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.

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Kang Chen
Programme Management Intern, Green Growth Knowledge Platform
Biography
Kang Chen is a Programme Management Intern at the Green Growth Knowledge Platform (GGKP) secretariat based in Geneva, Switzerland. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Sociology from the Shanghai University in China, and graduated with a Master’s degree in Urban Economic Development at the University College London in Britain. Currently...
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Kanwal Nayan Singh
Research Professional
The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI)
Biography
Mr. Kanwal Nayan Singh is a research professional at The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI), New Delhi and a visiting faculty at TERI University. His research interest areas include green growth strategies from the perspectives of natural resource management, climate change, smart growth and socio- economic dimensions. He has research...
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Karen Ellis
Director of Sustainable Economy
Biography
Karen Ellis is Director of Sustainable Economy at WWF UK, and leads a cross-organisational programme of work focusing on how to transform the economic system for sustainability, including workstreams on sustainable finance, sustainable development and sustainable economic policy. She is an economist with 25 years’ experience in the public and...
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Karla Gonzalez Carvajal
Transport and ICT Practice Manager for South Asia
Karla Gonzalez Carvajal
Biography
Karla Gonzalez Carvajal, a Costa Rican national, is currently the Transport and ICT Practice Manager for South Asia at the World Bank Group. Ms. Gonzalez previously served at the Public Works and Transportation Ministry in Costa Rica, first as the Undersecretary (2002-2004) and later as the Secretary (2006-2009). During her...
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Karsten Steinfatt
Counsellor
World Trade Organization (WTO)
Biography
Karsten Steinfatt has been with the Trade and Environment Division of the WTO Secretariat since 2011. He supports the work of the WTO's regular and negotiating committees on trade and environment, including through research and analysis of relevant economic issues. Between 2002 and 2011, Karsten was with the WTO's Trade...
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Karthik Ganesan
Senior Research Associate, Council on Energy, Environment and Water (CEEW)
Biography
Karthik Ganesan is a Senior Research Associate at CEEW, India. He leads the research efforts in the area of energy access and the future energy consumption pathways of rural India, and the opportunities for industrial energy efficiency gains. His focus has been to bring quantitative techniques from other domains, such...
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Kartikeya Sarabhai
Founder Director, Centre for Environment Education (CEE)
Biography
Mr. Kartikeya Vikram Sarabhai is the Founder Director of the Centre for Environment Education (CEE), established in 1984 as a Centre of Excellence of the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEF&CC), Government of India. Mr. Sarabhai is on several committees formed by UNESCO for the Decade of Education...
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Kate Medlicott
Team Leader, Water, Sanitation, Hygiene and Health Unit
World Health Organization (WHO)
Biography
Kate Medlicott is the Sanitation and Wastewater Team leader within the WASH team at the World Health Organization headquarters in Geneva Switzerland. Within this role, Kate is responsible for WHO’s normative work translating evidence to policy and practice through WHO guidelines and health sector collaborations where sanitation is a critical...
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Kate Newman
Vice President for Sustainable Infrastructure and Public Sector Initiatives
World Wildlife Fund (WWF)
Biography
As World Wildlife Fund (WWF) Vice President for Sustainable Infrastructure and Public Sector Initiatives, Kate Newman specializes in policy development and large-scale conservation planning focused on nature-positive infrastructure in Africa, Asia and Latin America. For over thirty years with WWF, Kate has helped WWF country teams and their partners in...
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Kate Raworth
Senior Research Associate, Environmental Change Institute,
University of Oxford
Professor of Practice
Biography
Kate Raworth is a renegade economist focused on exploring the economic mindset needed to address the 21st century’s social and ecological challenges, and is the creator of the Doughnut of social and planetary boundaries. She is a Senior Research Associate at Oxford University’s Environmental Change Institute, where she teaches on...
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