Mr A K Jain has worked for Rajasthan Electronics and Instruments Limited (REIL) for 36 years in various capacities and disciplines. His leadership and out-of-box approach resulted in high growth for REIL and the launch of several innovative solutions - World’s first Electronic Milk-Adulteration Tester, Largest 11 MW off-grid Solar Project at 9400 Gram Panchayats, 1 MWp Solar Power Project at Katra Railway Station, over 1,00,000 solar systems for low cost rural housing in Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan and Tamil Nadu. REIL emerged as the largest off-grid solution provider and the largest deployer of milk analyser in India, benefiting sixty million citizens and three hundred thousand villages.He has been a key professional in Government’s Missions like National Dairy Plan, Solar Mission, Make in India, Digital India, National Electric Mobility Mission and Swachh Bharat.
 

Mr Sharma joined Toyota Kirloskar Motor (TKM) in 1997 as Engineer during the plant construction, and has since served in various capacities.

He is presently working as DGM in Plant Adminstration Division, and is responsible for day-to-day plant administrative operations to ensure Safety & Environmental compliance at TKM plants and adherence to safety standards as per Toyota guidelines while complying with all environmental and legal standards; driving the TKM Jiritsuka (self-reliance) activities across the plant (Safety, Cost, Environment, Standardised work), and acting as single window for manufacturing to other functions.

As a part of Plant Engg and Engg Department he has been responsible for operation & maintenance of utilities; planning and execution of plant-wide expansions (Civil, Mech, Elect); setting up common maintenance for all shops (Press, Weld, Paint, Assembly, Utility), and plant-wide energy reduction activities.

Mr Sharma completed his BE from Bangalore University in 1993. 

Mr Abhay Bakre is a Post Graduate (M. Tech.) in Elect. Engineering from IIT, Kharagpur. He belongs to 1988 Batch of Indian Railways Electrical Engineering Services, Ministry of Railways. He has worked in several Railway projects including Delhi Metro & Kolkata Metro extension projects. He has also worked as Joint Development Commissioner in the Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises and was the Nodal officer for National Manufacturing Competitiveness Programme. As ED PCRA, Ministry of Petroleum & Natural Gas, he has been instrumental in the development and implementation of various programs aimed at petroleum & energy conservation in industry, transport, domestic sector etc. He has also taken up nationwide mass media campaign through PCRA and other oil companies to generate awareness among consumers on the adoption of simple fuel-saving measures in day-to-day life. Before joining BEE, he has worked as Executive Director in the newly created Environment Directorate of Ministry of Railways. He was the nodal officer for developing INDC for the Railway sector along with a roadmap for Green House Gas reduction in Indian Railways. He also participated at the transport sector events of COP 21 held in Paris and COP 22 held in Morocco.

Dr Ajay Mathur is the Director General of TERI - The Energy & Resources Institute, and a member of the Prime Ministerial Council on Climate Change. Previously, he was the Director General of the Bureau of Energy Efficiency in the Government of India from 2006 to 2016, responsible for bringing energy efficiency into our homes, offices, and factories, through initiatives such as the star labelling programme for appliances, the Energy Conservation Building Code, and the Perform, Achieve and Trade programme for energy-intensive industries. Dr Mathur was earlier with TERI from 1986 to 2000, and then headed the Climate Change Team of World Bank in Washington DC. He was President of Suzlon Energy Limited, also headed the interim Secretariat of the Green Climate Fund. He has been a key Indian climate-change negotiator, and was also the Indian spokesperson at the 2015 climate negotiations at Paris. 

Ajay joined Entura and the Hydro Tasmania group in 2005. He has held range of positions in the business, from senior engineer to specialist and business development manager.

As a member of the Executive Team, he leads Entura’s international operations and business development activities.

Ajay is a hydropower engineer and has undertaken a range of project design, feasibility study and project management work. He led Hydro Tasmania’s project development activities in India and Nepal and developed greenfield hydropower projects.

He has extensive managerial and business development experience in the engineering consulting sector in India and internationally. Prior to joining Entura, Ajay worked with a number of consulting firms including Halcrow and Mott MacDonald.

Ajay holds Masters degree in Management and is also a graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.

Mr Ajit Kumar has a career of 23 years in Social & Sustainable Development, Public Policy & Affairs, Stakeholder Consultation, Communication, Media, Advocacy and Infrastructure sector, working with top national and international organisations. He is the Founder of Khushigram, the Social & Green Enterprise Platform working on Integration & Aggregation across sectors- policy, projects, products and services. Khushigram is currently managed by Khushi Social & Green Networks (KSGN) Pvt Ltd.He is also the MD of KSGN, Editor & CEO, Radiance Media, Hon President, The Oceanic Group (since 1996) and Convener Global Leaders on Development. He is an institution builder an innovator, entrepreneur and motivator.

Mr Alok Kumar is a 1988 batch IAS officer of Uttar Pradesh cadre. He holds a Bachelor in Civil Engineering from University of Roorkee and an MBA in Finance. Besides serving as the Principal Secretary at the Department of Additional Sources of Energy, Mr Kumar also is the Chairman UPPCL and UPNEDA, respectively. A veteran in this sector, Mr Kumar has previously worked in several departments such as Ministry of Power and Central Electricity Regulatory Commission, among others.
 

Mr Alok Verma has more than nine years of experience in Business Development, Policy Affairs, Client Sourcing, Strategy  Implementation and Power Sales. He has worked on some of the largest solar deals executed in India of cumulative capacity 1 GW. In his last roles, he was part of utility business team in Sun Edison where he has been instrumental in reducing transmission cost, securing first interstate private utility scale solar project in India. Previously, Mr Verma has worked with Hero Future Energies where he managed policy affairs and relationship management for wind and solar power projects under National and State policy. He holds an MBA degree from University of Petroleum & Energy Studies, Dehardun and Electrical Engineering from Uttar Pradesh Technical University, Lucknow.

Dr Amit Jain works with the World Bank and is leading $2 billion renewables portfolio in India and Bangladesh. He is leading the world’s largest energy access program with IDCOL in Bangladesh and solar rooftop program with SBI in India. Previously, he has worked with Asian Development Bank’s energy sector engagement in the South and South East Asia, managing energy policy and strategy dialogue and a portfolio of loan and technical assistance projects to the energy sector. Apart from holding PhD degree in engineering, he is also a Fulbright Scholar at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and Chevening Fellow at King’s College, London. His previous assignments include the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA), Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the Clinton Foundation. Amit has authored two books on climate change policy and waste to energy, and has international peer reviewed journal publications. His hobbies include scuba diving, hiking, badminton and outdoor sports.

Anand Kumar was appointed as the Chairperson of the Gujarat Electricity Regulatory Commission (GERC) in April 2016. Before this, he served as Chairperson of Regulatory body of Meghalaya State for 5 years. Besides, he also holds the post of Vice Chairman of the Forum of Regulators and Forum of Indian Regulator and he a Member of the State Advisory Board of Apex body of Auditors.         

Kumar has a significant experience of over 37 years in Indian Power Sector, out of which he devoted almost 21 years in Reforms, Restructuring & Regulations. During the course of his career, he has served four States Regulatory Commissions in India.
 

Shri Anand Kumar, Secretary joined as an IAS Officer in the year 1984 under Kerala State Cadre. He has served as Managing Director in National Highways Infrastructure Development Cooperation Limited. He was a part of the team which launched “God’s Own Country” Campaign and Planned introduction of Houseboats in Kerala. He is presently steering as Secretary of the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy, Government of India since June 2017. During his career he has held many important positions in tourism, infrastructure, industry, biotechnology, finance, revenue, elections and governance sectors under the State and federal governments.

He holds an M. Phil with distinction from University of Delhi and MBA with honours from University of Queensland, Australia. 

An IAS Officer of 1989 Batch and Gold Medalist of the University of Pune, Mr Anand Limaye has worked in the capacity of Collector of Nanded & Beed districts; Director General, Information & Public Relations, Govt. of Maharashtra; Divisional Commissioner, Nagpur; Director General, Maharashtra Energy Development Agency, Pune. Presently he is posted as Director General, YASHADA, Pune. His important assignments include Vice Chancellor of Nagpur University; Representative of India in SAARC Convention on ‘Poverty Alleviation’ at Kathmandu; Chiarman of Vidarbha Statutory Development Board; Chairman of Nagpur Flying Club Ltd. As DG, MEDA, he secured two National Awards for the State: for best performance insolar thermal and in wind solar hybrid sector; and bagged another national award for the state for the best performance in energy conservation activities. 

Mr Anant Nahata is a promoter and Managing Director of Exicom Group which is present in India and South East Asia. His education is in Economics & Math from University of Pennsylvania. He worked in Credit Suisse Investment Banking from 2006-2008. Ever since he led the Exicom Group helping it to become a leading player in the Indian Power Electronics market. He is also the largest shareholder and a Board Member of a leading online E-Commerce company Koovs.com listed on London Stock exchange

Mr Angus McCrone has overall editing responsibility for BNEF’s research on clean energy and transport, working closely with BNEF’s 120-strong team of analysts. He writes about energy investment trends, project finance, and early-stage technologies. Before joining New Energy Finance in 2007, Mr McCrone was a financial journalist for UK national newspapers for 18 years. He also worked as senior economist for a leading London-based think tank, and founded an FSA-authorised financial services firm. Mr McCrone has a MSc Economic History, London School of Economics, MA Economics and Modern History, St Andrews University and Certificate of Investment Management

Anil Sharma was first elected to the State Legislative Assembly in November 1993. He served as a Rajya Sabha Member from 1998 to 2004. 

He was Rural Development and Panchayati Raj Minister of the State of Himachal Pradesh from 2013 to 2017. He has been re-elected to 13th Vidhan Sabha of the State of Himachal Pradesh in December 2017 and inducted into the Council of Ministers as Multi Purpose Projects, Power and Non Conventional Energy Sources Minister. 

As Minister of Multi Purpose Projects, Power and Non Conventional Energy Sources Minister, he has been instrumental in introducing policy initiatives in promotion of Solar and other renewable sources of energy in the State.
 

