Empowering the future: Clean energy innovations, regional cooperation and integration, and financing solutions.
2 – 6 June 2025 | ADB Headquarters, Manila
Speaker 2022
ACEF 2022 speakers represent a wide range of stakeholders and practitioners from the global clean energy arena.
ALL SPEAKERS
Fritzie Vergel
Energy Transition Partnership in the Philippines
Fritzie Vergel
Energy Transition Partnership in the Philippines
Bio
Fritzie Vergel is driving the activities of the Energy Transition Partnership in the Philippines as Country Program Coordinator. She has over ten years of experience working on clean energy policies, financing, capacity building and energy access in the Philippines and the region. Prior to joining ETP, she was part of ADB's Sustainable Energy for All Initiative for Asia and the Pacific and has worked with UNDP under the DREAMS Project.
Garick Lee
USAID-Papua New Guinea Electrification Partnership Activity (USAID-PEP)
Garick Lee
USAID-Papua New Guinea Electrification Partnership Activity (USAID-PEP)
Bio
Garick Lee is a Senior Off-grid Advisor at the USAID-Papua New Guinea Electrification Partnership Activity (USAID-PEP) where he leads the program’s work on off-grid electrification. He has over 13 years of experience in developing, implementing and managing energy projects and programs in Australia, Southeast Asia, the United States, Africa and the Pacific. This includes roles in developing and implementing mini-grid projects in developing countries such as Myanmar and Liberia, as well as work on energy access programs focused on solar home systems, stand-alone solar and productive use of energy. He holds bachelor degrees in Engineering and Commerce from the University of Western Australia, and a Master’s degree in Renewable Energy from Murdoch University, Australia.
Gillian Caldwell
U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)
Gillian Caldwell
U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)
Bio
Gillian serves as the Chief Climate Officer and is responsible for directing and overseeing all climate and environment work across the agency. She also serves as Deputy Assistant Administrator, overseeing DDI’s Center for Environment, Energy, and Infrastructure and the Office of Environmental and Social Risk Management. Ms. Caldwell has worked to protect human rights and the environment throughout her career. Prior to joining USAID, she served as the CEO of Global Witness, which has a focus on tackling climate change and deploys investigations into corruption and natural resource extraction to drive systems change worldwide. From 2007-2010, she launched and led 1Sky, a highly collaborative cross-sector campaign with over 600 allied organizations to pass legislation in the U.S. to address the climate crisis. Gillian also has extensive experience consulting in the areas of strategic planning and organizational development with over 70 non-profits, foundations, and universities.
Gloria Teknomo
ADB
Gloria Teknomo
ADB
Bio
Gloria is a civil engineer, and transport planner by training. She has led projects on energy efficiency, intelligent transport systems, public transport, and low carbon emission projects. She has also coordinated and produced knowledge products on sustainable infrastructure development in East Asia. She earned her PhD from Tohoku University, Japan.
Gürdoğar Sarigül
Gürdoğar Sarigül
Bio
Mr. Gürdoğar SARIGÜL (MSc) has more than 35 years of professional experience in the field of conservation biology, sustainable development, environment, nature protection, Green & Blue Economy, renewable energy, Climate Change and low carbon development. He completed his master’s degree in the University of Kent at Canterbury, on Conservation Biology in 2000. He spent more than 20 years in nature conservation including coastal zone management, marine and coastal protected areas. Furthermore, Mr. Sarıgül has more than 12 years EU Commission services unmatched experiences as task manager for Environment, Sustainable Development and Climate Change. Mr. Sarıgül has led the preparations and implementations of 13 annual programs for Turkey on EU pre-accession financial assistance covering 2001-2020 periods in the field of environment and climate change with a total value of more than 1,6 billion Euros. He is a passionate sailor and amateur boat builder who recently joined NAVTEK Naval Technologies as a senior expert on Climate Change, Sustainable Development and Maritime Decarbonisation expert.
