RESP Team

RESP Team

Our globally integrated network of experts bring unique and immense experience to our client needs and project(s).

Our team is made of up of managers, engineers, scientists, and regulatory experts that brings knowledge of international best practices and demonstrated abilities that enable our clients comply with applicable international, national, local standards and regulations. With these, we support our clients’ capability to reduce their risks, liabilities and costs while identifying opportunities to enhance both their environmental performances and profitability margins.

Our team is specialized in providing technical advisory services on resource management, environmental engineering and industrial efficiency to clients. Our experts have good understanding on issues relating to manufacturing challenges, sensitive ecosystems, health and safety imperatives, community concerns, regulatory compliance and business viability.

At RESP Solutions we do far more than gather and analyze data. We go further to delivering actionable recommendations and sustainable solutions – for our clients and the communities in which we live and work around the country. our aim is to exceed the expectations of our clients and continue to contribute to their success even as they compete effectively and make profit.

Michael Fegerl

Director, RESP Solutions.

Jesse Ojobor

Managing Director, RESP Solutions.

Simeon Umukoro

Director, RESP Solutions.

Dr. Johannes Fresner

Principal Expert

Sandeep Pahal

Climate Finance Expert

Ikechukwu Mbachu

Senior Research Specialist

Michael Fegerl

Michael Fegerl has over 30 years of professional and hands-on experience in Industrial Resource Efficiency. As an experienced specialist in ISO 14001, ISO 5001, and the European Union’s Eco-Management and Audit Scheme (EMAS), he has also carried out countless cleaner production assessments in leading manufacturing companies in Europe and Asia regions. He was among the team of specialists that were responsible for the design, development, training and implementation of the European flagship methodology for Resource Efficiency and Cleaner Production (RECP) in the early 1990s.

Michael as shareholder and one of the board of directors, heads the Division of International Business Partnership, Innovational and Best Technology Transfer of RESP Solutions.

Ikechukwu Mbachu

Ikechukwu Mbachu obtained his M.Sc. degree in Environmental Resource and Management. Currently, He is a Doctoral candidate in Environmental and Resource Management at the chair of Environmental Planning, Brandenburg University of Technology, Germany.

He is a consummate socio-environmental scientist with strong analytical skills in climate change studies, vulnerability assessment, impact assessment, integrated water resource management, evaluation and sustainable management of natural resource.

Ike has more than decade long extensive experience in field-based scientific and strategic research in different fields. He has worked as a consultant/expert on several projects with the World Bank, UNIDO and other international organizations. He is well versed in quantitative analytical research and proficient with a variety of statistical and analytical tools such as SPSS, MATLAB, R, etc.

He is a very experienced GIS consultant with a proven track record of over seven years of invaluable experience in domestic and international consultancy and management. His expertise in GIS, includes advanced satellite image processing, land cover mapping and related accuracy assessment; time-series analysis; land use optimization and allocation model design; Environmental risk assessment; spatial decision support model design; web-based mapping application deployment, etc.

Ike possesses comprehensive knowledge and understanding of project management, technical issues and financial practices. He has adequate knowledge in several project management tools, such as the MS Projects. He has a consistent track record of successfully delivering full lifecycle projects to the highest technical standards.

Ike has very good demonstrated interpersonal skills that enable effective working relationships with multiple stakeholders such as government officials, key manufacturing stakeholders, civil society partners, and national/international funding organizations.

He has also worked as Deputy Chief of Party in a high-level mineral mining sector capacity development project in Nigeria. Ikechukwu Mbachu has also published some academic articles and presented research papers in several academic conferences worldwide. 

Sandeep Pahal

Sandeep Pahal is an international circular economy and green finance expert with over 12 years of experience in policy design, implementation and evaluation. He is currently Managing Partner of “puREsource partners” after several years of cleantech and sustainability services experience with major consulting firms (such as EY and Deloitte in Paris, France).

Sandeep provides cross-functional team leadership and direction on environmental policy support to governments, industry and business on energy access, renewable energy, energy efficiency, ecodesign, industrial emissions, environmental labelling, waste management and resource efficiency.

