Thi To Nhien Ngo

MSc. Ngo Thi To Nhien is currently the Executive Director of the Vietnam Initiative for Energy Transition (VIET). She has more than 20 years of working experience and her professional activities focus on energy and environmental economics, energy modeling, energy policy, and assessment of low carbon energy technologies.

10th OECD-AMRO-ADB/ADBI-ERIA Asian Regional Roundtable on Macroeconomic and Structural Policies

The OECD-AMRO-ADB/ADBI-ERIA Asian Regional Roundtable convened leading experts to discuss issues at the fore of recent economic developments in the region. Previous roundtables were held in Singapore, Manila, Tokyo, Jakarta, and most recently virtually due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Recent topics have included US spillovers to Asian economies, financial reform and financial inclusion, digital transformation, supporting a green and inclusive recovery, and challenges to macroprudential and monetary policy.

Jumpstarting Ocean Deep Tech

Tom Chi explained how deep tech could be rapidly rolled out to solve our oceans' energy, regeneration, and livelihood challenges. Deep tech thinking has been taken from the IT industry and applied to ocean regeneration disruptive tech developments.

Using his experience as a founding team member at Google X, Tom discussed the process of taking deep tech into operations such as underwater drone “robots” to plant corals.

Accelerating Clean Energy Transition in the New Normal

The 18th Policy Actions for COVID-19 Economic Recovery (PACER) Dialogue on “Accelerating Clean Energy Transition in the new normal” featured global good practice examples and policy options in accelerating the uptake of clean energy to help countries transition their medium-term goals to the long-term as they mitigate COVID-19 impacts and accelerate recovery and rejuvenation.

Andriah Feby Misna

Ms. Andriah Feby Misna is the Director of Various New and Renewable Energy at the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources of the Republic of Indonesia. Previously, she was Deputy Director for Energy efficiency Program, prior to which she was also the Director of Technical Guidance and Cooperation on Energy Conservation. Ms. Feby has a Master of Environmental and Infrastructure Planning from Groningen University and Master of Development Planning and Management Infrastructure from Bandung Institute of Technology.

Bui Duy Thanh

Mr. Bui has been with ADB since 2005. He is responsible for developing and implementing programs for sustainable energy development in ADB member countries in Southeast Asia. His work covers (i) processing and implementing power investment projects and technical assistance programs to promote energy access for all, sustainable energy development; (ii) facilitating GM's regional power interconnection and trade. Mr. Bui also serves in the ADB Clean Energy Forum, which promotes knowledge sharing in energy transition and clean energy development in member countries.