Participants Profiles

2021 Asian Development Bank Institute Annual Conference:

Climate Change Mitigation and Green Finance

Participants’ Profiles

1-3 December (Wednesday-Friday) 2021 [Virtual conference; JST time zone, local time in Tokyo]

<<Day 1: Wednesday, December 1

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Opening Remarks

Tetsushi Sonobe

Dean and CEO, Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI), Japan

Short Bio

Tetsushi Sonobe is the Dean and CEO of the Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI), the Tokyo-based think tank of the Asian Development Bank that promotes the realization of a prosperous, inclusive, resilient, and sustainable Asia and the Pacific through policy research and capacity building. Born in 1960 in Tokyo, Dean Sonobe obtained his PhD in economics from Yale University and BA in economics from the University of Tokyo. His

Welcoming Remarks [video-recorded]

Keynote Speech [video-recorded]

Mitigation needs in light of the latest climate science

research interests are centered on the empirics of economic development, particularly the roles of industrial clusters, human capital, social capital, management practices, and market competition in industrial development in developing Asia and other regions. Before joining ADBI in April 2020, Dean Sonobe served for six years as a vice president of the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS) in Tokyo and taught economics for thirty years at Tokyo Metropolitan University and GRIPS. Dean Sonobe is a recipient of the Nikkei Book Publication Prize and the Masayoshi Ohira Memorial Prize, and a founding board member of the Japanese Association for Development Economics.

Masatsugu Asakawa

President, Asian Development Bank (ADB), Philippines

Short Bio

Masatsugu Asakawa is the President of the Asian Development Bank and the Chairperson of ADB’s Board of Directors. He was elected President by ADB’s Board of Governors and assumed office on 17 January 2020. Before joining ADB, he served as Special Advisor to Japan’s Prime Minister and Minister of Finance, and has a professional career that spans nearly 4 decades in diverse fields such as international finance, development, and taxation at the Ministry of Finance. Mr. Asakawa also worked for international organizations as the Chief Advisor to ADB President between 1989 and 1992, senior staff at the Fiscal Affairs Department of the IMF (1996-2000), and Chair for the Committee on Fiscal Affairs at Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (2011-2016).

Jim Skea

Professor of Sustainable Energy at Imperial College London, United Kingdom

Co-Chair of Working Group III - Mitigation of Climate Change, The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)

Panel discussion I.

Promoting Green finance for climate change mitigation (Moderator)

Short Bio

Jim Skea is Professor of Sustainable Energy at Imperial College London with research interests in energy, climate change and technological innovation. His current main role is as Co-Chair of IPCC Working Group III for the 6th assessment cycle. He was Research Director of the UK Energy Research Centre 2004-12 and Director of the Policy Studies Institute 1998-2004. He has operated at the interface between research, policy-making and business throughout his career. He was a member of the UK Committee on Climate Change from its inception in 2008 until 2018, and the Chair of Scotland’s Just Transition Commission. From 2015-17, he was President of the UK Energy Institute. He was awarded a CBE for services to sustainable energy in 2013 and an OBE for services to sustainable transport in 2004.

Ahmed M. Saeed

Vice-President, East Asia, Southeast Asia and the Pacific ADB, Philippines

Short Bio

Mr. Ahmed M. Saeed joined ADB in 2019 and has significant prior leadership experience in both government and the private sector. He is currently responsible for overseeing ADB’s operations in East Asia, Southeast Asia and the Pacific. Between 2004 and 2008, Mr.

Saeed served in senior roles at the US Treasury. He was an advisor to the Secretary of the Treasury (2004-05) and the later Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for the Middle East and Africa, with responsibility for US economic diplomacy and financial engagement across 68 countries (2005-08). He has worked closely with two Secretaries of the Treasury (John Snow and Hank Paulson). He was deeply involved in a number of significant debt relief exercises (for Liberia, Lebanon, Jordan and Iraq) and laid the basis for what became the Santiago Principles for sovereign wealth funds. Mr. Saeed holds a Doctor of Jurisprudence from the University of Chicago Law School and a Master of Business Administration in Finance from the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business, as well as a BA (Economics and Political Science) from McGill University. He is a former White House Fellow and a life member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

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Soh Young In

Financial Innovation Lead at the Precourt Institute for Energy’s Sustainable Finance Initiative (SFI) at Stanford University, United States

Short Bio

Dr. Soh Young In leads research on Financial Innovation at the Sustainable Finance Initiative (SFI) of the Precourt Institute for Energy at Stanford University. She is also a Research Director of Sustainable Smart City Finance at the Stanford Center at the Incheon Global Campus (SCIGC). Her research interest is to align the financial system with a low- carbon economy and catalyze sustainable finance. Her research supports investors, entrepreneurs, and policymakers to drive positive social and environmental impact alongside financial results. Soh Young won a research award from the United Nations Environment Programme Finance Initiative (UNEP FI) and the US Clean Energy Education and Empowerment (C3E) Award by the US Department of Energy (US DOE). Her work has also received extensive media coverage, such as Project Syndicate, WIRED Magazine, Indexology by S&P Dow Jones, and Sustainable Insight Capital Management. Soh Young completed her PhD in Civil and Environmental Engineering at Stanford University, MA in International Policy Studies at Stanford, concentrating in Energy, Environment and Natural Resources, and BA in Economics and Statistics from Columbia University. She has worked for Boston Consulting Group, United Nations Development Programme, Korea Development Bank, and Earth Institute.