Han Duo
Duo Energy
Han Duo
Duo Energy
Bio
Han has 30 years’ experience in the energy and power industry. He has broad and significant experience in the power and energy industry, including power systems, energy policy and regulation, renewable energy, smart grid, energy efficiency, demand management and energy efficiency. He has been working for utilities, commercial & industrial users and governments on both strategic advices and program implementation in Asia and the Pacific. Han holds a Ph.D in Power System Engineering and has been engage as a member of the advisory board for the Sustainable Energy Research Centre, Macquarie University.
Hans-Henning Judek
J.E. Access
Hans-Henning Judek
J.E. Access
Bio
Hans-Henning Judek CEO of J.E. Access Ltd., CEO of Next Generation Solar Technologies Pvt. Ltd. Singapore, and Executive Chairman of Verde Visions LLC, New York, U.S.A. Trained by 40 years of experience in technology transfer, Hans has developed a ‘nose’ for new technologies with high potential. He has arranged numerous technology transfers and trade relationships, worldwide, from his office in Yokohama, Japan. During the last 16 years, he shifted his interest fully to environmental technology and is now working in renewable energy projects, namely carbon-neutral fuel for the maritime industry and floating solar. He cooperates with joint venture partners in the Philippines, Singapore, India, and the US. He is on LinkedIn connected to over 18,000 renewable energy professionals. He holds a Bachelor's degree in economics and a Master's degree in law from German Goettingen University 2 ½ years of post-graduate legal research at Keio University in Tokyo.
Hanzel Cubangbang
Fluence
Hanzel Cubangbang
Fluence
Bio
Hanzel M. Cubangbang, MSc Senior Market Applications Officer for Southeast Asia at Fluence: He is responsible for market growth and strategy across the region. He has more than 10yrs experience in various strategic roles across the electric power industry. He have worked with the policy maker and regulator in the Philippines and one of the contributors of the Philippine Grid Code. Before joining Fluence, he worked with the sole System Operator (SO) and Transmission Network Provider (TNP) in the Philippines where he conducted various research, crafted standards and supported policy making for Renewable Energy and Energy Storage Systems in the Philippines.
Haoran Zhang
LocationMind Inc.
Haoran Zhang
LocationMind Inc.
Bio
Haoran Zhang, researcher at the University of Tokyo, senior researcher at LocationMind Inc.Japan. He has double Ph.D. degrees in Industrial Engineering and Sociocultural Environment Science. In 2020, he received the project of Leading Initiative for Excellent Young Researchers supported by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Japan, mainly focusing on urban computing and smart city system.
Harry Thomson
Shetland Islands Council
Harry Thomson
Shetland Islands Council
Bio
Harry has an engineering background, working on a variety of projects within Shetland. He has worked on the ORION project since May 2021, joining Shetland Islands Council’s Future Energy Team. Their task is to identify pathways for Shetland to switch from dependency on fossil fuels towards cleaner forms of energy use. Harry is focused on issues surrounding electrification and affordable energy, along with port and quayside infrastructure.
Hasan ul Banna Khan
cBalance
Hasan ul Banna Khan
cBalance
Bio
Hasan is a Mechanical Engineer who works on Energy Efficiency, Energy Audit, Energy Advisory and Water Consumption Reduction related climate crisis mitigation projects. He has worked with Architecture and Engineering academia on integrating passive design and sustainable cooling concepts in the curriculum. He has also worked with informal housing communities to co create simple, cheap and effective thermal comfort solutions.
Henri Kinnunen
WOIMA Corporation
Henri Kinnunen
WOIMA Corporation
Bio
Henri has a vast experience in leading large global projects in challenging location successfully. He has gained significant know-how from waste-to-value and circular economy business during the past years by being involved in more than 500 sales projects globally. He is the CEO of WOIMA which has evolved from a start-up company to a recognized serious player in the field of circular economy.