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Education: MPA Columbia, MA SOAS/London
Jan is a visiting senior associate at the Center for Global Development and is an independent economic consultant. He works with CGD President Nancy Birdsall and the climate change team on issues of climate change and development.
Before joining CGD, Jan worked as an assistant to the Chief Economist of the World Bank, revising lending programs and covering, among other issues, climate change. While at the World Bank, Jan also advised on the financial structure of the Pneumo AMC, CGD’s brainchild.
From 2002-2003, he worked as a Research Expert for the UN Office on Drugs and Crime in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. For UNODC, he coordinated the establishment of a Coordination and Analysis Unit for the Regional Office for Central Asia, with the mandate to build research capacity and support strategic planning of interventions. Short-term assignments have taken him to UNDP and Amnesty International.
Jan holds Master’s degrees in International Relations from the University of London’s School of Oriental and African Studies, and in Public Administration from Columbia University, where he was a German Marshall Fund Scholar. Currently, he is pursuing a PhD at Oxford, working on environmental and development economics.
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Would an Advance Market Commitment work in climate finance? CGD visting senior associate Jan von der Goltz joined a panel on Advance Market Commitments (AMCs) at the Marketplace on Innovative Financial Solutions for Development in Paris, March 4, 2010. (For a round-up of the best ideas from the...
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With the Copenhagen climate talks finally underway, a CGD survey of 500 development and climate aficionados in 88 countries finds unexpected agreement about what should be done—and important differences between respondents from developed and developing countries about how an agreement should be...
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What do developing countries want from global climate negotiations? A new CGD working paper by Jan von der Goltz outlines the negotiating stances of the developing world’s major emitters ahead of December talks in Copenhagen. It shows that developing countries have floated compromises on key...
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With the Copenhagen climate talks finally underway, a CGD survey of 500 development and climate aficionados in 88 countries finds unexpected agreement about what should be done—and important differences between respondents from developed and developing countries about how an agreement should be...
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What do developing countries want from global climate negotiations? A new CGD working paper by Jan von der Goltz outlines the negotiating stances of the developing world’s major emitters ahead of December talks in Copenhagen. It shows that developing countries have floated compromises on key...
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Would an Advance Market Commitment work in climate finance? CGD visting senior associate Jan von der Goltz joined a panel on Advance Market Commitments (AMCs) at the Marketplace on Innovative Financial Solutions for Development in Paris, March 4, 2010. (For a round-up of the best ideas from the...
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It's One Climate Policy World Out There--Almost - Working Paper 195
- Dec 7, 2009
With the Copenhagen climate talks finally underway, a CGD survey of 500 development and climate aficionados in 88 countries finds unexpected agreement about what should be done—and important differences between respondents from developed and developing countries about how an agreement should be...
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