Yinfeng Guo
Chief Technical Advisor and Project Manager
YinfengG@unops.org
Mr. Yinfeng Guo assumed the position of the Chief Technical Adviser and Manager of the YSLME Project on 1 Novemeber 2016. He is responsible for the projects overall coordination, management, monitoring and supervision.
Before joining YSLME, Mr. Guo worked as a Programme Specialist and Head of Planning and Partnership with PEMSEA, a regional organization headquartered in Manila, Philippines, from 2011 to 2016. His unparalled dedication and commitment in delivering PEMSEA services in support of scaling up the Sustainable Development Strategy for the Seas of East Asia implementation by national and local governments and other regional stakeholders have contrinuted significantly to PEMSEA’s evolution and progress. Among others, he was a major influence in the planning and formulation of the SDS-SEA 2015, the Da Nang Compact and the 2003-2015 Regional Review of the SDS-SEA Implementation, while ccoordinating PEMSEA activities with the State Oceanic Administration and other collaborating organizations in PR China and across the region.
Mr. Guo’s services as Program Manager from 2006 to 2010 with UNDP China have led to a growing biodiversity and international waters portfolio with a total of USD 55 million in grants from the GEF, European Commission and other funding sources. Before joining UNDP, he was a Senior Biodiversity Specialist in Foreign Economic Cooperation Office of the then Ministry of Environmental Protection, PR China. Mr. Guo has 13 years of experiences as a Project Officer with the Scientific Authority of PR China to the Convention on Endangered Species (CITES), Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Mr. Guo has a Masters degree in Law from Beijing Univeristy Law School and a Bachelors degree in English Literature from Beijing Second Institute of Foreign Languages.
