Dorte Verner is the Climate Coordinator and Senior Economist in the Middle East and North Africa region. She leads the MENA region’s Flagship report: Adaptation to a Changing Climate in the Arab Countries and other country level climate change tasks in the region. Before taking on this position, she led the Social Implications of Climate Change program in the Latin America and Caribbean region. She has managed projects and published in the areas of poverty reduction, rural development and climate change. She has written books and papers on labor markets, indigenous peoples, youth at risk issues, and social implications of climate change. Ms. Verner joined the World Bank in 1996 and before she worked in the OECD Development Center and at European University Institute in Florence, University of Paris I, and University of Aarhus. She holds a PhD in Macroeconomics and Econometrics from the EUI, Italy and a postgraduate degree in Economics from the University of Aarhus, Denmark.