INNOVATIVE AND INTEGRATED SOLUTIONS FOR A LOW-CARBON
AND RESILIENT FUTURE
14-17 June 2022
Speakers
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Christine Chan
Asian Development Bank
Ms. Christine Chan was appointed as the Senior Advisor to the Vice President, Office of the Vice-President (Private Sector Operations and Public-Private Partnerships) in February 2021. Ms. Chan has over 20 years of global private sector finance experience including structured finance, project financ
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Asian Development Bank
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Ms. Christine Chan was appointed as the Senior Advisor to the Vice President, Office of the Vice-President (Private Sector Operations and Public-Private Partnerships) in February 2021. Ms. Chan has over 20 years of global private sector finance experience including structured finance, project finance, private equity fund and direct equity investing, cross-border mergers and acquisitions, capital markets and syndications, and corporate finance. Previously, Ms. Chan led the origination, structuring and execution of sustainable infrastructure investments within ADB’s Private Sector Operations Department, Infrastructure Finance 2 Division, including ADB’s equity investment, as the first multilateral investor into Clifford Capital Holdings Pte. Ltd., cementing ADB’s strategic partnership with one of the region’s leading infrastructure financing platforms, backed by Singapore’s Temasek Holdings. Ms. Chan also led ADB’s first private sector financing for an eco-industrial park waste-to-energy project in the PRC and solar project in Mongolia. In ADB’s Guarantees and Syndications Unit, Ms. Chan mobilized commercial co-financings into ADB’ private sector infrastructure, financial sector, and agribusiness projects in Central, South, and East Asia utilizing a wide range of credit enhancement products. Ms. Chan contributed to the development of the Southeast Asian bond market through the origination, structuring, and issuance of inaugural local currency bond guarantees across ASEAN, at ADB’s trust fund, the Credit Guarantee and Investment Facility. Ms. Chan has led investment teams and transactions across multiple sectors, asset classes, and markets based out of New York, Hong Kong, and Manila, for Citigroup, JPMorgan, Cohen & Steers, AIF Capital, and Lazard. Ms. Chan is a national of the United States. She obtained a Master of Business Administration from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania in 2007 and Bachelor of Arts in Economics and Asian Studies from the University of California, Berkeley in 2000. She is a Chartered Financial Analyst.
Chuenchanok Jantanalikhit
Grutter Consulting
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Sustainable transport expert
Chunguang (Charlotte) Wang
EQUOTA Energy Technology Co.Ltd
Charlotte is a serial entrepreneur and established EQuota Energy in 2014, devoting to provide energy management AI big data solution with world-leading data analytics, energy optimization and carbon management. Charlotte is an advocate of big data-driven energy management and she has rich experience
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EQUOTA Energy Technology Co.Ltd
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Charlotte is a serial entrepreneur and established EQuota Energy in 2014, devoting to provide energy management AI big data solution with world-leading data analytics, energy optimization and carbon management. Charlotte is an advocate of big data-driven energy management and she has rich experience in clean power technology industry in China, USA, Germany, Russia and many other countries. Charlotte was listed as Cartier Women Initiative Winner, Asian New Energy Leaders, Echoing Green Climate Change Fellow.
Cindy Bryson
Asian Development Bank
Cindy Bryson is a Social Development Specialist in the Pacific Department at the Asian Development Bank. In her role, she works closely with Pacific developing member countries to design, prepare and implement social protection, education, gender, and youth development projects. She has also been in
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Asian Development Bank
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Cindy Bryson is a Social Development Specialist in the Pacific Department at the Asian Development Bank. In her role, she works closely with Pacific developing member countries to design, prepare and implement social protection, education, gender, and youth development projects. She has also been involved as a project team member on ADB-financed energy projects, providing technical advice on social safeguards and gender. Cindy holds a doctorate in anthropology and is based in Manila.
