE) of Dakar. He also worked in the consultancy space as a climate advisor and technical coordinator for carbon management projects. Simon also served at the NGO Catholic Relief Services (CRS), as climate resilience program officer coordinating the USAID Climate Information Services Research Initiative (CISRI) in Senegal, where he engaged with multi-level stakeholders, local municipalities and advised on the development of the national scale Green Climate Fund program.
Simon holds an MSc in Agro-climatology from the Geography Department, an MSc and a PhD in Environmental Science at Cheikh Anta Diop University of Dakar.