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.

Titilope Ngozi Akosa
Executive Director
Centre for 21st Century Issues
Biography
Titilope Ngozi Akosa is the Executive Director of C21st, a Lawyer, researcher, and Woman Climate Justice Advocate with over 15 years’ experience in climate justice advocacy, women’s right, gender equality, environmental sustainability and stakeholder engagement for voice, accountability and inclusive participation from ground up. Ms. Akosa is an active member...
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Tiza Mafira
Associate Director
Climate Policy Initiative (CPI)
Biography
Tiza Mafira is Climate Policy Initiative (CPI)’s Associate Director, based in Indonesia, where she leads a team of analysts to deliver robust studies on climate finance effectiveness and innovations for policy-makers. With a background in environmental law, Tiza is a public policy expert specializing in land use and climate finance...
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Tobias Kruse
PhD candidate
Biography
Tobias is a PhD candidate in Environmental Economics at the London School of Economics (LSE) and a research assistant at the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment. His research focuses on the empirical analysis of firm-level responses within the Green Economy. Tobias holds an MSc in Environmental...
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Toby Couture
Founder and Director
E3 Analytics
Biography
Toby Couture is Founder and Director of E3 Analytics, an independent renewable energy consultancy based in Berlin, Germany. He works on a wide range of topics in renewable energy, including policy, finance, regulatory design, rural electrification, new business models, as well as economic and financial analysis. He has worked extensively...
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Tomas Declercq
Programme Management Officer UNEP Regional coordinator GO4SDGs - Latin America & Carribean
Biography
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Tomasz Koźluk
Senior Economist, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
Biography
Tomasz Koźluk is a Senior Economist at the OECD in Paris. He joined the OECD Economics Department in 2007, and worked on issues related to competition, market regulation, fiscal policies, environmental policies, green growth as well as transport, infrastructure investment and public private partnerships. He has (co-)authored several papers and...
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TU Ruihe
Head of UNEP China Office
Biography
With more than 30 years of experience in the field of environment and sustainable development, Mr. Tu has successively engaged in the fields of environmental impact assessment, cleaner production, climate change, river basin water management, pollution prevention and biodiversity protection, environmental impact assessment for infrastructure development, and has rich experience...
Ugo Guarnacci
Policy Officer
European Commission
Biography
Ugo Guarnacci works as Policy Officer at Directorate of "Climate Action and Resource Efficiency", Directorate-General for Research and Innovation (DG RTD), European Commission. Ugo is an applied economist by training, with a PhD on measuring resilience and subjective wellbeing in post-disaster, post-conflict Indonesia. He is currently working on the development...
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Ulf Jaeckel
Head of Division of Sustainable Consumer Protection, Product-related Environmental Protection
Biography
Ulf Jaeckel is Head of Division of Sustainable Consumer Protection, Product-related Environmental Protection, Federal Ministry for Environment, Nature Conservation, Building and Nuclear Safety, Germany ( BMU). Dr. Jaeckel has been working in the ministry since 1994 and since 2006 has covered the area of ​​"product-related environmental protection, sustainable consumer protection...
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Ulf Narloch
Economist, Sustainable Development, World Bank
Biography
Ulf Narloch is an Economist in the Sustainable Development's Chief Economist Office at the World Bank. His current work includes sustainability measurement and diagnostics, green growth policies and the poverty impacts of climate change. Prior to joining the World Bank he worked on range of topics related to forest management...
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