Sandeep is a leading European Sustainability Expert having worked in more than 20 countries and having led several high-profile projects (50+) for clients such as World Bank, European Commission (various DG’s), EuropeAid, ADEME, DEFRA, UNIDO, IFC, IEA, EBRD, UNEP, UNDP, GGGI, AfDB, AFD, RECHARGE and RESCoop. He has extensive experience in a range of consultation methods and tools, including online questionnaires, stakeholder workshops and focus groups, face-to-face and telephone interviews, email contact, and the investigation of specific case studies.

Sandeep holds a bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi and a master’s degree in Environment and Energy Management from an academic cooperation between Ecole des Mines de Nantes, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM) and Kungliga Tekniska högskolan (KTH) Stockholm.

Sandeep is fluent in English and has working knowledge of French.

 

Ikechukwu Mbachu

Ikechukwu Mbachu obtained his M.Sc. degree in Environmental Resource and Management. Currently, He is a Doctoral candidate in Environmental and Resource Management at the chair of Environmental Planning, Brandenburg University of Technology, Germany.

He is a consummate socio-environmental scientist with strong analytical skills in climate change studies, vulnerability assessment, impact assessment, integrated water resource management, evaluation and sustainable management of natural resource.

Ike has more than decade long extensive experience in field-based scientific and strategic research in different fields. He has worked as a consultant/expert on several projects with the World Bank, UNIDO and other international organizations. He is well versed in quantitative analytical research and proficient with a variety of statistical and analytical tools such as SPSS, MATLAB, R, etc.

He is a very experienced GIS consultant with a proven track record of over seven years of invaluable experience in domestic and international consultancy and management. His expertise in GIS, includes advanced satellite image processing, land cover mapping and related accuracy assessment; time-series analysis; land use optimization and allocation model design; Environmental risk assessment; spatial decision support model design; web-based mapping application deployment, etc.

Ike possesses comprehensive knowledge and understanding of project management, technical issues and financial practices. He has adequate knowledge in several project management tools, such as the MS Projects. He has a consistent track record of successfully delivering full lifecycle projects to the highest technical standards.

Ike has very good demonstrated interpersonal skills that enable effective working relationships with multiple stakeholders such as government officials, key manufacturing stakeholders, civil society partners, and national/international funding organizations.

He has also worked as Deputy Chief of Party in a high-level mineral mining sector capacity development project in Nigeria. Ikechukwu Mbachu has also published some academic articles and presented research papers in several academic conferences worldwide. 

Dr. Johannes Fresner

Dr. Johannes Fresner is a Chemical and Process Engineer. He has carried out multiple process analysis and process optimization with the special emphasis on resource efficient and cleaner production, energy efficiency, implementation of environmental and energy management systems (according to ISO 14001 and 50001). He has provided high level advisory to more than 800 companies and implemented technical and developmental projects in 40 countries, among them Ukraine, Russia, India, China, South Korea, South Africa, Brazil and Columbia.

Johannes has over 30 years of professional hands-on experience in the following industrial sectors: steel production and processing, pulp and paper, chemicals, pharmaceuticals, food processing and beverages, plastic processing, wood processing, and energy generation.

Johannes’ research focuses on the implementation of material/resource efficient and cleaner production and energy efficiency and has more than 50 peer reviewed papers, 2 books, and four book chapters.

Johannes is a certified ECOPROFIT consultant and highly recognized trainer who has designed, reviewed and further developed training modules on Resource Efficient and Cleaner Production methodologies and practices, Environmental Management Systems EMS), Energy Management Systems (EnMS) for various industries, UN organizations, and National Governments including their ministries, departments and agencies.

Sandeep Pahal

Sandeep Pahal is an international circular economy and green finance expert with over 12 years of experience in policy design, implementation and evaluation. He is currently Managing Partner of “puREsource partners” after several years of cleantech and sustainability services experience with major consulting firms (such as EY and Deloitte in Paris, France).

Sandeep provides cross-functional team leadership and direction on environmental policy support to governments, industry and business on energy access, renewable energy, energy efficiency, ecodesign, industrial emissions, environmental labelling, waste management and resource efficiency.

