Dorah Modise

Dorah Modise was appointed as Executive Director of the Presidential Climate Commission in February 2025. In this role, she is responsible for running the Secretariat of the PCC and its various policy and research programmes. She previously held the position of C40 Regional Director for Africa, working in the African Region through cooperative engagements with city leaders and teams to accelerate implementation of their climate change programmes.

Dorah is a sustainability enthusiast with over 26 years’ experience in the environmental sustainability, international diplomacy, Government (local, regional & national) as well as Industry Associations.

She was the inaugural Chief Executive Officer of the South African Paper and Packaging Producer Responsibility Organisations Alliance (PRO Alliance) tasked with conceptualising and implementing joint extended producer responsibility programmes with and on behalf of member PROs. Her other executive role was as Chief Executive officer of the Green Building Council of South Africa where she led green transformation of the built environment sector through numerous green building certification tools and programmes also served as the chairperson of the World Green Building Council’s Africa Regional Network with a key role of coordinating, consolidating, and stimulating the development of Green Building Councils across the African Continent. Dorah also held a position of Head of Sustainability at the City of Tshwane (Capital city of South Africa) where she conceptualised and implemented groundbreaking city sustainability programmes. Dorah’s tenure at the National Environment allowed her to develop & refine her environmental diplomacy skills through her leadership roles in the then United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development processes including the Rio plus 20 in 2012. Dorah is proud to have led the development of the environment sector green economy response programme including the establishment of the national green fund.