Dr Fatima Driouech is an associate professor at the University Mohammed VI Polytechnic. She received a PhD in sciences of the universe, environment, and land surfaces from the Polytechnic Institute of Toulouse and her Engineer diploma from the National School of Meteorology, France. She was previously the Head of the National Meteorological Research Center at the Moroccan General Directorate of Meteorology then the Head of the National Climate Centre. Dr Fatima Driouech was Vice-Chair of Working Group I of the IPCC during the sixth IPCC report, and was a lead author of the fifth IPCC report. She is a member of the management group of the WMO Commission for Services and Applications, and Co-chair of its Standing Committee on Climate Services. Fatima Driouech is also involved in training and capacity building as a teacher in different Moroccan educational institutions on climatology and climate change.