Fleur Newman leads the intergovernmental work on gender and climate under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Paris Agreement where she has overseen the development and implementation of successive work programmes on gender and climate change. She is also the Gender Focal Point for the UN Climate Change secretariat. Fleur is a lawyer by training who, before joining the UN, spent 10 years practicing law in corporate law firms in areas including climate change, sustainability, energy and international law. Throughout her career, Fleur has been an advocate for gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls in all their diversity. Fleur has a Bachelor of Science in Sustainable Development from Murdoch University, Bachelor of Laws from the University of Notre Dame Australia and a Master of Laws in International from the London School of Economics.
