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.

Minha Yoon
Programme Support Intern
Biography
Minha Yoon is a Programme Support Intern at GGKP, working in GGGI Seoul HQ. She is a senior at Seoul National University, majoring economics and global environmental management.
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Minori Lee
Green Industry Consultant
Biography
Minori is a Green Industry Consultant at the Green Growth Knowledge Platform. Prior to joining GGKP, she worked at UN Environment on emissions reductions from renewable energy and energy efficiency projects in developing countries, as an Environment, Health and Safety regulatory consultant, and as part of the DKNY Corporate Social...
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Mintewab Bezabih
Research Officer, Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment
Biography
Mintewab joined the the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment in November 2012. Her work at the Institute includes assessing small farmers’ opportunities and constraints to climate change adaptation, and studying the complementarities in weather insurance schemes and public safety net programs. Prior to joining the Institute...
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Miria Pigato
Practice Manager and Lead, Climate Action Group, World Bank
Biography
Miria Pigato is a Practice Manager and Lead of the Climate Action Group in the World Bank’s Macroeconomics and Fiscal Management Global Practice. Under her leadership, the Climate Action Group is supporting client countries to implement commitments under the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement. Since joining the World Bank, she has...
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Mirko Zuerker
Senior Manager + Acting Co-Lead on Green Entrepreneurship
SEED
Biography
Mirko Zuerker is Senior Manager + Acting Co-Lead Green Entrepreneurship and was instrumental in creating and developing the renowned SEED initiative for green enterprises. In cooperation with policy-makers and funders of green enterprises, he develops innovative approaches to improve conditions, mobilise financing, and allow the positive impact of green businesses...
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Misato Sato
Research Officer, Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment
Biography
Misato is a Research Officer at London School of Economics (LSE) and Political Science. At LSE, Misato works on the evaluation of energy and climate change policies, with focus on energy intensive industries. Misato has a PhD in Environmental Economics from the LSE, titled Carbon emissions and bilateral trade. She...
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Mohamed Mazen
Advisor for Sustainable Industrial Areas Management
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH
Biography
Mohamed Mazen is currently working as an advisor for Sustainable Industrial Areas Management in The Egyptian German Promotion of Small and Medium Enterprises Project (PSME) implemented by the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit - GIZ. His main work is to support the private and public Industrial Areas to be more...
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Mohan Munasinghe
Founder Chairman
Munasinghe Institute for Development
Biography
Prof. Mohan Munasinghe is Founder Chairman, Munasinghe Institute for Development (MIND), Colombo; KIVA Guest Professor at Darmstadt University, Germany; Visiting Professor at the Vale Sustainable Development Institute, Federal Univ. of Para, Brazil; and Distinguished Guest Professor at Peking University, China. He was Vice Chair of the UN Intergovernmental Panel on...
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Mokshanand Sunil Dowarkasing
Senior Portfolio Manager, Greenpeace International
Biography
Mokshanand Sunil Dowarkasing is a Senior Portfolio Manager for Greenpeace International, focusing on driving the renewable initiative in Africa. He has also served as a Member of Parliament for Mauritius (2000-2010) and the Pan-African Parliament (2005-2010), and was a senior adviser to the Prime Minister of Mauritius on environmental matters...
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Molly Hellmuth
Climate Resiliency Senior Advisor, United States Agency for International Development (USAID)
Biography
Molly Hellmuth is the Climate Resiliency Senior Advisor for USAID’s Integrated Resource and Resilience Planning projects in Ghana and Tanzania. She is an international expert in water resources, climate risk management, and resilient development. She has over 20 years of international experience, and has developed climate risk management strategies, tools...
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