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.

Diana Cabrera
Monitoring, Evaluation and Gender Specialist, FARM Ecuador
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
Biography
Diana is the Monitoring, Evaluation, and Gender Specialist of the FARM Project in Ecuador, implemented by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). Diana has over fifteen years of professional experience in environmental and social projects, with a strong focus on monitoring and evaluation systems and the mainstreaming of gender considerations...
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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
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)
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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Dirk Messner
Director of the German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut fuer Entwicklungspolitik
Biography
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Dirk Röttgers
Researcher, Policy Analyst
Biography
Dirk Röttgers has worked in the field of energy economics and climate mitigation policy for more than 10 years, more than 3 of which as policy analyst for the OECD. His current work focusses in particular on empirical analysis of finance, investment and innovation in green infrastructure as well as...
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Dirk Willem te Velde
Climate and Development Knowledge Network (CDKN)
Biography
Dr Dirk Willem te Velde is the head of the International Economic Development Group of The Overseas Development Institute (ODI) in the United Kingdom. He is currently leading the European Report on Development 2014 on Financing and other Means of Implementation in a post-2015 world (having previously led ERD2012), is...
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Diying Wu
JD candidate
University of Ottawa
Biography
Diying is a JD candidate at the University of Ottawa’s Faculty of Law currently serving as a Work-Study Student at the Smart Propserity Institute. She holds a BA from Mount Holyoke College and an MA from the University of Chicago in Latin American Studies. Diying is originally from Shanghai, China...
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