Speakers

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Mr. Hyoung Ryoul Lee manages EAKPF (Republic of Korea e-Asia and Knowledge Partnership Fund), which is funded by the Korean government and established in ADB. Before joining ADB, Mr. Lee introduced a Korea Black Friday in 2015, which helped the Korean economy escape difficulties resulted from MERS. He created a euro settlement system in trade between Iran and Korea through discussion with U.S. Treasury in 2016. He successfully concluded exchange rate policy discussion with the U.S. Treasury in 2018. He led the Korean delegation in the Paris Club discussion which successfully suspended IDA countries’ debt repayment to official creditors to support them in coping with the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. Mr. Lee was voted as a role model leader in the Ministry of Economy and Finance of GOK in 2019.

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Hyunjung Lee is the Asian Development Bank’s energy sector lead for Viet Nam energy sector operation and managing a regional energy efficiency program under the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) cooperation. She is working on various investment and technical assistance projects in support for energy transition, power sector reforms (generation auction mechanism and wholesale electricity market development) and clean energy development (grid-connected battery energy storage system, smart and energy efficiency city, green banking and green financing, demand side management program focused on utility energy efficiency and demand response programs, and project).

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Hyunjung Lee is Senior Energy Economist in Southeast Energy Division of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and based in Hanoi, Viet Nam. She is mainly working for Viet Nam as an energy sector coordinator and preparing and implementing various investment and technical assistance projects in support for power sector reforms (solar auction mechanism and wholesale electricity market development) and clean energy development (pilot floating solar auction, smart and energy efficiency city, green banking and green financing, demand side management program focused on utility energy efficiency and demand response programs, and grid-connected battery storage project). She is also managing a regional sustainable energy program under the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) cooperation, especially organizing various knowledge works among 6 GMS countries related to integrated and strategic power sector planning and leading the demand-side energy efficiency market studies in Cambodia, Laos and Myanmar.

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Hyunjung Lee is the Asian Development Bank’s energy sector lead for Viet Nam energy sector operation and managing a regional energy efficiency program under the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) cooperation. She is working on various investment and technical assistance projects in support for energy transition, power sector reforms (generation auction mechanism and wholesale electricity market development) and clean energy development (grid-connected battery energy storage system, smart and energy efficiency city, green banking and green financing, demand side management program focused on utility energy efficiency and demand response programs, and project).

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Hyunjung Lee is the Asian Development Bank’s GMS/ASEAN Energy Program Lead and Energy Sector Focal for Viet Nam. She is currently spearheading a regional energy cooperation initiative across Southeast Asia, such as ASEAN Power Grid, (APG), the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) energy transition task force (ETTF), and the ASEAN-ADB Energy Dialogue. Additionally, she serves as an energy sector focal for Viet Nam operation, focused on ADB’s support for the country’s energy transition. She is also a co-team leader for Papua New Guinea's sustainable energy sector development program. Her expertise spans various aspects of energy transition and regional cooperation, including policy and regulatory design, investment and financing arrangements, and technical assistance provision.

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Ick Jin is currently the Director of Economic Analysis Coordination Division of 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, sustainable development, climate finance, climate technology 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,” “Measuring Cross-Cutting Factors Influencing Institutional and Innovation Efficiency for I4R”, “Circular Economy Policy in Korea,” etc.

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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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"ILEN KARDANI, graduated from Bandung Institute of Technology in 1994 as Petroleum Engineer. He started his career in 1995 as Directional Driller and spent 10 years in the various type of oil field and geothermal locations. Exposed to operational and safety challenges in offshore, land rig, swamp, deep water, coiled tubing drilling, workover, re-entry, multi-lateral, HPHT, and geothermal. Since then, the climbed career ladder to become Field Services Manager, Drilling Services Manager, Operations Manager, Competency Coordinator, Senior Account Manager, HSE Manager, General Manager, and at 2023 he assigned as Director of Business Development and Exploration at PT Geo Dipa Energi (Persero) in Jakarta. In his current role, Ilen Kardani is involved in steering the organization through innovative initiatives for sustainable growth. Emphasizing the exploration of new business and untapped geothermal resources. Ilen also focuses on business transformation, engaging in investor and stakeholders management, corporate events, and geothermal-focused advancements."

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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.