Janot Mendler de Suarez is a visiting research fellow with Boston University’s Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, and consulting technical advisor with the Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre. Currently specializing in forecast-based financing, circular economies, and experiential learning game design, facilitation, and training, Janot spent eleven years establishing GEF IW:LEARN, the Global Environment Facility’s International Waters knowledge-sharing program, which involves 182 countries. While Senior Lecturer in Geography at Royal Holloway University of London, she piloted a Centre for Developing Areas Research distance MSc program. A lead author of Global Oceans Forum’s climate policy briefs, she has consulted with UNIDO (United Nations Industrial Development Organization), the World Food Programme, Rockefeller Foundation, Oxfam, START, the World Bank, American Red Cross, USAID, and numerous national governments.