"There cannot be nature positive futures without people positive futures and development. Unless you get it right at the beginning, everything else is just a band aid."

Nadine is a public policy graduate and climate researcher working to establish an intersectional response to the climate crisis. Her passion is transforming lives as a catalyst for change through research and scaling innovations that improve development applications and environmental governance in Africa. Her work focuses on sensitively co-creating, co-designing, and monitoring well-designed land-based climate mitigation and adaptation projects with communities across southern and eastern Africa. Her research spans 23 countries across Sub-Saharan Africa, Southeast Asia, and South America.

As a freelance consultant, she has supported environmental and social impact assessments for the POWGEX Wind Farm and World Bank's HEET project in Tanzania. She served as the 2022/23 National Focal Point for the Youth Policy Committee at SAIIA, where she co-led the first National Youth Water Dialogue ahead of the UN 2023 Water Conference and contributed to consultations on South Africa's Just Energy Transition where she questioned the social justice elements of energy transition. Nadine is also an AWF-Wall Policy Fellow 2025, a Junior Rapporteur for World Water Week 2024, and a 2023 Futurelect SADC Public Leadership Fellow.