Expert Connect

Green Growth Expert Connect provides policymakers direct access to world-leading technical and policy experts for quick and tailored guidance on a range of green growth topics.

The service is available, at no cost, to government agency representatives from developing countries and supporting technical institutes. To request support, simply submit a request and the GGKP will match you with a leading green growth policy expert.

Specialised experts are available on a range of green growth topics, including fiscal reform, access to finance, indicators and metrics, natural capital approaches, sustainable trade, and government procurement. Experts will provide tailored support, including to review draft strategies, analyse policy options, share experiences from other countries, and facilitate networking.

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Eva Zabey

Executive Director

Biography

With a background in natural capital and environmental management, Eva is an experienced leader, facilitator, speaker, writer and media spokesperson who has led Business for Nature since 2019. Business for Nature brings together business and conservation organizations and forward-thinking companies to amplify a powerful leading business voice calling for governments...

Expertise

Sectors:

Water

Themes:

Development

Indicators and Measurement

Natural Capital

Glenn-Marie Lange

Senior Economist, World Bank Group

Biography

Dr. Glenn-Marie Lange is a Senior Environmental Economist who has led the last two editions of the World Bank flagship, The Changing Wealth of Nations. Dr. Lange’s work addresses the interdependence of natural resources, economic development, and poverty reduction. She has pioneered the use of Natural Capital Accounting to integrate...

Expertise

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Indicators and Measurement

Natural Capital

Izabella Teixeira

Co-Chair

International Resource Panel (IRP)

Biography

Izabella Teixeira is Co-Chair of the International Resource Panel. She is an expert in environmental management, impact assessment and licensing. She is the former Environment Minister of Brazil and was named a Champion of the Earth in 2013. Izabella Mônica Vieira Teixeira is a native Brazilian. She holds a B.Sc...

Expertise

Themes:

Climate Change

Development

Natural Capital

Jaco Tavenier

Green Growth Coordinator, Environment Directorate

Biography

Jaco Tavenier graduated as a lawyer in 1984 in the Netherlands (masters, Utrecht) and has a bachelor in Political Science (Amsterdam). He has served the academic community in several functions before he started his career within the Ministry of Water management and Transport in the Netherlands in 1988. He brings...

Expertise

Themes:

Development

Region:

Europe

Mustafa Moinuddin

Senior Policy Researcher and Research Manager, Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES)

Biography

Dr. Mustafa Moinuddin is a senior policy researcher and research manager in the Strategic and Quantitative Analysis Centre of the Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES) in Japan. With more than ten years of work experience in the field of international development, he has been involved in several research activities...

Expertise

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Trade and Supply Chains

Region:

Asia

Orestes Anastasia

Deputy Head, Office of Thought Leadership, and Head of Knowledge Sharing

Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI)

Biography

Orestes Anastasia is GGGI’s Deputy Head of the Office of Thought Leadership and the Head of Knowledge Sharing. Hr oversees integrated knowledge development, management, and sharing in cooperation with GGGI’s strategic international partners as well as across GGGI. Mr. Anastasia has worked for more than 20 years developing and overseeing...

Expertise

Themes:

Climate Change

Development

Region:

Asia

Sander van der Leeuw

Foundation Professor

Arizona State University

Biography

An archeologist and historian Prof. Sander van der Leeuw has been specializing in the long-term interactions between humans and their environments. Pioneer in the application of the Complex Adaptive Systems (CAS) approach to socio-environmental challenges, technology and innovation. Coordinator of the ARCHAEOMEDES interdisciplinary research program (1991-2000) using the CAS perspective...

Expertise

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Institutions and Governance

Risk and Resilience

Region:

Europe

Shrashtant Patara

Senior Vice President

Development Alternatives (DA)

Biography

Shrashtant Patara is the Senior Vice President of Development Alternatives Group and Chief Executive Officer for TARA.

Expertise

Sectors:

Finance

Themes:

Technology and Innovation

Investment

Development

Region:

Asia

Valentina Giannini

Researcher and Architect

Biography

Valentina Giannini is a researcher at the Euro-Mediterranean Centre on Climate Change (since 2009) where she is developing methods to support decision-making and foster knowledge integration for climate change adaptation, disaster risk reduction, urban and land-use planning, and natural resources management. Her main task is to coordinate research efforts to...

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Latin America & the Caribbean