Sam Greene

Sam Greene is a Senior Research Fellow at SEI Oxford, focusing on risk, vulnerability and just adaptation. 

His research has explored how locally led adaptation can be established and institutionalized in practice, and the mechanisms that deliver climate finance to support it. This has included the design of participatory resilience assessment guidelines; local government planning processes; and monitoring, evaluation and learning systems. Sam is also an expert facilitator and convenor of communities of practice built around peer learning and knowledge sharing. 

Prior to joining SEI, he supported government-led efforts to integrate climate resilience into planning in Tanzania, Uganda, Ethiopia and Kenya. His work also explored linkages between resilience and off-grid energy access. From 2019 to 2023, he convened the Community Based Adaptation conferences,  an international, conference series bringing practitioner perspectives to shape the future of climate finance and locally led adaptation.

Sam’s expertise includes climate resilience, participatory planning tools, mechanisms for delivering climate finance to the local level, building communities of practice and workshop design and facilitation. Sam has an Master of Science degree in Development Studies from the School of Oriental and African Studies.