Cristelle Pratt, a Fijian national, is Assistant Secretary-General for the Environment and Climate Action at the Organisation of African, Caribbean and Pacific States (OACPS), based in Brussels.
[1] In 2000, she joined the South Pacific Applied Geoscience Commission (SOPAC), an organization serving 21 countries and territories, becoming director from 2004 to 2010.
SOPAC, now a division of the Pacific Community (SPC), had the lead responsibility in Oceania for disaster risk management.
In 2012 she became Deputy Secretary General of the Pacific Islands Forum (PIF), located in Suva, Fiji, on a fixed-term six-year contract.
This aims to support member countries to carry out climate change adaptation and mitigation; protect biodiversity; promote the sustainable use and management of natural resources; strengthen ocean governance; and build resilience to disasters.