Sharmala Naidoo is the Director of Misuka Green Development Solutions, a boutique firm dedicated to green and equitable development. Misuka Green is an independent advisor on sustainable development and a range of international finance and development policy issues related to a green economy and low carbon growth and infrastructure, climate finance and development cooperation.

Sharmala worked at the National Treasury for ten years where she drove the change management of the International Economics Unit, leading it during South Africa’s chair of the G20. She also managed the first ever country-led assessment of Official Development Assistance to South Africa.

Passionate about sustainable development, she has a green academic grounding, extensive experience of working on international finance and development matters and a natural ability to support organizational transformation. Misuka Green brings an extraordinary level of experience, commitment, considered analysis and intuition to every initiative.

*Clients

Clients include governments, international agencies and global and local NGOs. Some of these are the OECD, the UK’s Department for International Development (DFID), the South African National Treasury and Department of Trade & Industry, the UN's FAO, UN ECOSOC and the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) South Africa.

*Specialities

Green economy including low carbon, climate resilient development and low carbon infrastructure.

Development cooperation, aid effectiveness and ODA and sustainable development.

Programme design, evaluations, programme management and programme management support.

Organizational Development, Change Management, Agency Establishment, Management Consulting, Strategic Planning and Management and Emotional Intelligence.

MPhil Environment & Development, Cantab (University of Cambridge), UK 2002. Thesis Topic: Patterns of HIV/AIDS prevalence in the Eastern Cape, South Africa

MA Sociology of Development, University of Essex, UK 1992. Thesis topic: Sustainable development: possibilities in a post-apartheid South Africa (distinction)

B Social Science, University of Natal (now University of KwaZulu-Natal), South Africa 1991 majors in Industrial Psychology and Sociology

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