Rowan PALMER

Lead Sustainable Infrastructure Investment Team, Economic and Trade Policy Unit, Industry and Economy Division, UN Environment Programme (UNEP)

Rowan Palmer is a Programme Management Officer at the UN Environment Programme’s Resources and Markets Branch in Geneva, where he has worked since 2014. Rowan leads the branch’s Sustainable Infrastructure Team, which aims to promote and build capacity for needs-based, systems-level, integrated approaches to sustainable infrastructure development. Prior to joining UNEP Rowan worked for five years as an environmental manager for large-scale transportation infrastructure projects in his home province of British Columbia, Canada.  Rowan holds a bachelor’s degree in international development and Environment Studies from McGill University in Montreal and a Master’s degree in International Relations from Instituto de Empresa in Madrid. 

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