Rumaitha Al Busaidi is an Omani scientist and environmental advocate working on sustainable solutions to climate change. Her 2021
TED talk,
Women Are the Key to Our Climate Future, has garnered over a million views. Based in Oman, Rumaitha leads business strategy and localization efforts for
Hydrom, theorchestrator of green hydrogen development in Oman. She also serves as Vice President of the only environmental NGO in the country,
Environment Society of Oman.
Rumaitha actively collaborates with the Omani government on sustainable diversification and energy transition strategies. Internationally, she has advised the Biden administration on developing a climateresilience standard for U.S. foreign aid, with a focus on empowering women as a climate mitigation strategy,the government of Greenland on sustainable tourism, and the Arab League on engaging Arab youth in climate negotiations. Her work has been recognized by the United Nations, the EU, and NATO, among others. Rumaitha is named in Reuters’s climate hot list and subsequently was recognized in their ‘
Top 25 Women in Climate Change’ list, was named on the
BBC 100 Women list, and most recently as one of the
Most Creative People in Business by Fast Company.
Hailing from Muscat, Rumaitha is the founder of
WomeX; a platform teaching negotiation skills to Arab women, a member of the first-ever
Arab Youth Council on Climate Change, and co-chair of the World Economic Forum’s Davos Lab, where she co-authored the
youth recovery plan featuring policy recommendations from over 2 million young people across the globe. Rumaitha holds degrees from Harvard and Oxford, and is coined as the
first female soccer analyst in the Arab World and the youngest Omani to step foot on the South Pole.