Green Cities

Jan Pejter has long-term experience in managing energy efficiency projects and their financing. He focuses on energy audits for buildings and industry, economic and environmental evaluation of projects, energy management, national and international energy policy in the field of energy savings and renewable sources.

Jan has considerable experience on international projects for major International financial institutions (EBRD, EIB, UNEP, GEF), manages projects within the EU such as Horizon 2020. He works as a project manager of the EBRD credit lines for financing industrial energy efficiency, renewables, residential and municipal buildings in Slovakia (SlovSEFF and MunSEFF). As a Project manager, he participated in EBRD projects in the frame of “EBRD Green Cities” for Tbilisi (Georgia) and Lviv (Ukraine), credit lines for renewables and industry energy efficiency in Belarus (BelSEFF) and the implementation of the EU Directive on the Energy Performance in Buildings (EPBD) into Ukrainian legislation framework.

Veronika is an environmental consultant at ENVIROS, where she mainly deals with the analysis of climate change policies, ecosystem services and low-carbon energy. She gained her knowledge of EU legislation and European environmental and development policy at the European Commission’s REACH Unit, where she dealt with the authorization and restriction of the use of chemicals in the EU and also during her consulting activities in Brussels. She participated in the preparation of studies for the European Commission DG ENV and DG ENER and acted as a project coordinator for projects in developing countries in the sector of natural resource management, infrastructure and sustainable growth. Moreover, she has experience in Czech public administration and local government, gained in the Union of Towns and Municipalities of the Czech Republic and in the Czech Development Agency. 

Petr Dovolil is a public policy, regulatory, institutional and public procurement expert with more than 20 years of experience. Petr has an extensive knowledge and practice in EU-funded infrastructure projects, EU policies and law, international contractual standards, PPP and Czech private and public law. In the the last 7 years, he has been extensively involved in multitude EBRD infrastructure projects abroad, including 10 appointments as Team Leader under the EBRD Czech “GET Policy Framework – Water Window“ (Green Economy Transition) and project management leading role on behalf of Mott MacDonald on the „EBRD Green Cities Framework“. He currently focuses particularly on wider topics of sustainable urban development, green and digital transition and ESG (Environmental, Social and Governance) compliance.

Pavel Sitný has long-term experience in conceptual design and optimization of industrial and building management metering and control systems. He focuses on energy efficiency improving projects and implementation of energy management systems in various industrial sectors and in buildings, often in the segment of public and state institutions. Moreover, he is a certified energy auditor, dealing with energy audits particularly in industry. Mr. Sitný has experience of working in nearly all of the major industrial sectors (metallurgy, food & drink, automotive, pulp and paper, chemicals, plastics etc.).

He is a certified energy specialist of the Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Czech Republic and a holder for measurement and verification – CMVP. He´s been responsible for the preparation and implementation of major domestic and international projects In the field of financing and implementation of savings and the use of renewable and secondary energy sources. He has experience in implementation of projects within Horizon, Intelligent Energy Europe, SAVE, Altener.

Pavel is an environmental consultant with 19 years of experience in the field of environment with specific focus on industrial ecology, resource efficiency, sustainable consumption and production, circular economy and voluntary instruments. He has also worked on EBRD projects within the Green Cities programme.

He has worked in company ENVIROS for 9 years as environmental consultant and local and EU project manager. He focuses on management of international projects, policy advisory as well as implementation of projects in companies. He has been involved in a number of both national and multi-national projects focused on the above topics. Pavel is certified Manager for Sustainable Consumption and Production (SCP).

Strahinja is a doctor of science in the field of forest protection and ecology. During his studies, he focused on forest protection from climate change in Central Europe. He works as an operations manager for the environment and international projects at ENVIROS. His main focus is on biodiversity, ecosystem services and forest protection in general. Strahinja has many years of experience working on environmental projects funded by national and international development organizations and the private sector.

Natalia Anferova is a specialist in environmental protection and water management with a focus on waste and wastewater treatment, especially on sustainable sludge management. She has a broad experience in elaborating feasibility studies, environmental due diligence reports, action plans and innovative conceptional solutions, circular economy and urban development projects under the EBRD Green Cities Programme. She works on projects focusing on green and blue infrastructure improvements financed by international financial institutions, such as EBRD, UNDP and development agencies. She has been recently particularly involved in ESG (Environmental, Social and Governance) compliance management, including the EU Taxonomy.

Katerina provides consulting services at ENVIROS in the field of environmental protection with a focus on air quality and climate change. She is working on different projects which are supported by the EU Commission, national and international supporting programs. She has experience in developing training materials on innovative financing to support low carbon transition in EU and on air quality and emission reduction. Katerina is a Ph.D. candidate at the Faculty of environmental Technology, VSCHT.

Peter Kalaš is an expert with more than 35 years of experience in the field of energy and environmental projects in more than 60 countries. On behalf of Switzerland, he co-coordinated the pan-European World Bank “Environment for Europe” programme. He has been involved in the global climate agenda since 1996 when he became the director of the international programme “National Climate Strategies” on World Bank projects. Since his return to the Czech Republic, he held a position of Minister of Environment as well as a number of professional advisory positions at the Government Office, Ministry of Agriculture, Ministry of Finance and Ministry of the Environment focusing on climate and energy policies and strategies. He represents the Czech Republic in the Board of the Green Climate Fund and is Chairman of the Committee for Sustainable Energy and Transport within the Government Council for Sustainable Development. He was a co-founder of the Czech Business Council for Sustainable Development and an initiator or participant in a number of activities in partnership with business community. He has been recently appointed as a advisor to the Director of the State Environmental Fund of the Czech Republic for the implementation of the new European funds and the European Green Deal.

Maria Manidaki is a Chartered Engineer with 17 years experience in investment planning, design, carbon and asset management in the water industry. Maria has been specialising in carbon management, energy efficiency and renewable energy technologies and carbon reduction across the infrastructure value chain. Her experience has been mainly with water utilities and regulators advising on good practices, asset management strategies, low carbon technologies, business case development and technical assessments / due diligence of their investment plans. She currently has responsibility for co-ordinating cross-discipline skills in Mott MacDonald required for helping clients meet their net zero carbon ambitions. She has been recently leading a number of strategic net zero carbon and carbon management projects in the UK, such as the Water UK Net Zero Carbon Roadmap, New Zealand Watercare’s carbon baseline, UAE’s first asset owner for embedding PAS 2080 amongst others.