Ms Imelda “Dada” Bacudo

FAO convenor for regional momentum on agri-climate action & contribution to NDCs

Imelda “Dada” Bacudo is a climate and agrifood diplomacy leader with over 25 years of experience at the intersection of UNFCCC negotiations, ASEAN policy architecture, and climate finance. She is co-founder of the ASEAN Negotiating Group for Agriculture (ANGA), which she helped establish to give Southeast Asian governments a coordinated voice in the UNFCCC agriculture agenda — from the Koronivia Joint Work on Agriculture through to today’s Sharm el-Sheikh Joint Work and its means-of-implementation track. Her negotiations expertise spans the agriculture agenda, climate finance (GCF, Article 6, NCQG), and G77+China/LMDC positioning.

Dada is also co-founder of the ASEAN Climate Resilience Network (ASEAN-CRN), designed the first multi-country GCF Readiness Grant on agriculture for Southeast Asia, and served as Senior Advisor to the COP28 UAE Presidency on agriculture and food systems. She currently works as Climate Finance & Partnership Engagement Expert with the FAO, across its Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific and headquarters in Rome, and co-chairs the Global Alliance for Climate-Smart Agriculture (GACSA). A Fulbright Scholar with an MSc in Environmental Science from Yale University, she is based in Bali and works across Southeast Asia and internationally.