Sandeep is a leading European Sustainability Expert having worked in more than 20 countries and having led several high-profile projects (50+) for clients such as World Bank, European Commission (various DG’s), EuropeAid, ADEME, DEFRA, UNIDO, IFC, IEA, EBRD, UNEP, UNDP, GGGI, AfDB, AFD, RECHARGE and RESCoop. He has extensive experience in a range of consultation methods and tools, including online questionnaires, stakeholder workshops and focus groups, face-to-face and telephone interviews, email contact, and the investigation of specific case studies.

Sandeep holds a bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi and a master’s degree in Environment and Energy Management from an academic cooperation between Ecole des Mines de Nantes, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM) and Kungliga Tekniska högskolan (KTH) Stockholm.

Sandeep is fluent in English and has working knowledge of French.

 

Ikechukwu Mbachu

Ikechukwu Mbachu obtained his M.Sc. degree in Environmental Resource and Management. Currently, He is a Doctoral candidate in Environmental and Resource Management at the chair of Environmental Planning, Brandenburg University of Technology, Germany.

He is a consummate socio-environmental scientist with strong analytical skills in climate change studies, vulnerability assessment, impact assessment, integrated water resource management, evaluation and sustainable management of natural resource.

Ike has more than decade long extensive experience in field-based scientific and strategic research in different fields. He has worked as a consultant/expert on several projects with the World Bank, UNIDO and other international organizations. He is well versed in quantitative analytical research and proficient with a variety of statistical and analytical tools such as SPSS, MATLAB, R, etc.

He is a very experienced GIS consultant with a proven track record of over seven years of invaluable experience in domestic and international consultancy and management. His expertise in GIS, includes advanced satellite image processing, land cover mapping and related accuracy assessment; time-series analysis; land use optimization and allocation model design; Environmental risk assessment; spatial decision support model design; web-based mapping application deployment, etc.

Ike possesses comprehensive knowledge and understanding of project management, technical issues and financial practices. He has adequate knowledge in several project management tools, such as the MS Projects. He has a consistent track record of successfully delivering full lifecycle projects to the highest technical standards.

Ike has very good demonstrated interpersonal skills that enable effective working relationships with multiple stakeholders such as government officials, key manufacturing stakeholders, civil society partners, and national/international funding organizations.

He has also worked as Deputy Chief of Party in a high-level mineral mining sector capacity development project in Nigeria. Ikechukwu Mbachu has also published some academic articles and presented research papers in several academic conferences worldwide. 

Simeon Umukoro

Simeon Umukoro, is an International Trade Expert, specialized in Quality Infrastructure, he is certified to Quality Management System as per ISO 9001:2015, also Certified to Food Safety Management Systems as per ISO22000:2018 International Standard; a statistician, an economist and a trained project monitoring & evaluation expert. Simeon has worked in Malaysia, Kenya, Senegal, Cote D’ Ivoire, Ghana, & Nigeria supporting international trade.

He has held several managerial positions of which two were in a Forbes 500 company, in a career that spans over 16 years of public and private sector work, in manufacturing, consulting service, international trade facilitation and developmental work with the United Nation Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) and the Department for International Trade, of the Foreign and Common Wealth Office (FCO).  At the Trade, Investment & Innovation Unit of UNIDO, he was pivotal in the development and establishment of Nigeria’s National Quality Infrastructure; establishing Nigeria’s first ILAC (International Laboratory Accreditation Cooperation) recognized accreditation body, NiNAS (Nigeria National Accreditation Service), established number of Nigerian owned conformity assessment bodies, specialized in systems, personnel and product certifications.

Dr. Johannes Fresner

Dr. Johannes Fresner is a Chemical and Process Engineer. He has carried out multiple process analysis and process optimization with the special emphasis on resource efficient and cleaner production, energy efficiency, implementation of environmental and energy management systems (according to ISO 14001 and 50001). He has provided high level advisory to more than 800 companies and implemented technical and developmental projects in 40 countries, among them Ukraine, Russia, India, China, South Korea, South Africa, Brazil and Columbia.

