Esther Makabe

Esther Makabe is a Kenyan national with over 8 years in the Geospatial industry primarily focusing on climate change, food security, monitoring and evaluation, environmental risk assessment, emergency response and human security. Ms. Makabe graduated with a Bachelor’s in Geography in 2013 and started off her geospatial career supporting natural resources management, agriculture and food security, and emergency preparedness and response in Somalia, with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. She then moved to pursue her MSc. in Environmental Risks and Human Security in the United Nations University & the University of Bonn, Germany. Since then, Ms Makabe has, in different geospatial capacities, supported several organizations and programmes including the United Nations Platform for Space-based Information for Disaster Management and Emergency Response (UNSPIDER) - Bonn, United Nations World Food Programme - Regional Bureau for Asia and the Pacific, UN Climate (UNFCCC) - Bonn. In her current role with the Group on Earth Observations (GEO) in Geneva, she coordinates the work around capacity strengthening in the use of Earth Observation for Agriculture and Food Security, among other supporting activities.