Martina Otto
Position: Head of the Energy and Transport
Policy Unit
Responsibilities:
-Coordination of the Energy and Transport Policy Unit
-Activities related to modern forms of bioenergy
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Biography:
Martina Otto is the Head of the Energy and Transport Policy Unit
and oversees the development and implementation of UNEP's energy
and transport policy related activities. She is responsible for
the interagency aspects of this work and for creating synergies
between different projects carried out in this unit. She manages
UNEP's activities related to modern forms of bioenergy, especially
biofuels, and is a member of the Technical Committee of the Global
Bioenergy Partnership.
From 2004 - September 2006 Martina worked as the Executive Assistant
to the Executive Director in UNEP's Headquarters in Nairobi. Prior
to this, she was a Programme Officer in UNEP's Energy Branch, coordinating
UNEP's work in the area of Sustainable Mobility as well as two of
UNEP's voluntary initiatives with the private sector, the Mobility
Forum and the Global e Sustainabilty Initiative.
Before joining UNEP, Martina worked on 'Trade and Environment'
and 'Economic Instruments in the Area of Environmental Protection'
with the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, the
European Commission and the Foundation for International Environmental
Law and Development. She also worked with the US Law firm Cleary,
Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton on environmental due diligence in
the context of mergers and acquisitions.
Martina is a fully qualified lawyer (Erstes and Zweites Staatsexamen,
Frankfurt/Main, Germany) and holds an LLM from London University
in International Environmental Law.
Contacts:
Direct phone: 33 1 44 37 46 91
Fax: 33 1 44 37 14 74
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