Johannes has over 30 years of professional hands-on experience in the following industrial sectors: steel production and processing, pulp and paper, chemicals, pharmaceuticals, food processing and beverages, plastic processing, wood processing, and energy generation.

Johannes’ research focuses on the implementation of material/resource efficient and cleaner production and energy efficiency and has more than 50 peer reviewed papers, 2 books, and four book chapters.

Johannes is a certified ECOPROFIT consultant and highly recognized trainer who has designed, reviewed and further developed training modules on Resource Efficient and Cleaner Production methodologies and practices, Environmental Management Systems EMS), Energy Management Systems (EnMS) for various industries, UN organizations, and National Governments including their ministries, departments and agencies.

Sandeep Pahal

Sandeep Pahal is an international circular economy and green finance expert with over 12 years of experience in policy design, implementation and evaluation. He is currently Managing Partner of “puREsource partners” after several years of cleantech and sustainability services experience with major consulting firms (such as EY and Deloitte in Paris, France).

Sandeep provides cross-functional team leadership and direction on environmental policy support to governments, industry and business on energy access, renewable energy, energy efficiency, ecodesign, industrial emissions, environmental labelling, waste management and resource efficiency.

Sandeep is a leading European Sustainability Expert having worked in more than 20 countries and having led several high-profile projects (50+) for clients such as World Bank, European Commission (various DG’s), EuropeAid, ADEME, DEFRA, UNIDO, IFC, IEA, EBRD, UNEP, UNDP, GGGI, AfDB, AFD, RECHARGE and RESCoop. He has extensive experience in a range of consultation methods and tools, including online questionnaires, stakeholder workshops and focus groups, face-to-face and telephone interviews, email contact, and the investigation of specific case studies.

Sandeep holds a bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi and a master’s degree in Environment and Energy Management from an academic cooperation between Ecole des Mines de Nantes, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM) and Kungliga Tekniska högskolan (KTH) Stockholm.

Sandeep is fluent in English and has working knowledge of French.

 

Ikechukwu Mbachu

Ikechukwu Mbachu obtained his M.Sc. degree in Environmental Resource and Management. Currently, He is a Doctoral candidate in Environmental and Resource Management at the chair of Environmental Planning, Brandenburg University of Technology, Germany.

He is a consummate socio-environmental scientist with strong analytical skills in climate change studies, vulnerability assessment, impact assessment, integrated water resource management, evaluation and sustainable management of natural resource.

Ike has more than decade long extensive experience in field-based scientific and strategic research in different fields. He has worked as a consultant/expert on several projects with the World Bank, UNIDO and other international organizations. He is well versed in quantitative analytical research and proficient with a variety of statistical and analytical tools such as SPSS, MATLAB, R, etc.

He is a very experienced GIS consultant with a proven track record of over seven years of invaluable experience in domestic and international consultancy and management. His expertise in GIS, includes advanced satellite image processing, land cover mapping and related accuracy assessment; time-series analysis; land use optimization and allocation model design; Environmental risk assessment; spatial decision support model design; web-based mapping application deployment, etc.

Ike possesses comprehensive knowledge and understanding of project management, technical issues and financial practices. He has adequate knowledge in several project management tools, such as the MS Projects. He has a consistent track record of successfully delivering full lifecycle projects to the highest technical standards.

Ike has very good demonstrated interpersonal skills that enable effective working relationships with multiple stakeholders such as government officials, key manufacturing stakeholders, civil society partners, and national/international funding organizations.

He has also worked as Deputy Chief of Party in a high-level mineral mining sector capacity development project in Nigeria. Ikechukwu Mbachu has also published some academic articles and presented research papers in several academic conferences worldwide. 

Jesse Ojobor

Jesse is an International Expert in Natural Resource Management (including water, energy and input resource), Industrial Resource Efficiency, Wastewater Management, Water Efficiency, Pollution/Contamination Management and Circular Economy models.

Jesse has undergone training in Industrial Value Chains Diagnostic, UNIDO’s Computer Model for Feasibility Analysis and Reporting (COMFAR), and certification courses in ISO 14001:2015 Auditor/Lead Auditor – Environmental Management Systems (EMS) –, and ISO 5001 Energy Management Systems (EnMS).

