Dr. Daniel Wahby is the head of GFA’s Climate & Energy Cluster. He has worked with GFA since 2001 and joined the management board in 2019. For much of his career, he worked as an expert and team leader in agriculture and rural development projects in Africa, the Middle East and South East Asia. He joined GFA’s management team in 2008 to lead the regional department Maghreb & Middle East and later Europe, Middle East, North Africa. Daniel currently promotes GFA’s strategy on climate and energy aiming to enhance GFA’s climate change mitigation and adaptation services across GFA Group. Daniel is also responsible for GFA’s sustainability management.

Dr. Linda Kleemann coordinates the Digital Innovation Cluster at GFA Consulting Group. She also leads the Digital Innovation Unit that specialises in data-driven services, and digital strategy and policy. Linda has worked in numerous data projects, involving data collection and acquisition, processing, analysis and visualization, as well as the setting up of monitoring and information systems. As an economist with a PhD in Agricultural Economics, her background is in empirical research, in particular impact evaluations in Africa. Prior to joining GFA in 2015, she worked at the Kiel Institute for the World Economy.