Manann Donoghoe

Manann Donoghoe is a fellow at the Brookings Institution’s Center for Community Uplift. His work focuses on climate resilience, disaster risk reduction, climate finance, and environmental justice. His work has been featured in NPR, Bloomberg, Politico, E&E News’ ClimateWire, Grist, Inside Climate News, The Emancipator, Los Angeles Times, and other regional and local outlets.

Manann has extensive climate change and environmental policy experience at both the international and domestic levels. His research has focused on the intersection of climate change and disaster impacts and social and economic development. In previous positions, including at the World Bank Group and the Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre, his work advanced programs combining climate adaptation and mitigation with economic inclusion and social protection, with a focus on the Asia Pacific region. At the University of Oxford, Manann helped advance the 2022 Dana Declaration +20, an update to the first international declaration on the rights of nomadic Indigenous Peoples. He has also evaluated private market schemes to improve environmental and social outcomes, including sustainability certification standards in the Indonesian coffee sector.

An Australian, Manann started his career as an environmental economist for the Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences. His work focused on water market reforms and modeling the impacts of climate change on the agricultural sector. He has published widely, including research on COVID-19 policies, housing insecurity, racial equity in business ownership, and the social and cultural geographies of housing precarity.

He graduated as a Master of Philosophy in nature, society, and environmental governance from Oxford University (Kellogg College) and holds a bachelor’s degree in resource economics and geography from the University of Sydney.