As a shareholder and Managing Director of RESP Solutions, Jesse heads the Business Development Division for industrial agglomerations, institutions and government MDAs in South-South and South-East regions of Nigeria.

Simeon Umukoro

Simeon Umukoro, is an International Trade Expert, specialized in Quality Infrastructure, he is certified to Quality Management System as per ISO 9001:2015, also Certified to Food Safety Management Systems as per ISO22000:2018 International Standard; a statistician, an economist and a trained project monitoring & evaluation expert. Simeon has worked in Malaysia, Kenya, Senegal, Cote D’ Ivoire, Ghana, & Nigeria supporting international trade.

He has held several managerial positions of which two were in a Forbes 500 company, in a career that spans over 16 years of public and private sector work, in manufacturing, consulting service, international trade facilitation and developmental work with the United Nation Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) and the Department for International Trade, of the Foreign and Common Wealth Office (FCO).  At the Trade, Investment & Innovation Unit of UNIDO, he was pivotal in the development and establishment of Nigeria’s National Quality Infrastructure; establishing Nigeria’s first ILAC (International Laboratory Accreditation Cooperation) recognized accreditation body, NiNAS (Nigeria National Accreditation Service), established number of Nigerian owned conformity assessment bodies, specialized in systems, personnel and product certifications.

Dr. Johannes Fresner

Dr. Johannes Fresner is a Chemical and Process Engineer. He has carried out multiple process analysis and process optimization with the special emphasis on resource efficient and cleaner production, energy efficiency, implementation of environmental and energy management systems (according to ISO 14001 and 50001). He has provided high level advisory to more than 800 companies and implemented technical and developmental projects in 40 countries, among them Ukraine, Russia, India, China, South Korea, South Africa, Brazil and Columbia.

Johannes has over 30 years of professional hands-on experience in the following industrial sectors: steel production and processing, pulp and paper, chemicals, pharmaceuticals, food processing and beverages, plastic processing, wood processing, and energy generation.

Johannes’ research focuses on the implementation of material/resource efficient and cleaner production and energy efficiency and has more than 50 peer reviewed papers, 2 books, and four book chapters.

Johannes is a certified ECOPROFIT consultant and highly recognized trainer who has designed, reviewed and further developed training modules on Resource Efficient and Cleaner Production methodologies and practices, Environmental Management Systems EMS), Energy Management Systems (EnMS) for various industries, UN organizations, and National Governments including their ministries, departments and agencies.

Sandeep Pahal

Sandeep Pahal is an international circular economy and green finance expert with over 12 years of experience in policy design, implementation and evaluation. He is currently Managing Partner of “puREsource partners” after several years of cleantech and sustainability services experience with major consulting firms (such as EY and Deloitte in Paris, France).

Sandeep provides cross-functional team leadership and direction on environmental policy support to governments, industry and business on energy access, renewable energy, energy efficiency, ecodesign, industrial emissions, environmental labelling, waste management and resource efficiency.

Sandeep is a leading European Sustainability Expert having worked in more than 20 countries and having led several high-profile projects (50+) for clients such as World Bank, European Commission (various DG’s), EuropeAid, ADEME, DEFRA, UNIDO, IFC, IEA, EBRD, UNEP, UNDP, GGGI, AfDB, AFD, RECHARGE and RESCoop. He has extensive experience in a range of consultation methods and tools, including online questionnaires, stakeholder workshops and focus groups, face-to-face and telephone interviews, email contact, and the investigation of specific case studies.

Sandeep holds a bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi and a master’s degree in Environment and Energy Management from an academic cooperation between Ecole des Mines de Nantes, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM) and Kungliga Tekniska högskolan (KTH) Stockholm.

Sandeep is fluent in English and has working knowledge of French.

 

Ikechukwu Mbachu

Ikechukwu Mbachu obtained his M.Sc. degree in Environmental Resource and Management. Currently, He is a Doctoral candidate in Environmental and Resource Management at the chair of Environmental Planning, Brandenburg University of Technology, Germany.

