Nihal Karagoz

Nihal Karagoz is an environmental and sustainability professional, currently leading environment, sustainability and ESG in Dubai Holding Real Estate. She has a wide array of 15+ years of experience in environmental engineering, environmental planning, sustainability visioning and climate action strategies, climate change adaptation and mitigation with specific focus on decarbonisation, net zero communities and regenerative development. Nihal has been involved in UN Sustainable Development initiatives and action plans, representing Turkey as an environmental and human rights activist between 1998 and 2010. She was invited by UN to attend the first World Youth Congress in Hawaii in 1999, where she voted on UN Millennium Development Goals, which formed the foundation of UN Sustainable Development Goals in 2015. She decided to pursue a career in Environmental Engineering to learn the scientific principles of natural systems engineering, with the vision to apply these into sustainable desi