Dr Anil Kumar Garg is the Founder of Energy and Environment Foundation. Dr Garg has more than three-decade experience in the energy sector. Doctorate in chemistry and completed post-doctoral work at University of Oklahoma, Norman USA and has large number of publication in international journals of repute. He has promoted renewable energy and encourage the use of clean and green technologies to achieve carbon neutral growth for economic development. He is responsible for organizing annual international conferences, namely - World Renewable Energy Technology Congress, World PetroCoal Congress, World Water Summit apart from consultancy, training and research in energy sector. Dr Garg served Oil and National Gas Corporation Ltd in India for more than 26 years. He has been invited at number of International Conferences world over to deliver keynote address in energy sector specially in Renewable Energy on Rooftop Solar. He is a recipient of many national and international awards.

Anirudh Tewari, IAS is the present Principal Secretary of New and Renewable Sources, Government of Punjab. He has done Masters in International Development Policy from Duke University, USA. 

He has more than 25 years of experience in the Indian Administrative Services, with more than 10 years of experience in the Power & Renewable Energy Sector alone.
 

A 1984 batch IAS officer, Dr. Anup Chandra Pandey, is the current Chief Secretary to Government of Uttar Pradesh. Prior to taking over the charge of Chief Secretary, he was the Infrastructure & Industrial Development Commissioner to Government of UP.

He has served many departments at Govt of India including Department of Health as Director, Joint Secretary at Department of Labour, and Additional Secretary at Ministry of Defence. He holds a degree in mechanical engineering and a PhD in Ancient Indian History.  
 

Ardra Agarwal completed her B.A. (Honours), Political Science from Lady Shri Ram College, New Delhi in 2002 and M.A. & M. Phil in Political Science from University of Delhi.

An IAS officer of 2007 batch, Agarwal has served the Government of Gujarat in various capacities, including District Development Officer in Bharuch and District Collector in Dangs district of Gujarat.  During the Loksabha Elections of 2014, she was appointed as Joint Chief Electoral Officer, Gujarat.
 

Mr Arijit Basu is the Regional Director for Market Development for Clean Cookstoves in Sub-Saharan Africa , Asia & Latin America. Before joining the Alliance, Arijit served as Uganda Country Director for Living Goods, a non-profit organization whose mission is saving lives, creating livelihoods, encouraging pro-poor innovation & ensuring sustainability in operations. Arijit helped Living Goods Uganda significantly grow its reach and impact. Arijit is an alumnus of Lamartiniere School, and St. Xaviers College, Calcutta University. He holds a Post Graduate Diploma in Sales & Marketing from Bhartiya Vidya Bhavan’s Rajendra Prasad Institute of Communication & Management, Mumbai.

Artur brings extensive knowledge of the development and commercialisation of new technology, managing its implementation and positioning these technologies for success in international markets. He brings the experience required to ensure that projects meet their commercial objectives. 

His experience over the last 30 years includes establishing technology consulting businesses in Australia and the United Kingdom, managing the public sector systems integration practice for a multinational IT services company and the management of infrastructure and systems integration projects in the defence, steel manufacturing and banking sectors. 

From 2005 to 2013, Artur held the position of General Manager, Business Development for Wizard Power Pty Ltd, a Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) technology development company that collaborated with the Australian National University to re-develop their Big Dish solar concentrator, the world’s highest performance CSP system, from a research tool to one that is ready for commercial deployment. 

Sunrise CSP Pty Ltd has now acquired the intellectual property for the Big Dish and its complementary technologies and Artur has been appointed as CEO.

Artur served on the board of the Australian Solar Council from 2004 to 2008 including the role of Chairman for two years. He is a member of the Australian Institute of Energy.

Dr. Arun Kumar serves as the MNRE Chair Professor (renewable energy) and Professor of AHEC, IIT Roorkee. Dr. Kumar served as the Head of Alternate Hydro Energy Centre (AHEC), IIT Roorkee from 1998 to 2011. He has over 34 years of experience in the field of Hydro Power Development. He served as Coordinating Lead author for Hydropower on Special Report on Renewable Energy Sources for Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change– working group III during 2009–11.

Arunavo has extensive experience in energy industry spanning coal, natural gas and renewable sources. He has been with the Tata group since 1991 and has worked in India, USA, Europe and Africa. In July 2008, Arunavo was selected to lead the Tata group effort to combat climate change across its 100 companies In early 2013, he was transferred to Tata Cleantech Capital Ltd to establish the advisory business. His academic credentials include a BS in Engineering and a MBA from the Indian Institute of Technology and Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota, USA, respectively.
 
Arunavo is a senior member and member of IEEE, USA, and Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE), USA, respectively. He is a Steering Committee member of the UN's Caring for Climate Initiative and member of the technical advisory group of Science based target setting group and Carbon Pricing Leadership Coalition (CPLC). He has been a speaker in events organized by IEEE (USA), Confederation of Indian Industries (CII) and UN Global Compact etc. across the globe including COP21 at Paris.

Mrs Arundhati Bhattacharya was first ever Women Chairperson of State Bank of India, a Fortune 500 company and served as the Chairperson till she retired in October 2017 She has expertise & deep understanding and insights of Financial services, particularly of Banking industry and related areas of Digital Banking. Under her leadership SBI metamorphosed into a digitally advanced Bank while continuing to play a pivotal role in national development, as SBI commands almost 25% of banking market share. SBI was adjudged as one of Three Best Places to work in India, by Global Job site based on 15 million reviews surveyed on the basis of overall employees experience under Mrs Bhattacharya's leadership. She was awarded Forbes Magazine ranked her 25th in their List of Most Powerful Women in the world and 5th in Most Powerful Women in Finance and was also included in the Top 100 Global Thinkers in 2014 by Foreign Policy Magazine. Mrs Bhattacharya was featured in Fortune List of Top 50 Globally Most Powerful Women in business and Ranked among Top 5 in the Asia Pacific region. She is associated with various institutions and initiatives for empowering the challenged and differently able, with an aim of integrating them in society.

Prof. Arvind Lali heads India’s first Centre for Energy Biosciences funded by the Department of Biotechnology with objectives to create sustainable R&D platform technologies for conversion of wastes to wealth. He has been engaged in translational research in frontier areas in Separation Technology, Bioprocess Technology and Biofuel Technology. Working currently in a major way in development of viable and scalable technologies for conversion of unutilized agricultural/agri-industry/urban wastes to wealth, Professor Lali is involved in turning a number of potentially impacting technologies into demonstration plants (pilot/commercial). The DBT-ICT 2G-Ethanol Technology for lignocellulosic ethanol production has been scaled up with demonstration plant at India Glycols Ltd., Kashipur, Uttarakhand, India. This renewable platform technology has been successfully demonstrated with commercial plants being set up by major oil marketing companies such as HPCL and BPCL. Other technologies include DBT-ICT DSW Technology, Soya biorefinery Technology, Glycerol purification and refining Technology, Biorefinery for agricultural wastes technology, Green fat splitting Technology among the others. He has 153 patents, 76 publications and 3 book chapters to his credit. He is a member of various DBT, DST, MNRE technical and academic committees.

Mr Asfaha Beyene has coordinated the preparation of administrative policies and guidelines, and established the Secretariat of the Green Climate Fund at its permanent headquarters in Incheon (Songdo) South Korea, overseeing effective implementation of the Headquarters Agreement. He recruited and trained staff and consultants; established contracts with external service providers, and has represented the Executive Director at various conferences and events to introduce GCF and its objectives. 

He has previously been associated with the Sustainable Development Programme, UNFCCC; IRENA; United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), Bonn, Germany; and the United Nations Environment Programme in Geneva, Switzerland and Nairobi, Kenya. Mr Beyene has a Masters in Business Administration from Bradford University, UK.

Mr Ashish Khanna is the President – Renewables, Tata Power and also MD & CEO of Tata Power Solar – the largest integrated solar company in India. He joined Tata Power in 2007. Ashish has over 30 years of cumulative experience with focus on project management and contracts in both India and abroad. Under his leadership, Tata Power Solar emerged as no.1 rooftop player in the industry. He has been instrumental in streamlining the business for increased efficiency and profitability by focusing on building state-of-the-art technology, engineering and strengthening customer and employee satisfaction. His relentless pursuit of excellence has helped Tata Power Solar build strong competencies leveraging technology and innovation. Tata Power Solar has more than doubled its revenue under the visionary leadership of Mr Khanna and during this period the company has commissioned several challenging and industry landmark projects. Besides being an Engineering graduate, Ashish holds a Master’s Degree in Management & Systems from IIT Delhi.

Dr Ashok Haldia is the Former Managing Director, PTC India Financial Services Limited (PFS) an Infrastructure Finance Company - a leading Financial Institution in renewable power projects. He is a Chartered Accountant, Management Accountant, and, a Company Secretary. He has wide experience in the power sector, policy and reforms, infrastructure financing, public sector reform and policy, corporate governance, regulation, mobilization of funds, and, formulation of accounting standards. He was/is members of the committee(s) of trade and industry associations, professional bodies, government, and other national and international bodies.

An IAS from 2010 Batch, UP Cadre, Mr Ashutosh Niranjan currently serves as MD, Pashimanchal Vidyut Vitran Nigam Limited, Meerut. Prior to this, he served as a District Magistrate in Gonda. Mr Niranjan also holds a degree in B.Tech (ECE). 

A.B. Giri is qualified in mechanical engineering and business management; he has over 45 years of experience in technical, general management and business leadership positions, across various industries.

His entry into hydropower was a result of his work manufacturing and marketing graphite products for the competitive global market. The technology and processes required for manufacturing graphite led him to search for sources of electricity that were stable in both price and supply.

His efforts to develop a competitive and reliable power supply led him to look at hydropower differently, resulting in a strategic integration of the financing, engineering and execution of hydropower projects. The result was three hydro power projects executed under his leadership in much shorter periods than is considered normal and with a far smaller budget. These include the 16 MW Tawa Project, 86 MW Malana-I and 303 MW Maneri Bhali-II projects, besides many others which have been developed for subsequent execution in this mode.

