Mr. Diagne is Director of AFRIQUE – ENERGIE – ENVIRONNEMENT, a consultancy firm in Senegal. He is an engineer, associated senior consultant and former President of the Senegalese National Board on Climate Change. A member of the Senegalese delegation to the UNFCCC negotiations since 1998, Mr. Diagne is a Core Team member of the LDC group on mitigation. He has extensive knowledge of Technology Transfer and Clean Development Mechanisms under the UNFCCC and the Kyoto Protocol.