Shaadee Ahmadnia

Shaadee Ahmadnia is an Environment and Fragility, Conflict, and Violence Specialist consulting with the Environment, Natural Resources, & Blue Economy Global Practice at the World Bank. She is the lead author of the report, Defueling Conflict: Environment and Natural Resources as a Pathway to Peace, which provides the critical rationale for the World Bank’s engagement and investment in environment and natural resource management in fragile, conflict, and violence-affected situations. Prior to developing strategies and insights for conflict-sensitive approaches to natural resource management and climate resilience projects at the World Bank, she supported the implementation of the environment portfolio in Latin America and the Caribbean to advance equitable, effective REDD+ mechanisms and projects that conserve and restore critical landscapes. She holds a master’s degree from the Yale School of Environment and has extensive experience assessing the resilience and social dimensions of climate adaptation and mitigation initiatives in Latin America, the Middle East, and South Asia.