He is a consummate socio-environmental scientist with strong analytical skills in climate change studies, vulnerability assessment, impact assessment, integrated water resource management, evaluation and sustainable management of natural resource.

Ike has more than decade long extensive experience in field-based scientific and strategic research in different fields. He has worked as a consultant/expert on several projects with the World Bank, UNIDO and other international organizations. He is well versed in quantitative analytical research and proficient with a variety of statistical and analytical tools such as SPSS, MATLAB, R, etc.

He is a very experienced GIS consultant with a proven track record of over seven years of invaluable experience in domestic and international consultancy and management. His expertise in GIS, includes advanced satellite image processing, land cover mapping and related accuracy assessment; time-series analysis; land use optimization and allocation model design; Environmental risk assessment; spatial decision support model design; web-based mapping application deployment, etc.

Ike possesses comprehensive knowledge and understanding of project management, technical issues and financial practices. He has adequate knowledge in several project management tools, such as the MS Projects. He has a consistent track record of successfully delivering full lifecycle projects to the highest technical standards.

Ike has very good demonstrated interpersonal skills that enable effective working relationships with multiple stakeholders such as government officials, key manufacturing stakeholders, civil society partners, and national/international funding organizations.

He has also worked as Deputy Chief of Party in a high-level mineral mining sector capacity development project in Nigeria. Ikechukwu Mbachu has also published some academic articles and presented research papers in several academic conferences worldwide. 

Linda Apkami

Linda is an experienced development specialist with a demonstrated history of working in the environmental services industry. She is a certified World Bank Environmental and Social Framework Consultant (ESF), an auditor of ISO 14001:2015 Environmental Management Systems (EMS) and ISO 45001:2018 Occupational Health and Safety (OH&S) management system, Linda has robust knowledge of Environmental and Social Safeguards, ESMF, ESIA, ESMP.
She has supervised several project teams in conducting environmental assessments, environmental policies and plans development, waste management, erosion management, flood assessment, rain-water harvesting, WASH, Gender Equality, Waste to Wealth, Climate Change mitigation and adaptation across key sectors.

Linda as shareholder and one of the board of directors of RESP Solutions and heads the Business Development Division for industrial agglomerations, institutions and government MDAs in the North West, North Central and North East region.

Jesse Ojobor

Jesse is an International Expert in Natural Resource Management (including water, energy and input resource), Industrial Resource Efficiency, Wastewater Management, Water Efficiency, Pollution/Contamination Management and Circular Economy models.

Jesse has undergone training in Industrial Value Chains Diagnostic, UNIDO’s Computer Model for Feasibility Analysis and Reporting (COMFAR), and certification courses in ISO 14001:2015 Auditor/Lead Auditor – Environmental Management Systems (EMS) –, and ISO 5001 Energy Management Systems (EnMS).

As a shareholder and Managing Director of RESP Solutions, Jesse heads the Business Development Division for industrial agglomerations, institutions and government MDAs in South-South and South-East regions of Nigeria.

Simeon Umukoro

Simeon Umukoro, is an International Trade Expert, specialized in Quality Infrastructure, he is certified to Quality Management System as per ISO 9001:2015, also Certified to Food Safety Management Systems as per ISO22000:2018 International Standard; a statistician, an economist and a trained project monitoring & evaluation expert. Simeon has worked in Malaysia, Kenya, Senegal, Cote D’ Ivoire, Ghana, & Nigeria supporting international trade.

He has held several managerial positions of which two were in a Forbes 500 company, in a career that spans over 16 years of public and private sector work, in manufacturing, consulting service, international trade facilitation and developmental work with the United Nation Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) and the Department for International Trade, of the Foreign and Common Wealth Office (FCO).  At the Trade, Investment & Innovation Unit of UNIDO, he was pivotal in the development and establishment of Nigeria’s National Quality Infrastructure; establishing Nigeria’s first ILAC (International Laboratory Accreditation Cooperation) recognized accreditation body, NiNAS (Nigeria National Accreditation Service), established number of Nigerian owned conformity assessment bodies, specialized in systems, personnel and product certifications.

