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.

Syed Ehtisham Ahmad
Senior Fellow
Center for Development Research (ZEF)
Senior Fellow
Asia Research Center at the London School of Economics (LSE)
Biography
Dr. Ehtisham Ahmad is Senior Fellow at the Center for Economic Research at the University of Bonn and at the Asia Research Center at the London School of Economics (LSE). He has written widely on public policy and fiscal reforms, governance, fiscal federalism and poverty reduction. His recent books include...
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Sylvester Mensah
Farmer and Chairperson, Landscape Management Board (LMB) for Sui River Landscape
Biography
Sylvester Mensah is a Ghanaian farmer with over thirty years of experience and is currently the Chairperson of the Landscape Management Board (LMB) for Sui River Landscape.
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Tadele Ferede
Deputy Center Director, Senior Research Fellow
Environment for Development Initiative (EfD)
Biography
Tadele Ferede is currently the Deputy Center Director and a Senior Research Fellow at the EfD centre in Ethiopia/EEPFE and an assistant professor of economics at the School of Economics of Addis Ababa University. He has teaching experience in macro- and micro-economics and quantitative economics at AAU. He completed his...
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Tadele Ferede
Department of Economics at Addis Ababa University
Biography
Tadele Ferede is affiliated with the Department of Economics at Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia. Currently, he is the head of the Economics Department at Addis Ababa University, a senior research fellow with the Environment for Development Initiative (EfD), Editor-in-Chief of the Ethiopian Journal of Economics of the Ethiopian Economics Association...
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Takeshi Takama
CEO
Biography
Takeshi Takama is CEO of su-re.co, a young think-and-do tank which aims to truly achieve a better environment and society for all of us. He makes strategic plans and decisions to make sure that projects run smoothly and effectively to support people in developing countries and solve environmental problems based...
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Talia Calnek-Sugin
Project Coordinator, NDC Partnership, Support Unit
World Resources Institute (WRI)
Biography
Talia Calnek-Sugin is a Project Coordinator for the NDC Partnership Team at the World Resources Institute ( WRI). She supports the development and distribution of the NDC Partnership’s Knowledge and Research products, as well as assisting with Communications. Previously, she was the Communications Intern for the New Climate Economy Project...
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Talia Chorover
Knowledge Tools And Research Specialist
NDC Partnership
Biography
Talia is the Knowledge Tools and Research Specialist for the NDC Partnership Support Unit. She works within WRI’s Climate program to conduct high-impact global research, manage NDCP’s knowledge tools, and support communications to advance climate action. Prior to joining the NDC Partnership, Talia was a research intern at WRI with...
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Tamaro Kane
GGKP Coordinator, World Bank
Biography
Tamaro Kane is the GGKP Coordinator in the Office of the Chief Economist of the Sustainable Development Vice-Presidency at the World Bank. In this capacity, she contributes to the team’s work on green growth and decision making under uncertainty and coordinates the World Bank’s contribution to the Green Growth Knowledge...
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Tapera J. Muzira
Chief Technical Advisor
International Labour Organization (ILO)
Biography
Tapera J. Muzira has been leading, executing, motivating and inspiring others in the implementation of International Labour Organization ( ILO) Decent Work Country Programmes as a Chief Technical Advisor for over 18 years. In 1999, he joined the then-called ILO Southern African Multi-disciplinary Team (SAMAT) Office in Harare, Zimbabwe to...
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Tarek Alkhoury
Regional Coordinator, Resource Efficiency and Sustainable Consumption and Production
Biography
Tarek Alkhoury brings over 8 years of experience in the fields of environment, urban planning and resource efficiency, five years of them have been in the UN System. In 2014, he joined UN-Habitat Headquarters in Nairobi to support Francophone African countries and Arab States in policies and programmes on housing...
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