Laureline Simon Krichewsky

Laureline Simon Krichewsky

Laureline Simon is the founder and director of One Resilient Earth, an international non-profit organization empowering people to build their resilience to the climate and environmental crisis through a regenerative approach that weaves together art, science, ancient wisdom and new technologies to re-build communities and regenerate ecosystems.

Laureline has over 10 years of experience in international cooperation project design and management, as well as research and knowledge curation, in the fields of mitigation and adaptation to climate change, sustainable urban development, indigenous peoples' knowledge, and gender, including in Asia, Africa and Latin America. She previously worked with the United Nations Climate Change Secretariat where she co-led Resilience Frontiers, a UN interagency initiative and collective intelligence process to harness the potential of frontier technologies and emerging social trends to maximise long-term resilience to climate change. She also coordinated activities on loss and damage associated with climate change impacts, the establishment of the Local Communities and Indigenous Peoples platform, and knowledge management on adaptation to climate change. With the French Development Agency, she pioneered a programme on climate change adaptation at the Research Department, and helped open the regional office in New Delhi, India. She studied philosophy, political sciences and Indian languages and civilization in Paris, France.