Speakers

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Ick Jin is currently the Assistant Chief for Economic Analysis in the National Assembly Budget Office. He undertakes financial analyses on the effect of public expenditures and economic programs. Before joining NABO, he worked at Korea Insurance Research Institute, Korea Capital Market Research Institute, and the Bank of Korea. Mr. Jin holds a Ph.D. from the Rice University at Houston, a CFA designation, and a CIPM designation. His primary research interest includes ESG investing, climate finance, climate technology, sustainable development among others. Mr. Jin has authored academic papers and policy reports: including “Analysis of the impact of achieving NDC on public climate finance”, “Is ESG a systematic risk factor for US equity mutual funds?”, “ESG-screening and Factor-risk-adjusted Performance: the Concentration Level of Screening Does Matter,” “Systematic ESG risk and passive investing,” “Systematic ESG risk and decision criteria for optimal portfolio selection,” “Market price of systematic ESG risk,” “Measuring Cross-Cutting Factors Influencing Institutional and Innovation Efficiency for I4R”, “Circular Economy Policy in Korea”, etc.

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Ms. Berdellans is an Energy System Analyst of the Planning and Economic Studies (PESS) at the IAEA. PESS helps IAEA Member States make informed energy planning decisions. This support helps countries formulate their energy policy and make investment decisions, including updates to their Nationally Determined Contributions to meet the Paris climate change agreement and fulfilment of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Ms. Berdellans is responsible for providing technical backstopping for designing, coordination, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of technical cooperation projects, at regional and national levels, related to capacity building on energy planning. She also supports the IAEA’s Member States in assessing their needs for capacity building on energy planning and guiding the national teams on evaluation of energy technologies and resources, the economic and environmental implications of electricity projects, comprehensive energy supply-demand studies for identification of the potential contribution of carbon-free energy technologies and formulation of energy master plans.

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Ilya Chernyakhovskiy is the lead author for USAID’s Grid Integration Toolkit under the USAID-NREL partnership. He leads grid integration analysis and capacity building efforts in Central Asia countries, including Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan. Ilya is also part of the core modeling team for NREL’s grid integration studies in South Asia. Prior to joining NREL, Ilya was a researcher in economic development at the Higher School of Economics in Moscow. He holds a M.Sc. in Resource Economics and Econometrics from the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

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Dr Isabelle de Lovinfosse works for the British Government as the Head of South East Asia COP 26 Strategy, based in Singapore. She works with the diplomatic network, businesses, NGOs and experts in the region, galvanising actions in preparation for COP26 and championing a low carbon, resilient and sustainable growth in South East Asia.

Isabelle is a climate change and energy policy expert with over 15 years of academic, consultancy and public sector experience. Before moving to South East Asia, she was a senior policy adviser with the British Government in London on energy market reform, industrial decarbonisation and European negotiations. Prior to that she was an energy and climate consultant in London.

Isabelle holds a PhD in Political Science from the University of Louvain (Belgium), and was Associate Lecturer in International Environment Policies at the Open University in London. She is now a Lecturer at the Nanyang Technological University S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies in Singapore, teaching “Energy and Environment Issues”.

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Ittiporn Intravisit is currently Head of Commercial Credit Product Management at Kasikornbank, Bangkok, Thailand. Ittiporn has been leading the business development of Commercial Green Financing since 2016. Prior to that he has been the pioneer in various commercial lending models including, Trade Finance, Supply chain financing as well as SME Credit Solutions. He possesses 30 years of corporate and commercial banking experiences with various roles in relationship management, risk management and product development. Prior to joining Kasikornbank in early 2008, he spent 15 years with Citibank Thailand in the area of corporate and commercial banking, risk management and product development.

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Ivan Jaques is a Senior Energy Specialist at the Energy Sector Management Assistance Program (ESMAP) of the World Bank. He currently leads ESMAP’s Industrial Decarbonization window and previously worked on improving service delivery of cities through energy efficiency, working across energy, transport, urban, and water sectors to support client engagement, project identification, preparation, and implementation. Before joining the World Bank, he was Deputy Director of Chile’s Energy Efficiency Agency in charge of policy development and design of the country’s long-term action plan. He has also worked on sustainable transport in Chile and Japan.

