Coleen Vogel is a South African climatologist involved in international work on climate change.
She worked for the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg where she became a Distinguished Professor in their Global Change Institute.
[1] She was the lead author for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change 4th assessment Report Working Group 2 Chapter on Africa, and she chaired the International Scientific Committee of the International Human Dimensions Programme on Climate Change.
[3] In 2022 she published a warning with Francois Engelbrecht, Alize le Roux and Aimee-Noel Mbiyozo to say that South Africa needs to be better prepared for climate change.
[5] Vogel is an acknowledged expert in South African Disaster Management being involved in creating green proposals and white papers and in assisting with the Disaster Management Act.