Marai El Fas­si

Mini CV

• Sin­ce Octo­ber 2026: Rese­arch Asso­cia­te at CPHP, focu­sing on air qua­li­ty.
• 2025–2026: Exter­nal con­sul­tant and eva­lua­tor for inter­na­tio­nal pro­jects, inclu­ding in con­su­mer health pro­tec­tion.
• 2023–2024: Rese­arch Asso­cia­te at the Fede­ral Foun­da­ti­on for Gen­der Equa­li­ty (Bun­des­stif­tung Gleich­stel­lung), working on social-eco­lo­gi­cal trans­for­ma­ti­on, inclu­ding cli­ma­te, gen­der equa­li­ty and health.
• 2023: Rese­arch Asso­cia­te at the Ger­man Alli­ance on Cli­ma­te Chan­ge and Health (KLUG e.V.), focu­sing on cli­ma­te adapt­a­ti­on and heat pro­tec­tion.
• 2012–2023: Inter­na­tio­nal coope­ra­ti­on on water gover­nan­ce and eco­sys­tem-based cli­ma­te adapt­a­ti­on with think tanks and NGOs, inclu­ding as Coun­try Pro­gram­me Mana­ger in Gua­te­ma­la, Coun­try Lead of the WASH Alli­ance in Mali, and Advi­sor in Peru.
• M.Sc. Forestry Sys­tem Trans­for­ma­ti­on, Ebers­wal­de Uni­ver­si­ty for Sus­tainable Deve­lo­p­ment, 2026.
• M.A. Glo­ba­li­sa­ti­on & Deve­lo­p­ment Stu­dies, Maas­tricht Uni­ver­si­ty, 2012.
• B.A. Media Stu­dies, with a focus on Socio­lo­gy & Eco­no­mics, Uni­ver­si­ty of Colo­gne, 2011.

Pro­fi­le

Marai El Fas­si has been a Rese­arch Asso­cia­te at the Cent­re for Pla­ne­ta­ry Health Poli­cy (CPHP) sin­ce Octo­ber 2026. As part of the pro­ject “Clean Air, Healt­hy Com­mu­ni­ties” (Sau­be­re Luft, Gesun­de Kom­mu­nen), fun­ded by the Clean Air Fund, she works with a ran­ge of stake­hol­ders to deve­lop con­cre­te approa­ches for an ambi­tious and soci­al­ly just imple­men­ta­ti­on of the new EU Ambi­ent Air Qua­li­ty Direc­ti­ve in Ger­ma­ny.

For more than twel­ve years, she has work­ed at the inter­sec­tion of rese­arch, poli­cy and prac­ti­ce on social-eco­lo­gi­cal trans­for­ma­ti­on and cli­ma­te adapt­a­ti­on in Latin Ame­ri­ca, Euro­pe and Afri­ca. Her focus is on sha­ping the­se pro­ces­ses in a soci­al­ly just way and tog­e­ther with diver­se groups across socie­ty.