Introduction

Alexander Belyakov, Ph.D., SEP – Your Provider of Sustainable Solutions: Will Strive To Over-Deliver.

Named as a Sustainability Excellence Professional (SEP) by the International Society of Sustainability Professionals and Green Business Certification Inc., Alexander is your problem solver and solution finder. 
 
Alexander loves empowering others to discover, design, and deliver their projects to the world online and offline – literally saving professionals a 3-5-year learning curve.
 
Success rarely begins with immediate finding the right solution to problems. It starts with finding the right problems to solve. Are you solving the right problem?
 
  • Results-oriented expert with 20+ years of experience working with international, private, and public sector organizations.
  • Chief Solutionist.
  • Managed network-building projects with international organizations in Canada and Ukraine.
  • Member of the International Society of Sustainability Professionals

Alexander taught Sustainability and Environmental, Social, and Governance online and developed various courses (Singapore Management University; Temasek Polytechnic, a public university in Singapore & GoImpact Capital Partners).

Alexander worked as a Consultant for the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, the International Tax and Development Cooperation Branch of the Financing for Sustainable Development Office, New York. He was an editor for the UN Handbook on infrastructure (Russian version). Alexander provided a brief situation analysis about challenges on infrastructure asset management in the selected countries. Alexander also identified and reached out to key partners in the regions within the UN system and development banks, central government agencies, local governments associations, think tanks and universities in the countries to explore partnerships to support the implementation of the communication strategy. He promoted the UN Handbook “Managing infrastructure assets for sustainable development – A handbook for local and national governments.”

Alexander shares ideas and enjoys being a thought leader. He does things not many professionals can do and works with complicated issues. 

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations gave Alexander an opportunity to serve their Subregional Office for Central Asia in Ankara, Turkey, as a Strategy Development Consultant. He worked on climate-smart strategy development in Central Asia and Azerbaijan in 2021.

Alexander consulted the Peace and Biodiversity Dialogue Initiative at the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity (the United Nations Environment Programme) in Montreal. See his presentation about this project here. Alexander also presented to the IUCN World Conservation Congress participants in 2021.

Alexander served as a focal point for the Massive Open Online Course on Peace Park Development and Management. This free course is offered in five languages: English, French, Russian, Spanish, and Arabic. The course already attracted about 750 participants from 128 countries. This innovative course was aimed at peace park development practitioners and environmental peacebuilding enthusiasts but was open to everyone. Participants were highly engaged in the course, resulting in a completion rate of 25.14% (three times the industry average) and more than 1,200 engagements on the course forums. See more here. 

Alexander taught at Toronto Metropolitan University (Ryerson University) and Humber College in Toronto. He has done widespread research on sustainability, sustainability branding, communications, as well as Environmental, Social, and Corporate Governance. Please review a sample project presentation “A ‘Triple-Bottom-Line’ Sustainability Project Evaluation Methodology” here.

Alexander is a contributor to a special issue of the Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences on North American food resilience published by the Association for Environmental Studies and Sciences (AESS). Access it on the page “Selected Publications”. Belyakov presented at the 2014 AESS Annual Meeting at Pace University in New York City. Alexander has created a website for his project “From Chernobyl to Fukushima”. He also presented at the Yale Food System Symposium. 

Alexander successfully completed many professional development programs in sustainability, including the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development at United Nations System Staff College; International Program on the Management of Sustainability, Sustainability Challenge Foundation and TiasNimbas Business School, Zeist, The Netherlands; Urban and City Development Strategies in a Globalized World, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary; Course in Sustainable Environmental Management, Beahrs Environmental Leadership Program, University of California, Berkeley, USA, etc. 

Alexander believes in making a living by making a difference. He enjoys working with people and helping them learn something new that makes not only transitional but the most transformational change in their life. His passion is about peace in Ukraine and the world, future generations and positive changes in our communities. 

Connect with Alexander at: alex [at] alexbelyakov [dot] com. Join Alexander at LinkedIn. 

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