Director of Research, Institute of Research for Development, Cote d'Ivoire
Arona DIEDHIOU
Arona DIEDHIOU
Arona DIEDHIOU is Director of Research at the Institute of Research for Development (IRD; Institute of Environmental Geosciences, IGE - University Grenoble Alpes). He is hosted at the University Felix Houphouët Boigny University (Abidjan, Ivory Coast) as founder of the International Joint Laboratory on NEXUS between climate, water, agriculture and energy and as Technical Advisor to the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research of Côte d’Ivoire. Arona DIEDHIOU is a specialist of the African climate system and climate change in the tropics. He works in the framework of several international programs on implications of climate, land use and land cover changes in Africa and on the climate - water - agriculture and energy nexus. Arona DIEDHIOU was Lead Author of the IPCC Special Report on the incidences of 1.5° global warming, and Reviewer-Editor in the last IPCC Assessment Report (WG1/AR6). He was also Chairman of the Scientific and Advisory Committee of WASCAL (www.wascal.org), a German government initiative in West Africa on climate services and adapted land use in the context of climate change, and a member of the Independent Scientific Committee of the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCCAFS). Since 2023, Arona DIEDHIOU is member of the Science-Policy Interface of the UNCCD.
