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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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Benoit Lefevre
Senior Climate Change Specialist
Biography
Benoit Lefevre is a Senior Climate Change Specialist at the Climate Change division of the Inter-American Development Bank. His work focuses on transport, cities and efficient use of concessional finance. Previously, Benoit worked for the World Resources Institute (WRI) as Director of Energy & Climate & Finance of the Center...
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Bernard Brès
Director, Technopark, International Institute for Water and Environmental Engineering
Biography
Bernard Brès (born in 1965 in Gap, France) is an engineer, an aggregate teacher in technology and a third cycle graduate in international relationships. As a specialist of training engineering, Bernard spent more than a half of his career in Sub-Saharan Africa, managing projects aiming to develop professionalization in higher...
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Bernd Oellermann
Director of Regional Industrial Development
Biography
Bernd Oellermann is director in Regional Industrial Development at the Department of Industry, Trade and Competition (dtic), where he has been working on SEZ’s and industrial parks since 2014. His work involves strategy, planning, policy, implementation and programme management covering a full spectrum from oversight, performance management and M&E to...
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Bernd Wagner
Chairman, German Association for Sustainable Finance (VfU)
Biography
Prof. Dr. Bernd Wagner is a Scientific Director at the Environmental Science Centre, University of Augsburg (WZU) and Chairman of the German Association for Sustainable Finance (VfU). He headed the Management Training Centre at the University of Augsburg (ZWW) until 2007. He has also worked as a professor at the...
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Beth Offenbacker
Founder
Waterford
Biography
Beth Offenbacker, PhD, CPCC, is a strategic engagement expert with more than 20 years’ experience working with public agencies, private firms, and nonprofits/NGOs on a broad variety of stakeholder processes, projects, and issues. She has local, state, regional, national, and international experience. Her work includes projects in the areas of...
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Betsy Otto
Global Director, Water
World Resources Institute (WRI)
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Bettina Heller
Programme Officer, Consumption and Production Unit
United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
Biography
Bettina Heller is a Programme Officer in the United Nations Environment Programme’s Consumption and Production unit, where she coordinates the portfolios on eco-innovation/ sustainable business, with a focus on SMEs, and on circularity in the textile value chain. Previously, Bettina led projects in the area of consumer information, in particular...
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Betty Mkatshwa
Senior Analyst
South African Competition Commission
Betty Mkatshwa, South African Competition Commission
Biography
Betty is a South African qualified competition lawyer, with a Master of Laws Degree in Competition Law from the Queen Mary University of London (2019). Betty is also a 2018/2019 Chevening Alumni. While Betty has primarily practiced competition law in South Africa, she also has Australian competition law experience, working...
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Bharath Jairaj
Director, Energy Program
Biography
Bharath Jairaj leads WRI India’s Energy program, which seeks to inform and catalyse India’s transition to clean energy through increased use of renewable energy and energy efficiency. The program also seeks to enhance access to reliable and affordable energy such that it leads to socio-economic development in the country. He...
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Bhavna Choudhury
Founder and Principal Coordinator
The Indegenous
Bhavna Choudhury
Biography
A graduate of Ecole Polytechnique and Georiga Institute of Technology, Bhavna is an avid defender of indigenous peoples rights. She belongs to the Tai-Ahom community of Assam from her mother's side. After a consultancy at the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific developing policies for...
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