Michael Satin is the Director of the Clean Energy and Environment Office in USAID/India. Mr. Satin joined the Foreign Service in 2005 and is trained as an ecologist at San Francisco State University and applied economist at the University of West Virginia. He speaks French and Wolof, served in Nigeria, Afghanistan, Thailand, Guinea, and Bangladesh, arrived in India in 2016 and was a Peace Corps Volunteer in Senegal.

Luisa is an influential ASEAN Architect known as the Philippines’ Queen of Green who redefined architecture with daring breakthroughs, including the reinvention of the Bahay Kubo. Honored with the Green Leadership Award for this innovation, the Professional Regulation Commission recognized her as a foremost woman in practice for single-handedly building her firm, LDG Architects.

Jyoti Parikh is a Member of the Prime Minister’s Council on Climate Change –India and is a recipient of Nobel Peace Prize awarded to IPCC authors in 2007. She served as the senior professor and Acting Director of Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research (IGIDR), Mumbai 1986-2003. IIASA, Austria for 8 years (1980-86, 76-78) and Planning Commission, as a senior energy consultant at New Delhi (1978-80).

Dr. Bansari Saha, a Senior Director at ICF, is an economist by training and supports public and private sector clients understand the economic effects of public policy decision-making. His expertise lies in the intersection of energy and environmental issues and studying the economic and distributional impacts of policies that attempt to find an optimal balance between the two. Dr. Saha has worked extensively on international economic development issues, particularly for developing countries in South and Southeast Asia.

Aanchal Kumar is an officer at Energy Efficiency Services Limited (EESL) and a Future Energy Leader at the World Energy Council. She has over 8 years of experience in the field of sustainability and energy efficiency. She has been a pivotal member in the implementation of the globally-lauded Unnat Jyoti by Affordable LEDs for All program. She has also worked on research studies in the field of clean energy in collaboration with the World Resource Institute, UNFCCC, World Bank, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and AEEE.

As Senior Manager for Community Action, Kate Landry leads WWF-Canada's national bilingual community action programs to help reverse wildlife loss, increase biodiversity, and restore habitat across Canada. She was Country Director of BuildChange prior to joining WWF-Canada. She has a Bachelor of Arts degree (Honours) in International Development from the University of Guelph.

Jittima is the Public Health Technical Officer in the Health Impact Assessment Division at the Department of Health. Since 2002, she has experience with HIA applications for public parks in the Yala municipality in Thailand. She is also responsible for developing HIA training courses for practitioners and local government. From 2015-2017, Jittima was the coordinator of regional cooperation on Thematic Working Group on HIA under Regional Forum on Environment and Health in the Asia Pacific, and oversaw the technical cooperation between Thailand and Lao PDR on HIA.