Mr. Dana R. Younger, a renewable energy finance specialist, has joined GWEC as a Senior Advisor to help the organisation step up its efforts to accelerate investment in wind power, particularly in emerging markets. Younger will help GWEC develop stronger relationships with financial institutions and institutional investors that are most active in financing renewable energy.Younger has been involved in wind and solar project finance, corporate finance, mobilisation of private equity financing and support for development of the renewables supply chain for more than 25 years in his previous role as Chief Renewable Energy Specialist for the Global Power Team within the Global Infrastructure & Natural Resources Department of the International Finance Corporation (IFC), the private sector investment arm of the World Bank Group. Younger has helped IFC build a portfolio of more than US$ 5 billion in clean energy investments over the last two decades with an emphasis on building greenfield renewable energy projects in emerging market countries.
