Having worked for over twenty years in corporate and public finance and banking, Marko Markov is a financial expert with extensive experience in developing, implementing and coordinating international and European energy efficiency (EE) and renewable energy (RE) projects. When serving as the deputy executive director of the Bulgaria Energy Efficiency Fund (BgEEF), he was responsible for assessing loan applications, making risk analyses and structuring EE-project transactions, selecting appropriate financial instruments and maintaining a constructive relationship with the various entities in the EE sector of Bulgaria; as a result, he gained strong expertise in developing and launching financial EE and RE products.Over the years, Mr. Markov has gained much international experience from having worked in over 30 countries in Europe, the MENA region, Sub-Saharan Africa, Asia, and the Caribbean to help design and implement climate and sustainable energy finance related projects or programs. He boasts on extensive experience in: design, marketing and reporting for green financing products to meet defined environmental eligibility criteria and writing the resulting Operations Manuals for banks and other financial institutions; marketing strategies and implementation plans; developing monitoring and reporting tools by synthesizing financing data from banks, energy/GHG savings data of financed investments; designing green finance eligibility assessment tools and information checklists. Mr. Markov has also developed and delivered a number of sustainable energy finance training programs for bank officers in several developing countries.In the early years of his career, Mr. Markov held various financial-management positions for several banks in Bulgaria, including the Tokuda Bank (as the head of the corporate and retail banking division), the Unicredit Bulbank (as a senior relationship manager in the public finance division), and the Raiffeisenbank (as the corporate lending officer and team leader).