Balour Singh is the Executive Director of Punjab Energy Development Agency. He has done B.Sc. (Civil Engineering). Since inception of PEDA in the year 1991, he is working with PEDA in the field of Renewable Energy. He has more than 25 years of experience in the field of Renewable Energy.

A medical practitioner-turned politician, Banwari Lal took oath as the State Minister in the Haryana Cabinet in July 2016 to take charge of the Public Health Engineering (PHE) & New Renewable Energy (NRE) sectors that have witnessed significant action over the past few years. Under his able leadership, the sector has developed, demonstrated and commercialized technologies for harnessing new and renewable energy sources through enabling policies.

Lal joined active politics in 2007 and first served as an MLA of the Bawal Constituency from 2014. Prior to that, he has worked as a Medical Officer in the Health Department, Haryana from 1984 to 2004. He also runs a small hospital at Bawal wherein he treats the poor
 

Actively looking at new offshore wind markets and opportunities in Asia-Pacific Region including India, Japan, South Korea and Taiwan.

Working for Innogy/RWE for 13 years mainly as Project Manager responsible for M&A projects covering offshore wind, onshore wind, and hydro technologies. Prior to this, he had 10 years’ experience in various consulting roles within the UK and international energy sector.

Mr Bhupesh is currently working as Director Solar Business, Schneider Electric India where he is driving the Greater India Zone Solar & Energy storage business for Schneider Electric.  Bhupesh has been actively involved in Solar and clean energy space over eight years and has been part of the Solar Sector since the inception of Indian Solar space in 2010. He has lead Schneider Electric’s Solar business for more than 2.5GW of Solar Solutions of Solar Utility sector and more than 100MW of Solar Rooftop business covering CIB (Commercial & Industrial buildings) sectors in Indian Market. He also drives the innovative solution of multi winding (5 winding, dual core) inverter duty transformer bringing down the overall EBOS costs in Indian Solar Sector which is now getting adopted other solar geographies as well. 
Bhupesh has over 22 years of experience of which 20 years have been with Schneider in multiple business verticals. In his earlier role he worked with Larsen & Toubro (EBG).
Bhupesh holds a degree in engineering and a Masters in Management Sciences.

Mr Bhupinder Kumar is Director at Inter Solar Systems. He has over 19 years  in the field of Solar energy in Designing, Manufacturing of large capacity Solar Water Heating Systems, Solar and Swimming Pool Heating System.  

Mr. Bob Smith has 25 years experience in the energy sector, including the last 8 in renewables. He was previously Chief Development Officer at BP Solar, building on 15 years in international oil & gas operations with BP.

Mr. Smith joined Mytrah in 2013 after 4 years as CEO of a renewable energy technology start-up. He is a Chartered Engineer and has Masters Degrees in Engineering from Cambridge University and Management from the Graduate School of Business, Stanford University.

A social worker, an advocate and a politician, Sri Brajesh Pathak assumed office as a Cabinet Minister in the Yogi Adityanath led UP government in March 2017. He won the election from Lucknow central. In November 2008, he was elected to Rajya Sabha, while from November 2004 to 2008 he was elected Member of the Fourteenth Lok Sabha.

Shri Brajesh Pathak currently holds the portfolio of Law and Justice and Additional Energy Resources, respectively. Under his able leadership, the state of UP has undertaken several measures to facilitate work in the area of energy and renewable energy as the focus has been to encourage private investment in the sector. 

Shri Brajesh Pathak is a Bachelor of Commerce, L.L.B, educated in Lucknow University.
 

Mr Brian F Keane is the founder and President of SmartPower, a Washington, DC-based non-profit renewable energy and energy efficiency community outreach and marketing company. He is also the author of the highly acclaimed book, Green Is Good: Save Money, Make Money, and Help Your Community Profit From Clean Energy (Lyons Press, 2012).

Named 2017’s CEO of the Year, Keane is a former Presidential Campaign advisor and congressional aide with an extensive and cutting-edge background in non-profit management, political organizing and communications. This fall, The John Merck Fund will award Keane its highly coveted "Frank Hatch Sparkplug Award" which "recognizes the outstanding leader whose work has contributed significantly to achieving the purposes of the Fund while  embodying the extraordinary creativity, dedication and foresight that marked Frank Hatch’s 19 years at the helm of The John Merck Fund.”

Mr Keane is a 1989 graduate of The American University in Washington, DC, where he earned a Bachelor of Arts in Broadcast Journalism and Political Science. He is a past president of the American University Alumni Association and sits on the board of directors of the Vermont-based Clean Energy Group. He is also a Member of the Board of the Center for Environmental Policy at The American University. Keane is a Member of the Board of Advisors for American University’s School of Public Administration.

Mr Bruce Hogg is the Head of the recently-established Power & Renewables (P&R) team at the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB). CPPIB is a professional investment management organization that invests the funds not needed by the Canada Pension Plan (CPP) to pay current benefits on behalf of 20 million contributors and beneficiaries.  Bruce's mandate is to build a diversified global portfolio of value-add power and renewables investments, taking advantage of growing market opportunities as the energy sector transitions and global power demand grows, especially for low-carbon energy alternatives.  Since its establishment in late 2017, the group has invested approximately C$2.8 billion in three transactions across North America, South America and Europe.

Most recently, Bruce was Managing Director, Head of Americas for Infrastructure where he was responsible for teams in Toronto, Sao Paulo and Sydney.  Prior to joining the CPP Investment Board in October 2007, Bruce led the private markets infrastructure team at OPTrust.  Previously, he spent a number of years working with Macquarie Bank in London and Toronto in corporate finance after having worked in investment banking at RBC Dominion Securities.

Bruce holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree from the University of Alberta and Bachelor of Law degree from the University of Toronto.

Bruce Douglas has been working in renewable energy for 20 years. He is currently the Deputy CEO of SolarPower Europe, a member-led association based in Brussels representing over 200 organizations active along the whole solar value chain.

He is also the coordinator of the RE-Source Platform – the European alliance for corporate sourcing of renewable energy – and the Co-Chairman of the Global Solar Council (GSC), the representative body for the entire global solar PV sector at an international level, representing over 2000 solar companies around the world.

Previously, he was Chief Operating Officer at WindEurope for 10 years, founding Secretary General of the Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC) and Managing Director of FLiDAR, an offshore wind company. 

He has a Master degree in renewable energy systems technology and is fluent in English and French.

Ms Brune Louise Sabine Poirson, politician, was born in Washington DC (US) on 1st September, 1982. Originally from Vaucluse, she studied at Sciences Po Aix, then at the London School of Economics (UK), and then at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government (US). She began her career in England where she worked as a Project Manager for Nesta (the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts). She continued her career in innovation and development in India, and then the United States. She has worked in the public (AFD), private (Veolia), and voluntary (Nesta) sectors.

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Manager for NESTA (National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts) in London, Project Manager for the AFD (French Development Agency) (2009-2011) in India, Director of Sustainable Development and Social Responsibility for Veolia Water India (2011-2014), Researcher on social innovation and corporate social responsibility in Boston (2014-16), an elected member of the Vaucluse constituency, registered with the La République en Marche group (in 2017), Secretary of State attached to the Minister of State, and Minister of Ecological and Solidary Transition (since 2017).

Mr Narasimhan, Chairman – Raasi Group of Companies is a leading industrialist and a dynamic business personality who brings with him an extensive knowledge about the Domestic & international business scenarios. His analytical skills and unique vision about the market strategies sets him apart.Mr Narasimhan is a veteran entrepreneur with a track record of 35 years in both manufacturing and marketing enterprise. He started off by launching Raasi Enterprise (1978), an industrial unit for manufacturing chemicals. Under his leadership, the group launched various companies in various verticals – Raasi Enterprises, Raasi Marketing, Raasi Associates, Raasi Callnet, Raasi Technologies & Raasi Wealth Management.He is the President of Indian Solar Association, and an active member of several chambers of commerce. He was honoured with the Diamond Eye Award for Quality & Excellence at Geneva in 2012, and GOPIO International Excellence Awards in 2017.

Dr Laxmi Narasimhan, C S, is a Technology Leader and is currently serving as IH2 Technology Advocacy Lead in Shell India Markets Private Limited and is supporting commercialization of IH2® Technology which can convert any Biomass into directly drop-in Hydrocarbon fuels. He has served as General Manager, Centre of Novel Catalytic Materials & Research Director for CRI Biofuels at Shell Technology Centre Bangalore and was managing the R&D and Technical Service activities here. During his tenure in Shell he was instrumental in and contributed significantly to the development and derisking of IH2® Technology, which is a game-changing technology to convert waste biomass into drop-in hydrocarbon fuels. He led various technology teams and delivered innovative technologies and helped in their commercialization. He has passion for inspirational R&D leadership. He has over 30 years of Research, Development, and Technology applications experience primarily in the area of Refining. Before joining Shell in 2006 he served as Head, Technology Centre for British Oxygen and before that he was Manager, Hydroprocessing R&D at Corporate R&D of Indian Oil Corporation Limited for 17 years.

Ms Carolin Gassner heads the Department South Asia within KfW Development Bank since April 2018. Carolin started her career with KfW in 1996. She occupied different positions in KfW Development Bank, in the Securitisation Department and in Credit Risk Management. Before taking over the South Asia Department this year, Carolin headed the Department Financial Institutions and Country Risk within Credit Risk Management Unit of the KfW Group. Carolin holds a degree as Diplom-Volkswirt (Economist) from Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen. Before joining KfW, Carolin worked for the Institute for Economic Research in Munich.

