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Daniel Magallon
Managing Director
daniel.magallon(at)energy-base.org
Daniel Magallon has ample knowledge of renewable energy and energy efficiency. He holds a BSc. in Civil Engineering, an MBA from ITESM, Monterrey, Mexico, and a MSc in renewable energy managed by the European Renewable Energy Centre EUREC in cooperation with the University of Zaragoza in Spain and the University of Kassel in Germany. He is currently working on financing mechanisms and risk mitigation instruments, including debt and equity finance of projects, third party financing models, as well as insurance products. His extensive experience includes the coordination of numerous construction projects, accounting, financial analysis and fundraising.
Daniel is part of the coordination team involved in the research activities under UNEP/GEF/IDA/Worldbank Assessment of Financial Risk Management FRM (Instruments for Renewable Energy Projects in developing countries), and he has participated in various international seminars on sustainable energy. At the moment he is developing a SEFI strategy to engage financial institutions in financing sustainable energy projects in Latin America countries and Africa.
Jamie Brown
Project Director
jamie.brown(at)energy-base.org
Jamie joined BASE in 2007 to manage the design, establishment, and initial operation of what is now the UNEP Sustainable Energy Finance Alliance, or "SEF Alliance". This remains the only convening body in the international system for public finance agencies in the clean energy sector. After its formal launch in 2008, Jamie served as Founding Head of Secretariat for the first 2.5 years of SEF Alliance operations. Jamie's current projects include an effort to engage with the global finance policy system on sustainability, in collaboration with the UNEP Finance Initiative and IISD. She is also a member of the Advisory Committee of the Public Banking Institute.
Jamie received the U.S. Presidential Scholar's medallion from President Bill Clinton in 1999. She holds an MSc with Distinction in Development Management from the London School of Economics (LSE) and a BA Summa Cum Laude in International Development and Music from Tulane University in New Orleans. She also received the University of Oxford's St. Hilda's College Prize and the New Orleans Mayoral Fellowship. She worked previously for the US Agency for International Development (USAID) in Nicaragua on environmental impact mitigation after Hurricane Mitch and in Colombia on local governance and democracy building. She later worked in international trade and small business development for the New Orleans Mayor's Office and, immediately prior to joining BASE, for a private investment company in London that finances health infrastructure for the UK government. She has over ten years' experience living in developing countries (mainly Kenya, Honduras and Guatemala).
Sandra Makinson
Consultant
sandra.makinson(at)energy-base.org
Sandra has worked with BASE since 2001 on international clean energy finance. She has highly specialised expertise in public financing mechanisms and investment strategies for sustainable energy. Her experience includes implementing and managing numerous international projects in the sustainability sector, from clean energy bankers training to micro financing models for renewable energy in developing countries. She was the main author of the first series of UNEP/BASE Sustainable Energy Finance Initiative (SEFI) publications on public financing for sustainable energy. Sandra holds an advanced degree in Applied Environmental Studies from the University of Waterloo (Canada). She is quadrilingual in English, French, Spanish, German; fluent Portuguese. Nationality: Canadian.
Wolfgang Mostert
Consultant
Wolfgang is an independent consultant working out of Copenhagen. He has 30 years of experience in developing policy, regulatory and finance frameworks for energy and environment in more than 70 countries. Mr. Mostert has advised and written extensively on finance instruments for clean energy and has been an invited guest speaker on the topic at various conferences worldwide. He has been lead consultant for developing national subsidy policies and manuals for renewable energy and rural electrification in Nepal, Uganda, Cambodia, Philippines and developed specific finance solutions and instruments in a number of countries, e.g. a Climate Technology Innovation Fund for Kenya, an OBA-scheme for reduction of distribution losses in Uganda, the design of the first two PPPs in Latvia, the concept for community based ESCOs in Nepal, feed-in-tariffs for biomass-based cogeneration in Côte d’Ivoire and in Sri Lanka (minor revisions to a scheme already adopted), and a CDM-report for Danish industrial investors. He has developed methodologies for integrating environmental externalities in economic analysis and was keynote speaker on the subject of “Interaction of Energy and Climate Policy” at the first Colombian inter-ministerial climate change workshop in Bogota, June 2008. Relevant publications include “Publicly-backed Guarantees as Instruments for Promoting Clean Energy”, published by UNEP SEFI in 2010; and the report “Financing Renewable Energy: Instruments, Strategies, Practice and Approaches”, published by KfW in 2005.
Ruth Leibundgut
Backoffice Manager
Hannes Degen
IT Specialist
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