Having worked for over fifteen years in corporate and public finance and banking, Marko Markov is a financial expert with extensive experience in developing, implementing and coordinating international and European energy efficiency (EE) and renewable energy (RE) projects. When serving as the deputy executive director of the Bulgaria Energy Efficiency Fund, he was responsible for assessing loan applications, making risk analyses and structuring EE-project transactions, selecting appropriate financial instruments and maintaining a constructive relationship with the various entities in the EE sector of Bulgaria; as a result, he gained strong expertise in developing and launching financial EE and RE products.
Over the years, he has gained much international experience as a result of having worked in a number of countries in Europe, Africa, Asia, South America and the Caribbean to help implement EE projects or programs led or financed by United Nations agencies and major multilateral development banks, such as the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), the European Investment Bank, the African Development Bank and the World Bank. He has also worked with bilateral development organizations, such as KfW and AFD.