Daniel Besley is Senior Climate Change Specialist at the World Bank. His current role focuses on supporting climate action in Europe and Central Asia. He has worked for the last fifteen years on designing and implementing mitigation policy, with a particular focus on carbon pricing and carbon markets. He worked on Australia’s emissions trading and national crediting systems, and is currently supporting the Turkish government with the implementation of its national emissions trading system. He also has a decade of experience in the finance sector and in international development. He is an economist by training with the degree in business and a master’s in development economics.