Michel has worked for more than 35 years in Africa, Latin America, the Caribbean, Asia and Europe. He has a dual academic background, having studied forestry and natural resource management, as well as geography and land use planning. His areas of activity include climate change (adaptation and mitigation), sustainable development, the new urban and rural agenda, high-level policy dialogue and skills building.
As a consultant (team leader and expert), he regularly works on programmes oriented to support national governments and local authorities as well as civil society bodies or private companies. This support includes designing and implementing climate change strategies, including climate finance opportunities, mitigation (NAMA, LEDS) and adaptation (local adaptation plans) as well as global vulnerability assessment and action plans to improve the resilience of communities to climate change.