Leisa Perch is a Policy Specialist at the UNDP World Centre for Sustainable Development, Leisa specifically supports the work of the Centre through applied research and leads on climate change and natural resource management. She has been engaged in research on inclusive green growth for the last six years mostly focused on Southern Africa, including a project on gender and climate-smart agriculture focused on Southern and Eastern Africa.
A development specialist for more than eighteen years, Leisa previously set up and led the Rural and Sustainable Development Cluster at the International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth (IPC-IG) in Brasilia and worked with the UNDP Sub-regional Office for Barbados and the Organization of Eastern Caribbean states (OECS), the Organization for American States and the Government of Barbados. She is a Lead Author for Chapter 13 (Livelihoods and Poverty) of the Working Group II contribution to the Fifth Assessment Report of the IPCC.