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.

Mayukh Hajra
Assistant Programme Director
Development Alternatives (DA)
Biography
Mayukh Hajra, assistant programme director at Development Alternatives, is a Masters in Zoology with over nine years of action-research and management experience in the design, administration and implementation of community based environment and development action programmes. His core expertise includes programme design and coordination, management and implementation, monitoring and evaluation...
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Medrilzam
Director for Environmental Affairs
Biography
Expertise
Mees van der Werf
Evaluation Consultant
Independent Evaluation Group (IEG)
Biography
Expertise
Megan Rowling
Climate Correspondent
Biography
Megan is a climate correspondent and editor with the Thomson Reuters Foundation, based in Barcelona. She specialises in humanitarian and development issues, including climate change, disasters and resilience. She has also worked for Reuters Television and the BBC, and written for a range of newspapers and magazines.
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Megha Sud
Coordinator, Clean Energy Transitions Programme
International Energy Agency (IEA)
Biography
Megha Sud is a policy researcher at the Environment Division of the OECD where she works with the biodiversity team. Her work at the OECD focusses on biodiversity and development (in particular, plans, strategies and policy instruments to mainstream biodiversity at the national and sector levels in a range of...
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Megumi Seki Nakamura
Executive Secretary
Vienna Convention for the Protection of the Ozone Layer and its Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer
Biography
Ms. Nakamura's work in ozone layer issues started in 1988. She worked in the interim ozone secretariat and was one of the three core staff members of the Ozone Secretariat when it was formally established in 1989. She was the first consultant that UNEP hired to prepare country programmes for...
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Melanie Ashton
Project Coordinator and Private Sector Engagement Specialist
Green Growth Knowledge Partnership (GGKP)
Biography
Melanie Ashton coordinates the Global Environment Facility (GEF) funded Implementing Sustainable Low and Non-Chemical Development in SIDS (ISLANDS), Coordination, Communication and Knowledge Management project. She also serves as the Private Sector Engagement Specialist for GEF ISLANDS, leading engagement activities with the shipping and cruise sectors on behalf of the ISLANDS...
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Mengwei Sha
Researcher
Beijing Institute of Finance and Sustainability
Biography
Mengwei Sha is a researcher at the Beijing Institute of Finance and Sustainability. Her primary research focuses are climate transition policies, financial products, and climate risk analysis. Previously, she worked at the UNDP Financial Centres for Sustainability and at the British embassy in China.
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Mercedes Marcano
Research Associate
Smart Prosperity Institute (SPI)
Biography
Mercedes Marcano has a BA in Liberal Studies from Universidad Metropolitana in Venezuela and a Master's in Public and International Affairs from the University of Ottawa. While living in Venezuela she worked and volunteered for a number of environmental NGOs, primarily focusing on water and forest conservation and awareness campaigns...
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Meredith Root-Bernstein
Post Doctoral Researcher, Department of Bioscience, Aarhus University
Biography
Meredith Root-Bernstein is an interdisciplinary conservation scientist with a PhD in Ecology and several years' experience working with human geographers and anthropologists. Her research focuses on conservation and restoration of anthropogenic mediterranean-climate socio-ecological systems. At the Aarhus University Research on the Anthropocene (AURA), she has been working on developing interdisciplinary...
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