Mr Charles Yates is a specialist in renewable energy with a passion for delivering projects which are commercial and serve the public good. As the Managing Director of CmY consultants, he is supporting the bid by Inogy for the first Indian offshore wind project, coordinated the financial close of the $265m transmission link for the Burbo Bank Extension offshore wind-farm and worked with the Governments of Taiwan and India on their offshore wind programmes. At accountants Grant Thornton, he led a team working on renewable energy transactions and regulation including advising Ofgem on the procurement of more than $1.8 billion of transmission links from four offshore wind farms.  For thirteen years before this, he was an investment banker with Nomura International Plc including as a member of the Principal Finance Group, which acquired businesses with a total value of $21 billion.  He has a track record of working effectively at board level and with senior civil servants. Mr Yates has an M Phil in Economics, Oxford University, and B.Sc. (1st Class Honours) Economics & Accountancy, University of Bristol. 

Dr Charles Donovan is the Director of the Centre for Climate Finance and Investment at Imperial College London.  He is concurrently Principal Teaching Fellow at Imperial College Business School and a Corporate Fellow at the Grantham Institute - Climate Change and Environment. In his corporate career, he was most recently Head of Structuring and Valuation for Alternative Energy at BP plc.  Dr Donovan was an Energy Policy Analyst with the United States Environmental Protection Agency during the Clinton Administration and worked in principal investments at the Enron Corporation.  He holds a bachelor degree from the University of Washington, an MBA from Vanderbilt University, and a doctorate in management from IE Business School. Dr Donovan is the editor and co-author of Renewable Energy Finance: Powering the Future.

Dr Chetan Singh Solanki is currently professor in Department of Energy Science and Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IITB), India. He is an expert crystalline Si technology, Si-nanostructures (including quantum dots), thin film Si solar cells, PV concentrator systems and carbon nanotubes. He received his PhD degree from the specialist silicon laboratory, IMEC (Inter-university Micro-electronics Center, Ketholik University, Leuven, Belgium). He has worked on several sponsored projects by government as well as companies. The projects are focused on crystalline Si solar cells both wafer-based as well as thin film nanomaterials based. Ministry of New and Renewable Energy has sponsored a project titled as National Center for Photovoltaic Research and Education (NCPRE) of worth 47.5 Cr, where he is one of the Principle Investigators. Dr Solanki has recently incubated a solar company names kWatt Solutions Pvt at IIT Bombay incubation center, Society for Innovation and Entrepreneurship. The company focuses on economizing renewable to make it affordable.

Mr Chintan Shah is currently working as Director (Technical) with M/s Indian Renewable Energy Development Agency Ltd. (IREDA) and handling different portfolios since 5th March, 2018 at IREDA. IREDA is primarily a Non-Banking Financial Company and the only dedicated financial institution for financing and promoting Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency and Conservation Projects in the country.

As Director (Technical) he is responsible for achieving MOU Targets set with regard to Loan Sanctions, Disbursement, Gross Margin, Gross Sales, NPAs, Recovery from NPAs, Corporate Social Responsibility, Sustainable Development, Research and Development etc. Also responsible for project appraisal, financing, policy formulation, planning and monitoring of Renewable Energy Projects of Wind, Small Hydro, Medium and Large Hydro, Biomass, Cogeneration, Solar Energy, Biogas, Waste to Energy and Energy Efficiency Projects etc.

Prior to joining IREDA, he was serving as President with SUZLON Group of Companies.  He started his career from TERI as Research Associate in the year 1996 and left TERI in 2001 He joined SUZLON as General Manager in the year 2001.  He worked as President with SUZLON till 2018 before joining IREDA as Director (Technical). 
 

Dr Christoph Kessler has more than 25 years of experience in international development cooperation out of which 10 years work experience is in foreign countries and 7 years in developing countries namely Ghana, Malaysia, Mali, France. Having started his career in 1989 as the Research Fellow, Institute for Agricultural Policy, University of Bonn, he was appointed Director, Agricultural Development Project in the Dogonland, Mali with German Agency for Technical Cooperation (GTZ) in the same year. From 1992 to 2000, he acted as Desk officer for West Africa Region with KFW, Frankfurt; for Rural Development Division with Agence Française de Développement, Paris; for Policy and Strategy Department with KFW Frankfurt. In 2000, he was appointed Division Chief for West Africa Region and has held this position for two other divisions namely Agriculture and Natural Resources, Africa; and Agriculture, Water, and Biodiversity, West Africa & Madagascar. He was awarded a PhD in Agricultural Economics from Bonn University in 1989. As the Country Director KFW India, Dr. Kessler brings with himself sound professionalism with a scientific background.

Chris is an Economics, Accountancy and Business Law graduate and a former banker by profession, with experience of over 35 years in senior management, including fields of trade finance, structured project financing, business and international project development. This included the energy sector, with Rolls-Royce Power Ventures, Hawker Siddeley Group, Wood Group, and JPKenny Group. As a Consultant, Chris has advised on international business strategy and project development in the renewable energy and bio-fuel sectors for various clients including Navigant, SGS, the NHS (UK) and The Carbon Trust. He has held senior Board level executive positions within several RE sector ventures. A Fellow of the Institute of Directors and a past member of several professional bodies, he has co-authored books, published articles and delivered international conference presentations on waste management and renewable energy, project finance, risk mitigation and international development. His languages include Spanish, French, Italian, and a little Russian

Mr Cyril Carabot is the Secretary-General and International liaison officer of the French Renewable Energy Business Association (SER), a professional organization gathering more than 380 companies, R&D centres, and Regional development agencies working to ensure a positive regulatory and legislative environment for the development of Renewable Energy in France. Since 2012, the SER is also acting abroad to manage the export activities of the national RE sector, classified as a priority by the French government. Cyril CARABOT started his career as a project manager in GDF-Suez (former name of ENGIE) in the field of micro combined heat and power generation. He then travelled across the Atlantic to work for 2 years for the Canadian Wind Energy Association to lay the foundation of the Canadian Wind energy program. After this international experience, Cyril worked for 10 years in France for a consultancy firm in the field of renewable energy, energy efficiency and innovation. He joined the SER in 2012. Cyril holds a Masters degree in Energy Politics and Economy form the National Institute for Nuclear Science and Technics pertaining to the Atomic Energy Commission (INSTN/CEA) and an MBA in Finance from California State University of San Francisco.

CEO and Founder of Leviathan Energy group, which has renewable energy innovations in small, medium, and large wind, in-pipe hydro, run of river hydro, and waves. He has previously served as the CEO of UniversityOfBusiness, an e-learning company.

Dr Daniel Bradley has acted as First Secretary and Team Leader for Energy and Low Carbon Growth in the British High Commission New Delhi since 2016.  This includes responsibility for UK strategy and delivery of a portfolio spanning oil and gas, renewable energy, energy efficiency, green finance, and climate change.  He is also responsible for establishing and coordinating the bilateral India-UK Energy for Growth Dialogue, held annually since 2017.  A member of the High Commission in Delhi since 2013, he previously coordinated the UK’s Global Partnership work to share Indian innovation and build trilateral research partnerships with African and South Asian countries.  

Dr Bradley has been an Adviser with the UK Department for International Development (DFID) since 2013, working on climate change, agriculture policy and food security assignments in London, Brasilia and New Delhi.  He helped to pioneer DFID’s Emerging Powers programme to develop joint partnerships with middle-income countries in third countries.  He has previously held positions in development consultancy, civil society, and research.  He holds a PhD in Livelihood Adaptation (University of Leeds) involving extensive fieldwork in rural Senegal.

Dr Dave Renne work focuses on solar and wind technologies and resources for clients such as World Bank, Asia Development Bank, International Renewable Energy Agency, private companies, Previously, Dr Renne worked at National Renewable Energy Laboratory (1991-2012) and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (1975-1991) where his focus was on solar and wind energy resources, international programs, environmental studies. He is a Member of International Solar Energy Society, American Solar Energy Society (ASES) and American Meteorological Society and has over 100 publications; numerous public presentations. Dr Renne is also a recipient of Charles Greeley Abbott Award from ASES. Dr Renne has done a MS and PhD from Colorado State University, BA from Kalamazoo College

Mr David Rasquinha is the Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of the Export-Import Bank of India. He has a wide exposure in the field of export credit, having worked in the areas of Treasury, Multilateral Agency Funded Projects, Planning & Research, Risk Management, Trade Finance, Project Finance and Project Exports. 

Mr David Rasquinha is the Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of the Export-Import Bank of India. He has a wide exposure in the field of export credit, having worked in the areas of Treasury, Multilateral Agency Funded Projects, Planning & Research, Risk Management, Trade Finance, Project Finance and Project Exports. 

David is the Managing Director and Co-Founder of Power Ledger, a leading blockchain energy company with projects spanning across the globe. As Managing Director, David manages the overall strategic direction of the company as it moves from startup to scaleup. 

David has over 20 years’ experience in the electricity industry and has held executive positions in two State-owned utilities. David’s previous role was as a senior consultant to industry participants specializing in the regulation of distribution networks, Distributed Network Service Provider (DNSP) consumer engagement, renewables and new technology feasibility studies, and business development.

David’s expertise are integral to DNSPs, as they are now presented with “make or break” opportunities in the transition to the new energy-demand paradigm, that sees customer behavior leading technology and service demand changes.
David believes that empowering individuals and communities to control the way they buy and sell electricity will underpin the development of a power system that is resilient, low-cost, low-carbon and owned by the people of the world.

Deepak Gupta belongs to the 1974 batch of the Indian Administrative Service. BA from Allahabad University, MA History from St. Stephen’s College, M Phil from School of International Studies, JNU. and MPA from Kennedy school, Harvard university as Mason Fellow.
He served for 39 years in many Departments in Centre and State. He retired as Secretary, MNRE September 2011 where he initiated the National Solar Mission. From November 2014 to September 2016 he was also Chairman of the UPSC.
He has written many books including on Achieving Universal Energy Access in India. After retirement he has consulted with World Bank, UNIDO etc; spoken and written about energy and sustainable development issues and involved with policy issues of solar energy and electric mobility. He is honorary DG of the National Solar Energy Federation of India.  

Mr Parkin joined CLP as the Group’s Chief Operating Officer in September 2015.  He is responsible for the Group’s operations, engineering, construction and fuel procurement.  He also leads CLP’s occupational health, safety, security and environment function.