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Jackie Surtani was appointed Director of the Infrastructure Finance Division that covers East Asia, Southeast Asia and the Pacific Islands in April 2017. Prior to ADB, Jackie led the risk function of Siemens Financial Services’ Asian commercial finance unit as their Regional Chief Risk Officer and was responsible for a team of 80 staff in China and India. Jackie began his career at Chase Manhattan Bank (now JP Morgan) as Director of Global Power and Project Finance; was a Director for Global Project Finance at Credit Suisse; and Head of Project Finance Asia Pacific at KBC Bank for 14 years. Mr. Surtani has 30 years of successful experience in Asian infrastructure lending and advisory. He has a strong credit philosophy and sector and regional knowledge across the entire energy chain (i.e. power generation, renewable energy, LNG), infrastructure and telecommunications. Mr. Surtani is a national of the United Kingdom. He obtained his Bachelor of Science Degree in Business Finance and Economics from the University of East Anglia in 1988 with a First Class Honours degree. He obtained his Master of Philosophy Degree in Management Studies from the University of Oxford in 1990.

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Born in Seoul in 1971, he has obtained his academic credentials including bachelor’s degree from the Korea University and then master’s degree from the Sejong-Syracuse Global MBA. Jae Hyung Yoo is the chief executive of CARBONCO Pte. Ltd., leading the project development teams tasked with the business of CCUS (Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Storage), Clean Hydrogen, and Ammonia. Mr. Yoo works for DL E&C (a.k.a. Daelim Industrial Co., Ltd.) concurrently, working as a vice president of the plant division. Having been a key member of DL group for 27 years, he demonstrated skillful leadership in effectively handling various roles from finance to sales & marketing, and project development. He has gathered special experiences, taking care of a variety of tasks in the Middle East region and CIS (Commonwealth of Independent States) countries. Also, he has been the managing director of Tehran Office of DL E&C for over 10 years since 2008, successfully representing the company in Iran, Turkey, Iraq, and CIS countries. After the spin-off of the CCUS department from DL E&C in 2022, he proceeded to widen his career as a key management in CARBONCO Pte. Ltd. Although the challenge of seeking investment for the spin-off company (CARBONCO Pte. Ltd) is his responsibility, he makes remarkable contributions to DL group. Having all the qualifications of a pivotal management and the right experience, he will be speaking on behalf of both DL E&C and CARBONCO. In this event, he will be mainly concentrating on new business opportunities for CCUS and Clean Energy (Blue/Green Hydrogen and Ammonia).

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James Laybourn is the Asia Pacific Business Development Manager for DNV Energy Systems, based in Singapore. He first joined DNV in London in 2002, and has since held a range of technical or managerial positions within DNV in Singapore, Malaysia and Australia. He previously managed DNV’s upstream/midstream segments in South East Asia and Australia, with a particular focus on FSRUs and the gas-to-power market, and is now managing DNV’s Regional efforts on the transition to low carbon fuels including hydrogen and CCUS. James is a Chartered Engineer and holds a Master of Engineering degree from the University of Cambridge and Master of Science in Business Analytics from National University of Singapore.

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JAMIE LEATHER is the Chief of the Transport Sector Group at the Asian Development Bank. Mr. Leather has 30 years of experience in transport, working internationally with development organizations, governments, private sector and research institutions. Mr. Leather leads ADBs transport sector operations and overseas the strategic direction of ADBs knowledge, technical and financial support to its developing member countries, private sector clients, and partners. Mr. Leather obtained his Master of Science in transport planning and engineering from the Institute of Transport Studies, Leeds University (UK).

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Dr. Jan Corfee-Morlot is founding partner of 3Cs, an expert consultancy firm out of Paris since 2017, specializing in climate change policy and strategic advice for business and government. Today she serves as Senior Advisor for World Resources Institute with a focus on new climate economy and clean energy issues and since 2021, she is Editor of Climate Policy. From 1989 to 2017, Dr. Corfee-Morlot was with the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), and prior to that with the International Energy Agency (IEA) in Paris. Throughout her career at the OECD, she championed and shaped its work on climate change, co-authoring numerous books, research papers and academic articles spanning climate, sustainability and clean energy policy topics. She also served as lead author for the Nobel prize-winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Dr Corfee-Morlot can be reached via email at jancorfee@gmail.com, on Linkedin & on Twitter @Jancorfee

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Jean is a seasoned banking professional with over 18 years of experience in the debt and equity landscape across the Asia Pacific region. She has actively contributed to the Asian Development Bank’s impactful private sector renewable energy projects in the Central and West Asia region. Jean’s previous roles within ADB have strengthened her skills in corporate recovery, credit risk and financial analysis, and financial modeling, consistently leading to successful outcomes across ADB’s diverse sectors. With her comprehensive understanding of ADB’s private sector project processing, she is a valuable asset in driving sustainable finance and advancing ADB’s climate finance goals.