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Martin Krause is serving as Director, Climate Change Division. He has been working within the UN system for 30 years on climate, environment and energy issues, living in Asia, Africa, Latin America and Europe. Prior to joining UNEP, he was the Director in the Technical Cooperation Department at the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), where he was the substantive senior advisor on climate adaptation and responsible for quality assurance, communication and finance. From 2002 to 2015, Mr. Krause led the regional teams of UNDP on environmental, climate, and energy, based in Pretoria, Bangkok, and Istanbul. His main areas of expertise include climate policy and finance, energy access and renewable energy, and programme cycle management. He has worked extensively with global environmental funds, mobilizing resources, designing, implementing and monitoring technical cooperation projects with national governments. Krause started as a Junior Professional Officer in UNDP’s Argentina office in 1994, and in 1997, he moved to New York as the Monitoring and Evaluation Coordinator of the Environment Unit of UNDP. Later, he was involved in designing and implementing the first generation of climate adaptation programmes in Africa and pioneering climate finance approaches in rural renewable energy programmes. Krause obtained an MSc in Geography from the Free University of Berlin, a postgraduate degree in Development Policy from the German Development Institute and a BA in Political Sciences/International Relations.

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James Grabert is the Director of the Mitigation Division at the UNFCCC Secretariat, where he has worked for over two decades. In this role, he leads the secretariat’s work on market-based approaches to climate change mitigation and also provides strategic leadership for communication and engagement activities. Previously, he served as a greenhouse gas emissions specialist and participated in numerous expert groups of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Mr. Grabert holds a B.A. in Economics and International Relations from Wheaton College and a Master’s in International Economics from the Institut de Hautes Études Internationales in Geneva, and has completed postgraduate studies in management and development at institutions including Stanford University, the University of Navarra (IESE), London Business School, and Harvard University.

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Perumal Arumugam is the Manager of Markets and Non-Markets and Stakeholders Interaction subdivision in the mitigation division, providing strategic and policy advice on carbon markets, overseeing review of reports on cooperation of countries in Article 6, regulatory development for the Paris Agreement crediting mechanism, stakeholder interaction and capacity building on Article 6. He also coordinates the intergovernmental process on the implementation of Article 6. Perumal holds a degree in chemical engineering and a postgraduate degree in energy management.

Intergovernmental Negotiations and Stakeholder Interaction in the Mitigation Division of the UNFCCC Secretariat. He leads and supports the intergovernmental negotiations on international cooperative and market-related mechanisms under the Kyoto Protocol and Article 6 of the Paris Agreement and provides senior technical advice on issues such as quantifying mitigation benefits across sectors. He also manages capacity-building initiatives related to Article 6. Arumugam holds a degree in chemical engineering and a postgraduate degree in energy management.

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Dr. Karen Olsen (PhD) is Senior Advisor and Carbon Market Coordinator at the UNEP Copenhagen Climate Centre. She has 20+ years of research and work experience with climate and sustainable development in developing countries. Currently she is team lead for UNEP CCC’s carbon market activities ‘Supporting Preparedness for Article 6 Cooperation (SPAR6C), ‘Integrated Assessment for Article 6’ (IAA6), ‘Article 6 Pipeline’ and ‘Sustainable Development Initiative (SDI) on Implementation of Article 6 of the Paris Agreement under the UNFCCC’. She serves as subjective matter expert for the Integrity Council for the Voluntary Market (ICVCM) and has observed the UNFCCC negotiations on Article 6 for many years contributing to technical and policy dialogues. She was technical lead for the Initiative for Climate Action Transparency (ICAT) Transformational Change Methodology and co-lead for the ICAT Sustainable Development Methodology, currently supporting use of the Transformational Change Toolkit in four countries.

She holds a PhD in International Development Studies (2007) from Roskilde University, Denmark, a Master’s degree in Political Science and a Bachelors’ degree in Geography from University of Copenhagen.

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Jiajing Zhao is a Carbon Market Specialist providing science-based advice on GHG and SDG assessments, transformational impact assessments, carbon market governance, transparency in NDC implementation, and ITMO accounting and reporting under Article 6 of the Paris Agreement. He leads the development of the Article 6 Pipeline, a web-based platform providing open data and analysis of Article 6 implementation globally.

Before joining UNEP-CCC, he spent over 18 years working in the global carbon market, particularly contributing to its governance and regulatory advancement. Since 2010, he has worked with the UNFCCC Secretariat in support of the regulatory bodies of the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) and the Paris Agreement Crediting Mechanism (PACM). He managed certification cycles for over 1,000 GHG mitigation projects and supported NDC assessments for the NDC Synthesis Report. He serves on the roster of experts for CDM and PACM in the areas of methodology development, project assessment, accreditation of validation and verification bodies, and climate policy.

Since 2022, he has also advised the governance bodies of independent carbon crediting programmes worldwide, including the Global Carbon Council, Verra, and ICVCM. In parallel, he has expanded his work to include Paris Agreement alignment assessments for multilateral development banks and the evaluation of environmental and social impacts of financial instruments, including funds investing in Green, Social, Sustainability, and Sustainability-Linked (GSSS) bond markets.

He holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Tsinghua University in the area of green buildings and thermal engineering.

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Andi joined UNEP Copenhagen Climate Centre in January 2025. With over 10 years of professional experience, he has specialized in bridging the gap between financial mechanisms, climate action, and sustainable development.

At UNEP-CCC, through his expertise in carbon market governance, climate finance, and sustainable development, Andi supports developing countries and emerging markets to develop national policy frameworks, build carbon market databases for better transparency, and conduct integrated assessments of mitigation policies and actions to support the goals of the Paris Agreement and the 2030 Agenda. His current projects include the Article 6 Pipeline, Supporting Preparedness for Article 6 Cooperation (SPAR6C), and the Sustainable Development Initiative for Article 6 (SDI).

Before joining UNEP-CCC, Andi played a key role in supporting the design, operationalization and multilateral negotiations on the cooperative approaches under Article 6 of the Paris Agreement and the Clean Development Mechanism at the UNFCCC. He also previously worked with the ILO in the Asia Pacific region, focusing on frameworks to extend social protection initiatives to workers in the informal economy, particularly in the context of disaster risk reduction. Earlier in his career, Andi built a strong foundation in public sector governance and financial oversight in Australia.

Andi holds a MSc in Public Policy and Human Development from the United Nations University - Maastricht Graduate School of Governance and a Bachelor of Commerce from the University of Western Australia.

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Anna Giulia is a Carbon Market Programme Officer in the Markets section at the UNEP Copenhagen Climate Centre. Her focus is on carbon markets, Article 6 implementation, and carbon dioxide removal.

At UNEP-CCC Anna Giulia is one of the focal points in the Article 6 Pipeline work where she focuses on project classification, capacity building efforts, and development of the A6 Pipeline Platform. Her other projects include synergies between Article 6 and Article 13, including tracking of cooperative approaches, and she supports coordination for the UNEP Carbon Market Cluster and emerging efforts on carbon capture, utilization and removal.

Before joining the UNEP Copenhagen Climate Centre, Anna Giulia worked at McKinsey & Company as Carbon Market and Carbon Removal Knowledge Specialist – a role where she deepened her understanding of the VCM, Compliance markets and emerging technologies within the CDR space. She previously completed internships at the International Energy Agency and Istituto Affari Internazionali focusing on climate policy.

Anna Giulia holds a MSc in Environmental Economics and Climate Change from the London School of Economics, a Bachelor in Honours Economics from the University of British Columbia and a BA in Social Sciences from SciencesPo, Paris.