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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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Smail Alhilali
Chief, Division of Circular Economy and Chemicals Management
United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO)
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Biography
Smail Alhilali is currently the chief of the Circular Economy and Chemicals Management Division within the directorate of Technical Cooperation and Sustainable Industrial Development of United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) in Vienna, Austria. He is leading the implementation of UNIDO’s programmes on circular economy, resource efficiency and chemicals management...
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Smeeta Fokeer
Research and Industrial Policy Officer, Department of Policy Research and Statistics (PRS)
United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO)
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Biography
Smeeta Fokeer is Research and Industrial Policy Officer at the Department of Policy Research and Statistics (PRS) of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO).
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SoEun Ahn
Senior Research Fellow
Korea Environment Institute (KEI)
Biography
SoEun Ahn is a natural resource economist in the Korea Environment Institute (KEI). Her research interests include economic valuation of ecosystem services and natural capital stocks, development of integrated assessment framework linking biophysical modeling and economic valuation via impact pathway analysis, and mainstreaming environmental valuation into decision making process in...
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Sofia Ahlroth
Senior Environmental Economist
Biography
Sofia Ahlroth is a Senior Environmental Economist at the World Bank. She has a PhD in Natural Resource Economics and Environmental Strategy Analysis from the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm. Her work has focused on environmental-economic policy analysis, natural capital accounting, valuation of environmental impacts and ecosystem services, and linkages...
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Sofie H. Flensborg
Special Legal Advisor
Biography
Sofie H. Flensborg is a legal officer with the Secretariat of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES). Throughout her career, Ms Flensborg has focused on aspects related to environmental policy, trade and sustainable development. Previous positions include Manager for Strategic Partnerships with...
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Sohna Aminatta Ngum
Senior Officer, Gender and Social Development
Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI)
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Biography
Sohna Aminatta Ngum is the Senior Senior Officer, Gender and Social Development at GGGI tasked with providing support to implementation of the first phase of the GGKP Gender Expert Group Program. She is an Independent Consultant focused on gender-responsive green growth and green recovery interventions. Her work focuses on building...
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Solitaire Townsend
Co-Founder
Solitaire Townsend, Futerra
Biography
Solitaire Townsend is a British businesswoman, focused on the application of marketing principles to the cause of sustainability and climate change solutions. She co-founded Futerra Sustainability Communications in the late 1990s with Ed Gillespie after completing her master’s degree in sustainable development. Her goal in founding that company was to...
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Somik Lall
Global Lead on Territorial Development Solutions, Lead Economist for Urban Development in Africa
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Biography
Somik V. Lall is the World Bank’s Global Lead on Territorial Development Solutions and its Lead Economist for Urban Development in Africa. He has been a core team member of the World Development Report 2009: Reshaping Economic Geography, Senior Economic Counselor to the Indian Prime Minister’s National Transport Development Policy...
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Sonia Maria Dias
Waste Specialist
Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing & Organizing (WIEGO)
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Biography
Sonia Maria Dias is a sociologist and has a doctorate in Political Sciences, and specialization in solid waste management (JICA fellow). Her work as a garbologist includes: policy officer for the cleaning agency Belo Horizonte city, supporter of global workers movements and consultancy for several international agencies. She is WIEGO's...
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Sonja Malicevic
Project Specialist
United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
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Biography
Sonja Malicevic is a climate finance and sustainable development specialist with over 13 years of experience across UNEP, UNICEF, IRENA and private consultancy. At UNEP’s Climate Mitigation Unit, the Implementing Agency for the NZNPA IP, she leads the design and coordination of GEF- and GCF-funded projects and programs advancing low-carbon...
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