An economist with over 30 years of international professional experience in promoting environmental sustainability.
Appointed in April 2014 as Director of the UN Environment Programme (UN Environment), Division of Technology, Industry and Economics - now known as the Economy Division. The Division works to shift economies from brown to green with a strategic focus on decarbonizing, decoupling, and detoxifying. In April 2021 was appointed Assistant Secretary General and Head of New York Office of UNEP