Contributors

Per Regnarsson

Per Regnarsson is CEO & Managing Partner at CleanWorldCapital Group Ltd. He is also Co-founder at Entropy Environmental Ltd and Chairman of Board of Directors at CWC Biofuels ApS.

Peter Hopper

Peter Hopper, a partner, is managing director of SDG's Technology and Manufacturing practices in Asia-Pacific. He leads SDG's Hong Kong office. Peter has 30 years of operating experience in a wide range of technology-based industries and spent 20 of those years with Philips Electronics. He has an MBA from Manchester Business School and an undergraduate degree with honors in business studies from Northumbria University, UK.

Peter Hopper & Alice Yung

Peter Hopper is managing director of SDG's Technology and Manufacturing practices in Asia-Pacific. He leads SDG's Hong Kong office and has 30 years of operating experience in a wide range of technology-based industries. Alice Yung is a consultant at SDG's Hong Kong office with experience in the power, manufacturing, and financial services industry in China, Singapore, and Japan. She has an MBA from INSEAD and a Bachelor of Science degree in Quantitative Finance.

Peter J. Rae

Peter J. Rae is the principal of Peter Rae Hydro Consulting Ltd.  He has extensive experience with planning and development of energy projects, particularly water power. He provides expert consulting, planning, project management, and development services. 

Philippe Du Four

Philippe Du Four is the Chairman Global Power Practice of Marsh Inc.

Phillip Vaughan

Phillip Vaughan is Director for the Utilities Industry at SAP Asia Pacific-Japan. He drives the regional business development strategy and activities for the electricity, gas, water, waste and recycling sectors.

Pramod Jain & Arun Ramamurthy

Pramod Jain is a leading expert in Wind Power, Energy Storage and Internet of Things. He is a consultant to private developers, the Asian Development Bank, USAID, US Department of Energy, United Nations Development Program, Inter-American Development Bank and others. One of his areas of focus is improving the operations of wind and other power plants through solutions that include sensors, cloud computing and smart analytics. Pramod has provided consulting in the USA, Bangladesh, Guyana, Jamaica, Mexico, Mongolia, Indonesia, Lebanon, Philippines, Sri Lanka, St. Kitts, Suriname and Vietnam. He is the author of a book Wind Energy Engineering, McGraw-Hill, NY, published in April 2016. He holds a B. Tech from Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay and Ph.D. from University of California, Berkeley.

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Arun Ramamurthy is a Senior Public Management Specialist (ICT & e-Governance) at ADB. Arun is an expert in designing and implementing digital technology solutions and innovations in development economics activities of ADB. His recent work includes piloting new connectivity and communications technologies in Bhutan and Myanmar. He is presently involved in conceptualizing Internet of Things and Artificial Intelligence solutions through ADB interventions in India, Cambodia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Nepal, Pakistan, Philippines, and the People’s Republic of China. He was with Tata Consultancy Services, India and worked in the US, UK, and Singapore before joining the ADB.

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Prima Madan & Vivek Dhariwal

Prima Madan is a senior economist and policy analyst at Emergent Ventures with expertise in energy and climate change. She is closely working with Ministry of Power, India on energy efficiency financing and demand side management programs. 

Vivek Dhariwal is a senior energy and transport analyst at Emergent Ventures with expertise in developing low carbon strategies for corporate, transport and energy sector. He has advised various fortune 500 companies, government and multilateral agencies to achieve the low carbon strategy development. 

Priyantha D C Wijayatunga

Dr. Priyantha D C Wijayatunga is aSenior Energy Specialist in Asian Development Bank.

Putra Adhiguna and Christina Ng

Putra Adhiguna

Energy Technologies Research Lead, Asia

Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis

Putra Adhiguna leads technology research in Asia and covers energy transition in the emerging economies context, including the various facets of technology developments, investment trends, and policy directions.

As an energy professional for over 15 years, he has led numerous high-profile projects, held various leadership positions in Fortune500 companies, and advised diverse public and private stakeholders. 

He firmly believes in the critical role of publicly accessible information to shed light on the uncharted road of energy transition. His views and writings have been featured in various publications and media outlets. 

Putra holds an engineering degree from Institut Teknologi Bandung, and a Master in Public Policy from the London School of Economics & Political Science. He is also an alumni of business leadership program from Texas A&M University.

Christina Ng

Research & Stakeholder Engagement Leader, Debt Markets

Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis

Christina Ng oversees a team of financial analysts that provide debt market analysis covering Asia Pacific. She also represents IEEFA at stakeholder forums. Her research of interest includes trends and issues in green and transition finance, policies and regulations, with a focus on the energy sector.

As a former standard-setter in international financial reporting, Christina directed the research and analysis of accounting issues and financial statements crucial for the development and improvisation of standards to enable investors and other market participants to make informed finance decisions. She also advised stakeholders in the adoption and interpretation of standards and worked closely with global standard-setters, investors, regulators and public-listed corporations. 

Her appreciation for sound policies and governance and the important role investors play in driving meaningful change, opens the door for IEEFA to participate in relevant policy and standard-setting globally. 

Christina qualified with CPA Australia after graduating with a bachelor’s degree in Commerce (Accounting and Finance) from the University of Melbourne in Australia. She then furthered her studies in business sustainability management with the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership in the United Kingdom.