Board of Directors

Gotelind Alber (Germany)

Gotelind is GenderCC's treasurer and thus takes part in the decision-making process of the Steering Group.

Gotelind is based in Berlin and has been a consultant and researcher with her own consultancy Sustainable Energy and Climate Policy. She is physicist by education, has experience of 25 years of research, policy and management experience, among others as managing director of the Climate Alliance of European Cities. Currently, Gotelind is working as independent consultant on energy and climate policy, energy efficiency and renewable energy, multi-level governance, gender and climate justice. She is also co-founder and board member GenderCC – Women for Climate Justice. She has been following the UNFCCC process from its start in order to interface international climate policy with local approaches in industrialised and developing countries. Recent projects: “Gender, cities and climate change”, background paper on behalf of UN-HABITAT; “Energy policy ARGE ALP”, on behalf of Amstein + Walthert, Switzerland; Advice on “Energy Regions” on behalf of the Federal Ministry for Transport, Innovation and Technology, Austria; Consultant for the programme “Exportinitiative erneuerbare Energien” (export initiative renewable energies) on behalf of the German Ministry for the Economy. Gotelind's website

Teresa Perez Rocha (Uruguay)

Teresa Perez is an environmental activist. Since 1999 she has been working for the World Raniforest Movement (WRM), a long-time member-organization of the GenderCC-network. WRM is a network of organizations and citizens working to provide support to local communities struggling to defend their forests and to achieve respect for their rights over their forests and territories. WRM is part of a global movement for social change that aims at ensuring social justice, respect for human rights and environmental conservation. Its multi-task team is situated in Uruguay. For more information, please visit the WRM website.

Dr Minu Hemmati

In her capacity as a GenderCC board member Minu participates in the Steering Group.  By profession she is a psychologist. Since 1998, Minu has been working as an independent advisor and programme coordinator with NGOs; governments; international agencies; and corporations. Her projects focus on areas such as participation of stakeholders in decision-making; communication and collaboration of stakeholder groups, designing and facilitating dialogues and partnerships; gender and sustainable development; capacity development. Since the 1996 UN Cities Summit in Istanbul Minu has been attending UN conferences and meetings regularly, with a special focuy on sustainable development, gender and urbanisation. She is the author of several papers and articles, for more information please visit her website.

Dorah Marema (South Africa)

Since 2010, Ramatsobane Dorah Marema is the President of GenderCC's Baord and one the founders of GenderCC Southern Africa.

For many years, Dorah was the Executive Director of the GreenHouse Project, an environmental NGO based in Johannesburg, South Africa. There, Dorah Lebelo was responsible for setting up a variety of projects, among them a permaculture project in a park in a poor and run-down neighbourhood in Johannesburg. This project aims to demonstrate to the surrounding inhabitants and passers-by how to live sustainably, i.e. gardening, composting etc. Other program areas include green building and design, efficiency and renewable energy and waste management/ recycling project.
Since January 2010, Dorah Lebelo and GenderCC have been implementing a project focusing on capacity development in rural communities in South Africa where there is great need for information about climate change and adaptation. Furthermore, Dorah is heading GenderCC’s Focal Point in Africa, and recently founded GenderCC-South Africa.