Professional Experience:
I am a high-performing and client-facing global low-carbon/net-zero, green/blue economy, climate-resilience & human health, and M-SME development visionary - with extensive envi-ronmental/climate policy formulation, climate impact and carbon development nexus, IWM resilience and carbon advisory service expertise, and inter-agency public-private partnership building across APAC, LAC, CARICOM, Africa, MENA, EU, and N. America regions.
Stellar Resource Mobilization: Under my strategic thought leadership, I have lever-aged/managed US$470+ Mn. in creative grant, commercial, IFI concessional loan, government, corporate, & E-NGO co-financing for 91 countries; and their transformational ESG investments.
Extensive Global Networking
1. Multilateral Development Banks: Asian Dev’t Bank (ADB) – APAC; World Bank Group – Andes/Bhutan; Inter-American Dev’t Bank – Mesoamerica; European Bank for Reconstruc-tion & Development (EBRD) – UK; and International Finance Corporation (IFC) – Tajiki-stan.
2. Inter-Governmental Institutions: Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN); Asso-ciation of Small Island States (AOSIS); EU Commission (DG Grow, DG INTPA, DG Clima, DG Enviro); USAID; Organisation for American States (OAS); OECD.
3. UN Dependencies: World Health Organization (WHO); UNFAO; UNDP; UNEP; UNESCO; UNFCCC..
4. Global Financing Facilities: EU Commission; Green Climate Fund (GCF); Adaptation Fund (AF); Global Environment Facility (GEF/SCCF/CIF); Japan Special Fund.
Diverse Sectoral Expertise: I am well-versed in: (i) climate-resilient critical infrastructure & integrated coastal zone management/fisheries; (ii) net-zero decarbonisation, M-SME circular economy, renewable energy (wind/solar/geothermal/hydrogen/hydropower), cleantech investment identification & financing; (iii) AFOLU carbon foot printing and food security; (iv) Nature-based biodiversity adaptation design, including green (land) & blue (marine/coastal) economy investment innovation; (v) corporate/institutional climate & environmental safeguards, & just transition policy; (vi) Vulnerability & Risk Assessments (VRAs); Portfolio at Risk Assessments; and, (vii) SDG, Paris Agreement & Sendai compliance.
Environmental Professional Certifications (EP): EP - Energy; EP - Natural Resource Mgmt; and EP – Env. Sustainability (EP); GHG Verification Training ISO 14064/14065.
Given the UN’s Code Red for Humanity Declaration, I can strategically assist host government, civil society, IFI, and corporate partners to: boldly accelerate scalable green/blue economy, nature-based climate/disaster-resilient critical policies, and circular & low carbon, and democratic governance practices and investments, for a just transition.