I Interviews and Insights

Nah-yoon Shin has a Master of Science in Urban Planning from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.). She worked as a researcher on Clean Energy City project in China and Korea Environment Institute where she helped the Korean Ministry of Environment to manage the Seoul Initiative Network on Green Growth jointly with the UNESCAP. She was also one of the main contributing authors to “A Practitioner's Handbook for Eco-Industrial Parks” jointly written by the WBG, UNIDO and GIZ. She has more than 8 years of research and operational experience in the area of sustainable and resilient urban industrial development. Currently, Nah-yoon is a senior consultant at the WBG's Finance, Competitiveness and Innovation Global Practice. One of her main tasks is to provide advisory support to client countries to enhance competitiveness of their manufacturing industries through eco-industrial park projects and measures to improve industrial resilience.

Petra Schwager is the Chief of Energy Technologies and Industrial Applications Division of UNIDO. She has more than 20 years of experience in the development and management of industrial resource efficiency and cleaner production programs in developing countries and economies in transition. In her position at UNIDO, she collaborates with the public sector, the private sector, NGOs and the academic world to promote policies and models of sustainable and inclusive production. She continuously explores innovative concepts to respond to the emerging needs of the industry, particularly SMEs, and provides strategic and technical advice on different aspects of resource efficiency, sustainable industrial parks and circular economy. She studied economics at the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration, Austria, and Social Sciences and Environmental Management at the University of London in United Kingdom. She is co-author of the 'UNIDO International Guide for Industrial Parks'.