Mariama Williams Papers
Mariama Williams Ph.D. (Economics) is the Senior Advisor to the Global Afro-descendant Climate Justice Collaborative. Williams has extensive international experience advising governments and NGOs on climate finance, trade, debt and development issues as part of various United Nations task forces, a program coordinator at the South Centre, and a Senior Associate for Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era (DAWN). She broke new ground in introducing a feminist analysis into the climate finance policy debate as coordinating lead author (2018-2020) for the Chapter on Climate Investment and Finance, Working Group III – Mitigation, the Sixth Assessment Report of the Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC, 2022). Among her many publications, she authored Gender and Climate Finance: Coming out of the Margin (Routledge). Williams is currently a member of the Caribbean Action Network, the Gender and Trade Coalition and on the Board of Trustees of the Institute of Law and Economics (ILE, Jamaica). She also has a Master of Science in yoga therapy and is a certified yoga therapist and an experienced registered yoga teacher with the Yoga Alliance.
The papers of Mariama Williams currently consist of more than 50 computer disks containing files that document her work over more than a decade.