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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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
Megumi Seki Nakamura
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
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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)
Mercedes Marcano - Smart Propserity Institute
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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Meriem Hamdi-Cherif
Research Fellow
International Research Center on Environment and Development (CIRED)
Meriem Hamdi-Cherif
Biography
Meriem Hamdi-Cherif is a research fellow at CIRED and expert in long-term modeling assessment of the transition to low carbon economies, in particular for developing countries. She is member of the E3 modeling team IMACLIM-R. She studies the interactions between energy, economy and environment; the choice of climate policy instruments...
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Merritt Hughes
Doctoral Student of Public Policy, John W. McCormack Graduate School of Public Policy and Global Studies, University of Massachusetts, Boston
Biography
Merritt Hughes is a doctoral candidate in Public Policy at the McCormack Graduate School of Public Policy and Global Studies, University of Massachusetts, Boston. She worked for the U.S. Department of Agriculture as a Senior Economist on topics including energy and climate change, rural development and agricultural finance. Merritt has...
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Mervyn E. King
Senior Counsel and former Judge of the Supreme Court of South Africa
Biography
Mervyn King is a Senior Counsel and former Judge of the Supreme Court of South Africa. He is Professor Extraordinaire at the University of South Africa on Corporate Citizenship, Honorary Professor at the Universities of Pretoria and Cape Town and a Visiting Professor at Rhodes. Mervyn King is currently a...
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Michael Ehst
Business Incubation Specialist
Biography
Mike is a Business Incubation Specialist with infoDev and joined the team after working with infoDev's Climate Technology Program, focusing on launching the Kenya Climate Innovation Center. Before joining infoDev, Mike worked for the Africa region of the World Bank focused on lending and research related to innovation policy. Previously...
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Michael Franz
Team Leader, GET.Invest Programme
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH
Biography
Michael Franz is currently based in Brussels as the Team Leader of GET.invest, a European programme funded by the EU, Germany, the Netherlands, Sweden and Austria, that aims at mobilising investment in energy projects and companies. Over the past 13 years his work and interests have evolved around the nexus...
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