Empowering the future: Clean energy innovations, regional cooperation and integration, and financing solutions.
2 – 6 June 2025 | ADB Headquarters, Manila
Speaker 2023
ACEF 2023 speakers represent a wide range of stakeholders and practitioners from the global clean energy arena.
ALL SPEAKERS
Richard Richard
Jenbacher Gas Engines
Richard Richard
Jenbacher Gas Engines
Bio
Richard is the Senior Sales Manager for Indonesia & the Philippines for INNIO Jenbacher and based in Jakarta. Richard has 18 years professional background in the power industry working on both thermal and renewable power plants with different roles such as project management, project tendering, sales and after sales services, and business development at major multi-national companies. He has gained experience for the development of EPC and IPP projects covering gas-to-power and small-scale LNG solutions as well as liquid and gaseous biofuels, and hybrid power plant. Richard holds a degree in nuclear engineering and a master’s degree in management.
Rima Agustin
MEPS and Energy Consuming Equipment Labelling Supervision
Rima Agustin
MEPS and Energy Consuming Equipment Labelling Supervision
Bio
Ms. Rima Agustin, Sub-coordinator, MEPS and Energy Consuming Equipment Labelling Supervision Ms. Rima Agustin has over 15 years of experience as a civil servant in Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources – Government of Indonesia, which includes 3 years in her current role as Subcoordinator of MEPS and Energy Consuming Equipment Labelling Supervision in Directorate of Energy Conservation. Ms. Rima holds a master’s degree in public policy from University of Indonesia.
Rio Jon Piter Silitonga
ASEAN Centre for Energy
Rio Jon Piter Silitonga
ASEAN Centre for Energy
Bio
Mr. Rio Jon Piter Silitonga, serving as a research analyst at the ASEAN Centre for Energy (ACE), oversees a variety of programme areas aimed at encouraging the adoption of energy efficiency policies and technological advancements within the region. His work emphasizes policy studies, stakeholder engagement, data collection improvement, promotion of innovative business models and EE financing mechanisms, and the development of standards and labeling programs. His efforts align with the objectives of the ASEAN Plan of Action for Energy Cooperation (APAEC) 2016-2025, which spans main targeted sectors such as buildings, transport, and industry. The APAEC ambitiously targets a 32% reduction in Energy Intensity by 2025, based on the 2005 level. He has authored numerous energy efficiency studies, covering a wide range of topics that include green building, energy management, ESCO, energy efficiency finance mechanisms, demand-side management (DSM), harmonization of energy efficiency standards and labeling, and ASEAN Energy Efficiency Best Practices.
Ritishka Grover
Ritishka Grover
Bio
Ritishka is based in the High Commission of Canada in Singapore and is the Regional Trade Commissioner covering the clean technology sector for the Asia Pacific region. She has over 8 years of experience in the Clean Technology, Sustainability, Energy and Renewables space spanning technical advisory and international business development across the energy value chain from power generation to transmission and distribution and other low-carbon technologies. In addition to providing business development and market assessment services to Canadian cleantech firms, she reviews and analyzes market trends and provide comprehensive insights to clients. She is passionate about environmental sustainability and is also the Secretary General of the Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Association of Singapore where she works to support the potential adoption of cutting-edge hydrogen technologies that will pave the way for Singapore and the region's clean energy transition through collaboration and partnerships.
Robert Autengruber
Innio Jenbacher
Robert Autengruber
Innio Jenbacher
Bio
Robert has been with Jenbacher since 2005. As a commissioning engineer, he was able to acquire extensive knowledge of gas engines. After various functions in project, product management and sales, Robert is responsible for the control technology of Jenbacher gas engines and microgrids in his current position as product manager
Roble Velasco-Rosenheim
The I-REC Standard Foundation
Roble Velasco-Rosenheim
The I-REC Standard Foundation
Bio
Roble has a decade of experience supporting clean energy development in Asia and the Pacific. He is the Director of Partnerships and APAC Markets for the I-REC Standard Foundation, and the founder of SuSca Group and Lock23. Through these roles, Roble has enabled hundreds of entities to source renewable electricity in line with the RE100, Science Based Targets initiative, and other major reporting frameworks. Currently, he is focused on helping governments and utilities to engage in EAC markets through the globally recognized I-REC Standard, and on making Scope 2 and 3 emissions reporting more transparent. To date, Roble has helped process more than $200 million in infrastructure projects for the Asia Development Bank and its regional development partners. He serves as a board member and VP to the Pacific Clean Energy Partners, where he is helping source finance for renewable energy and energy efficiency projects in the Pacific Island Countries. Overall, Roble is passionate about bridging public and private sector interests to support high-yield, low-carbon economic growth. He spends most of his free time outside, on or in the water.
