Beau Damen

Beau is the Natural Resource Officer – Climate Change and Bioenergy – for the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific. Over the past 14 years Beau has worked as a natural resource management specialist focused on promoting equitable, climate resilient and low emissions development in the region.

Beau has experience delivering regional and national policy and field–level technical assistance programs on climate change adaptation and mitigation and renewable energy development in over 15 countries in South, Southeast Asia, the Pacific and Southern Africa. Most recently Beau has been leading the implementation of FAO work programs in Asia on resilient, low emission agriculture and initiatives to scale-up investment in the agriculture and land-use sectors in support of the UNFCCC Paris Agreement and the Sustainable Development Goals.  

Beau has also worked as a senior policy analyst for the Australian Government’s Department of Resources and Energy in Canberra, Australia, and as a Senior Climate Change specialist for the International Centre for Environmental Management in Hanoi, Vietnam.


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