MIDDLE EAST 2026 SPEAKER

Ivano Iannelli, Chief Sustainability Officer, Green Economy Partnership

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Ivano is widely acknowledged as the GCC’s foremost expert in the fields of national GHG inventories, Carbon Markets legislative compliances, and overall Sustainability. He is a founder and Board Director of the ESG Foundation and a subject matter expert in green economy and low carbon pathways from an economic standpoint. His primary work is with governments and corporate clients to develop long-term economic scenarios that help them understand the risks and opportunities that the transition to a low-carbon economy could bring to their operations. Whilst many focus on environment, Ivano’s expertise links the Social and Governance to achieve a comprehensive approach towards global best practices. Ivano currently serves as Chief Sustainability Officer at the Green Economy Partnership, originating ITMOs and climate-tech infrastructure for the Global South in compliance to the Paris Agreement. He was the Senior Advisor to the CEO of Emirates Global Aluminium, the world’s 3rd largest aluminium producer, on Decarbonization, ESG and Carbon Border Adjustment mechanism (CBAM). As EGA is going to IPO, the role was to ensure that EGA ranks among the top Aluminium Smelters in its ESG rating (Sustainalytics). Currently EGA is 2nd best worldwide from 5th when it started its ESG journey.

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The Green Economy Partnership (GEP) was launched in 2015 as an initiative in line with the United Arab Emirates national green economy strategy “Green Economy for Sustainable Development”. Initially known as the Dubai Green Economy Partnership, GEP was the first Public-Private Partnership program in the Middle East region that aims to enable and support green trade and investment growth across national, regional and global markets. The founding members include leading government and private organisations and GEP is expanding its member base and global partnerships to create new opportunities for governments, cities, businesses and diverse stakeholders who pursue and work to drive sustainable and green economic growth. GEP is a not for profit and now has now its own legal entity and facilitates transactions on a global level that leverages economies of scales to facilitate the transition to a low carbon economy. GEP has developed blockchain infrastructure that is provided free of cost to the Government where it operates to compile National Inventories, BTR and National Registry in line with its origination and environmental finance capabilities focused on compliance markets (ITMOs, CORSIA, IMO and more).

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