Andrei Marcu

Andrei Marcu is currently the Executive Director of the
European Roundtable on Climate Change and Sustainable 
Transition. 
Since 1993 Mr. Marcu has played an active and important role 
in many areas related to climate change and sustainable 
development. He has been a negotiator supporting G77 since 
2018. He participated in the negotiations of the Paris 
Agreement, which led to the creation of Article 6 in the Paris 
Agreement, as well as in the negotiation of the Article 6 
Rulebook since COP 21. He has also created, led and 
facilitated an informal dialogue of Article 6 negotiators that 
has been active from October 2014 to present.
Mr. Marcu has also held senior position in the UN and the private sector. In the UN 
system he held the position of Manager, Private Sector Cooperation, including climate 
change, in the United Nations Development Programme (New York). 
He was one of the pioneers of the involvement of the private sector in sustainable 
development and climate change, especially on carbon markets, including as Chief 
Executive Officer of BlueNext, the environmental exchange, based in Paris. 
Mr. Marcu joined Mercuria Energy in September 2009 in the role as Head of 
Regulatory Affairs, Environment and Climate Change. 
Mr. Marcu was the Founder and President and CEO of International Emissions 
Trading Association (IETA), a world-class business association with offices in 
Geneva, Brussels, Washington, California, and Toronto. IETA is dedicated to 
the creation of an efficient and environmentally robust market for greenhouse gases 
to address the issue of the issue of global warming and climate change.
He is currently a Board Member of IETA. He also acted as Senior Managing Director 
of the Word Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) in charge of 
Energy and Climate and as Vice Chair of the Energy and Environment Commission 
of the International Chamber of Commerce in Paris. Mr. Marcu was also a Senior 
Advisor on Climate Change and Emissions Trading at Bennett Jones LLP in Canada. 
Mr. Marcu has substantial experience in the electric power industry from his work 
with Ontario Hydro in Toronto, Canada here he worked for 18 years. While at Ontario 
Hydro, Mr. Marcu worked in various areas of the corporation including, system 
operations, climate change, regulatory affairs, and international cooperation as well 
as Chief of Staff to the Chairman, Mr. Maurice Strong. Mr. Marcu holds a Bachelor 
of Engineering from McGill University (Montreal) and an MBA for the University of 
Toronto.