Global Perspective

Digital payments giant Visa is helping consumers shift to a more conscious form of consumerism in support of the net-zero economy transition, said the company's Chief Sustainability Officer Douglas Sabo, in his talk at the Asian Development Bank's (ADB) fourth Southeast Asia Development Symposium (SEADS). He said Visa is tailoring its products and services to be more green to serve consumers around the world, who “want to do the right thing for the planet, for their families, and for themselves.”

Anh Tuan Nguyen

Dr. Anh Tuan Nguyen currently work as Energy Policies and Energy Sector Institutional and Regulatory Framework expert on “EU-Viet Nam Sustainable Energy Transition Facility (EVSETF)”. He has extensive experience in the fields of sustainable energy, renewable energy planning, energy policies, policy dialogue and energy-related institutional and regulatory frameworks. He enjoys more than 35 years of working experience in the energy sector in developing and developed countries in South-East Asia and Europe.

Diala Hawila

Diala has been working in the Policy Unit of the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) since 2012, on topics related to policy assessment including the study on Renewable Energy Auctions: Analysing 2016 and Renewable Energy Auctions: A Guide to Design, and to the socio-economic impacts of renewable energy, on projects including Renewable Energy Benefits: Leveraging Local Capacity of solar PV and onshore wind. Diala is one of the authors of IRENA’s regional market analysis on Southeast Asia.

Charles Madson

Charles Martin Madson decided to devote himself to clean renewable energy specializing in wind power. Under AAltafil Inc. of the Philippines and AAltamerica Inc of Tucson, Arizona, Charles has developed the first and only integrated system for the collection and storage of wind power on a large scale. From 2015 to 2019, he has also been granted 2 U.S. and 2 Philippine patents, with a 3rd U.S. patent and a 3rd Philippine patent pending. Some of his wind turbine designs reflect the influence aeronautic design.