Cindy Cisneros Tiangco
Asian Development Bank
Cindy Cisneros Tiangco, PhD, M.Eng, EE. With close to 30 years’ experience in international development, Cindy’s 11 years of work in ADB continues to pave the way for significant renewable energy development in Central and West Asia, and the Pacific. Cindy catalyzed the first solar project in Af
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Asian Development Bank
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Cindy Cisneros Tiangco, PhD, M.Eng, EE. With close to 30 years’ experience in international development, Cindy’s 11 years of work in ADB continues to pave the way for significant renewable energy development in Central and West Asia, and the Pacific. Cindy catalyzed the first solar project in Afghanistan, conceptualized the first energy sector financial intermediation project in Armenia, and introduced the auction mechanism in Kazakhstan. Cindy ushered Uzbekistan’s shift to solar through the establishment of the International Solar Energy Institute, and the Uzbekistan solar roadmap, with projects now being implemented by international financing institutions and the private sector. Cindy pioneered ADB’s push for floating solar, starting with pilot projects in Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, and Kyrgyz Republic. In the Pacific, Cindy is leading ADB’s first energy projects in Kiribati and Tuvalu, and the first two projects under the floating solar roadmap for 11 Pacific island countries. Cindy pioneered ADB’s first design-build-operate contract procurement and first cross-sectoral joint procurement.
Clares Loren Jalocon
Philippine Electricity Market Corporation
The presenter is a Registered Electrical Engineer (REE), holds a bachelor’s degree and a master’s degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of the Philippines, with more than ten (10) years of working experience under PEMC, and has been involved in PEMC’s developmental activities fo
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Philippine Electricity Market Corporation
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The presenter is a Registered Electrical Engineer (REE), holds a bachelor’s degree and a master’s degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of the Philippines, with more than ten (10) years of working experience under PEMC, and has been involved in PEMC’s developmental activities for new markets and mechanisms of the Philippine Wholesale Electricity Spot Market (WESM) including the Philippine Renewable Energy Market.
Craig Hart
U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)
Craig Hart is a career member of the USAID Senior Foreign Service and is the Acting Senior Deputy Assistant Administrator for Asia. He joined the Bureau for Asia in August 2020 as the Deputy Assistant Administrator for East Asia and the Pacific. Prior to this, Craig served as Deputy Mission Director
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U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)
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Craig Hart is a career member of the USAID Senior Foreign Service and is the Acting Senior Deputy Assistant Administrator for Asia. He joined the Bureau for Asia in August 2020 as the Deputy Assistant Administrator for East Asia and the Pacific. Prior to this, Craig served as Deputy Mission Director in Vietnam from 2016 to 2020. Since joining USAID in 2005, he has served as a Program Officer in Tanzania, Afghanistan, the Republic of Georgia, and Washington, DC. Before joining USAID, Craig served from 1995-2005 with the U.S. Peace Corps as Country Director in Armenia, Deputy Country Director in Russia, Program and Training Officer in the Kyrgyz Republic, and as a Peace Corps Volunteer in the Russian Far East.
Damilola Ogunbiyi
Sustainable Energy for All (SEforALL)
Damilola Ogunbiyi is the CEO of Sustainable Energy for All (SEforALL), Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Sustainable Energy for All and Co-Chair of UN-Energy. She is also a Commissioner for the Global Commission to End Energy Poverty and the Co-Chair of the COP26 Energy Transiti
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Sustainable Energy for All (SEforALL)
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Damilola Ogunbiyi is the CEO of Sustainable Energy for All (SEforALL), Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Sustainable Energy for All and Co-Chair of UN-Energy. She is also a Commissioner for the Global Commission to End Energy Poverty and the Co-Chair of the COP26 Energy Transition Council. She is a global leader and advocate for the achievement of Sustainable Development Goal 7 (SDG7), which calls for access to reliable, affordable, sustainable and modern energy for all by 2030, in line with the Paris Agreement on climate change.
