
Prof. Ir. Ts. Dr. Zainuddin Abdul Manan
Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM) & Technical Advisor (Thermal Energy)
Prof. Zainuddin Abdul Manan is the founding Dean of UTM Faculty of Chemical and Energy Engineering, founder of UTM Sustainable Energy Management Program and the CEO and founder of the UTM spin-off company OPTIMISE Sdn Bhd.

Aisha Daniyal
Zero Emission Vehicle Association (ZEVA)
Aisha was tasked to establish Malaysia first ever Zero Emission Vehicle Association (ZEVA), a coalition between all interested parties in the EV space i.e. car importers / manufacturers, charging point operators, EV owners and research bodies. ZEVA was successfully formed in December 2021 and to-date has registered close to 30 members with active role to advocate for EV usage towards reducing carbon emission.

Lavanya Rama Iyer
Head of Policy and Climate Change, WWF Malaysia.
Lavanya joined WWF-Malaysia in 2013. She is a professionally qualified lawyer and a Chevening Scholar. She has a MSc in Sustainability (Climate Change) from the University of Leeds and a law degree from the University of Kent at Canterbury. She represents WWF-Malaysia in the CSO-SDG Alliance and several SDG Task Forces convened by EPU to implement the SDG Agenda in Malaysia. Lavanya has attended the UN SDG Regional Forum in Bangkok and the High Level Political Forum in New York.

Dr. Raúl Rosales
Authors of the COP26 Report on VCM in ASEAN: Challenges & Opportunities for Scaling Up
Raúl Rosales is a Senior Executive Fellow at Imperial College Business School, co-founder, and a member of the management committee of the Singapore Green Finance Centre (SGFC) and Visiting Professor in the Department of Engineering at King's College in London focused on the Net Zero Centre.