Joyce Kimutai

Dr. Joyce Kimutai is a Climate Scientist at World Weather Attribution Consortium at Centre for Environmental Policy, Imperial College London and Kenya Meteorological Services. She holds a PhD in Attribution of Climate Extremes from the University of Cape Town. Her research focuses on understanding the role and contribution of anthropogenic climate change in extreme weather and climate events, particularly in Africa, to enhance climate risk understanding to policy and practice. She co-chairs the Climate Research Forum Working Group on Loss and Damage under FILE at the Oxford Sustainable Law Programme. She also serves as a committee member for the U.S. National Academy of Sciences Report on Attribution of Extreme Weather Events and its Impacts (2024–2026) and a member of Science Leadership Council for Mountain Research Initiative at University of Bern. Dr. Kimutai is currently the alternate Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Focal Point for Kenya and was a Lead Author for the IPCC Special Report on Climate Change and Land during the Sixth Assessment Cycle. She also negotiates for Kenya at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) COP sessions.