Aladdin D. Rillo

Senior Economic Advisor, EconomicResearch Institute ASEAN and East Asia (ERIA), Indonesia

Short Bio

Dr. Aladdin D. Rillo is currently a Senior Economic Advisor for the Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia (ERIA). Prior to that, he worked at the ASEAN Secretariat for many years where he served in various positions; the latest as the Deputy Secretary-General for the ASEAN Economic Community (2018-2021), during which he provided the overall leadership in the implementation of the AEC Blueprint 2025 and

ASEAN’s economic integration agenda. He also held positions at the Asian Development Bank Institute in Tokyo as Senior Economist (2013-2018) and PricewaterhouseCoopers in Toronto as Senior Manager Transfer Pricing (2006-2007). Dr. Rillo has written and published extensively on the ASEAN economy and on the broader economic and trade and financial integration issues. He holds PhD and MA degrees in economics from the University of Hawaii, and an AB in economics from the Ateneo de Manila University in the Philippines.

Daniel Runde

Senior Vice President, Project on Prosperity and Development, Center for Strategic and International Studies, United States

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Daniel F. Runde is senior vice president, director of the Project on Prosperity and Development and Americas Program, and holds the William A. Schreyer Chair in Global Analysis at CSIS. A global thought leader and change agent, his work centers on leveraging U.S. soft power and the central roles of the private sector and good governance in creating a more free and prosperous world. Mr. Runde has been recognized for influencing the debate on USAID-State Department relations, as an architect of the BUILD Act, and led the debate surrounding the role and future of the World Bank Group. Mr. Runde has also influenced thinking about U.S. economic engagement with Africa and domestic resource mobilization. Previously, Mr. Runde held senior leadership roles at the International Finance Corporation (IFC). From 2005 to 2007, he was director of the Office of Global Development Alliances (GDA) at the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID).

Krishna Srinivasan

Deputy Director, Asia-Pacific Department, International Monetary Fund, United States

Short Bio

Krishna Srinivasan is a Deputy Director in the Asia-Pacific Department of the IMF. In this capacity, he oversees the institution’s work on several countries, including China, South Korea, Hong Kong SAR, Mongolia and island economies of the Pacific. He was previously a Deputy Director in the Western Hemisphere Department, where he oversaw the institution’s work on many countries in the region, including Brazil, Canada, Ecuador, Mexico, Peru, and the island economies of the Caribbean,

the department’s research activities, and its flagship product, Regional Economic Outlook for Latin America and the Caribbean. He is a co-editor of two recent books: Brazil—Boom, Bust and the Road to Recovery; and Unleashing Growth and Strengthening Resilience in the Caribbean. Before joining WHD, he was in the IMF’s European Department, serving as the mission chief for the United Kingdom and Israel, and before that in the Research Department, where he led the IMF’s work on the G-20 and was the editor of an IMF book Global Rebalancing: A Roadmap for Economic Recovery. Krishna secured his PhD from Indiana University and a Post-graduate degree from the Delhi School of Economics, India, and has published several papers both at the IMF and in leading academic journals.

Shu Tian

Economist, Economic Research and Regional Cooperation Department (ERCD), ADB, Philippines

Short Bio

Dr. Shu Tian is an Economist at the Economic Research and Regional Cooperation Department (ERCD) of the Asian Development Bank (ADB). Prior to joining ADB, she was an Associate Professor of Finance at Fudan University in China. Her main research interests include financial services and institution, financial market development, investments, and empirical asset pricing. Her research has been published in academic journals on topics relating to financial asset pricing, portfolio allocation and financial market development. Dr. Tian works in the teams that produce Asian Development Outlook and Asia Bond Monitor. She is part of the team that maintains AsianBondsOnline (https://asianbondsonline.adb.org/), an online bond market data portal for ASEAN+3 bond markets under the ASEAN bond market initiative.

Duan Xiumei

Director General, Department of International Green Finance &

Cooperation, China National Investment and Guaranty Corporation, People’s Republic of China

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Ms. Duan Xiumei, Senior Economist, Managing Director, and Director General of Department of International Green Finance & Cooperation (PMO of ADB Project) of China National Investment & Guaranty Corporation (I&G). She has over 20 years’ experiences in green finance, especially in SMEs Finance Program as funded by Beijing Municipal Bureau of Finance, World Bank/Global Environment Fund China Energy Conservation Promotion Project Phase II (ESCO Loan Guaranty Program); she is leading I&G in the initiation and

Session I.

Energy Sector: Transition toward high renewable energy penetration

(Chair)

implementation of “Air Quality Improvement in the Greater Beijing–Tianjin–Hebei Region—

China National Investment and Guaranty Corporation’s Green Financing Platform Project”

(PRC-ADB Project) and “Air Quality Improvement in the Greater Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Region—Green Financing Scale up Project” financed by Asian Development Bank. The PRC-ADB Project advocates sustainable use of natural resources and maximize the role of nature in mitigating and adapting to climate change, and it has been selected as the Best Practice of Nature-Based Solutions in 2019 UN Climate Action Summit and has won the International Finance Forum’s Global Green Finance Innovation Award in 2020.

