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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Shun Chonabayashi
Environmental Economist
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Shun Chonabayashi is an Environmental Economist in Environment and Natural Resources Global Practice at the World Bank. He joined the Bank through the Young Professionals Program in 2015. He leads the development of the World Bank’s platform on environmental sustainability data as well as a household climate resilience study for...
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Shunta Yamaguchi
Policy Analyst
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Shunta Yamaguchi is a Policy Analyst of the Environment and Economy Integration division of the OECD Environment Directorate. He joined the OECD in 2014 and works on trade and environment issues since 2016. He has also worked on resource productivity and waste management projects at the Environment Directorate as well...
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Siddarthan Balasubramania
India Country Representative, Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI)
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Sifan Liu
Programme Officer
Basel and Stockholm Convention Regional Center for the Asia and Pacific Region in China (BCRC-SCRC China)
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Sifan Liu is a Programme Officer, Regional Chemical Management Branch, Component 3, Global NIP Update Project, Basel Convention Regional Centre for Asia and the Pacific, Stockholm Convention Regional Centre for Capacity-building and the Transfer of Technology in Asia and the Pacific
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Sigita Strumskyte
Coordinator for Sustainable Development and Gender, Environment Directorate
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Sigita Strumskyte is the Coordinator for Sustainable Development and Gender in the OECD Environment Director’s Office. She manages OECD work on the environment-gender nexus and oversees various initiatives relating to the integration of inclusiveness goals in environmental policies. She manages the OECD Round Tables on Sustainable Development since 2020. She...
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Silvi Llosa
Programme Officer, Economics and Trade Branch, UNEP
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Silvi Llosa is a Programme Officer in the UNEP Economics and Trade Branch's Research Unit. Silvi coordinates UNEP's contribution to the GGKP and is managing the preparation of the 2014-2015 GGKP Annual Conference. Silvi has been working most recently as an independent consultant with UN organisations on climate change issues...
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Silvia L. Calderon
Deputy Director of Environmental Sustainable Development at Departamento Nacional de Planeación, Government of Colombia
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Silvia Rojas-Fernandez
General Director
Environmental Bank Foundation (FUNBAM)
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Silvia Rojas-Fernandez has a degree in Business Administration from the University of Costa Rica and a Master of Business Administration degree from ESEUNE Business School (a partnership between Georgetown University and North China University of Technology). She has extensive experience in sustainable development, the creation and implementation of biodiversity conservation...
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Simon Alder
Assistant Professor, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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Simon Alder is Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His research interests are growth and development, trade, macroeconomics, and political economy. One of Simon's current research focus is the role of transport infrastructure for regional economic development and inequality and how transport networks...
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Simon Anderson
Senior Fellow, Strategy and Learning Group
International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED)
Simon Anderson
Biography
Simon is currently working on gender equality and issues of sustainable development universality. His work includes ways to transform experiential learning of sustainable development into evidence for policy. He is exploring how to use realist approaches to learning at the interfaces of gender equality and universality.
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