Experienced as a Project Engineer in domestic and industrial water treatment plants and custody gas metering for Oil and Gas industry. He is currently working as a Sales Engineer specialising in flow measurement with the leading Ultrasonic Clamp-On brand in rapidly set-up and operating a flow verification and effective monitoring system where reliable and low maintenance are required.

Mr. Boonrod Yaowapruek is a climate finance specialist with over 20 years of professional experience serving in various technical and managerial capacities in the clean energy and environmental sectors.

King Vai has over 20 years of corporate experience in areas such as corporate insolvency and turnaround, corporate finance advisory, and corporate and commercial banking.

Mr. Jens Radschinski has taken on the role of the Regional Lead at UNFCCC’s Regional Collaboration Centre (RCC) for Asia Pacific, situated in Bangkok in the beginning of 2017.

Ts. Shamsul Bahar Mohd Noris the Chief Executive Officer of Malaysian Green Technology and Climate Change Corporation(MGTC), the primary driver for Green Technology and Climate Change Development under the purview of the Ministry of Environment & Water, Malaysia.

Dr. Rezal Khairi Ahmad was appointed as the Chief Executive Officer in January 2013 under asecondment from Khazanah Nasional started in June 2012.

Prof Dato’ Ir Dr A. Bakar Jaafar, PEng, FIEM, FASc,  a Malaysian, is Research Fellow and Founding Director of UTM Ocean Thermal Energy Centre, and Professor at Perdana Centre, UTM Razak Faculty of Technology and Informatics since 2013.

Ts. Dr. Sathiabama T. Thirugnana is currently the Director of UTM Ocean Thermal Energy Centre and a Senior Lecturer in Razak Faculty of Technology and Informatics, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia and she is registered with Board of Engineers, Malaysia (BEM), MBOT, IEM, IEEE, IET and Energy Institute of UK and Malaysia. Currently, she is focused on Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion (OTEC) and its efficient technology to tackle Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and 2050 decarbonization action plans with O&G industries. In addition, she is the Project Manager for SATREPS OTEC project (2019 - 2024). She received her Ph.D. in Electronics Engineering, focused on thin-film solar cells from Waseda University of Japan in 2015. She possesses vast experience in the development and/or applications of efficient materials for solar cell, photo voltaic (PV) systems. Upon joining UTM, she has been actively involved in the STEM education initiatives and programs as part of her University Social Responsibilities (USR). Above all, for the past 18 years Dr. Sathia has involved herself in design, development, analysis, lead trainer and managing of various electrical & electronics testers, telecommunication and renewable energy (RE) industries in and out of Malaysia.

Nah-yoon is Private Sector Specialist of the WBG’s Finance, Competitiveness and Innovation Global Practice. She is the lead author of Circular Economy in Industrial Parks: Technologies for Competitiveness (2021), and Resilient Industries: Competitiveness in Face of Disasters (2020). She was also one of the main contributing authors to A Practitioner’s Handbook for Eco- Industrial Parks (2018) jointly published by the WBG, UNIDO and GIZ. Nah-yoon has more than 10 years of research and operational experience in the area of sustainable and resilient urban industrial development. With the Green Competitiveness Team at the World Bank, she provides support to client countries including Bangladesh, China, Mongolia, Uzbekistan, and Vietnam to enhance competitiveness of their manufacturing industries through eco-industrial park projects, circular economy solutions, and measures to improve industrial resilience. Originally from the Republic of Korea, Nah-yoon has a Master of Science in Urban Planning from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.). Before joining the Bank, she worked as a researcher at MIT on the Clean Energy City project in China and at Korea Environment Institute where she supported the Korean Ministry of Environment to implement the Seoul Initiative Network on Green Growth jointly with the UNESCAP.