Priyantha Wijayatunga

Chief of Energy Sector Group, Sustainable Development and Climate Change Department, ADB, Philippines

Short Bio

Priyantha Wijayatunga is the Director, South Asia Energy Division of the Asian Development Bank (ADB). He was the founder Director General of the Public Utilities Commission of Sri Lanka and a Senior Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka. He holds a Doctorate in Power Systems Economics from the Imperial College. As a regular Academic Visitor at Imperial College London during 993- 1998 and he contributed to research involving costing of electricity transmission network services of the United Kingdom and Chile. He was a Chairman of the South Asia Forum for Infrastructure Regulators. He was also a member of the Board of Directors of the Ceylon Electricity Board and the Sustainable Energy Authority, Sri Lanka. He has contributed extensively in energy sector policy and regulatory activities and has co-authored over 75 publications. He was an Advisory Board member of the Melbourne Energy Institute at the University of Melbourne during 2016-2019. He is a Chartered Electrical Engineer, a Member of the Institute of Engineering Technology (IET), UK, Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) and a Fellow of the Institution of Engineers Sri Lanka. He is a Past President of the Sri Lanka Energy Managers Association (SLEMA).

 Paper 1: Financing the Energy Transition in a Low-Cost Intermittent Renewables Environment

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Frank Wolak

Professor, Department of Economics, Stanford University, United States

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Ryoichi Komiyama

Associate Professor, Department of Nuclear Engineering and Management, the University of Tokyo, Japan

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Ryoichi Komiyama is an Associate Professor, Department of Nuclear Engineering and Management at the University of Tokyo. He obtained a Ph.D. degree of electrical engineering from the University of Tokyo in 2003. In the past, he studied as a visiting researcher in Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) from 2007 to 2009 and University of California at Berkeley from 2011 to 2012. His fields of research are energy system modeling and electric power system analysis. He is appointed so far as a chair and

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Paper 2: Secure energy transition in the power sector with high shares of variable renewables

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a member in a number of committee in government and academic society such as Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, Japan (METI), Organization for Cross-regional Coordination of Transmission Operators, Japan (OCCTO), Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers (JSME) and Atomic Energy Society of Japan (AESJ).

Peerapat Vithayasrichareon

Lead Analyst, Renewable Integration and Secure Electricity Unit, IEA, France

Short Bio

Peerapat leads the IEA analysis on the challenges and best practices in integrating renewable energy into the power system, covering technical, economic and institutional aspects. He has led grid integration analysis in many regions including China, Indonesia, Thailand and ASEAN. Prior to the IEA, Peerapat was a Senior Consultant at Intelligent Energy Systems in Australia, where he took on advisory projects related to power sector planning and renewable integration in ASEAN. His previous role was a Research Fellow at the Centre for Energy and Environmental Markets at UNSW Sydney, leading a project which examined the impact of high renewables in the Australian electricity sector. He also worked for Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand (EGAT) in power system operation and planning. Peerapat holds a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of New South Wales, Australia.

Rika Safrina

Energy Modelling and Policy Planning Officer, Energy Modelling and Policy Planning, ASEAN Centre for Energy, Indonesia

Short Bio

Rika Safrina is a Technical Officer in the ASEAN Centre for Energy (ACE) under the department of Energy Modelling and Policy Planning. She performs research and data analysis related to energy policy, digitalisation, and climate change in ASEAN. She completed her master's degree in Science and Technology Policy at the University of Sussex, the United Kingdom, and bachelor's degree in Informatics Engineering from Bandung Institute of Technology in Indonesia. She is one of the authors of ACE Quarterly Energy Insight publications, including Covid-19 Impact on ASEAN Renewable Energy, Covid-19 Impact on ASEAN Oil and Gas Sector, and ASEAN Energy-Climate Insights.

<<Day 2: Thursday, December 2

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Session II.

Carbon Pricing (Chair)

 Paper 1: Exploiting complementarity of carbon pricing instruments for decarbonization in PRC

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Sujata Gupta

Director, Sustainable Infrastructure Division, East Asia Department, ADB, Philippines

Short Bio

Ms. Sujata Gupta is the Director of the Sustainable Infrastructure Division, East Asia Department of the Asian Development Bank (ADB). She joined ADB in 2003 and has worked on the public and private sectors of ADB as well as for resource mobilization from development partners. Sujata has a PhD from the London Business School, University of London and Master’s and Bachelor’s from the University of Delhi. Before joining ADB, Sujata was Senior Fellow and Director of the Policy Analysis Division, at TERI (then the Tata Energy Research Institute), New Delhi. She has also worked as a visiting researcher at the International Institute of Applied System Analysis in Austria. She was a member of United Nations (UNFCCC) CDM Methodologies for Baselines and Monitoring Panel (2002–

2005), and a co-coordinating lead author for the Second, Third, Fourth and Fifth Assessment Reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

Ying Fan

Dean and Professor, School of Economics and Management, Beihang University, People’s Republic of China

Short Bio

(Discussant)

 Paper 2: What role for carbon taxes and emissions trading in a portfolio of policies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions?

