Speakers

Marlon Joseph Apañada is Southeast Asia Lead of the Global Energy Program at the World Resources Institute (WRI), the international think tank, and concurrently leads the Singapore and Regional Working Group of the Asia Clean Energy Coalition (ACEC), the coalition of world-leading, Fortune 500 companies aiming to accelerate power sector decarbonization in Asia. He brings 20 years' expert experience in the clean energy finance, climate finance, and corporate decarbonization spaces, which includes leading business development of 100 MWs successfully commissioned renewable energy (RE) projects, successfully developing the first bank-financed solar projects in the Philippines, and pioneering climate finance and blended finance practice in Southeast Asia. A certified Green Finance Specialist, Marlon obtained his MBA from the Berlin University of Applied Sciences and his MBM on Climate Finance from the Berlin School of Economics and Law, both in Berlin, Germany. He also completed a certificate course on Sustainable Finance at the University of Oxford's Smith School of Enterprise and Environment in Oxford, UK.