Patrick V. Verkooijen (born May 21, 1969) is the CEO of the Global Center on Adaptation (GCA) and the Chancellor of the University of Nairobi.

He also managed the Global Commission on Adaptation chaired by Ban and co-led by Kristalina Georgieva and Bill Gates.

Together with African Development Bank President Akinwumi Adesina, he is the architect of the world's largest adaptation program, the $25 billion Africa Adaptation Acceleration Program (AAAP), which has already shaped over $6 of resilient investments in the world's most climate-vulnerable continent since its inception in 2021.

[28] In these roles he established the Carbon Pricing Leadership Coalition, which is the world's largest coalition for putting a price on carbon,[29] organized more than ten IMF-World Bank Climate Ministerials for ministers of finance and planning, and set up the $1.6 billion Forest Investment Program, which included the largest indigenous people and local communities grant mechanism in the world at the time, and has since supported the sustainable management of close to 400 million hectares of land across Asia, the Caribbean, Latin America and Sub-Saharan Africa.

In 2022, Verkooijen was awarded a Doctor of Science, Honoris Causa by the University of Nairobi in recognition of his championing of climate resilience for Africa.