Fatou Ndeye Gaye has negotiated for the Gambia, the African Group, Group of 77, and China at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change from 2002 to 2012 on various agenda items. She has served on various technical boards, committees, and panels, including the Joint Implementation Supervisory Committee (JISC), JISC Accreditation Panel, Executive Board of the Clean Development Mechanism (DCM-EB), and the Small-Scale Working Group of the CDM-EB. Fatou is presently on the board of the Adaptation Fund.  She is a lead coordinator of the African Group of Negotiators. Fatou produced two chapters in both the first and second national communication of the Gambia to the UNFCCC. She also co-chaired the UNFCCC negotiations of the Article 6 contact groups on the elaboration, development, and adoption of the five-year New Delhi Work Programme on Article 6. As a civil servant from 1977 to 2012, Fatou held several portfolios in the ministries of agriculture and environment forestry, parks and wildlife, and climate change. From 2012 to 2014, she was appointed minister of environment, forestry, parks, wildlife, and climate change and is a former member of the African Ministerial Conference on the Environment (AMCEN). From 2014 to 2016, she served as the ambassador of the Gambia to Sierra Leone, Liberia, and Cote D’Ivoire, and retired in 2016.