Mr Parkin has over 30 years of engineering and business management experience across Europe, Russia, Asia and South America.  Prior to joining CLP, Mr Parkin was the Chief Operating Officer/Chief Executive Officer of UK Coal and served on the executive board of power and gas giant E.ON UK for more than five years before being appointed as the Managing Director of New Build and Technology of E.ON.

Earlier in his career, Mr Parkin worked in the construction industry with a FTSE 100 company and worked on a number of major infrastructure projects worldwide, including the construction of the Hong Kong International Airport, the Channel Tunnel and Heathrow Terminal 5.

Dr D Yogi Goswami is a Distinguished University Professor and Director of the Clean Energy Research Center at the University of South Florida. Professor Goswami is the Editor-in-Chief of the Solar Energy journal, and Progress in Solar Energy. He has published 21 books and more than 350 refereed technical papers. He also holds 22 patents, some of which have been successfully commercialized. Dr. Goswami has developed successful industrial ventures based on his inventions and other innovations and has served on the boards of many companies.

Prof Goswami has served as President of the International Solar Energy Society (ISES), a Governor of ASME-International, and President of the International Association for Solar Energy Education (IASEE).

Dr Goswami is a recipient of the highest awards of many professional societies related to solar energy including the Farrington Daniels Award from ISES, Frank Kreith Energy award and medal from ASME, John Yellott Award for Solar Energy from ASME, the Charles Greely Abbott award and Hoyt Clark Hottel award of the ASES and the Karl Boer award and medal from the University of Delaware.

Dr Goswami has been inducted in the Florida Inventors Hall of Fame. Most recently, his invention of Photo-electrochemical oxidation (PECO) technology for air purification, which is commercially available as Molekule, was picked as one of the 25 best inventions by Time magazine.

Dhruba Purkayastha is the Director of US-India Clean Energy Finance (USICEF), a unique project preparation facility to support scale-up of distributed renewable energy businesses and enabling access to long-term debt financing from OPIC and other international financial institutions.

Dhruba comes with over 20 years of experience in management consulting, investment banking, credit rating and international development financing. He joined CPI from International Finance Corporation (IFC) where his work focused on managing Advisory programs in Investment Climate, Doing Business, Green Building, Smart Cities, and Financing Infrastructure in India. Prior to IFC, he worked with The World Bank as a Senior Specialist, in the South Asia Finance and Private Sector unit in lending operations for infrastructure financing and public-private partnerships (PPP), SME finance, banking and technical assistance in finance and private sector development. He has also worked with ICRA Limited as a Group Head for Infrastructure and Government Consulting practices.

Dr Khare carries with him a rich experience of about 36 years of which he has worked over 30 years in policy, planning and promotion of renewable energy besides promotion of biomass / bioenergy. He retired as a Director / Scientist-F in the  Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE), Government of India.

He holds a Masters Degree from University of Saugor, Sagar (MP) in Botany with specialization in “Forest Ecology”.
 

As Deputy, Doug Arent supports integrating the Scientific Computing and Energy Analysis (SCEA) directorate’s cross-cutting technical capabilities and will bolster the strategic positioning and growth of the entire laboratory.

Arent is Sr. Visiting Fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, serves on the American Academy of Arts and Sciences Steering Committee on Social Science and the Alternative Energy Future, is a member of the National Research Council Committee to Advise to U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP), and is a Member of the Keystone Energy Board. Arent is the Editor in Chief for Renewable Energy Focus and is Associate Editor for the journal Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews. Arent serves on the World Economic Forum Future of Electricity Working Group and is a member of the International Advisory Board for the journal Energy Policy and for Energy Academy Europe.

His research interests are centered in energy and sustainability, where he has been active for more than 30 years. He has published extensively on topics of clean energy, renewable energy, power systems, natural gas, and the intersection of science and public policy. Arent has a Ph.D. from Princeton University, an MBA from Regis University, and a Bachelor's of Science from Harvey Mudd College in California.

Mr Douglass Sims is Director of the Natural Resource Defense Council's (NRDC) Center for Market Innovation, where he leads a team that provides analysis, advocacy and thought leadership on innovative financing for low carbon and climate resilient infrastructure. Douglass began his career at Allen & Overy LLP, working on energy and infrastructure projects in Latin America, Africa and the Caribbean. Douglass was instrumental in the design and launch of the New York Green Bank in the United States and is a co-founder of global Green Bank Network, a membership organization whose founding members are the Clean Energy Finance Corporation (Australia), Connecticut Green Bank, GreenTech Malaysia, Japan Green Finance Organization, NY Green Bank and UK Green Investment Group, NRDC and the Coalition for Green Capital, announced at COP 21 in Paris. Douglass also regularly advises jurisdictions around the world on the green investment bank model and is a member of the Standards Board of the London-based Climate Bonds Initiative. Mr Sims holds a law degree from Harvard Law School and bachelor’s degree from Stanford University.

Professor Weber serves as Vice President of the International Solar Energy Society ISES since 2015. He has been Director/CEO of the Berkeley Education Alliance for Research in Singapore (BEARS) 2017 - 4/2018. From 2006 to 2016, he served as Director of the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE in Freiburg, Germany and Professor for Physics/Solar Energy at the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics and at the Faculty of Engineering of the Albert-Ludwigs-University of Freiburg, Germany. Prof. Weber coordinated as well 2006-16 the Fraunhofer Alliance Energy of 22 Fraunhofer Institutes working in the field of renewable energy and energy efficiency.

Currently, he serves as chair of the Board of Nexwafe, a start-up in Freiburg that developed an innovative technology to produce low-cost single-crystal Si wafers for high-efficiency photovoltaics. The focus of Prof. Weber’s own research is the analysis of lattice defects in Si and compound semiconductors, for applications in microelectronics and photovoltaics (PV).

Mr Francisco da Silva Passos is currently working on the business development of energy storage (Blue Solutions’ batteries) to address energy transition challenges and to provide energy access to all. From 2012 to 2015, he worked as a legal manager for the Bolloré Group in Angola and Mozambique. He is registered as a lawyer with the Bar Associations of Portugal and Brazil. Francisco holds a law degree from Universidade Católica Portuguesa, a master of law from the London School of Economics and an MBA from IESE Business School.

H E Francisco Ismodes Mezzano is  a lawyer graduated from the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru. He has a career of more than 25 years in the mining sector, leading issues of good corporate governance, social responsibility, management, legal, strategic planning and various projects, which have led him to know different regions of Peru. During his professional career, he has served as general manager of Sustainable Management Peru, a company that advises and promotes the development of good practices and high standards in the social, environmental and corporate areas. He has also held the position of director in the companies Sierra Antapite, Electrosur and International Operations Consortium. He was also manager of the Mining Sector of the National Mining, Petroleum and Energy Society, and deputy general manager of the Milpo Mining Company.

Mr Frédéric Belloy started his career at JP Morgan in London as M&A analyst in 2000.

He joined EDF in 2003 as M&A manager. In 2007, he joined EDF Renewables as Project Director of PV Business Development and Structured Assets Sales. He became in 2010, CEO of EDF Renewables in French Overseas and VP in charge of Business Development in Africa and South America.
In 2015, he was appointed Executive VP of EDF Renewables in charge of Onshore France and member of the Executive Committee.
Since 2016, he is Executive VP for International operations (except North America) and oversees EDF Renewables’ activities in key areas: South America, Europe (except France), Africa, Middle East and Asia.

He holds a master degree in Banking and Finance at Paris Dauphine University. Otherwise, he participated to the JP Morgan Analyst Training Program in New York City.

Mr. Kedia is an IIT alumnus and guest faculty at IIM-Ahmedabad. After working in Germany for several years in the engineering and scientific field, he wanted to utilize the gained knowledge to bridge the disparities existing in societies and technology. He initiated several innovation based bioenergy projects. He strongly feels to make commercial biogas plant success in India it is crucial to   customize the technology and emphasize on biogas along with bio fertilizer

Dr Georg Maue is Co-Chair of the sub working group III on Energy Efficiency under the Indo-German Energy Forum and a scientific expert for energy efficiency policy. Prior to joining the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy he served as Counsellor for Climate and Energy at the German Embassy in Washington, DC. In the last decade, Dr Maue worked at the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Building and Nuclear Safety with responsibility for climate and energy policy and various international environmental topics at the German Environmental Protection Agency. He collaborated on the ministry's development of recent energy policies targeted at moving the German energy system in a cost-effective manner towards higher efficiency and higher shares of renewable energies.

Dr Maue has visited India several times on official but also private occasions. In December 2017. He chaired the last subgroup III meeting on energy efficiency in New-Delhi together with his Co-Chair Mr. Abhay Bakre, Director General, Bureau of Energy Efficiency and actively participated in the National Energy Efficiency Day of India. Dr Maue holds an engineering degree in environmental technologies and received his PhD in microbiological treatment of contaminated soils, from the Technical University of Berlin.
 

Dr Gireesh Shrimali leads the India team of Climate Policy Initiative (CPI), working closely with the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy, the Ministry of Finance and other policymakers to advance India towards its clean development goals. He directs the India Innovation Lab for Green Finance, which identifies, develops, and accelerates innovative financial instruments for scaling up investment in renewable energy. He also leads US-India Clean Energy Finance, the first facility in India to help distributed solar projects to develop into viable investment opportunities. Dr Shrimali holds a PhD from Stanford University, an MS from the University of Minnesota, and a B.Tech from the Indian Institute of Technology.

Mr Gopal K. Saxena is currently working as director of BSES Rajdhani Power Limited (BRPL) and BSES Yamuna Power Limited (BYPL) at Delhi. BRPL and its group company BYPL are joint ventures of Reliance ADA group of companies with the Government of the National Capital Territory of Delhi and distribute electricity to almost 3.4 million consumers in Delhi (roughly 67% of Delhi's population). Mr Saxena has over 4 decades of rich experience at apex positions in various companies of repute such as ACC-Babcock, the DCM Group, the Essar Group, and the Reliance ADA Group.