Prof. Ying Fan received her Ph.D.degree at system engineering. She had involved in the research of energy economics and management at Chinese Academy of Sciences(CAS) for 25 years before moving to Beijing University in 2015. She is currently a professor and the Dean of the School of Economics and Management at Beihang University, and the director of the Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research (CEEP), a joint center of Beihang University, IPM at CAS and CNPC. She visited Cornell University in the U.S. as a visiting scholar from 2004 to 2005, and visited KAPSARC in Saudi Arabia in 2015. She was the Vice President for Academic affairs of the International Association for Energy Economics (IAEE) during 2016-2020. She has carried out over 60 research projects, published over 300 papers in peer reviewed journals. She has received important awards, such as Yangtze River Scholar Distinguished Professor sponsored by the Ministry of Education, research grant for distinguished young scientists sponsored by NSFC, CAS Hundred Talents Program sponsored by the CAS, and a few Science and Technology Awards. Now she is leading an Innovative research group of NSFC titled “Green oriented complex system management and decision making”. Her research and teaching fields include energy economics, Energy-Environment-Economy system modeling, Emission Trading, climate change, energy and environmental policy.

Tian Goh

Research Fellow, Energy Studies Institute,National University of Singapore, Singapore

Short Bio

Dr. Goh Tian is a research fellow at the Energy Studies Institute, National University of Singapore. She has PhD in Industrial and Systems Engineering from the National University of Singapore and an MSc in Asian Studies from the S Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Nanyang Technological University of Singapore. She has 9 years of experience in energy and climate policy analysis in government and academia. Her main research interests are in the areas of decarbonization, energy efficiency, climate mitigation policy and modelling of energy systems, with a focus on Southeast Asia. Her work has been published in peer reviewed academic journals including Applied Energy, Energy Policy and Energy Economics, as well as a book chapter published by Routledge.

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Frank Jotzo

Professor, Crawford School of Public Policy; Director, Centre for Climate and Energy Policy, Australian National University, Australia

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Tatsuto Yukihara

Professor, Economic Research Center, Nagoya University, Japan

Joint Director of China Institute of Global Low-carbon Economy

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Dr. Tatsuto Yukihara is a Professor at Economic Research Centre of Economics of Nagoya University, Japan. He holds professions of Fulbright Scholar at Yale University, visiting Professor at University of Oxford, Professor and Deputy Dean of Economics School of Wuhan University, etc. He is also a visiting Researcher at Tsinghua University, Chinese Academy of Sciences, the World Bank etc. His major is Development Economics and the current research subjects are Low-carbon Economics, Energy Transition, Global Value Chains and CO2 Emissions, and the Chinese Economy. He hosted over 10 large international research projects and published about 80 papers in peer reviewed journals, including Science, Nature Communications, Applied Energy, Energy Economics, Energy

Panel discussion II.

Regional cooperation for climate change mitigation (Moderator)

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Policy, China Economic Review etc. He is also the guest editor of some journals such as Applied Energy. He is one of the founders and co-director of the first research institute named after the “low carbon economy”, an initiative member of the Beijing-Humboldt Forum. In practice, has involved in many policy consultants as well as carbon market design in China.

Cyn-Young Park

Director for Regional Cooperation and Integration, Economic Research and Regional Cooperation Department, ADB, Philippines

Short Bio

Cyn-Young Park is Director of the Regional Cooperation and Integration Division in the Economic Research and Regional Cooperation Department of the Asian Development Bank (ADB). In her current capacity, she manages a team of economists to examine economic and policy issues related to regional cooperation and integration (RCI) and develop strategies and approaches to support RCI. During her progressive career within ADB, she has been a main author and contributor to ADB’s major publications including Asian Development Outlook (ADB’s flagship publication), Asian Economic Integration Report, Asia Capital Markets Monitor, Asia Economic Monitor, Asia Bond Monitor, and ADB Country Diagnostic Study Series. She has also participated in various global and regional forums including the G20 Development Working Group, Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), ASEAN+3, Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC), and Asia- Europe Meeting (ASEM). She has written and lectured extensively about the Asian economy and financial markets. Her work has been published in peer reviewed academic journals including the Journal of Banking and Finance, the Journal of Financial Stability, the Journal of Futures Markets, the Review of Income and Wealth, and the World Economy.

Prior to joining the ADB, she served as Economist (1999- 2002) at the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), where she contributed to the OECD Economic Outlook. She received her Ph.D. in Economics from Columbia University. She holds a bachelor degree in International Economics from Seoul National University.

Pascal Bertolini

Director, Electric Sector Organization, RTE international, France

Short Bio

Pascal BERTOLINI started working as researcher at EDF, Paris in 1982 after finalizing his education as engineer (Ecole Supérieure d’Electricité). Since 1999, he has been working at RTE, the French Transmission System Operator. He now works as director at RTE- International, a wholly-owned subsidiary of RTE, which promotes and markets throughout the world, the know-how and expertise of RTE. With ADB, he manages consultant teams lead by RTE International working in technical assistances to increase regional cooperation and cross-border energy trading within Central and South Asia countries, in a context of large-scale renewable energy integration. He has an extensive experience in the field of power system planning, access to the grid, ancillary services, grid codes and contractual agreements with grid users. At the department of RTE in charge of the access to the grid in France and abroad with RTE-International, he manages many projects for developing the transmission system, adapting grid codes and regulation on ancillary services, for facilitating the integration of renewable energy sources. He also actively worked in ENTSO- E as RTE member in teams in charge of drafting the EU network codes.

