Fatima Denton

Fatima Denton (born August 1966) is a British-Gambian climatologist. She is the director at the Ghanaian branch of the United Nations University, at the UNU Institute for Natural Resources in Africa (UNU-INRA) in Accra. She focuses on innovation, science, technology and natural resource management. She partners with countries such as Benin and Liberia to develop and implement country needs assessment missions.

Fatima Denton writes about topics including renewable energy, sustainable development, climate change, climate change and gender, climate change adaptation, vulnerability, food security and water and energy poverty. She is a lead author for Working Group II's Fifth Assessment of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the IPCC Special Report on Renewable Energy Sources and Climate Change Mitigation (SRREN), as well as on the IPCC Working Group III’s Sixth Assessment Report, and the IPCC’s Special Report on Climate Change and Land (SRCCL). She has served on a number of scientific committees including the Independent Science Panel (ISP) of the CGIAR Climate Change and Food Security Programme (CCAFS).

Honours

Denton was the 2015 Barbara Ward Lecturer, challenging policy-makers, researchers, and academics in London to reexamine Africa and its relationship to climate change. She is a speaker at the 2016 Borlaug Dialogue International Symposium, one of several "Women Leaders Driving Agricultural Transformation in Africa". In 2021, she was named among Apolitical’s 100 Most Influential People in Gender Policy along Stella Nyanzi and Priscilla Ikos Usiobaifo.