Hidetoshi Nakagami, Ph.D. currently serves as CEO of the Jyukankyo Research Institute Inc., which founded in 1973. He is a certified architect in Japan, and regularly lectures on energy situations and strategic options in Japan and has served as a professor at Tokyo Institute of Technology and served as a guest professor at Waseda University. He served in the early 1990s on the Energy Efficiency Standard for Appliances in the Ministry of International Trade and Industry and as Chairman of Implementation Study Committee for Daylight Saving, Energy Conservation Center of Japan.

Harald van Hoeken, a Dutch citizen, holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Aerospace Engineering as well as Ocean Engineering from Florida Institute of Technology. Mr. van Hoeken has 25 years experience in the offshore oil and gas industry, and for the past 5 years has been working in developing floating solar projects. He has spent nearly 20 years of his career living and working in Nigeria, and Africa in general.

In early 2019, he joined the Oceans of Energy management team as Director and leads the business development and commercial teams.

Hans-Arild has extensive international experience from designing and implementing various power market design and trading arrangements since 1992 where he initially was involved in developing the first market systems at Nord Pool.

Gordon Yu is the CEO of Etouch Innovation Co. Ltd., Managing Director & Chief Strategy Officer of EVP, Managing Director of SincerePlus, and Managing Director of Taiwan Hsinchu Green Industry Association, all based in Taipei, China. A holder of more than 150 patents, he has been awarded Taipei, China 9th Innovative Research Award by Minister of Economic Affairs, 5th Rising Star Award by the Prime Minister, and 11th National Award of Outstanding SME by the President of Taiwan.

Fiza Farhan is a Pakistan-based entrepreneur and development expert, featured in the US Magazine Forbes “30 Under 30 List of Social Entrepreneurs” for 2015 and again in Forbes Asia List of” 30 Under 30 Social Entrepreneurs in 2016”. She represents Pakistan on the United Nation's Secretary General's first-ever High-Level Panel on Women Economic Empowerment along with global leadership in addition to being the Chairperson of Chief Minister Punjab’s Task Force on Women Empowerment and member of the National Steering Committee on Climate Change for Pakistan.

Elisabeth Rianawati is the Director of Resilience Development Initiative (RDI), a think tank institute based in Indonesia. Under her direction from 2013, RDI has built networks with institutes in Europe, the U.S., Australia, and South East Countries. She has been involved in securing competitive project grants on renewable energy (biofuels, biogas, solar PV) from European Union, Global Challenge Research Fund (UK), ASEAN Science Technology and Innovation Fund (ASTIF), International Foundation of Science (IFS).

Divina brings over 38 years of experience in the energy and environment sectors, focusing on electric power industry restructuring, privatization, utility regulation, renewable and clean energy, and climate change. She was a three-term Chief of Party spanning 16 years for three USAID Philippines projects: Building Low Emission Alternatives to Develop Economic Resilience & Sustainability project, Climate Change, and Clean Energy Project and USDOE-led Sustainable Energy Development Program.

Dipti Vaghela is the co-founder and manager of the Hydro Empowerment Network (HPNET), a south-south knowledge exchange platform that advances policy, technology, and socio-environmental aspects of small-scale hydropower across ten countries since established in 2013. Dipti brings sixteen years of experience in developing decentralized renewable energy solutions for rural electrification in S/SE Asia, bridging communities, local entrepreneurs, field-based NGOs, policymakers, and funding agencies.

Dien Yoon is involved in energy efficiency (EE) and related policy development, business model development, ESCO project development and evaluation, and performance measurement and verification (M&V) in his capacity as General Manager of the Korea Association of ESCO (KAESCO). Established in 1999, KAESCO contributes to national economic growth, responds to climate change convention, facilitates the development of energy-saving markets through cooperation with ESCOs, and responds to the need for ESCO market reforms toward sustainable development.

Denise Andres is a project manager and policy advisor with GIZ since 2015, focusing on climate-friendly and energy-efficient technologies and frameworks. Her experience outside Germany focuses mostly on Southeast Asia, specifically Thailand, Vietnam, and Indonesia. She is currently based in Bangkok, heading the policy component in the implementation of a NAMA (Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Action) project in Thailand’s cooling sector.