Niclas Gottmann is a Policy Officer at the European Commission Directorate-General for International Partnerships. He follows the EU’s external action on topics related to the UNCCD and is the programme manager responsible for the ‘Regreening Africa’ initiative as well as the EU’s engagement on the Great Green Wall. Niclas is a geographer and economist by training, having graduated from the London School of Economics with a focus on the external dimension of the EU Green Deal.