Mizan R. Khan

Deputy Director, International Centre for Climate Change and Development (ICCCAD), Independent University, Bangladesh Programme Director of Least Developed Countries Universities’

Consortium on Climate Change (LUCCC), Bangladesh

Short Bio

Prof. Mizan R. Khan has a PhD in Environmental Policy and Management from the University of Maryland School of Public Policy, MD, USA. Currently, he is Deputy Director, International Centre for Climate Change & Development, Independent University, Bangladesh. He served as Adjunct/Visiting Professor/Scholar at the University of Manitoba;

University of Calcutta; Universite de Poitiers; Brown University and the University of Maryland. He is a Lead Author of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

In the early 1990s, he worked for 3 years as a Senior Researcher at the Centre for International Development and Conflict Management (CIDCM) of the UMCP, MD, USA. He was Vice Chair of the LDC Expert Group under the UNFCCC during 2002-2004. He attends climate negotiations as a lead negotiator with the Bangladesh delegation since 2001. He is an invited speaker in global expert meetings on climate change. Dr Khan speaks French &

Russian as well. Prof. Khan has a wide range of publications in peer-reviewed journals/magazines including Nature & Science on climate change issues. He has to his

credits three books on climate change economics, politics and capacity building, published by Routledge & MIT Press.

Clare Shakya

Director, Climate Change Group, International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED), United Kingdom

Short Bio

Clare Shakya has 30 years of experience in climate resilient development, covering natural resources, energy and water systems. Prior to IIED, she spent 15 years with the UK government’s department for international development (now FCDO) where she led on developing their climate change response in both Africa and Asia. Clare is responsible for the oversight of the propositional research of IIED’s Climate Change Group who work with the people with little voice in climate decision making, to co-create solutions that shape pathways and drive action for a just and sustainable future. This includes work on getting Money Where It Matters, tackling the challenges across the climate finance landscape to devolve authority and resources to local actors and develop agile and inclusive institutions capable of tackling the triple crises of climate, nature and poverty. This has led to the Principles for Locally Led Adaptation and to providing support to the LDC’s Initiative For Effective Adaptation and Resilience, that aims to develop transformational mechanisms that invest resources behind communities’ own priorities for a coherent response to the triple crises.

Nuki AgyaUtama

Executive Director, ASEAN Centre for Energy, Indonesia

Short Bio

Dr. Nuki Agya Utama is appointed as the Executive Director of the ASEAN Centre for.

Energy (ACE) and reporting directly to an International organisation under ASEAN entities and reporting to Governing Council consist of ministries energy in ASEAN member states.

He is currently an advisory board member of Asia Pacific Energy Research Centre (APERC), World Economic Forum (WEF) Global Future Councils, and energy working group of UN-ESCAP. He has an academic and research background as Post-Doctorate in Graduate School. Energy Science Kyoto University on life cycle energy analysis and energy scenario and planning modelling. Holding PhD, with research on Life Cycle Energy Analysis

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from Joint Graduate School of Energy and Environment, the University of Technology King Mongkut (KMUTT), Thailand. Prior to assuming his position in ACE, he has been working in various international organisations as well as private sectors in energy and environmental issues. He also serves as an invited lecture in Diponegoro University as well as an editor and reviewer in various international journal.

Matthew David Wittenstein

Chief of section, Energy connectivity, UN ESCAP, Thailand

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Matthew Wittenstein is Chief of Section for Energy Connectivity at the UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UN ESCAP). In his role, Matthew supports efforts by countries across the region seeking to improve the sustainability and security of their energy systems through increased cross-border power system integration. Recent work includes capacity building for energy regulators in ASEAN, an assessment of the potential to develop a “green power corridor” in North-East Asia, and supporting increased cooperation on sustainable energy among the countries of the Pacific. Prior to joining the UN, Matthew was a Senior Electricity Analyst at the International Energy Agency (IEA), where he focused on the economics of generation, the challenges of encouraging investment in clean energy technologies, and electricity market design. He also led the IEA’s work on cross-border electricity security, including the publications “Establishing Multilateral Power Trade in ASEAN” and “Integrating Power Systems Across Borders”.

From 2011 to 2014, Matthew was a Fellow in the US Department of Energy’s International Climate Change Office, where he supported the Clean Energy Ministerial secretariat. Mr.

Wittenstein holds a Master of International Affairs from Columbia University, with a concentration in international economic policy.

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Session III.

Buildings: Promoting and financing demand-side energy efficiency

(Chair)

 Paper 1 : Future-proofing sustainable cooling demand

Yukari Niwa Yamashita

Managing Director, Institute of Energy Economics (IEEJ), Japan

Short Bio

Yukari Niwa Yamashita is a Managing Director for the Institute of Energy Economics, Japan (IEEJ), in Charge of the Energy Data and Modelling Center which is responsible for quantitative and qualitative analyses on energy policy issues. Her team’s analyses and recommendations contribute greatly to debate and policy making for Japan and international communities such as ERIA, APEC and IEA. The annual IEEJ's Outlook is globally recognized for its timely analyses and pragmatic approach towards climate change.

She has been serving as a member of various government councils and committees in the fields of energy and science & technologies. She also led miscellaneous international and regional programs in the area of energy cooperation through IEA, APEC, ERIA and IPEEC.

She is a visiting professor at Kyushu University. She served as the 2020 President of the International Association for Energy Economics (IAEE) and is the 2021 Executive Vice President.

