Müge Afacan

Müge Afacan Ural is an international climate finance and sustainability expert with over 12 years of multidisciplinary experience across renewable energy, environmental policy, and strategic risk management. She has advised governments, international financial institutions, and private sector actors on carbon financing, green finance frameworks, GHG mitigation strategies, and sustainable infrastructure development.

Her career spans technical leadership roles in climate and carbon asset development, having led over 70 projects worldwide under UNFCCC methodologies. Müge has a track record of advancing net-zero strategies and has contributed to the development of green taxonomies, green bond pipelines, and national climate finance frameworks in diverse geographies including Vietnam, Jordan, Mongolia, Azerbaijan, Uzbekistan and Türkiye.

Currently serving as a short-term consultant to the World Bank, Müge supports sustainable finance initiatives such as sovereign green bond readiness for Agri Bank, Vietnam. She also works with the UNDP in designing scalable GHG emissions reduction programs aligned with Article 6 of the Paris Agreement.

Her cross-cutting experience includes corporate sustainability reporting, ISO-based environmental management systems, and stakeholder engagement across both the public and private sectors. Müge holds multiple certifications in sustainable finance and NDC Strategy & Finance from Erasmus University Rotterdam and Frankfurt School of Finance and Management, respectively. She is now a student of Green Dipploma program at Frankfurt School of Finance and Management.

Fluent in English and Turkish, with working proficiency in German, she brings a strong understanding of the policy-business interface across ASEAN and EU contexts. As an Advisory Board Member of ASEANcham-EU, Müge is committed to promoting strategic dialogue, facilitating institutional collaboration, and supporting the Chamber’s mission to align regional economic growth with global climate and sustainability goals.