MARES High Level Forum's Opening Plenary

On 7th February 2023, the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the Centre for Indonesia[SSP1] -Malaysia-Thailand Growth Triangle (CIMT-GT) hosted a High-Level Investor Forum in Kuala Lumpur with the theme of the “New Ocean Energy Economy”.

Over 150 participants discussed marine renewable energy and its use to regenerate ocean ecosystems with a Keynote Speech by Yang Berhormat Tuan Mohd Rafizi Bin Ramli, Minister of Economy, Malaysia, and representatives from Palau, The Philippines, CIMT-TG, and ADB.

Rodelyn Grace Miso

Grace Miso is a Public-Private Partnership Specialist in the Asian Development Bank currently working in Uzbekistan, Georgia, Bangladesh, and India in the energy, water, and utilities projects helping to bring in private sector investment and provide climate-friendly solutions to the region. Her notable projects in the region that has recently closed include the Namangan Wastewater PPP Project, Tashkent District Heating Project, and the Sherabad Solar Project.

Farshad Ibrahimi

Farshad has 20+ years of public and private sector Asset Management (AM), globally, across Water, Transport and Energy. He is a thought leader, and a high profile and well recognised AM specialist, with track record in utility business transformation, benchmarking, digital transformation, systems integrations and strategic AM. He has held Global Service Line Leadership roles in AM with international consultancies, as well as significant utility AM experience.

Nick Elger

Nick is the Program Manager for the EPA AgSTAR Program and serves as the Co-Chair of the Global Methane Initiative Biogas Subcommittee. In his role as Program Manager for AgSTAR, Nick works with the U.S. livestock industry, state and federal agencies, and biogas industry stakeholders to advance the deployment of methane recovery projects. While supporting the Global Methane Initiative, Nick helps advance the anaerobic digestion of organic feedstocks globally for methane mitigation and energy production.