Olivier Mukarj

Olivier Mukarj

Consultant

Olivier Mukarji is an accomplished development and climate financing practioner and mediator  with over  20 years experience identifying climate smart solutions with high ROI for low, middle and high income countries engaged with tackling challenges at the intersection of development, humanitarian, and security sectors. He has served as an advisor in several mediation and peace processes across the Arab and African regions.  

Through his Denmark based consultancy firm, OAM Consult,  he provides advisory support to governments,  International  Development Finance Institutions, philanthropies and the private sector  to  advance sustainable returns on investment . His focus is on identifying holistic development pathways  that leverage the comparive advantages of public and private partners  by blending knowledge, innovation and finacning that are tailored to specific client busines cases. This helps ensure that less people and ecosystems behind. He does this through a unique approach to susatinablity that is underpinned by four inter-dependent outcomes: economic development that safeguards land, water, and biodiveristy. He has co-authored a recently published white paper for FAO on these topics that are informing forthcoming regional investment potofolios in the MENA and Sahel regions by the UN, MDBs and the League of Arab States, and the private sector.

Currently he is support the World Bank and partners in designing operational guidance to strengthen inclusive data ecosystems underpinned by Symbiotic Intelligence - blending AI and human intelligence – that optimize and build trust around data collection and analysis to more effectively and efficiently incentivize collection action targeting conflict prevention.