Ari Huhtala
Senior Environmental Specialist
Ari is an economist from Finland and has spent most of his life in development work, first in the field of industrial development and technology/investment promotion and then specializing in environmental financing issues. His experience includes working with the UNDP in Hanoi and Dhaka, and has been in-charge of programs on Asian LDCs in UNIDO headquarters in Vienna. He has been the UNIDO Representative for Thailand, Cambodia and Lao PDR, manager for cleaner production financing at UNEP Paris, environmental advisor to the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland, and Team Leader for a KfW environmental credit line in Indonesia. For the last three years he has worked at the Environment Department of the World Bank in Washington DC, leading a cluster on climate finance, as well as focal point for UN cooperation and joint activities in green economy and preparations for Rio+20.
