Mr Arthur Wyns

Biography

Arthur is a Research Fellow at the University of Melbourne. He is an experienced advisor on climate policy and global environmental governance and has worked for national governments, UN agencies, and academic institutions.

Previously, Arthur was an Assistant Director in the Australian Government Department of Health and Aged Care. In 2023, he was the senior health advisor to the UAE government, as the host of the COP28 UN climate conference. He organised the first-ever Health Day at a COP and negotiated the COP28 declaration on climate and health, which was endorsed by 150 countries.

He was a climate change advisor to the World Health Organization from 2019 to 2023, where he represented WHO at the UN climate negotiations, authored several UN reports on climate change and health, and acted as WHO's speechwriter on climate change.

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