Contributors

Prima Madan & Vivek Dhariwal

Prima Madan is a senior economist and policy analyst at Emergent Ventures with expertise in energy and climate change. She is closely working with Ministry of Power, India on energy efficiency financing and demand side management programs. 

Vivek Dhariwal is a senior energy and transport analyst at Emergent Ventures with expertise in developing low carbon strategies for corporate, transport and energy sector. He has advised various fortune 500 companies, government and multilateral agencies to achieve the low carbon strategy development. 

Priyantha D C Wijayatunga

Dr. Priyantha D C Wijayatunga is aSenior Energy Specialist in Asian Development Bank.

Putra Adhiguna and Christina Ng

Putra Adhiguna

Energy Technologies Research Lead, Asia

Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis

Putra Adhiguna leads technology research in Asia and covers energy transition in the emerging economies context, including the various facets of technology developments, investment trends, and policy directions.

As an energy professional for over 15 years, he has led numerous high-profile projects, held various leadership positions in Fortune500 companies, and advised diverse public and private stakeholders. 

He firmly believes in the critical role of publicly accessible information to shed light on the uncharted road of energy transition. His views and writings have been featured in various publications and media outlets. 

Putra holds an engineering degree from Institut Teknologi Bandung, and a Master in Public Policy from the London School of Economics & Political Science. He is also an alumni of business leadership program from Texas A&M University.

Christina Ng

Research & Stakeholder Engagement Leader, Debt Markets

Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis

Christina Ng oversees a team of financial analysts that provide debt market analysis covering Asia Pacific. She also represents IEEFA at stakeholder forums. Her research of interest includes trends and issues in green and transition finance, policies and regulations, with a focus on the energy sector.

As a former standard-setter in international financial reporting, Christina directed the research and analysis of accounting issues and financial statements crucial for the development and improvisation of standards to enable investors and other market participants to make informed finance decisions. She also advised stakeholders in the adoption and interpretation of standards and worked closely with global standard-setters, investors, regulators and public-listed corporations. 

Her appreciation for sound policies and governance and the important role investors play in driving meaningful change, opens the door for IEEFA to participate in relevant policy and standard-setting globally. 

Christina qualified with CPA Australia after graduating with a bachelor’s degree in Commerce (Accounting and Finance) from the University of Melbourne in Australia. She then furthered her studies in business sustainability management with the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership in the United Kingdom.

Rachel Schelble

With over 15 years of experience working in the oil and gas industry, Rachel Schelble recently joined Wood Mackenzie as a Director in Corporate Research with a focus on Midstream Infrastructure, Carbon Management, and Energy Transition Strategies.

Prior to joining Wood Mackenzie, Rachel worked for ExxonMobil where she held multiple positions in competitor analysis, commercial negotiation, value chain integration, infrastructure development, geoscience integration, and resource evaluation in roles based in Russia, Canada, and the U.S.  Most recently, she led a project focused on understanding the potential of nature based solutions for carbon sequestration, and development of carbon management strategy profiles for U.S. oil and gas companies.

Prior to this, Rachel was located in Midland, TX and worked as part of XTO Energy (a subsidiary of ExxonMobil), focused on developing the Permian Basin, leading commercial infrastructure and marketing negotiations and working to align business objectives across the Permian Value Chain from Upstream through to Chemicals.

Rachel has a PhD in Earth Sciences from the University of Southern California, and a BSc in Earth and Planetary Sciences from the University of New Mexico.

Rasika Gokhale Athawale

Rasika Gokhale Athawale is the Founder of MindCrunch. In the past while working with Management Consulting firms KPMG and PwC, she has advised clients on business plans, market entry and growth strategies, competition analysis and PPP structuring. She regularly writes for business magazines such as SMEWORLD, Business Review India and EQ International.  

Richard Bowmaker

Richard Bowmaker is an energy expert at PA Consulting Group. His in-depth knowledge of energy market systems and wide range of IT implementation skills help to develop, test and apply energy market applications, models and simulations. Richard’s clients include energy market system and market operators, energy investors and bankruptcy courts. Richard has been designing, implementing, testing and applying energy market-specific software systems since 1996, building on his electrical engineering qualifications and commercial software development experience.

Richard Jun Li

Richard Jun Li is a Research Director who leads Lux Research’s China Innovation practice. Lux Research provides strategic advice and on-going intelligence for emerging technologies. 

Rizky Aditya Putra, Dynta Trishana Munardy, Alfred Gurning

Rizky Aditya Putra is a Senior Officer of ASEAN Plan of Action for Energy Cooperation (APAEC) at the ASEAN Centre for Energy. He holds a Master of Science degree in Oil & Gas Enterprise Managementfrom the University of Aberdeen in the United Kingdom. Expert in project management, energy efficiency and conservation, and clean coal technology.

Dynta Trishana Munardy is a Technical Officer of ASEAN Plan of Action for Energy Cooperation (APAEC) at the ASEAN Centre for Energy. She holds a Master of Science degree in Energy & Natural Resources Management from the State University of New York in the United States. Expert in life cycles assessment of energy systems.

Alfred Gurning is a Technical Officer of ASEAN Plan of Action for Energy Cooperation (APAEC) at the ASEAN Centre for Energy. He holds a Master of Nuclear Engineering from Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya and Master of Material Science for Nuclear Energy from Grenoble INP - Phelma. Expert in civilian nuclear energy and clean coal technology.

Rob Brendal

Rob Brendal is the Asia-Pacific Manager in Honeywell.

Robin Pickup

Robin Pickup is the Global Leader, Manufacturing at Lloyd’s Register.