Greg Tracz is Chief Development Officer at the International Hydropower Association (IHA) where he leads business development for members and strategic outreach for the association. He has been involved in public policy and communication in the energy sector for over ten years. At IHA, he is responsible for identifying business opportunities for members, including organisations involved in hydropower development and operation, and supervises the delivery of key projects, including the World Hydropower Congress, a biennial policy forum for decision-makers in the water, climate and energy sectors. He holds a masters’ degrees in political science from Sciences Po (Paris) and a master’s in environmental law from Paris-Sorbonne University. Prior to IHA, Greg has worked in climate and energy-related positions in France and the United States.

Rika Biofuels Developments Limited was established to develop, own and operate a pipeline of large scale AD plants, utilising DVO Inc technology, a market leading US AD technology.

Gregory has been involved in large scale renewable energy projects for over 10 years, was the founding JV partner of companies that own 82,000ha of farms in the Ukraine. He was a Consultant for the UNDP in Ukraine and Serbia.

As BD director Gregory signed the MoU for the development of BioCNG plants in the State of Punjab, and is leading development of new projects in Holland, Belgium and Ukraine.

Gulshan is the energy focal point for all GGGI twenty eight member countries globally. He has successfully led first inline renewable energy projects, mostly solar PV development and waste to energy projects in Asia Pacific. His work includes project closures and investment commitment secured, in Indonesia – two utility scale solar PV projects working with Engie global and Indonesia Tourism Development Corporation (ITDC). In Thailand, he has structured an SME only focused Energy Efficiency (EE) program based on strong two hundred twenty Investment Grade Audit (IGA), the Provincial Electricity Authority (PEA) has launched the National SME EE program in July’2018. Gulshan has also been actively involved in several renewable energy and energy efficiency programs in Cambodia and  Philippines. For Fiji, he is leading the development of energy solutions for social housing and hotels and tourism – a project leading to high social impact for po-poor communities living in social housing. Policy intervention: Before solar PV First Come First Serve (FCFS) regulation (June 2017) in Indonesia, he has led GGGI supported reverse auction solar PV procurement analysis study for Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources (MEMR). Experienced in Green Climate Fund (GCF) processes, requirements of international finance institutions and management of trust funds and co-financing. Gulshan has Co-designed training program with GCF and provided training along with GCF team on GGGI projects as examples explaining GCF funding proposal processes to access international climate finance. Led training programs to explain projects/programs pertaining concessional long-term funding, de-risking mechanisms such as first loss tranche and grant funding for technical assistance.

Mr. Gurbuz Gonul joined the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) in 2014 as Head of Regions Unit and currently serves as Acting Director for the Country Support and Partnerships Division.

Formerly, he worked as Senior Energy Economist of the Islamic Development Bank between 2010 and 2014, where he led the work for the development of an Energy Sector Policy for the Bank as well as complex loan and technical assistance projects in Africa and Asia. Between 2004 and 2010, Mr. Gonul served as a Senior Expert at the Energy Charter Secretariat in Brussels, where he spearheaded policy analysis, sectoral in-depth reviews, and regional and country reviews concerning energy investments, trade and transportation.

He also held positions in the European Commission Delegation in Ankara and Turkey’s Ministry of Energy since 1993.

Gurpreet Singh Kangar is the present Minister of Power/ New and Renewable Energy Sources, Govt. of Punjab. 

He has been elected to the Punjab Vidhan Sabha in 2002, 2007 and 2017 and has remained a Member of the Committee on Public Undertakings of the Punjab Vidhan Sabha. He does Social Service and is an Agriculturist by profession.
 

Ms. Hyoeun Jenny Kim is Deputy Director-General of the Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI), heading the Green Growth Planning and Implementation (GGP&I) division.  She is responsible for managing GGGI’s in-country relationships which include projects and programs in more than 30 partner countries.

Before joining GGGI in May 2018, she was the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Korea to Senegal and five neighboring countries from May 2016.  She was a career diplomat for the Republic of Korea.  Through her work, she has acquired a unique set of skills related to diplomacy, international organizations, and sustainability issues.  From August 2013 to April 2016, she was the Director for Strategy, Policy, and Communication at the Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI). During her previous term with GGGI, she achieved the endorsement of the Institute’s Strategic Plan 2015-2020, membership expansion, governance reform and many other milestones.

Since August 2010, she has served as Counsellor at the Permanent Delegation of the Republic of Korea to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) in Paris.  In OECD, she also served as a Vice-Chair at the Joint Working Party on Trade and Environment.  As the Director for Climate Change and Environment issues at the Korean Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) from January 2008 until 2010, she led the Korean negotiation team to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), and also coordinated work on green growth and environment cooperation.

Prior to this, she had been the Director for the World Trade Organization (WTO) since July 2006, representing Korea at the Doha Development Agenda negotiations.  From 2004 through to June 2006, she served as Deputy Director for APEC (Asia-Pacific Economic Co-operation) and managed the preparations for Korea’s hosting of APEC in 2005. She also served as Chairperson of the APEC Budget and Management Committee (BMC) in 2006, where she coordinated APEC’s budget, projects and administrative matters.  Since joining MOFA in 1992, she mainly had worked at the multilateral sector including the United Nations, dealing with human rights and development.

Born September 11 in 1967, she earned her Bachelor’s in political science and diplomacy from Yonsei University in Seoul in 1990 and her Master’s from the Jackson School of International Studies at the University of Washington in Seattle in 1996.

She is married with one son and, in 2008, she wrote a book describing the life of a diplomat, entitled A Diplomat Must Be a Multiplayer.  Her new book, titled Audacious Challenge to International Organizations, was published in July 2013.

Shri I S Jha, is Chairman & Managing Director of Power Grid Corporation of India Limited since November 2015. Prior to his present assignment, he successfully served as Director (Projects) of the Company from September, 2009 and was responsible for planning, engineering, project management, monitoring and implementation of all transmission and distribution projects. An Electrical Engineer from NIT, Jamshedpur, he is a well-known Power System Professional having more than 36 years of rich and varied work experience. He began his professional career in 1981 as an Executive Trainee in NTPC. He has been associated with POWERGRID since its inception in 1991 and has been part of many departments. He has worked as Executive Director(ED)-North Eastern Region, ED of Engineering and Corporate Monitoring Group of the Company. While working at various projects and Corporate Office of NTPC and POWERGRID, he was involved in conceptualization, planning, design, engineering, monitoring and implementation of projects of National importance.

He has spearheaded development of robust National grid in the country integrated with State-of-the-Art technologies as well as Green Energy Corridors for integration of renewables. The commissioning of one of the largest high capacity +/- 800kV Champa-Kurushetra HVDC bipole and other transmission schemes which further strengthen National Grid capacity significantly enabling development of vibrant electricity market are some of his recent benchmark contributions to the Indian power sector.

He is known for his technological prowess and people-centric leadership. He is member of Governing Body of CPRI, Bangalore and President, International Council on Large Electric Systems (CIGRE) – India and other professional bodies. He has published/ presented numerous articles, technical papers in the field of power system in various international and National Journal/Conferences.

Mr Jayarama Prasad Chalasani is the Group CEO for Suzlon Energy Limited (Suzlon). In that capacity, Mr Chalasani is entrusted with key responsibilities at Suzlon that include making major corporate decisions, managing the overall operations and resources of the company, and acting as the main point of communication betweenthe board of directors and corporate operations.

Jaideep Malaviya is the CEO, Malaviya Solar Energy Consultancy and Secretary General Solar Thermal Federation of India. He carries 22 years long experience in the solar energy industry as a consultant, researcher, technical writer and policy analyst associated with several Indian and International organisations. He was instrumental in initiating the National Solar Energy Helpline and ran successfully for 7 years for Ministry of New and Renewable Energy. Currently he is executing a three-year project 'Solar Payback' for German Solar Industry Association as a part of International Climate Initiative (IKI) funded by German Government that aims to accelerate the deployment of Solar Heat for Industrial Process (SHIP). He has published over 100 papers.

Mr Jake Schmidt, Managing Director, International Program at the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), has eighteen years of experience in international climate policy. Jake Schmidt directs International Program of NRDC with a team of experts and partners working to address climate change and spur clean energy, protect nature and wildlife, and promote healthy people and thriving communities in China, India, Latin America, Canada, and at the international level. Prior to joining NRDC, Schmidt worked at the Center for Clean Air Policy where he directed their international efforts. He holds a Bachelors degree in economics from Muhlenberg College and a M.P.P. in environmental policy, with a certificate in ecological economics from the School of Public Policy at the University of Maryland.

James is International Manager (Asia) for Solahart Industries Pty Ltd. His responsibilities include sales, marketing and distribution management as well as commercial and technical product support from residential and commercial solar hot water applications.

James holds Bachelors in Mechanical Engineering from UGE England. Post Migration to Australia, James has worked across green & environmental industry, focussing on rainwater harvesting & commercial water solutions in Australia & USA. James is with Solahart for the past 11 years, quickly scaling up from S.E Asia regional manager to North & South Asia regional manager. James is the proud father of four beautiful daughters.
 

Shri Jayant Parimal is an IAS Officer (1989 batch). He has done his B.E in Electrical in 1988 from MNIT, Allahabad, CFA in 2002 from ICFAI, Hyderabad, Masters of International Law & Economics in 2004 from World Trade Institute, Bern and LL.B in 2007 from Gujarat University. During his long and illustrious career in Indian Administrative Service, Mr. Parimal has worked in various capacities with Government of Gujarat and Government of India, till 2006. Presently, Shri Jayant Parimal is working as Chief Executive Officer (Renewable Energy) in Adani Group, looking after Group’s Renewable Business. Before joining with Adani Group, he was with Reliance Industries Limited, as President (Special Projects) in Mumbai.

Jayant has over 19 years of experience in Corporate Banking, Rural and Agri-lending. He is the co-founder of cKers Finance, a market maker debt venture aimed at financing projects in distributed renewable energy and sustainable energy.

In his past role, he has held several responsibilities at ICICI bank including leading the micro-finance and financial inclusion business. In his earlier years at the bank, he was a Senior Client Banker in the Corporate Banking group handling multiple client relationships as also Product Head for online retail banking products for overseas geographies. Jayant also headed the team which started country operations for the bank in Germany.

