Dr Patrick Byakagaba is a Climate LinkUP Expert Panelist and Senior Lecturer at the Department of Environmental Management, School of Forestry, Makerere University. He has been a visiting scholar at Brown University, Providence, USA and Texas A&M University, College Station, USA, and is a visiting Lecturer at Sokoine University of Agriculture, Tanzania where he teaches on a regional Forest Science PhD Program. Dr Byakagaba has served on policy working groups as an academic, that prepared Uganda’s policy and legal frameworks relevant to climate change notably the Climate Change Policy,2015, Climate Change Act, 2021, Nationally Determined Contribution, 2015 and 2022, and National REDD+ Strategy and Action Plan, 2017. He is a member of Climate Change Action Network of Uganda and United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Research and Independent NGOs observers. Dr Byakagaba is the current Chair of Uganda Forestry Working Group.