Staff
Jukka Uosukainen
Director
Mr. Jukka Uosukainen was nominated as the first Director of the CTCN. He has worked in the national and international environmental sector for more than two decades, chairing and facilitating various UN committees, including of the UNFCCC and UNEP. More recently, he served as the Special Envoy for Climate Change for the Government of Finland.
Rajiv Garg
Regional Manager - East and Southern Africa & West and Central Asia
Rajiv is managing CTCN activities in the East and Southern Africa and West and Central Asia region. Rajiv has over 23 years of experience in climate technology transfer in developing countries. Prior to joining CTCN, he was managing climate change mitigation programme of UN Environment in Asia and Pacific, and was the lead in design and implementation of the industrial energy efficiency based emission trading “Cap and Trade" scheme while working for Indian government. He has Masters in Engineering, PG certificate in Industrial Pollution Prevention and Control and is also a certified energy auditor and manager.
Jaime Webbe
Regional Manager, Asia-Pacific
Ms. Jaime Webbe leads CTCN’s work in Asia-Pacific and is the chief expert on climate change adaptation. Ms. Webbe previously worked as the head of UN Environment's Environmental Education Unit, including serving as the focal point for the UN Alliance on Climate Change Education, Training and Public Awareness. Jaime also served as the global coordinator for forest-based climate change mitigation (REDD+) for the UN Environment UN-REDD team and on adaptation as the programme officer for climate change within the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity. Earlier, Jaime worked as a sustainable land management project manager at the World Bank exploring the links between land management and climate change
Federico Villatico Campbell
Regional Manager - LAC, West and Central Africa
Federico is responsible for the CTCN’s mitigation technical assistance. Prior to joining CTCN he worked for several years on renewable energy, energy storage and sustainable transport sectors in academia, international organisations, and the private sector. His background is in mechanical engineering, complemented by a PhD in Energy Technologies for Sustainable Development.
Karina Larsen
Knowledge and Communications Manager
Karina is responsible for the CTCN’s communications and outreach strategy. She also manages the knowledge management system which aims to facilitate sharing of technology information among climate stakeholders. As Gender Focal Point, Karina advises and supports the Secretariat on the implementation of gender mainstreaming within CTCN operations.
Manfredi Caltagirone
Programme Officer
Manfredi is the UN Environment – CTCN liaison. He is responsible for collaborations with the Green Climate Fund and Multilateral Development Banks in addition to supporting capacity building activities. Prior to joining UN Environment, he worked as policy advisor on climate technologies at the Italian Ministry for the Environment. He has been a Research Fellow at the United Nations Foundation and at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at the Harvard Kennedy School. Manfredi holds a J.D. from the II University of Rome, and a MPA at the Harvard Kennedy School.
Giulia Ferrini
Associate Programme Officer
Giulia coordinates the development and implementation of CTCN capacity building activities. She has experience in the design, implementation and evaluation of climate change projects. Her experience led her to work with governments, international financing institutions, the private sector and not-for-profit organisations involved in climate change mitigation. Her background is in political science and international relations.
Nima Joshi
Finance & Administration
Nima is an MBA in International Management, with extensive experience in management reporting (implementation, revenue, cash flow etc.). She joined CTCN’s Finance and Administrative team since the beginning of its operation i.e., in February 2014. She works closely with the CTCN Director and other colleagues to ensure effective functioning, coordination, planning and monitoring of various activities and projects, including Finance (budgeting, reporting), Grants Management (Agreements with Partners, UN to UN Agreements).
Bibiana Sanchez
Programme Management Assistant
Bibiana supports the Climate Technology Centre’s financial and administrative team, ensuring effective functioning, coordination, planning and monitoring of the Centre’s activities and operations, including administrative activities related to meetings and forums, human resources, procurement and grants management. Bibiana has an Master of Science in Environmental Engineering from the Technical University of Denmark. In addition, she has a Master Certificate in Human Resources from Cornell University. Before joining the Centre, Bibiana worked for the World Health Organization and UNICEF Supply Division.
Sandra Bry
Adaptation Specialist- LAC, West and Central Africa
Since 2015, Sandra coordinates the design and implementation of CTCN requests coming from the LAC region and West and Central Africa in adaptation and combined adaptation-mitigation. Sandra is a lawyer by training, specialised in environmental law and risk management, and holds a PhD in international relations in environmental and development studies. Before joining the CTCN, Sandra worked on climate capacity building activities for 6 years at UNEP DTU Partnership.
