Katia Simeonova

With more than 35 years of experience in energy, environment and climate change issues, Dr. Katia Simeonova has worked as co-ordinator of the Subsidiary Body for Implementation, and Deputy Director and manager in the Transparency division of the UNFCCC secretariat in Bonn Germany. She was also in charge of providing strategic oversight and policy guidance on the reporting and review processes under the Convention and the Kyoto Protocol, and analysis of climate policies, and of overseeing the shaping of the transparency framework under the Paris Agreement, conducting analysis of climate policies and co-operating with other intergovernmental organisations.Prior to joining the UNFCCC Secretariat, Dr. Simeonova worked as a senior scientist and policy analysts, dealing with analysis, modelling and implementation of energy and climate change mitigation policies in the national context. She worked on climate change challenges in an international context, mainly with international institutions, such as the Global Environmental Facility, United Nations Development Programme and the World Bank. She was an IPCC lead author for the Special Report on Technology Transfer and for her contribution to the IPCC work, she was awarded a Nobel Prise Diploma. Dr. Simeonova has a PhD on energy policy from the Moscow University on Power Engineering and a master’s degree in international relations from the Fletcher School for Law and Diplomacy, to Tufts University, USA. As of March 2021, she works as an independent researcher on research projects and papers with the World Resource Institute, OECD, World Climate Commission and the Wuppertal Institute on Climate and Energy. She has also continued to contribute to the influential UNEP Emissions Gap Report, as a member of its Steering Committee for over 10 years.