Dan Millison
Transcendergy LLC
Dan Millison is the Manager of Transcendergy L.L.C., a private consultancy established in 2008 which has focused on sustainable energy and climate change financing in Asia. He has 30+ years professional experience including 20 years working on sustainable infrastructure investment programs. As a co
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Transcendergy LLC
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Dan Millison is the Manager of Transcendergy L.L.C., a private consultancy established in 2008 which has focused on sustainable energy and climate change financing in Asia. He has 30+ years professional experience including 20 years working on sustainable infrastructure investment programs. As a consultant and former project officer with Asian Development Bank, he has helped mobilize well over US$ 10 billion of investments – including more than $1 Billion in cofinancing from the Climate Investment Funds and the Green Climate Fund -- in clean energy, sustainable transport, and other climate friendly technology. Among other efforts, he is currently supporting ADB's technical assistance program for Marine Aquaculture, Reefs, Renewable Energy, and Ecotourism for Ecosystem Services (MARES).
Dan Renner
Engine EcoPhils, Inc.
Mr. Renner has been a racing sailboat crewman, a business owner since 16, an ex-US Navy mechanical/electrical/etc technician & trainer and a person who likes to make things better in general. While working his computer service business in 1995 he chanced upon an engine fuel burn enhancing device an
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Engine EcoPhils, Inc.
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Mr. Renner has been a racing sailboat crewman, a business owner since 16, an ex-US Navy mechanical/electrical/etc technician & trainer and a person who likes to make things better in general. While working his computer service business in 1995 he chanced upon an engine fuel burn enhancing device and had the idea that he could do better. In 2009 he sold his business and started working on the R&D full time. The result is that the highly effective, government-verified, university-proven & otherwise heavily tested and patented very low-cost invention, the "Carbon Cutter". Having read the IEA's prediction that EVs cannot make a big enough dent in GHG level goals for 2030, he has been working on getting projects started around the world in an effort to assist countries in meeting their United Nations NDC and SDG goals for the year 2030 and beyond.
Dana Kenney
Abt Associates, Inc.
Dana Kenney is an energy and climate change expert with more than 30 years of professional experience, including over 20 years in developing countries. She is currently working at Abt Associates’ headquarters, focused on business development and marketing of Abt innovations in the energy and envir
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Abt Associates, Inc.
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Dana Kenney is an energy and climate change expert with more than 30 years of professional experience, including over 20 years in developing countries. She is currently working at Abt Associates’ headquarters, focused on business development and marketing of Abt innovations in the energy and environment sectors. She served as Chief of Party of the recent 5-year USAID Clean Power Asia program, focused on scaling up investment in renewable energy in Southeast Asia. In prior years, she served as Chief of Party of the USAID-funded EC-LEDS Clean Energy Program in Georgia, managed Philippines and Jamaica programs under the Analysis and Investment for Low Emissions Growth (AILEG) project and spent over 10 years working directly for USAID in Asia and Africa. She earned an M.A. in Technology and Human Affairs from Washington University and a B.A. with dual majors in Economics and Environmental Studies from Principia College in Elsah, Illinois.
David Duccini
Origins.earth
After more than 30 years in the water industry, 20 years in operational management and 10 years in expertise and innovation, helping cities improve the performance of water distribution networks in more than 40 countries, David decided to take on a new challenge as a professional legacy serving the
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Origins.earth
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After more than 30 years in the water industry, 20 years in operational management and 10 years in expertise and innovation, helping cities improve the performance of water distribution networks in more than 40 countries, David decided to take on a new challenge as a professional legacy serving the planet. That is why in 2020 he developed Origins.earth, a new player in the global climate challenge working to develop innovative tools to measure and monitor greenhouse gas emissions in territories. Origins.earth is the result of a three-year research and development project that Suez carried out in partnership with the City of Paris and LSCE, the Laboratory of Climate and Environmental Sciences, an expression of French national research. Today, Origins.earth measures greenhouse gas emissions every day over an area surrounding Paris with more than 12 million inhabitants.