Rahul Dusa
Secondee
Rahul is a secondee from the Energy and Resources Institute (TERI), India, where he works as an Associate Fellow with Industrial Energy Efficiency. He is also a Bureau of Energy Efficiency (BEE) Certified Energy Auditor. He has worked in national mechanisms to achieve Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDC) emission mitigation goals of multiple countries. Rahul has a Master's Degree in Renewable Energy Engineering and Management and a Bachelor's degree in Chemical Engineering. He supports CTCN's mitigation projects for Asia Pacific.
Emma Hannula
Adaptation Specialist, Asia-Pacific
Emma Hannula has over 10 years of working experience related to green building, sustainable urbanisation, disaster risk reduction, climate change, international networks and capacity building. As the climate change adaptation specialist for Asia-Pacific, Emma supports related technical assistance responses and capacity building projects in the region. She also provides expert guidance for projects related to energy efficient buildings
Irma Juskenaite
Communications Associate
Irma has more than 12 years experience in Public relations. She supports international communication activities of the CTCN. During her career Irma worked with high level politicians, well known international companies and NGOs on strategic communications planning, message development, media relations, she acted as a spokesperson for the Mayor of the capital of Lithuania too. Irma holds a Master’s degree in International Communications and a Bachelor of Journalism degree. She is pursuing her Executive MBA at Copenhagen Business School.
Agathe Laure
Climate Change Adaptation Specialist, East and Southern Africa & West and Central Asia
Agathe coordinates technical assistance and capacity building interventions of the CTCN to support countries from East and Southern Africa, and West and Central Asia adapt to climate change. Agathe holds Master’s degrees on International law, and on Environmental Policy and Sustainable Development and has more than seven years of experience coordinating and implementing projects for increasing costal resilience, sustainable agriculture, water resources management, and ecosystems conservation in Asia and Africa, including at the World Bank and FAO.
Elizabeth Mwangi
Capacity Building Associate, East and Southern Africa & West and Central Asia
Elizabeth supports the implementation of CTCN capacity building activities for African countries to build their climate resilience and adopt to low carbon development. She has a Master of Arts in Environmental Policy and a Bachelor of Science in Meteorology. Elizabeth has experience in research and projects on monitoring and evaluation (M&E). Prior to joining CTCN, she worked as a project manager in Integrated Green World Solutions where her project portfolio included environment and climate change and previously with the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit GmbH (GIZ) as a Research and M&E associate.
Sambit Nayak
Mitigation specialist, Asia-Pacific
Sambit is a clean energy and climate change professional with 11 years of experience in managing and delivering advisory assignments. Prior joining CTCN, he was working with United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) India as a Program Manager in the Chemicals and Waste Management vertical. He has also worked as a regional manager on clean energy and climate related projects for a climate change advisory firm in Thailand. Sambit is an engineer and MBA in Power Management from National Power Training Institute India. He is also a certified lead auditor in environment management system.
Judit Rodríguez
Mitigation Specialist - LAC, West and Central Africa
Judit supports the Latin America and the Caribbean group and the Francophone Africa group. She has experience in energy transition research in Rwanda in collaboration with the UNEP-DTU Partnership, and in renewable energy projects in the private sector in Sweden. Judit holds a Master’s degree in Energy Engineering from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (BarcelonaTech), and in Climate Change from the University of Copenhagen.
Shanar Tabrizi
Knowledge Management Specialist
Shanar supports the CTCN with regard to climate technology knowledge management, gender mainstreaming and partnerships. She has experience with research and projects on circular economy, waste management and renewable energy in Sweden, South Africa and Mozambique, and holds a Master’s degree in Environmental Engineering and a Master's in Sustainable Technology from the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm.
Abdel Karim Traore
Africa Regional Coordinator
Abdel is a renewable energy engineer with expertise in climate change. He has more than 15 years of professional experience including work related to the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) and carbon finance. Before joining the Climate Technology Centre, Abdel was Global Strategy Advisor and Multicountry Programme Lead at the Netherlands Development Organisation for off-grid solar. Abdel holds a Master of Science in New and Renewable Energy (Durham University, United Kingdom).
Scott Willis
Strategic Advisor
Scott is a climate change policy professional with seventeen years’ experience as a government advisor, lobbyist, policy director, project manager, and UN climate change and SDG negotiator for the Government of Canada. He advises the CTCN Director on UNFCCC-related technology policy issues, donor engagement, and matters related to the CTCN Advisory Board.
Ami Woo
Secondee
Ami is a secondee from the Green Technology Center (GTC) Korea. She has over 8 years of experience in international cooperation for the Korean government to promote the energy R&D and climate technology transfers. Ami holds a Master’s degree of Science in International Cooperation Policy and has completed a Master program in International Material Flow Management.
