Ousmane Ndiaye

Dr Ousmane Ndiaye is the acting Director-General of African Center of Meteorological Application for Development (ACMAD), prior to which he led the Senegalese meteorological service at the Agency of Civil Aviation and Meteorology (ANACIM). He has interest in climate prediction and its application in a broad sense: user engagement and ownership, tailoring climate information, private partnership, communication. Ousmane has worked many years with partners (NGOs, research, extension services, end-users) on how to deliver climate information services from end to end. He is a contributing author of the 6th IPCC report (Working Group I) and a board member of the Global Heat Health Information Network (GHHIN). Ousmane holds a PhD from Columbia University in New York.