Mr Jean-Marc Fenet heads the Regional Economic Service for South Asia, at the Embassy of France in India. A graduate from the prestigious National School of Administration (E.N.A.) Jean-Marc Fenet has vast administrative experience at the French Ministry of Economy & Finance where he rose to head the entire tax administration as Chief Tax Commissioner for France. He has also been Vice Chairman of the Forum of Tax Administrators of the OECD from 2008 – 2012. Fluent in English, German, Portuguese, and competent in Spanish, Polish and Hindi,  Mr Fenet has also been Minister Counsellor and Head of the Regional Economic Service for Central Europe & Baltic States at the French Embassy in Poland.

Jean-Pierre Barral started his career as an expert on irrigation projects in Africa, and joined the AFD Group in 1998 to work on infrastructure financing. In 2007, he opened the Proparco South Asia office in Delhi and then headed the infrastructure team of Proparco. After heading the business development team for Africa for ContourGlobal, a private developer and investor in Independent Power Projects, and working for IFC (the World Bank private sector arm) as Principal Investment Officer, he is appointed - head Energy and Digital Transitions - for AFD. Jean-Pierre holds a MBA from INSEAD and is graduate of the Polytechnique school.

Mr Jens Martin joined E.ON in 2009 from the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Energy (NRW). After positions in England, he took over the Politics & Public Exchange Programme in Technology & Innovation at E.ON SE and developed it towards business-to-public (B2P). Prior to his current role which involves the spin-off and setting up of a digital platform business called VIDJA, he led the Technology Policy for Customer Solutions (B2C) in Germany.

Jiwan is a senior energy specialist at the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and is currently at India Resident Mission of the Asian Development Bank. Prior to his current role, Jiwan was the Senior Climate Change Specialist in the Regional and Sustainable Development and Climate Change Department of ADB at Manila.

In his various capacities at ADB, he has been responsible for overseeing several key initiatives including Energy for All, Low Carbon Technology Transfer, Clean Technical Fund (CTF) and Scaling Up Renewable Energy for Low-Income Countries (SREP) under the Climate Investment Funds (CIF).

Mr Joeri Baetens is the Territory Sales Engineer of Ecoult for the South East Asia region. He joined Ecoult in 2015 having previously worked at global technology companies in X-ray, Payment Technology, and Telecommunications. As a technology expert for almost 15 years, Joeri has worked on technical installations in several continents, educating and training teams of service technicians on the repair and maintenance of various high tech products. 

His focus today is to make UltraBattery® a success in all types of energy storage applications throughout South East Asia, by engaging with various partners in the region, offering technical and sales support. 

John brings more than twenty years of diverse experience across nonprofit sectors, large corporations, early-stage ventures and public-private partnerships to his role in MacArthur. His work focuses on programs and projects related to climate solutions and impact investments. Prior to MacArthur, he was at Silicon Valley Bank.

John has served on a National Science Foundation commercialization review committee, managed and raised capital for an Impact Investing Fund focused on developing the Michigan life sciences sector, advised industry-leading corporations on infusing cleantech solutions into their supply chains, provided consulting services to leading nonprofit organizations with the Nonprofit Finance Fund, and served as a strategic advisor to hundreds of founders of technology-based startup ventures through a Michigan economic development program.

Mr Jose Maria Llopis is associated with IBC Solar for 9 years and presently holds the position of the CEO in IBC Solar Energy GmbH, Germany. He has worked for PV EPC business and for multiple EPC Projects. He has project development experience in different countries like Germany, India, Spain, Chile, South Africa, and Portugal. Before IBC he worked as a Technical Services Director in Iberdrola and Chief operating officer in DS2. Mr Llopis holds a 6-year Industrial Engineering Diploma from Universidad Politecnica Valencia, Spain and has completed a 1-year superior course in energy business from ICADE-ICAI Madrid.

Jörg Gäbler, a German-American citizen, with many years of experience in the Indo-German-American business culture. He has been appointed Principal Advisor of the Indo German Energy Programm since March 2016. He is heading projects related to distributed solar rooftop and grid integration of vRE / distributed storage / and EV charging. Prior, Mr Gaebler was the Managing Director of Wagner Solar Inc from 4/2009 – 11/2015; the US division of Wagner & Co; the German pioneer of solar energy system manufacturing. Mr Gäbler holds a BA Business Administration from Northeastern University and M.Sc from the TU Vienna in renewable energy technologies. His master thesis covered the solar thermal market of North America; a process of 3 years of research and market entry preparation for Wagner Solar.

His education is MSc – Renewable Energies at Technical University Vienna; BA – International Studies Northeastern University, Boston.

Mr Balaraman is the Director General at National Institute of Wind Energy (NIWE).

Mr Venkatagiri heads the CII-Sohrabji Godrej Green Business Centre. He has been associated with CII since 1992 and has played an important role in establishing CII-Sohrabji Godrej Green Business Centre as CII's Centre of Excellence on Green business. 

He leads a team of over 80 professionals, offering advisory services to Indian industry in areas of energy management, green buildings, green companies, renewable energy and other related sectors.

Mr Venkatagiri holds a Bachelor of Technology Degree in Chemical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Madras.

Ms Kanika Chawla is a policy specialist, working at the intersection of India’s two revolutions: in renewable energy and in financial markets. She manages the Council’s work on renewable energy policy, markets, finance, and socio-economic benefits. Her current responsibilities include analysing financial risks affecting renewable energy investments in India, decoding market dynamics, managing The Council’s periodic surveys on renewable energy jobs, and convening a high-level working group on renewable energy finance (comprising investors, developers and manufacturers). Actively engaged with private and public enterprises within and outside India to design and develop new financial de-risking instruments and new financial institutions, such as green banks, her research has been used within government, by electricity regulators, and by international agencies and strategic philanthropies.
She has also undertaken extensive research on the International Solar Alliance, work which has been used periodically by the Government of India and other countries. She has represented The Council at various international forums, including the International Renewable Energy Agency, the Renewable Energy Policy Network for the 21st Century (REN21) Steering Committee, and the UNFCCC’s Conference of the Parties. Her columns have been published in various newspapers.

Dr Kirk R. Smith is Professor of Global Environmental Health and Director of the Collaborative Clean Air Policy Centre, New Delhi. Prof. Smith’s research focuses on environmental and health issues in developing countries, particularly those related to health-damaging and climate-changing air pollution from household energy use, and includes field measurement and health-effects studies in India, China, Nepal, Mongolia, Mexico, and Guatemala as well as development and application of tools for international policy assessments. He also develops and deploys small, smart, and cheap microchip-based monitors for use in these settings. Prof. Smith has demonstrated that the highest exposures to air pollutants occur in rural, indoor settings in developing countries where biomass and coal are the principal fuels. He has documented the associated risk for pneumonia and adverse birth outcomes in children and cataracts, tuberculosis, heart disease, and chronic lung disease in women as well as developed a range of small, smart, cheap microchip-based devices for field measurements. Dr Smith has a Ph.D. Biomedical and Environmental Health: Energy & Environment (1977), University of California Berkeley, a M.P.H. Environmental Health Sciences (1972), University of California Berkeley and B.A. Physical Sciences: Physics and Astronomy (1968), University of California Berkeley

Mr Kuldeep Jain founded Clean Max Enviro Energy Solutions Pvt Ltd (now Clean Max Solar). Clean Max Solar is today India’s No. 1 rooftop solar developer (with 28% market share). Clean Max serves leading Indian and global corporates including groups such as Tatas, Mahindras, Godrej, Bajaj, TVS, Birlas and top global MNCs. Previously he held a position of global partner at the leading McKinsey practices in Energy and Corporate Finance in India. In his 12 years stint with McKinsey, he led various M&A, Management Consultancy, Business Strategy & Corporate Finance assignments across different industries including Power, Infrastructure, Cement, FMCG etc. for leading Indian Corporate, MNCs and Government Organizations in India and Internationally. IIM Ahmedabad recognized Mr Jain, as a ‘Young Achiever’ in 2018 under the Entrepreneurship Category for his outstanding contribution and achievement in shaping CleanMax Solar as the no.1 rooftop developer in India. Mr Jain done a PGDBA from Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (IIMA) (1997-99 batch) and Chartered Accountant (CA) and ICWA (1997 batch). He has worked with Deloitte Touche Kohmatsu (then SB Billimoria) as part of CA articleship.

Mr Kuljit Singh Popli is the Chairman & Managing Director of IREDA, which is a pioneering developmental financial institution dedicated to the financing of renewable energy and energy efficiency projects in India.  He has been instrumental in bringing out several new and innovative financial products and to help meet financing requirement for the renewable sector. He is also Country Representative –International Solar Alliance - Affordable Finance at Scale. 

Mr Popli has a rich experience of working over 35 years in the Indian Power Sector.  He has worked with National Hydroelectric Power Corporation (NHPC), where he was associated with design, engineering, and supervision of hydro-electric projects and Power Finance Corporation (PFC), where he worked for appraisal and financing of Thermal, Hydro, Transmission & Distribution projects. 

Mr Popli is on the management board of several organisations of national importance and official member of various high-level committees set up by the Government of India in the field of Renewable Energy & Energy Efficiency. 

Mr Popli is an engineer by profession with added qualifications in finance and law.

Mr. Kunal Upadhyay serves as the Chief Executive Officer of Centre for Innovation Incubation and Entrepreneurship. Mr. Upadhyay serves as Chief Executive Officer at Infuse Ventures. He joined CIIE in 2007 and co-founded CIIE's investment arm, raising over $10 million for seed-funding of high-tech ventures. He set-up the incubator and seed-fund - leading incubation of investment in over 25 early stage ventures across the technology sectors, including a dozen focused on the cleantech sector. At CIIE, he directly led many of the investments and continues to guide on various aspects like hiring, fund-raising and strategy. Mr. Upadhyay worked with start-ups across information and communications technology, cleantech, healthcare and materials sector. Mr. Upadhyay led conceptualization of many initiatives at CIIE including the iAccelerator, The Power of Ideas, MentorEdge, Renewable Energy Search and Stay Hungry Stay Foolish. He was a Co-Founder at Sarvajal, focused on the drinking water market and also bootstrapped a campus social network and recruitment start-up. Prior to joining CIIE, Mr. Upadhyay worked across continents as an internal strategy and operation Consultant with Citigroup and American Express. He serves as a Board Observer at Aspiration Energy private limited. He serves as a Member of Board of Directors at Green India Building Systems and Services Private Ltd. He has several years of incubation, investment, entrepreneurial and consulting experience. He is an M.B.A. from IIM Ahmedabad, B.Tech from IIT Madras, and an alumnus of London School of Economics.