Romeo Monetenegro
Mindanao Development Authority
Romeo Monetenegro
Mindanao Development Authority
Bio
He currently serves as Deputy Executive Director of the Mindanao Development Authority (MinDA), the Philippine government’s economic think tank in the island region of Mindanao. He actively pursues collaborations with the country's power industry stakeholders and leads MinDA’s advocacy work on renewable energy and energy transition. He was also chiefly responsible for securing grant support from key international development partners for agriculture-linked RE projects in off-grid areas in Mindanao. He obtained his Masters in Public Administration at the Ateneo de Davao University; studied Peace Journalism at the University of Sydney; graduated at University of Asia and the Pacific (UA&P) Agribusiness Executives’ Program; and went through Executive Leadership Development Program at National University of Singapore and Good Governance at the University of Auckland. His immense knowledge of Mindanao honed over 25 years of extensive peace and development work has deepened his institutional insights that helped guide local and multi-national companies from across diverse sectors move along sound investment direction.
Ronald Rost
Dornier Power and Heat GmbH
Ronald Rost
Dornier Power and Heat GmbH
Bio
Ronald is a seasoned energy consultant working for 25 years with Dornier Power and Heat GmbH and its predecessors. While his main responsibility is with the international sales of consulting engineering services, he also acted as contract and project manager. Ronald has a broad knowledge of power and heat generation, transmission, distribution, and storage technologies, on power plant flexibilization and decarbonization, decommissioning and re-purposing. Ronald has substantial experience in preparation and implementation of capacity building programs and is currently providing a series knowledge sharing sessions on coal power plant retirement and repurposing for an Indonesian client.
Sadie Cox
National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Sadie Cox
National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Bio
Sadie Cox is the Director of Strategic International Partnerships at the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory. In this role, Sadie leads and works collaboratively with the science and technology directorates at NREL to strategically develop and execute on NREL’s international partnership development strategy and vision with a focus on bringing together the world-class knowledge, unique capabilities, and signature facilities at NREL to benefit a diverse set of international partners. Sadie also manages NREL’s strategic USAID-NREL Partnership with a team of thought leaders at USAID, NREL and across other U.S. laboratories advancing clean energy development around the world. Sadie’s career started in NREL’s Strategic Energy Analysis Center where she spent 14 years developing strategic partnerships and managing and conceptualizing key elements of several large-scale international programs focused on global clean energy transformation – LEDS Global Partnership (now the Global Climate Action Partnership), Global Power System Transformation (G-PST) Consortium, Women in Power System Transformation, Net Zero World, and the USAID-NREL Partnership. She has also been a thought leader for several USAID-NREL country-specific and analytic efforts focused on high-resolution, renewable energy data development, economic impact analysis, and resilience planning. Sadie’s areas of expertise and interest include multi-partner clean energy program design, gender equality in the energy sector, renewable energy policy and strategy design and good practices, data-driven decision-making frameworks, and multi-criteria impact assessment for clean energy and climate actions.
Saliya Jayasekara
University Of Moratuwa
Saliya Jayasekara
University Of Moratuwa
Bio
I received the B. Sc. degree in mechanical engineering from university of Moratuwa in 2001, and the M.Sc. and PhD degrees in decentralized power generation systems from Royal institute of technology Sweden and the Melbourne University in 2004 and 2013 respectively. He has well over 13 years of national and international experience in design and installation of solid fuel power plants, boilers (utility/package) and heat exchangers. Currently he is serving as a senior lecture at University of Moratuwa, he was a visiting lecturer and research fellow at Deakin University Australia.
Sameer Tirkar
ResponsAbility Investments AG
Sameer Tirkar
ResponsAbility Investments AG
Bio
Senior climate finance professional with over 17 years of experience of investing across the value chain in sectors such as renewable energy, energy efficiency, energy access, infrastructure and financial services Currently, part of a global development focused asset manager pioneering financing to renewable energy and positive climate impact companies. Spearheading a project aimed at launching a new climate finance initiatives focussed on Asia.
Samir Thapa
Loughborough University
Samir Thapa
Loughborough University
Bio
Dr. Samir Thapa is working as a Research Associate with the Modern Energy Cooking Services (MECS) program, at Loughborough University, UK, and is a Fellow with the School of Management and Marketing, Charles Sturt University, Australia. Within MECS, Dr. Thapa is part of the Finance team and researches the potential of outcome/impact financing (e.g., carbon and health) MECS vis a vis the wider financing eco-system. Dr. Thapa is currently involved in 1) understanding the value chain impacts of cooking fuel and technologies and the cost-efficient way e.g., digital monitoring to introduce and streamline those impacts e.g., PM2.5 vs BC in the carbon/outcome methodologies. With CSU, Dr. Thapa is working on two projects – in Nepal. The first project studies leveraging carbon finance to enhance mainstream commercial financing and the second project analyses the influence of purchase subsidies on the market competition - for clean cooking promotion.