ACEF 2024 Speakers

Bishal brings 25 years of global experiences working with a wide range of public and private sector partners across energy, climate, energy efficiency, environment, and sustainability. As an economist by training, his expertise includes financial analysis, quantitative modelling, policy, research an

Bruce Dunn is the Director for Policy and Technical Services in ADB's Office of Safeguards. He leads a team focused on ADB environmental and social standards, including policy formulation, compliance oversight and building skills and capacity to support project investments. He has more than 25 years

Bruno Carrasco leads ADB-wide knowledge, innovation, policies, and strategies in all thematic areas. He also oversees the administration of trust funds and global funding initiatives and provides advice to management on strategic, operations, and policy matters. He has over 27 years of experience at

Byambatuya Dagva has been working in energy sector at her 15th year as researcher, specialist, consultant, and manager. She has worked on several renewable energy projects (on grid solar & wind power plants, renewable micro grids, and ground source heat pump system, etc.) for their development, co

Carishma Gokhale-Welch is the federal sector partnership development manager in NREL’s Strategic Partnerships Office, where she collaborates with a diverse group of federal agency partners on clean energy transition objectives. Prior to this role, Carishma’s work at the lab focused on clean e

Mr. Carlos Ramon C. Aboitiz is the Chief Corporate Services Officer (CCSO) of AboitizPower. As the company’s CCSO, Carlos is leading the synergies of the various functions under the Corporate Services Group within AboitizPower and its business units to deliver value-adding services, fulfill operat

Cathy Marsh, a British national, is Deputy Director General of the Private Sector Operations Department at Asian Development Bank (ADB),and joined ADB in August 2018. Prior to joining ADB, Cathy spent 25 years in private practice (including as a Partner of the US law firm Milbank from 2004 to 2013),

He is responsible for overseeing the country's efforts on clean energy, energy efficiency and conservation, electric vehicles, energy transition such as green hydrogen and carbon credit in energy sector. Under Mr. Chantho’s leadership, DEEP has spearheaded implementation of the National Energy Eff

With a Master's degree in public administration from Tsinghua University and a bachelor's degree in nuclear chemical engineering. has 10 years' working experience in the field of sustainable development. The former head of JD.com's sustainable development project, and has focused on the research and

Charles Feinstein’s career focus has been on the energy, development and environment nexus. He commands core expertise in energy and environmental economics, renewable energy and climate change mitigation. Through the 1990’s Mr. Feinstein was the World Bank’s Team Leader for Climate Change.

Chi Xiang is the Senior Market Analyst and ASEAN Lead of Climate Bonds Initiative. He works extensively with ASEAN corporates, investors and capital market intermediaries, as well as issuers and relevant stakeholders. He has supported the initiatives by the ASEAN Capital Markets Forum, as well as re

Dr. Chris Blanksby has been a Principal Engineer with Entura for 15 years, delivering solar, wind and battery projects in Australia and the Asia Pacific. Chris leads multi-disciplinary teams that engineer integrated energy systems to optimise the use of renewable energy, addressing they key challeng