Dr Harmon joined LanzaTech from Striatus Inc, where she consulted on proposal and project development in advanced technologies, including energy and renewable fuels. After receiving her PhD in Physical Chemistry from the University of Michigan, Dr Harmon joined ERIM, a non-profit research organization, to conduct applied R&D for a variety of defense and other government customers. Later, she was a technical co-founder of Nonlinear Dynamics, a company specializing in applied pattern recognition. Dr Harmon provides policy direction and leadership on international legislative and regulatory matters and develops collaborative research and demonstration projects.

Dr M A Atmanand, currently the Director of National Institute of Ocean Technology has done pioneering work in the area of deep sea technologies in India. An Instrumentation and Control Engineer by profession, he took his undergraduate degree from University of Calicut, Masters and Doctorate degrees from Indian Institute of Technology, Madras.

He led a team of Engineers for the design and development of underwater crawler for deep sea operation. He and his team developed the in-situ soil tester which was tested at a depth of 5200 m in the Central Indian Ocean Basin. It was under his supervision that the design of Electrical, Instrumentation and Control system of India’s first Remotely Operable Vehicle was done. This was later tested at a depth of 5289 m water depth. He has also guided various indigenization programmes for Ocean observation and underwater systems.

Dr Mahesh P Bhave is a Professor at NTPC School of Business, New Delhi, India and Founder, BHAVE Power Systems, San Diego. He is the author of The Microgrid Revolution: Business Strategies for Next Generation Electricity, 2016, Praeger. His company aims to substitute cooking based on LPG with solar PV+ batteries-based solutions. He demonstrated a prototype at World Environment Day of the United Nations, New Delhi, June 2018. He has worked in New Business Development, Corporate Strategy, and Product Management at Sprint, Hughes Network Systems, Citizens Utilities, and start-ups. Mahesh is an engineer from IIT Delhi with a Ph.D. from Maxwell School of the Syracuse University.

Ms Mahua Acharya has held numerous positions in the field of green investments and finance in both international organizations as well as in the private sector. Till recently, as the Assistant Director-General and Head of GGGI’s Investment and Policy Solutions Division, Mahua drove GGGI’s green investment services to support GGGI member countries access financing for green infrastructure projects in the areas of Energy, Cities, Land-use and Water.

Prior to joining GGGI, she was the Managing Director at C-Quest Capital LLC, a carbon finance business specializing in carbon credits to bring investment capital to energy access projects in developing countries.

Malcolm Wrigley is the Country Manager for activities of Engie in India. Malcolm is a British citizen with an experience of 31 years in the Power Industry, of which 18 years being in international locations as diverse as Abu Dhabi, USA, Ghana, South Africa, Morocco and Pakistan. Prior to being assigned as the Country Manager in October 2016, Malcolm was the CEO of two companies in Bahrain which together owned and operated two combined cycle gas turbine power plants totalling 2,200MW and seawater desalination plant making 48 million gallons per day of drinking water.

Manasi Sahay Thakur is a 2009 batch, IAS Officer of Himachal cadre. She holds a Bachelor of Engineering Degree in Mechanical from College of Engineering Pune. She has performed multifarious roles as Director Women and Child Development, Director Information Technology, Deputy Commissioner Bilaspur and Settlement Officer Kangra, to name a few. 

She was instrumental in saving two lives trapped in an under-construction tunnel in Bilaspur. She also spearheaded the cause of lowering female foeticide in the State and her efforts led to major improvement in the Sex Ratio at Birth in the district of Bilaspur and later in the State of HP. In her current role, she is looking after the development and management of the Hydro Power Sector in the State.

M.P. Singh is the Deputy General Manager of Punjab Energy Development Agency. He is a Mechanical Engineer and MBA from Panjab University. Since inception of PEDA in the year 1991, he is working with PEDA in the field of Renewable Energy. He has more than 25 years of experience in the field of Renewable Energy.

Manish has over 20 years of experience in origination, credit risk assessment and syndication in Asia-Pacific Region. As part of the above mentioned functional categories, he has handled various products covering project finance, mezzanine finance, acquisition finance, credit derivatives etc.

Prior to joining TCCL, Manish led the initiative of launching first Infrastructure Debt Fund (IDF) in India, from April 2013 to June 2015 as Chief Executive Officer of IL&FS Infra Asset Management Ltd., a JV company between IL&FS and LIC. IL&FS IDF is the first IDF in India with AUM of USD 230 million and the market leader in the industry, playing a pioneering role in the development of the IDF sector.

Previously Manish has held several senior roles at ICICI including as Team Leader in Project Finance Group and Alternate Chief Executive & Head - Wholesale Banking of ICICI Bank, Hong Kong Branch.

A veteran in the power industry with experience of over 18 years, Mr Manish Karna works towards Renewable Power Generation, Transmission & Distribution. He holds a key position in Adani Green Energy Limited National Business Development Department. Mr Karna holds a PHD in marketing after completion of Project Management from IIT Delhi.
 

Manoj Kohli is Executive Chairman of SB Energy. SoftBank, Bharti Enterprises and Foxconn have formed the JV, SB Energy, which will invest $20 billion over 10 years on renewable energy. Before this, Manoj was Managing Director, Bharti Enterprises and responsible for the growth and operations of Bharti group of companies. Manoj's key contribution has been building Airtel as no 3 telco in the world. He was Managing Director and CEO (International), Bharti Airtel, and was responsible for leading the Africa operations, which was acquired in 2010. Manoj joined Bharti Airtel in 2002 and led Bharti Airtel’s India operations for 8 years during which the customer base grew from 2 to 150 million. Manoj was adjudged “Telecom Man of the Year” in 2000 and “Telecom Person of the Year” in 2004 by Media TransAsia and Voice & Data respectively. He is on the Board of HK University, a member of the Academic Council of the Faculty of Management Studies and has been awarded the “Best Alumni Award” by Shriram College of Commerce, Delhi University. Manoj holds degrees in Commerce, Law and MBA from Delhi University. Manoj also attended the “Executive Business Program” at the Michigan Business School and the “Advanced Management Program” at the Wharton Business School.

Mr Manoj Gupta has the dual responsibilities in Fortum in India as a Vice President Solar (India & Asia) & also Director-Corporate affairs for whole Fortum business in India. He is the first employee of Fortum in India and part of organization for around 6 years . Prior to joining FORTUM, he was the Head – Business Development for Solar Projects with the biggest few solar power developer companies.

After having more than 6 years exposure in Industrial sector, Manoj has dedicated himself in Renewable Energy sector (wind & solar) for more than 16 years.  He has more than 22 years of experience in Industrial and Renewable Energy sector. Manoj holds a B. Tech Degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from NIT Calicut, Kerala.

Mr. Manu Srivastava, a 1991 batch IAS officer of Madhya Pradesh Cadre, has held various responsibilities during his administrative career, both with Central Government and State Government. Currently, as Principal Secretary, New and Renewable Energy, Govt. of M.P. and Managing Director of Madhya Pradesh Urja Vikas Nigam Limited, he is spearheading the task of energizing the State with renewable energy. 

Prior to his current role, Mr. Srivastava was Chairman of MP Discoms and Managing Director of M.P. Power Management Company Limited, the holding company of M.P. Discoms during 2012-15 and set roadmap for long term endeavours of the Discoms through 24x7 power to State and Atal Jyoti Abhiyan, which had substantial power cuts earlier. During initial years of his administrative career, he successfully discharged various responsibilities pertaining to Revenue Administration and Revenue Law in the State including Collector of Balaghat (1998-2000), Chhindwara (2000-02) and Khandwa (2002-04) 

Mr. Srivastava had a very remarkable stint with Ministry of Commerce & Industries (MoCI) and Ministry of Petroleum & Natural Gas (MoPNG), Government of India 2004 to 2012. During 2004-06 in his tenure with MoCI, he looked after, inter alia, WTO matters, Free Trade Agreement discussions, patent issues and dumping matters. At MoPNG during 2006-12, he dealt with natural gas activities such as pricing, allocations, distribution, transportation, City Gas Distribution projects and LNG. He handled all issues pertaining to KG-D6 gas, including allocation and court case of GoI, RIL and RNRL. He gained a lot of experience in international negotiations and contract development during long discussions of trans-national pipelines, namely, Iran-Pakistan-India (IPI) and Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India(TAPI). 

As a brilliant student belonging to the members of IIT fraternity, Mr. Srivastava earned both his degrees, B. Tech. (Electrical Engineering) and M. Tech. (Telecommunications), from IIT, Delhi.

Marcin Chelkowski is General Manager and CEO of engineering company IVW Polska, being a part of IVW Group. Marcin is a Chartered Engineer and has university degree in civil engineering, with 24 years of professional experience in construction and environmental sector in both the public and private sector.

Previous experience was obtained with German planning and construction companies – L.U.S. Lausitzer Umwelt- und Sanierung GmbH (RWE Group), Polish municipal company – TESKO Ltd in Zakopane, where Marcin was general manager and with an international engineering company Arup where he acted as Europe Resource and Waste Business Leader.

Marcin has a broad experience in waste-to-energy sector, obtained as a member of project teams for e.g. three biggest Polish incinerators: Pozna? Waste to Energy Plant (210k tons/year), Krakow WtE Plant (220k tons/year), Warsaw WtE Plant (305k tons/year). He has been also involved in a number of international waste projects in Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Albania.