Carol Devine

Carol Devine is a social scientist, researcher, and climate action advocate. She led Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) Climate Smart MSF project of the Transformational Investment Capacity and MSF’s Humanitarian Action on Climate and Environment (HACE) initiative. HACE with Heidelburg University’s Institute Global Health did a novel qualitative operational research project, “A Hostile Climate Confronting the challenges of humanitarian aid delivery in the context of climate change” interviewing 49 humanitarian actors working in thirty countries.

She led the first volunteer civilian cleanup expedition in Antarctica and joined Cleanup Svalbard, a project to address plastic pollution in this Arctic archipelago. Carol was a crew member of eXXpedition Round Scotland sailing expedition which sampled, did research and advocated on ending marine plastic pollution. Carol is Chief Operating Officer of SeeChange Initiative and a Community Fellow at the Dahdaleh Institute of Global Health Research, York University. She is an association member of Médecins Sans Frontières Canada, a fellow of The Explorer’s Club, a member of the Humanities and Social Science Expert Group of the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR), and a Clean Arctic Alliance ambassador.