Megesh Tiwari, Senior Technical Manager, Industrial Program, provides technical expertise on offset project review and verification oversight for ACR projects. He also contributes to the development and approval of innovative ACR GHG emissions reduction quantification methodologies and verification strategies for carbon markets. Megesh has nearly two decades of experience in climate change, clean energy, clean transportation and international development and has managed projects in 12 countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America. He previously worked in Winrock’s clean energy group. Under an Asian Development Bank (ADB) funded project, he worked as a technical expert to introduce Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) in Nepal. This included conducting a national study to identify a pipeline of potential CDM projects, conducting a number of feasibility studies and preparing project idea notes (PIN) and project design documents (PDD) for clean energy, clean transportation, solid waste management, bioenergy, and industrial heating and cooling projects. He was also part of the team that conducted extensive capacity building on CDM for project proponents, government agencies, financial organizations, educational institutions, media and public. Megesh led development of Winrock’s innovative computer-based tool that allowed small and medium animal farms to estimate carbon offsets resulting from use of electricity generated from biogas produced from animal manure. The tool also estimated the financial viability improvements resulting from sale of carbon offsets. Megesh has conducted over 10 workshops and trained and distributed the tool to over 100 farms in Brazil, India, Pakistan and Nepal. Megesh received a Master’s degree in Sustainability from Harvard University. He also has Master’s degree in Business Administration (MBA) and Bachelor’s degree in Electrical and Electronics engineering.