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(Discussant)

Toby Peters

Professor of Cold Economy, co-Director, Centre for Sustainable Cooling, Chemical Engineering, University of Birmingham, United Kingdom

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Clayton Miller

Assistant Professor, Department of the Built Environment, School of Design and Environment, National University of Singapore, Singapore

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Clayton Miller leads the Building and Urban Data Science Lab (BUDS) at the National University of Singapore. BUDS Lab is a scientific research group that leverages data sources from the built and urban environments to improve the energy efficiency and conservation, comfort, safety and satisfaction of humans. He is an Assistant Professor at NUS, the Co-Leader of Theme D - Data Analytics at the UC Berkeley SinBerBEST2 Lab and the Co-Leader of Subtask 4 of the IEA Annex 79 Occupant-Centric Building Design and Operation. He holds a Doctor of Sciences (Dr. sc. ETH Zurich) from the ETH Zürich, an MSc. (Building) from the National University of Singapore (NUS), and a BSc./Master of Architectural Engineering (MAE) from the University of Nebraska - Lincoln (UNL). He is the

 Paper 2: Financing Green Buildings: barriers, solutions, policies

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(Discussant)

former CTO of Optiras Pte. Ltd, a Singapore NRF-funded start-up, a former Fulbright Scholar to Singapore at NUS and a Walter Scott Jr. Scholar at UNL.

Dina Azhgaliyeva

Research Fellow, Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI), Japan

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Dr. Dina Azhgaliyeva is a Research Fellow at the Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI).

Before joining ADBI in July 2019, she worked as a Research Fellow in the energy economics division of the Energy Studies Institute, National University of Singapore. She was also a Research Fellow at the Henley Business School, University of Reading (UK) where she was involved in empirical analysis of the impact of local content policy on extractive industries. She worked as Economics Teaching Fellow at the University College London. She also worked as a leading and chief specialist for the Tax Committee at the Ministry of Finance of Kazakhstan. She holds a PhD, Master’s, and Graduate Diploma in economics, all from the University of Essex (UK). She also holds an internationally recognized teaching qualification from the Fellow of Higher Education Academy and a qualification in research career management from the Staff Educational and Development Association. Her research interests include energy policy, particularly renewable energy, energy efficiency, and energy storage. She is currently a guest editor for the Applied Energy’s special issue “Integration of Renewable Energy in Energy Systems, Perspectives on Investment, Technology, and Policy”. More information is available here:

https://www.adb.org/adbi/about/staff-profiles/dina-azhgaliyeva

Alessandro Romagnoli

Director of Multi Energy Systems, School of Mechanical &

Aerospace Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

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Alessandro is an Associate Professor in the School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the Nanyang Technological University of Singapore. Since 2020, Alessandro has been appointed as Co-Director of the NTU-Surbana Jurong Corporate Lab, a S$60M effort looking at Intelligent Urban Solutions, Active Solutions for Sustainability, and Future of Construction and Underground. Since 2015 Alessandro is also serving as Cluster Director on Multi-Energy Systems and Grids at the Energy Research Institute @ Nanyang Technological University. During his time at NTU, Alessandro established the Thermal Energy Systems Lab @NTU which focusses on industrial energy efficiency, power generation - from large scale to distributed energy generation applied to micro-grids, and energy systems integration for different energy mix - including renewables and energy storage. Focus is being put on Liquefied Natural Gas, Cryogenic Energy Storage (Liquid Air Energy System and Hydrogen), Waste Heat Recovery and Thermal Energy Storage.

Alessandro’s work also covers studies on the Cold-Economy for Singapore and developing countries by developing predictive and intelligent algorithms for optimal design, planning and integration of diversified energy systems. Alessandro’s research activity is mainly focussed towards serving the industry by providing advice and viable solutions for some of their most pressing challenges, such as reducing carbon footprint, energy efficiency, and energy prosumption. Alessandro is advising the World Bank - International Finance Corporation on energy related projects looking at maximizing energy efficiency in cold energy applications. Alessandro has published more than 100 articles in top-tier research journals, and he is recipient of several awards and recognition in the academic and research field.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/alessandro-romagnoli-71289233/

www.thermalenergysystemslab.com

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Session IV.

Agriculture, Forestry and Land Use (AFOLU) (Chair)

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Jiangfeng Zhang

Director, Environment, Natural Resources, and Agriculture Division, SERD, ADB, Philippines

 Paper 1: Contribution of agriculture to climate change and low-emission agricultural development in Asia and Pacific

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Jiangfeng Zhang is the Director of Environment, Natural Resources and Agriculture Division, Southeast Asia Department, concurrently Co-Chair, Environment Thematic Group, of Asian Development Bank (ADB). Since 2002 to date, he has been leading and supporting the development, design, and implementation of agriculture, natural resources, and rural development sector projects covering countries in Southeast Asia, South Asia, and Central and West Asia. His current focus is on policy, institutional, financing, and technological supports to inclusive, climate resilient, and environmentally sustainable agriculture and rural development for enhanced agriculture competitiveness and food security in Southeast Asia countries. He holds a Doctorate in Agricultural and Resource Economics and a Master’s degree in Statistics from the University of California, Berkeley, USA.

