Andrew Ocama

Andrew is a seasoned sustainable development professional with more than 15 years experience in the carbon markets. He currently serves as the Coordinator of the Eastern Africa Alliance on Carbon markets and Climate Finance and leads efforts to strengthen readiness for carbon markets and access to climate finance across government and private sector as well. He has served in several carbon asset development management and consulting roles and has led teams to remarkable degrees of measurable success in both the VCM and compliance mechanisms. He has also recently served as an embedded Climate Finance Advisor in the Ethiopian government under the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change. He is driven by a strong desire to establish systems that will enable African countries to gainfully and justly participate in carbon markets and leverage the opportunities for sustainable development provided through climate finance.