- Field of expertise
- Project identification and development
- Capacity building for key stakeholders
- Cross-border cooperation
- Up- and reskilling of workers
- Clean and affordable energy
- Decarbonisation of industry
- Country of residence
- Germany
- Languages
- English
- Macedonian
- German
- Regional experience
- Savinjsko-šaleška
- Zasavska
Sonja Risteska is a Senior Business and Development Manager, with a main focus on South and East Europe. She has worked on the preparation of the TJTPs for coal regions in transition in Slovenia, has various publications throughout her career on renewables, lignite exits and other energy and climate policy-related issues in the region of the Western Balkans and is a part of vast global network in the JT area. She has expertise in many different fields of RE (solar, storage and hydrogen), decarbonisation of power, maritime and aviation sectors as well as knowledge on green financing, EU regulations and grant financing.