Zeina Moneer holds a PhD in environmental politics from Freiburg University in Germany. In 2018, She was a Visiting Research Fellow to the Nordic Africa Institute in Sweden. In 2021, She was a Visiting Fulbright Scholar to New Hampshire University in the USA. She worked as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Research Institute for a Sustainable Environment of the American University in Cairo. In addition to her academic accomplishments, she has an extensive professional experience working as a Senior Climate Change Program Manager in multiple national and international NGOs, leading the development and the implementation of a wide variety of climate action projects in the MENA region and Africa. In addition, she works as a freelance climate journalist and writes both in Arabic and English covering a wide variety of topics that are related to climate change and green transition particularly in the MENA region.