Dr. Johannes Fresner

Dr. Johannes Fresner is a Chemical and Process Engineer. He has carried out multiple process analysis and process optimization with the special emphasis on resource efficient and cleaner production, energy efficiency, implementation of environmental and energy management systems (according to ISO 14001 and 50001). He has provided high level advisory to more than 800 companies and implemented technical and developmental projects in 40 countries, among them Ukraine, Russia, India, China, South Korea, South Africa, Brazil and Columbia.

Johannes has over 30 years of professional hands-on experience in the following industrial sectors: steel production and processing, pulp and paper, chemicals, pharmaceuticals, food processing and beverages, plastic processing, wood processing, and energy generation.

Johannes’ research focuses on the implementation of material/resource efficient and cleaner production and energy efficiency and has more than 50 peer reviewed papers, 2 books, and four book chapters.

Johannes is a certified ECOPROFIT consultant and highly recognized trainer who has designed, reviewed and further developed training modules on Resource Efficient and Cleaner Production methodologies and practices, Environmental Management Systems EMS), Energy Management Systems (EnMS) for various industries, UN organizations, and National Governments including their ministries, departments and agencies.

Sandeep Pahal

Sandeep Pahal is an international circular economy and green finance expert with over 12 years of experience in policy design, implementation and evaluation. He is currently Managing Partner of “puREsource partners” after several years of cleantech and sustainability services experience with major consulting firms (such as EY and Deloitte in Paris, France).

Sandeep provides cross-functional team leadership and direction on environmental policy support to governments, industry and business on energy access, renewable energy, energy efficiency, ecodesign, industrial emissions, environmental labelling, waste management and resource efficiency.

Sandeep is a leading European Sustainability Expert having worked in more than 20 countries and having led several high-profile projects (50+) for clients such as World Bank, European Commission (various DG’s), EuropeAid, ADEME, DEFRA, UNIDO, IFC, IEA, EBRD, UNEP, UNDP, GGGI, AfDB, AFD, RECHARGE and RESCoop. He has extensive experience in a range of consultation methods and tools, including online questionnaires, stakeholder workshops and focus groups, face-to-face and telephone interviews, email contact, and the investigation of specific case studies.

Sandeep holds a bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi and a master’s degree in Environment and Energy Management from an academic cooperation between Ecole des Mines de Nantes, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM) and Kungliga Tekniska högskolan (KTH) Stockholm.

Sandeep is fluent in English and has working knowledge of French.

 

Ikechukwu Mbachu

Ikechukwu Mbachu obtained his M.Sc. degree in Environmental Resource and Management. Currently, He is a Doctoral candidate in Environmental and Resource Management at the chair of Environmental Planning, Brandenburg University of Technology, Germany.

He is a consummate socio-environmental scientist with strong analytical skills in climate change studies, vulnerability assessment, impact assessment, integrated water resource management, evaluation and sustainable management of natural resource.

Ike has more than decade long extensive experience in field-based scientific and strategic research in different fields. He has worked as a consultant/expert on several projects with the World Bank, UNIDO and other international organizations. He is well versed in quantitative analytical research and proficient with a variety of statistical and analytical tools such as SPSS, MATLAB, R, etc.

He is a very experienced GIS consultant with a proven track record of over seven years of invaluable experience in domestic and international consultancy and management. His expertise in GIS, includes advanced satellite image processing, land cover mapping and related accuracy assessment; time-series analysis; land use optimization and allocation model design; Environmental risk assessment; spatial decision support model design; web-based mapping application deployment, etc.

Ike possesses comprehensive knowledge and understanding of project management, technical issues and financial practices. He has adequate knowledge in several project management tools, such as the MS Projects. He has a consistent track record of successfully delivering full lifecycle projects to the highest technical standards.

Ike has very good demonstrated interpersonal skills that enable effective working relationships with multiple stakeholders such as government officials, key manufacturing stakeholders, civil society partners, and national/international funding organizations.

He has also worked as Deputy Chief of Party in a high-level mineral mining sector capacity development project in Nigeria. Ikechukwu Mbachu has also published some academic articles and presented research papers in several academic conferences worldwide. 

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