Peter Warren is Head of Climate Innovation & Finance in the UK Government’s Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy (BEIS). He leads the UK’s international climate finance investments (Official Development Assistance) and international policy for clean energy innovation in ODA-eligible countries. He previously led the team managing the department’s ODA investments in infrastructure and cities, and oversaw the former UK Government Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC)’s work on smart energy technology R&D.

Peter Lundberg is an energy engineer with more than twelve years of experience as Team Leader, Project Manager, Technical Manager, System Designer, and Project Planner. He has worked and lived in several countries such as Sweden, China, and Thailand. He has extensive experience in district heating, district cooling, energy efficiency, renewable energy, demand-side management (DSM), and sustainable urban development. Currently, Mr. Lundberg is the Head of Operations at the Asia Pacific Urban Energy Association (APUEA) in Bangkok, Thailand.

Nicholas Wagner is a Programme Officer at the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) located at IRENA’s Innovation and Technology Centre in Bonn, Germany. He is part of the REmap team – IRENA’s renewable energy roadmaps - which focuses on global, regional and country analysis and energy transition roadmaps. REmap focuses on energy system analysis to the year 2050 and works in concert with over 70 countries to determine the potential of accelerating renewable energy, energy efficiency and other low-carbon technologies and their impacts on the energy transition.

Ming Zhao has been working on energy-related business for about 20 years, starting as a consultant on environment management systems (EMS) and energy efficiency. After her study in the UK on EMS in 2004, she started focusing on the promotion of the ESCO industry in the People's Republic of China (PRC). She has been working on national policy recommendations involving the national five-year plan for energy efficiency. She is also a visiting researcher at the Berkeley National Lab and KAPSARC in Saudi Arabia, working on policy analysis and ESCO industry research.

Meg leads ClimateWorks Australia's international programs, with a focus on Southeast Asia and the Pacific Islands. She has written extensively on the nexus between climate action and sustainable development and led the development of the ‘Horizon to Horizon’ guide and Strategic Mitigation Adaptation and Resilience Tool to support Pacific Island countries to develop and implement long term strategies.

Dr. Liu is a Senior Research Fellow in the Energy Studies Institute of the National University of Singapore (NUS). He leads research and consultancy projects in the areas of the integration of renewables and energy efficiency, energy market design, and policy evaluation. Some of his recent work includes impact assessment of long-term energy technologies portfolio in Singapore, prospects of the energy services market in ASEAN, as well as electricity market design and business models for smart grids. Dr.

Kevin Lane has 25 years’ international experience in various technical and managerial roles in energy efficiency, especially focussing on lights and appliances. He has successfully contributed to over a dozen European energy end-use studies commissioned as preparation for EU product policy (e.g. EU labeling, minimum efficiency standards, and voluntary agreements), including UK impact assessments. He has supported the development of standards and labels in various other countries (including EU, People's Republic of China, US, Australia, and Viet Nam).

Ms. Kelly has worked in power and natural gas for more than 30 years. She has extensive experience in power, and gas market regulation and reform, energy efficiency, climate change mitigation, and renewable energy. She served as legal counsel at U.S. Department of Energy (FERC); the merger and acquisition group of Winthrop, Stimson, Putnam & Roberts; Baltimore Gas & Electric (BGE); and the energy law boutique firm Bruder, Gentle & Marcoux. In August 2011, Kelly joined the Asian Development Bank.

Isagani Soriano has a vast experience in energy efficiency standards and labeling (EES&L) programs for various energy-consuming products. For more than 25 years he is involved in the development and enhancement of policies on EES&L program, development of standards and test method, and formulation of implementing guidelines. He also develops, designs, implements and evaluates various projects on the improvement of efficiency of energy-consuming products.

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.