Jeetendra Prakash Aryal

Consultant, Sustainable Intensification Program, International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT)

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Paper 2: Best bets for achieving a carbon-neutral global food system

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Sukanya Das

Associate Professor and Head, Department of Policy Studies, TERI School of Advanced Studies, India

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Sukanya Das is an environmental economist and is currently working as an Associate Professor and Head in the Department of Policy Studies, TERI School of Advanced Studies, New Delhi. Her research interest lies in economic valuation of environmental goods and ecosystem services. She has an expertise in non-market valuation techniques more than a decade. Her current areas include-ecosystem services, climate change and agriculture, renewable energy. She has several journal publications till date. Other than that, she has several book chapters, reports, working papers and Conference publications Other than that she has several book chapters, reports, working papers and Conference publications.

She holds Ph.D. in the area of environmental economics from Jadavpur University, India.

David Lobell

Professor, Earth System Science, Stanford University, United States

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David Lobell is a Professor at Stanford University in the Department of Earth System Science and the Gloria and Richard Kushel Director of the Center on Food Security and the Environment. He is also the William Wrigley Senior Fellow at the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment, and a senior fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies (FSI) and the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy and Research (SIEPR). His research focuses on agriculture and food security, specifically on generating and using unique datasets to study rural areas throughout the world. He has been recognized with a Macarthur Fellowship in 2013, a McMaster Fellowship from CSIRO in 2014, and the Macelwane Medal from the American Geophysical Union in 2010. He also served as lead

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 Paper 3: Forest management for better climate mitigation and adaptation goals

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author for the food chapter and core writing team member for the Summary for Policymakers in the recent Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Fifth Assessment Report. Prior to his current appointment, Dr. Lobell was a Senior Research Scholar at FSE from 2008-2009 and a Lawrence Post-doctoral Fellow at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory from 2005-2007. He received a PhD in Geological and Environmental Sciences from Stanford University in 2005, and a Sc.B. in Applied Mathematics, Magna Cum Laude from Brown University in 2000.

Puja Sawhney

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Rupesh Bhomia

Scientist, Climate Change, Energy and Low-Carbon Development, Centre for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), Indonesia

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Dr. Rupesh Bhomia is a scientist at Centre for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) based in Indonesia. He is working as Blue Carbon and Climate Change expert in the Climate Change, Energy and Low Carbon Development group. His work focuses on freshwater peatlands and coastal mangrove ecosystems as potential options for designing nature-based solutions for climate change. Dr. Bhomia completed M.Sc. at the School of Environmental Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, and then attended Oxford University to study Biodiversity, Conservation and Management. He holds a PhD in wetlands from soil and water sciences department, University of Florida. During his diverse career he has worked in research institutes (Indian institute of Forest Management), academic institutions (University of Florida and Oregon State University in USA as well as non-Govt organizations (WWF-India). During his decade long research career, he has conducted research internationally, and studied forested ecosystems in Peruvian Amazonia, and coastal mangroves in India, Honduras, Liberia, Gabon, Ghana, Madagascar and Senegal.

Ridhima Gupta

Assistant Professor, Faculty of Economics, South Asian University, India

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I am an Assistant Professor in the faculty of Economics at the South Asian University. My specialisation is environmental economics and agricultural economics. Recent topics of research include estimating the effects of pollution on congestion in Indian cities and measuring the impact of climate change on worker absenteeism. My past research has been published in Science, Climatic Change, World Development and is covered in popular media such as The Huffington Post. I am also a member of the Centre for Research on the Economics of Climate, Food, Energy and Environment (CECFEE). I received a PhD. in Economics from the Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi in 2015.

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Decarbonization of Transport and Sustainable Mobility in Asia

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Transport Sector (Chair)

Dechen Tsering

UNEP Regional Director for Asia and the Pacific, Thailand

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Ms. Dechen Tsering was appointed as the Regional Director of United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) in Asia and the Pacific in March 2017. As the regional arm of UNEP, headquartered in Nairobi, Kenya, the Asia-Pacific office works with governments, local authorities and the private sector to develop and put into place cleaner and safer policies and strategies that encourage the efficient use of natural resources and reduce risks for humans and the environment. Ms. Tsering has held management and leadership positions with the United Nations and has over 30 years of experience in national government and intergovernmental organisations. She has been actively involved in intergovernmental negotiations as a key negotiator for least-developed countries and contributed to the establishment of the Least Developed Countries Fund and the Least Developed Countries Expert Group. She also has experience in the management of complex development projects.

James Leather

Chief of Transport Sector Group, ADB, Philippines

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JAMIE LEATHER is the Chief of the Transport Sector Group at the Asian Development Bank. Mr. Leather has over 30 years of experience in transport, working internationally with development organizations, governments, private sector and research institutions. Mr.

Leather leads ADBs transport sector and overseas the strategic direction of ADBs knowledge, technical and financial support to its developing member countries, private

 Paper 1: TUMI Transport Outlook 1.5° – A Global Scenario To Decarbonize Transport°

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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).

Daniel Moser

Head, Transformative Urban Mobility Initiative (TUMI), GIZ - German Development Cooperation, Germany

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Daniel Moser is Management Head of the Transformative Urban Mobility Initiative (TUMI) at GIZ. In his position he provides management and strategic development of the initiative and its activities. TUMI is shaping the future of sustainable urban mobility through diverse opportunities around the world. The initiative is the joint endeavor of ADB, BMZ, CAF, C40, GIZ, ICLEI, ITDP, KfW, SLOCAT, UN-HABITAT and WRI to enable substantial finance, scale pilot projects and provide knowledge & policy. He is also closely associated with various activities in sustainable urban mobility at GIZ. As a consultant and advisor, he is directing sustainable urban mobility programs and interdisciplinary projects comprising transport, governance, city planning and urban technology. In his current position he is also advising the Government of Germany and the Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development on sustainable urban mobility.

