Aïda Diongue-Niang

Aïda Diongue-Niang has been working for more than 20 years in the Meteorological Service of Senegal in various roles including research, international data exchange, research-operations interface, service delivery of climate and weather information. She has held numerous management positions including Director of the Meteorological Service.

She is currently Vice-Chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), Working Group I (WG I), Physical Science Basis of Climate Change for the seventh cycle, and was a lead author of IPCC WG I for the previous cycle.

She is Member of the GCOS Steering Committee and Member of the GIIICC (Global Initiative for Information Integrity on Climate Change), Advisory Group since 2024.