Silja Halle

Silja Halle

Programme Manager, EU-UNEP Partnership on Climate, Environment, Peace and Security, UNEP

Ms. Silja Halle is a Programme Manager with UNEP’s Environmental Security Unit. She leads the UNEP-EU Climate Change and Security Partnership, which is working to scale integrated responses to climate-related risks to peace and security by strengthening environmental analysis for conflict-affected contexts, testing innovative programming approaches in the field and supporting multilateral, regional and national policy developments. She is currently managing projects in the Middle East, West Africa, the Horn of Africa, Latin America, Central Asia and South Asia. Silja joined UNEP in 2009 and has held several roles in the organization, including as Country Programme Manager for UNEP in Haiti and Manager of the UN Programme on Gender, Natural Resources, Climate and Peace. She is also the co-editor of the UNEP policy series on the environmental dimensions of disasters and conflicts. She holds Bachelors’ (BA) and Master of Arts (MA) degrees in humanities from the University of Geneva.