Deepty Jain

Assistant Professor, Department of Sustainable Engineering, TERI School of Advanced Studies, India

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 Paper 2: Transport CO2 mitigation pathways and public acceptability

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Deepty Jain is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sustainable Engineering. Her area of expertise include sustainable mobility, integrated land use – transport planning, built environment mapping, active transport and travel behavior studies. Her current research explores the impact of changing environmental conditions on transport choices as part of a research project funded by Central Pollution Control Board, India. She has worked on the development of low carbon comprehensive mobility planning toolkit accepted by Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs in 2014. She has developed and tested various methods in the topic of sustainable mobility indicators, built environment indicators and mapping and assessing vertical equity. Her research is published in several peer reviewed journals of eminence. She has received her PhD in Methodology for Preparing Low Carbon Mobility Plans in Indian Cities: Case study of Vishakhapatnam from Indian Institute of Technology Delhi.

Robin Hickman

Professor of Transport and City Planning, The Bartlett School of Planning Faculty of the Built Environment, University College London, United Kingdom

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Robin is Professor in Transport & City Planning at the Bartlett School of Planning, University College London, and Director of the MSc in Transport & City Planning at UCL. He has authored and contributed to a range of research studies concerning sustainable transport, transport and climate change, urban structure and travel, the experience of travel, discourses on travel, and decision-support tools. These include case study material from London and the UK, wider Europe, Asia and many international contexts. He has jointly authored and edited the following books: A Companion to Transport, Space and Equity (Edward Elgar, 2019); Handbook on Transport and Development (Edward Elgar, 2015);

Transport, Climate Change and the City (Routledge, 2014).

 Paper 3: Decarbonizing the transport sector in

ASEAN+6 economies (Exact title of the paper is TBD) (Presenter)

Nguyen Thi Kim Oanh

Professor at Department of Energy, Environment, and Climate Change, School of Environment, Resources and Development, Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand

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Professor Kim Oanh is a member of the science panel of the Asia Pacific Clean Air Partnership (APCAP). She has 35 years working experience in research, education, consultancy and capacity building and is internationally recognized for her work on air pollution and climate in Asia. Her works aim to provide a better characterization of air pollution issues in Asian developing countries through field measurements, emission inventory and modelling studies at urban, national and regional scales. She has published 2 books (ed.), over 100 international peer-reviewed scientific papers and 50 book chapters.

With her extensive experience and professional networking capacity she has conducted, as PI or Co-PI, 60 regional collaboration research projects. As of 2021, she has supervised 200 Master and 16 Ph D AIT graduates who are now working in over 25 countries. She was a Fogarty Research scholar on her sabbaticals at the University of Washington in Seattle and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA (2004), and a visiting professor at the Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies, Germany (2012).

Venkatachalam Anbumozhi

Director, Research Strategy and Innovations, the Economic, Research Institute ASEAN and East Asia (ERIA), Indonesia

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Venkatachalam Anbumozhi is a Director, Research Strategy and Innovations at the Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia (ERIA), Indonesia. His previous positions include Capacity Building Specialist at Asian Development Bank Institute, Assistant Professor at the University of Tokyo, Senior Policy Researcher at the Institute for Global Environmental Strategies and Assistant Manager in Pacific Consultants International, Tokyo. He has published several books, authored numerous research articles, and produced many project reports on energy policies, energy infrastructure design, and private sector participation in Green Growth. Anbumozhi was invited as a member of the APEC Expert Panel on Green Growth, G20/T20 Task Force Green Financing

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and the ASEAN Panel on Smart Cities. He has taught Resource management, International cooperation and Development Finance at the University of Tokyo and has speaking engagements at some of the leading international organizations. He obtained his PhD from the University of Tokyo.

Kamna Sachdeva

HoD and Associate Professor, Department of Energy and Environment, TERI School of Advanced Studies, India

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Dr. Sachdeva research in the domain of climate change and air pollution management. She heads department of Energy and Environment in TERI School of Advanced Studies. She is actively involved in many projects where she works in cross cutting disciplines to provide sustainable solutions to the Environment and climate problems. Dr. Sachdeva received young scientist award in 2009 in atmopsheric sciences domain from DST. She has published several research papers and book chapters in the area where policy and science interconnects.

Tetsushi Sonobe

Dean and CEO, Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI), Japan

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Tetsushi Sonobe is the Dean and CEO of the Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI), the Tokyo-based think tank of the Asian Development Bank that promotes the realization of a prosperous, inclusive, resilient, and sustainable Asia and the Pacific through policy research and capacity building. Born in 1960 in Tokyo, Dean Sonobe obtained his PhD in economics from Yale University and BA in economics from the University of Tokyo. His research interests are centered on the empirics of economic development, particularly the roles of industrial clusters, human capital, social capital, management practices, and market competition in industrial development in developing Asia and other regions. Before joining ADBI in April 2020, Dean Sonobe served for six years as a vice president of the National

Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS) in Tokyo and taught economics for thirty years at Tokyo Metropolitan University and GRIPS. Dean Sonobe is a recipient of the Nikkei Book Publication Prize and the Masayoshi Ohira Memorial Prize, and a founding board member of the Japanese Association for Development Economics.