Alfredo Baño Leal is a Senior Energy Specialist at ADB developing sustainable energy operations in the East Asia region. Previously, he worked at the Independent Evaluation Department of AD3, where he evaluated energy programs and led Of AD3' s 2009 Energy Policy. He has 1 5 years Of experience working on energy infrastructure sectors in Europe and Asia. Before joining ADB, he worked for the International Atomic Energy Agency, he consulted for the World Bank and ADB, and worked for an engineering consulting firm in Spain.

Mr. Ville Rimali is an expert in business development, digital offering development as well as company mergers. Currently, he is responsible for business development in the energy industry in the Philippines. During the past career, he has worked in the global business development team of Wärtsilä Energy Solutions, developed microgrids around Asia Region based in Singapore and has been responsible for smart grid demonstration in local utility in Finland. He has graduated as Master of Science both in Power Systems and Economics.

Satish Gautam is the National Programme Manager (NPM) of the UNDP Renewable Energy for Rural Livelihood (RERL) project under the umbrella of Alternative Energy Promotion Center (AEPC). He has more than 25 years of professional work experience in the off-grid and on-grid renewable energy sector of Nepal and the Asia-Pacific region. He has been a dedicated pioneer of micro and mini hydropower developer in Nepal, initiating bottom-up implementation approaches and scaling them with enabling policy.

Pankaj Batra is considered as a thought leader in the power industry in India and South Asia, with more than 40 years of experience across several key positions. His expertise includes power sector reforms, policy, regulations, energy transition, sector efficiency, renewables, energy storage, electric vehicles, smart grid, demand forecasting, generation planning and grid management. He has dealt in all the aspects of the power sector, including the technical, legal, financial and commercial aspects.

Operation division, Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand (EGAT). His current position is Head, Medium-term Generation Operation Planning Section. As an electrical engineer at EGAT for more than 15 years, he has been working and has experience in the field of PPA management, power system operation, and hydro generation planning of Thailand’s power system. He holds MSc and BSc in Electrical Engineering from Chulalongkorn University and holds MBA from SASIN.

Ranishka possesses over 19 years of professional experience mainly in energy sector development activities including policy formulation, promotion of renewable energy and infrastructure development. Ranishka is a Senior Energy Specialist (Climate Finance) at the Asian Development Bank based in the Headquarters in Philippines. He previously supported ADB’s work in the Pacific and was based in Pacific Subregional Office in Fiji. Before moving to Fiji, he managed ADB’s energy sector portfolio in Sri Lanka. He has extensive working experience in South Asia and Pacific.

Yongping Zhai graduated from the Department of Thermal Engineering of Tsinghua University in 1983. Subsequently, he studied at the Institute of Energy Policy and Economics Grenoble, France, and received Ph.D. in Energy Economics in 1989. From 1993 to 2000, he served as a Senior Energy Economist in the African Development Bank. He joined Asian Development Bank in 2000 and successively served as the energy specialist, Director (from 2010), and Chief of the Energy Sector Group (2015-July 2021) at ADB. In July 2021, he joined Tencent as Senior Advisor supporting the company’s goals.