Ms. Aneta Slaveykova Nikolova is an accomplished sustainable development professional with extensive experience in policy analysis, development and advocacy, capacity development, and technical assistance to developing countries and countries with economies in transition in Europe, Africa, and Asia and the Pacific. Ms. Nikolova has a broad educational background with degrees in Scientific Information Management, Hydrogeology and Engineering Geology (Engineer) and European Politics and Administration.

Ms. Nikolova has been leading a regional capacity evelopment programme on green growth since 2005 when the approach was adopted at the 5th Ministerial Conference on Environment and Development for Asia and the Pacific (March 2005) till 2014, including through e-learning course on Low Carbon Green Growth available on SDG Help Desk e-learning platform- https://sdghelpdesk-elearning.unescap.org/

Ms. Nikolova champions an integrated approach to the implementation of the SDGs with climate action and green post-COVID recovery in the Asia-Pacific member States. From 2017, Ms. Nikolova leads the ESCAP’s Climate Action Theme with focus on climate finance, enhancing implementation and reporting to Paris Agreement, and enabling ambitious NDC reviews and implementation. Recent publications in December 2020 include Progress of NDC implementation - https://www.unescap.org/resources/progress-ndc-implementation-asia-pacific-framework-and-preliminary-findings and a Guidebook for Accelerating Paris Agreement Implementation - https://www.unescap.org/kp/2021/accelerating-implementation-paris-agreement-asia-pacific.