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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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Detlef Schreiber
Group leader of Environment, Biodiversity, Forest
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH
Biography
Dr Detlef Schreiber is Group leader of Environment, Biodiversity, Forest at Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH. He has more than 30 years of experience in the area of environmental policy, climate, geosciences and resource management in Germany / Europe, North Africa, the Middle East, Asia, and Latin America...
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Dev Appalswamy
Director Capacity Development, Corporate Services and Operations
Dev Appalswamy
Biography
Dev Appalswamy is the Director of Capacity Development, Corporate Services and Operations at the National Productivity and Competitiveness Council (NPCC), Mauritius.
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Dheeraj Kumar Gupta
Project Associate, Energy
World Resources Institute (WRI)
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Biography
Dheeraj is a Project Associate with the Energy Program in WRI India. He is based in Ranchi and supports the work in Jharkhand to improve access to reliable, affordable and sustainable energy for all. He engages with government and non-government stakeholders in rural and climate vulnerable areas with solutions and...
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Dhruba Purkayastha
Director
Dhruba Purkayastha
Biography
Dhruba Purkayastha is CPI’s India Director, where he leads and guides the Delhi team in developing innovative finance and policy solutions in support of the renewable energy and green growth plans of the Government of India. Dhruba is also the Director of US-India Clean Energy Finance (USICEF), for which CPI...
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Dhruvak Aggarwal
Research Analyst
Council on Energy, Environment and Water (CEEW)
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Biography
Dhruvak Aggarwal is a Research Analyst at the Council on Energy, Environment and Water (CEEW). He was a co-author of the official Stockholm+50 Youth Report, ‘ Charting a Youth Vision for a Just and Sustainable Future’, along with eleven other early career researchers from CEEW and the Stockholm Environment Institute...
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Diana Mangalagiu
Professor, the Environmental Change Institute
University of Oxford
Biography
Diana Mangalagiu is Professor at the Environmental Change Institute, University of Oxford, UK and Neoma Business School, France. She has a dual background, in both natural sciences (Ph.D. Artificial Intelligence, Ecole Polytechnique, MSc Physics) and social sciences (MSc Sociology, MSc Management). Diana has over 15 years of experience in sustainability...
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Dimitra Xynou
Policy Analyst, Environment Directorate
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Biography
Dimitra Xynou is a Policy Analyst at OECD’s Environment Directorate. Her work focuses on the gender-environment nexus, and on mainstreaming gender equality and women’s empowerment in environmental policies. She is contributing on publications on the gender-environment nexus and on a gender-sensitive green recovery, as well as on developing gender-environment indicators...
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Dimitris Diakosavvas
Senior Economist, Environment Division, Trade and Agriculture Directorate, OECD
Biography
Dimitris Diakosavvas is a Senior Economist in the Environment Division of the OECD Trade and Agriculture Directorate, where he has worked since 1989. His main areas of expertise are in agricultural, trade and environmental policy and the measurement and evaluation of agricultural policies. Dimitris is currently in charge of the...
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Dina Abdelhakim
Gender Coordinator, Economy Division
United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
Dina Abdelhakim
Biography
Dina Abdelhakim joined the Chemicals and Health Branch as part of the Special Programme Secretariat in 2018, where she managed the portfolio of projects from the Africa region. In addition, she implemented the Secretariat’s communications and knowledge management strategy. More recently she has also been supporting the interim Secretariat of...
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Dina Subkhankulova
PhD Student, University College London Energy Institute
Biography
Dina Subkhankulova is a third year PhD student at the Energy Institute of University College London (UCL). Her research interests include investigating the implications of the decentralisation of energy resources and the new business models these could open up to the energy companies as a result. She studied Physics at...
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