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Alice Gower is a geopolitical and security risk specialist with over 15 years of experience focusing on the Middle East and North Africa region.
She is head of the geopolitics practice at SRMG Think and a founding partner of Azure Strategy. A former diplomat with the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, she was seconded to the Foreign & Commonwealth Office, where she led on UK energy security policy in relation to MENA. She subsequently worked in global government affairs for a major international energy company, specializing in the geopolitics of energy.
Alice has advised corporate and government clients on major security themes across the region, including responses to the Arab Spring, the Libyan revolution, and the rise of the Houthi movement in Yemen. She has written for several think tanks and industry and foreign affairs publications, and she appears in international media outlets. She holds a bachelor’s degree in international relations and security studies from the Australian National University.
The great financing gap: The state of climate funding in MENA
The Middle East and North Africa region is one of the lowest recipients of climate finance compared to other areas of the globe, such as East Asia and the Pacific Islands, despite MENA’s exposure to extreme climate risks. The MENA region’s share of climate financing from the big three global climate funds — the Green Climate Fund (GCF), the Climate Investment Funds (CIF), and the Global Environment Facility (GEF) — and their sub-funds made up only 6.6% of their cumulative global financing through 2023.
