Ousmane Ndiaye received his PhD at Columbia University in the USA and he is the Director of Meteorology of the Senegal National Agency for Civil Aviation and Meteorology (ANACIM). His expertise lies on climate prediction and its application. He has worked extensively on the delivery of climate information services to users from an end to end perspective, responding to the demand of users through co-production and validation of climate services. He coordinates a multidisciplinary working group (GTP) at district level in Senegal to deliver targeted climate information to farmers and fishermen to improve preparedness. More recently, he has been working with the health community in Senegal to promote heat-health early warning.