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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Maxine Jordan
Energy Efficiency & Buildings
International Energy Agency (IEA)
Biography
Maxine Jordan leads the energy efficiency in buildings and cooling work within the IEA’s Energy Efficiency in Emerging Economies (E4) Programme. After several years working as a building services and environmental design consultant in London specialised in high performance buildings, Maxine moved to Brazil to work in one of the...
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Maya Valcheva
Associate Programme Officer Green and Circular Economy, Division for Planet
United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR)
Biography
Maya is green economy learning specialist with UNITAR’s Green Development and Climate Change Programme Unit where she focuses on country-specific and global capacity development projects in the area of the green economy, circular economy and climate change. Maya is passionate about using partnership approaches, social innovation and collaborative learning to...
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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
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Mees van der Werf
Evaluation Consultant
Independent Evaluation Group (IEG)
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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)
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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
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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Meivol Brito
Administrative and Financial Associate, FARM Ecuador
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
Meivol Brito
Biography
Meivol is the Administrative and Financial Associate of the FARM Project in Ecuador, implemented by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). Meivol has extensive experience in the administrative and financial management of sustainable development and environmental projects . Her work focuses on supporting project planning , budget execution , procurement...
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Latin America & the Caribbean
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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