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Anna Zavaleeva

CEO, HPBS Central Asia

An expert in green finance, decarbonization, sustainable development, and the implementation of projects involving international financial institutions.

Responsible for the company’s strategic development, building partnerships with international organizations, government bodies, and investors, as well as implementing projects in decarbonization, MRV, automated carbon reporting, and sustainable infrastructure.

Experienced in negotiations with international development banks, supporting projects from concept through financing and implementation.

Specializes in integrating decarbonization and ESG approaches into investment projects and developing solutions that ensure compliance with international standards.

Committed to implementing projects that demonstrate that sustainable development can be economically efficient, technologically advanced, and scalable at the same time.

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Professional skills

Nature-Based Solutions (NBS) projects 100%
Green building projects 93%
Green finance 100%
ESG and sustainable development 100%
Decarbonization projects 100%
Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) 100%

Biography

The expert’s career path, education, and key achievements

Professional expertise

  • Green finance and work with international financial institutions
  • Decarbonization, ESG, the CBAM climate agenda, and GHG reporting for Scope 1, 2, and 3
  • IT infrastructure for MRV (Monitoring, Reporting and Verification) of carbon reporting
  • Structuring investment projects
  • Sustainable development of territories and infrastructure
  • Engagement with government bodies and investors
  • Development of international partnerships

Projects

Climate and ESG

  • Climate regulation and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions calculations: Uzpromstroybank (SQB), Uzbekneftegaz, Ministry of Ecology of Uzbekistan, FAR, TALCO, TashBus, UzPost
  • Nature-based Solutions (NBS) projects jointly with the World Bank

Green Building and sustainable development

  • Green building projects: IFC, Korzinka, SQB, Namuna Development, New Tashkent, logistics center, hospital and residential complex in Mongolia, residential complex in Iceland.

Strategies and standards

  • Co-developer of the Climate Strategy of the Republic of Uzbekistan (carbon neutrality)
  • Development of the CLEVER environmental standard (VEB.RF)

International and institutional projects

  • Rosinfra expert (National Public-Private Partnership Center)
  • Expert of the Agency for Strategic Initiatives (ASI)

Educational projects

  • Practitioner lecturer: Lomonosov Moscow State University, HSE MBA (Higher School of Economics), Yury Luzhkov Moscow Metropolitan Governance University, Graduate School of Urbanism, and MARCH Architecture School.
  • Educational course on the green economy, sustainable territorial development, and ecosystem services in cities (effectiveness of urban landscaping)
  • Educational course “ESG in Practice”
  • Educational course: CBAM reporting
  • Educational course: Spiral Urbanism — the evolution of territorial development
  • Educational course: International green building standards

Awards

  • EDGE Premier Provider — HPBS was one of 8 companies worldwide awarded the highest level of accreditation under the International Finance Corporation’s (IFC) EDGE (Excellence in Design for Greater Efficiencies) standard, 2025
  • Certificate from the Minister of Ecology of the Republic of Uzbekistan for conducting an educational program for banks on calculating, optimizing, and offsetting greenhouse gas emissions, 2023
  • 2nd place, Climate Development Leader; co-author of the CLEVER standard by VEB.RF, 2022.
  • 1st place for developing a carbon-neutrality concept for a new city on Sakhalin, 2021
  • Medal and Moscow Government Environmental Protection Award, 2021
  • Top 100 according to the experts of “Strong Ideas for a New Time,” 2020
  • 2nd place in the competition to develop the concept for the Eco-District in Kazan, 2019
  • 1st place in the Climate Development Leader competition, category “Best Project in the Field of Future Eco-Cities,” SKOLKOVO, 2018 

 

Education

  • Postgraduate studies at the Department of Environmental Economics, Faculty of Economics, Lomonosov Moscow State University.
  • Southern Federal University (SFedU), Faculty of Sociology and Political Science.

Achievements

  • Attraction of international financing for sustainable and social projects in the Republic of Uzbekistan.
  • Experience working with international development banks: World Bank, IFC, EBRD, ABR, FAR, GIZ, and EC projects.
  • Initiation of a project to introduce green mortgages at a reduced interest rate for residents of the Republic of Uzbekistan.
  • Partner of the Ministry of Ecology of Uzbekistan on the climate agenda relating to climate regulation and greenhouse gas emissions under international standards and EC rules.