Muna Merghani
Areas of Expertise
- ESG Data Traceability
- Structuring integrated performance registries linking financial targets with environmental outcomes.
- Regulatory Compliance & Standards
- Enforcing strict alignment with global sustainability reporting and development finance mandates.
- Institutional Strategy & Governance
- Designing embedded sustainability frameworks, human capital structures, and board-level ESG accountability.
- Market Diffusion
- Leading high-impact carbon trading initiatives and SME environmental risk management capacities.
ESG and institutional-development leader with 28 years across MENA and East Africa — building auditable ESG frameworks that converge financial viability with social and environmental impact.
Muna Merghani establishes verifiable environmental, social, and governance (ESG) frameworks and institutional sustainability architectures, underpinned by 28 years of regional leadership. She pioneers the integration of auditable ESG compliance mechanisms within the private sectors of MENA and East Africa, translating global mandates (UN Global Compact, ISO 26000, CSRD) into localised operational metrics.
She drives the critical convergence of financial viability with social and environmental impact, designing structural frameworks for institutional risk management. Her execution record includes operationalizing Sudan’s first private-sector carbon trading initiative and actively guiding the integration of development finance via the KfW-funded SME Catalyser programme.