Dr. Daniel Tsegai is Programme Officer at the Global Policy, Advocacy and Regional Cooperation Unit of the UNCCD. He is in charge of the "Drought and Water Scarcity" portfolio and he served as coordinator of the successive Intergovernmental Working Groups on Drought of the UNCCD. Daniel was Academic Officer at the United Nations University and Senior Researcher at the University of Bonn. Daniel received PhD in Development Economics from the University of Bonn and Msc in Agricultural Economics from University of Göttingen, Germany.