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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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Richard Baron
Manager, OECD Round Table on Sustainable Development
Biography
Richard Baron manages the OECD Round Table on Sustainable Development, a high-level public-private forum to foster progress on pressing environmental questions. In this role, his work areas include renewable energy, corporate reporting, international competitiveness and co-operation in climate policy, and industrial innovation in the low-carbon transition. In 2014-15 he has...
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Richard Damania
Chief Economist, Sustainable Development
World Bank Group (WBG)
Biography
Richard Damania is the Chief Economist of the Sustainable Development Practice Group, effective March 1, 2020. He has held several positions in the World Bank including as Senior Economic Advisor in the Water Practice, Lead Economist in the Africa Region’s Sustainable Development Department, in the South Asia and Latin America...
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Richard Heys
Deputy Chief Economist
Biography
Richard Heys is Deputy Chief Economist at the UK's Office for National Statistics (ONS) and for the last five years has led production of productivity statistics and research into economic statistics more generally. He is currently part of the UN task-team updating the System of National Accounts, the international manual...
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Richard Huber
Chief of Section
Organization of American States (OAS)
Biography
Richard Huber is the Chief, Sustainable Communities, Hazard Risk, and Climate Change Section of the Department of Sustainable Development of the Organization of American States (OAS). The Department of Sustainable Development (DSD) supports OAS Member States in the design and implementation of policies, programs and projects oriented to integrate environmental...
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Rie Tsutsumi
Regional Coordinator, Resource Efficiency
United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
Biography
Over recent decades, the growing movement of goods and services across international borders has led to an increase in trade in a range of environmentally sensitive commodities, such as minerals, forest products, fish, and agricultural produce. At the same time, the world demand for manufactured goods has been growing rapidly...
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Rikkert Maes
Research Intern, Green Growth Knowledge Platform
Biography
Rikkert Maes holds a Master in Environmental Science from the University of Antwerp, a Master in Comparative and International Politics and a Bachelor in Sociology. For his Master degrees, Rikkert wrote two theses, enabling him to gain in-depth experience in academic research. For his last thesis he spent most of...
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Rindra Hasimbelo Rabarinirinarison
Minister of Economy and Finance
Government of Madagascar
MEF
Biography
H.E. Rindra Hasimbelo Rabarinirinarison is Minister of Economy and Finance for the Republic of Madagascar.
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Rinki Jain
Associate Fellow,
The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI)
Biography
Received B.A in Economics in 2008 and Masters in Business Economics in 2010 from Delhi University , India. Rinki Jain is currently working as an Associate Fellow in the Green Growth and Resources Efficiency Division inTERI. Her areas of interests include policy analysis and economic research on green growth...
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Rita Pandey
Senior Fellow
National Institute of Public Finance and Policy (NIPFP)
Rita Pandey
Biography
Rita Pandey is Senior Fellow at the National Institute of Public Finance and Policy, New Delhi. Her research interests span climate change, biodiversity finance, sustainable development, green economy, and green budgeting. Her research has a strong policy focus using environmental and ecological economics, and tools and measures of public finance...
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Rita Schwarzelühr-Sutter
Parliamentarian State Secretary, German Federal Ministry of the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (BMU)
Rita Schwarzelühr-Sutter, BMU
Biography
Ms. Schwarzelühr-Sutter has served as the Parliamentarian State Secretary at the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety since December 2013. She is a member of the SME Advisory Council of the German Reconstruction Loan Corporation (Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau) since 2014. Ms. Schwarzelühr-Sutter has been chairing the...
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