Olga Gassan-zade is the Chair of Article 6.4 Supervisory Body, elected in 2023.
She is a senior energy and climate expert with over 20 years of experience working
on climate policy and carbon markets in transition economies and developing
countries. She has been supporting the delegation of Ukraine in Article 6
negotiations since COP27 in Glasgow and in the UNFCCC process since 2007.
Outside of the UNFCCC negotiations, her work involves supporting national
authorities and companies in building institutional capacity in low carbon planning,
mitigation of greenhouse gas emissions, greenhouse gas accounting, and carbon
pricing. She has advised on the implementation of carbon crediting and emerging
emissions trading schemes in the former Soviet Union states, the transposition of
the EU acquis, and the larger impact of the EU energy and climate policies on the
EU neighborhood countries.
Sector-wise, she has worked closely with the iron and steel, cement, chemicals,
and oil and gas sectors. Most recently, her focus has been on improving the
understanding of fugitive methane emissions. She has led multiple methane
detection and measurement campaigns and has personally visited over 60 oil and
gas facilities to assist local companies in identifying measures to reduce methane
emissions and improving emission accounting.