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.

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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Monene Mathiba
Specialist Financial Analyst, Office of the CFO
Biography
Monene Mathiba is the Specialist Financial Analyst, Office of the CFO at the City of Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality. Monene is a qualified Charted Accountant from, with over 16 years’ professional experience in the finance/accounting environment. She has worked within an audit as well as consulting environment, working on financial accounting...
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Monica Mwove
Senior Programme Management Assistant
Biography
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Monica Patricia Parra Acevedo
Economic Officer
Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI)
Biography
Monica Parra is an Economic Officer at the Global Green Growth Institute ( GGGI). She is currently working with the Government of Colombia providing technical advisory in the formulation and integration of green growth criteria and objectives into development planning activities and instruments, particularly with regards to the formulation of...
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Monika MacDevette
Chief, Chemicals & Health Branch Economy Division
United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
Biography
Monika MacDevette is Chief of the Chemicals and Health Branch at the Economy Division of the United Nations Environment Programme ( UNEP). Formerly, Monika was Deputy Director, and headed the Operations and Programme Delivery Branch in the Ecosystems Division. Monika is an environmental physiologist, having received her BSc, MSc and...
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Monique Ntumngia
Executive Director
Green Girls Organisation
Biography
Monique Ntumngia is a sustainable entrepreneur and human rights advocate for climate-gender justice.
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Motoko Aizawa
President
Biography
Motoko Aizawa is President of the Observatory for Sustainable Infrastructure, a research organization that aims to bridge the sustainability gap of mega-infrastructure development, investment and finance through data collection and policy research. Ms. Aizawa spent more than two decades at the World Bank Group in various capacities, including as Sustainability...
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