New Certified Energy Savings Verifier (CESV) Professional Certification

This presentation outlined the long-standing barriers to energy efficiency, including the barriers to facility owners, and identified some solutions to the global measurement and verification (M&V) gap. It also discussed the work of the Efficiency Valuation Organization, as well as the purpose and benefits of its Certified Energy Savings Verifier training and certification program.

Chae Sung Lee

Chae Sung Lee is the Chief Consultant of the Korea Management Association Consulting. He was involved in the conduct of feasibility studies on electric car charging stations and on ESCO SPC (Korea Electric Power Corporation) and participated in improving low-income households in Tajikistan (KEXIM, bilateral KSP with ADB).

He obtained his MBA from the National University of Singapore.

Ming Zhao

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.

Elena Marselis

Elena Marselis brings over 10 years of experience in Europe and the Middle East, of which the past 7 with Philips and Signify, having worked in various roles across IT, Marketing, Business Development, and Operations. Her experience with ESCO business models goes back to 2013 when she started working with key government and private entities in the UAE on the first Energy Performance Contracts in the region. Ms.