Baysa Naran is a Manager in Climate Policy Initiative’s London office, where she leads the Global Landscape of Climate Finance – an inventory of climate change investment available that provides a trend analysis on the how, where, and from whom finance is flowing toward low-carbon and climate-resilient actions globally. It is a key tool for policy makers to assess the scale of finance, identify the main actors in the market, reveal investment gaps, and highlight opportunities to mobilize finance to fulfill investment potential.

Dr. Ralf Schüle is the Co-Head of Research Unit Urban Transitions of the Wuppertal Institute. He studied sociology, political sciences and economics and holds a PhD in sociology. He is a leading expert in low carbon urban transformation and strategic planning of urban sustainability paths along the whole policy cycle and covering most relevant sectors (e.g. energy supply, buildings, transport) at national and local levels. He has 12 years of experience working in this field in Germany, across Europe, and China.

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Verena has over 10 years of work and research experience in the field of policy advisory/project development especially on the topics of energy efficiency: policy & finance, energy/climate policy and urban governance in the South East Asian context. In her PhD research, she explored how far the public sector can assist to optimize energy efficiency finance initiatives by analyzing in-depth two energy efficiency finance programs, one focused on ESCOs and one on banks.

Hu Min is the China Advisor for Kigali Cooling Efficiency Program (K-CEP), a global philanthropic program supporting the global transition to clean and efficient cooling technologies in over 40 countries. She is also a senior fellow at Energy Innovation. Hu Min served the Energy Foundation China for over 12 years. She was the Program Director for the Low Carbon Economic Growth Program and the Environmental Management Program.