Pa Ousman Jarju

Pa Ousman Jarju is currently the Secretary to the Board and Head of the Office of Governance Affairs of the Green Climate Fund effective January 2022. He was the Director of Country Programming of the GCF from August 2017 to December 2021. 

Formerly, he was the Gambian Minister of Environment, Climate Change and Natural Resources and Chair of the Least Developed Countries (LDC) Group to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). Pa Ousman was Special Climate Change Envoy of the Gambia and has extensive diplomatic experience across the 47 LDCs, China, the United States and the European Union. 

He has gained wide-ranging managerial experience in the Gambia's Department of Water Resources as its Director and then overseeing Minister. 

Pa Ousman holds advanced diplomas from the Institute of Commercial Management (UK) and the IHE Institute for Water Education (the Netherlands), as well as a Bachelor of Engineering in Chemical Engineering