Background
Sohara Mehroze Shachi is a senior consultant with the Transition Strategy and Implementation team. Originally from Bangladesh, Sohara previously worked with the United Nations on designing and implementing adaptation and mitigation focused interventions, including a project on enhancing women's adaptive capacity in climate vulnerable coastal areas, which received funding from the Green Climate Fund. She also worked on tracking the climate expenditure of 20 ministries and developing Bangladesh's first ever national climate budget report.
In addition to her work with the UN, Sohara pursued freelance environmental journalism, and her writing appeared in various international publications including Reuters, Deutsche Welle and Al Jazeera. One of Sohara's pieces has been included as reading material for a Harvard Kennedy school course on climate change, and her work for Undark's "Breathless" series on air pollution was a recipient of NICHM's 2019 digital media journalism award. As a journalist, Sohara has also covered various international conferences, including the World Economic Forum's Annual Meeting in Davos, the United Nations' General Assembly in New York and the International Climate Conference COP in Paris, Marrakech and Katowice. For her work on climate change, Sohara was selected as an Asia Foundation Development fellow, an Acumen fellow and an Atlantic Council Millennium fellow. She also won the Asian Young Environmental Journalist of the Year Award.
Sohara earned her MBA from the University of Washington, MSc in environmental change management from the University of Oxford and BA from Yale University.