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- Paolo Frankl
Head of Renewable Energy Division, IEA - Paolo Frankl is Head of the Renewable Energy Division at the International Energy Agency (IEA), which he
joined in 2007. He leads the IEA’s work on renewable energy, providing policy advice in the areas of
technology, markets and systems integration. He is a member of several international advisory committees,
including the EU PVSEC International Scientific Advisory Board and the Helmholtz Association of German
Research Centres.
- Paolo Frankl
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- Sohee Kim
Secretary General, Climate Change Center, Korea - With over 20years’ work experience, she is specialist in area of climate and sustainability. She is Secretary General of Climate Change Center(CCC), Seoul-based INGO established in 2008. CCC brings together influential public-private-academia experts committed to realize low-carbon society. She has over 10 years’ experience raising awareness of Korean opinion leaders through Climate Executive Program, proposing climate policy to the related Ministries and leading climate and sustainability projects in developing countries. Prior to joining CCC, she worked for Plan International Korea around 10years spearheading development projects especially poverty, education and gender area in several developing countries. She is currently member of Energy Committee under the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy. She is also board member of The Korean Society of Climate Change Research and The Korean Society for New and Renewable Energy. She holds an MSc in Development Studies from SOAS, the University of London.
- Sohee Kim
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- Irene Giner-Reichl
President, Global Women’s Network for the Energy Transition - In the Austrian Diplomatic Service for more than 30 years with extensive experience in multilateral work,
especially in sustainable development, climate change and gender issues. Worked on bringing energy in the
sustainability discussion since 1999, proud to lead on SDG 7 and on supporting women in energy globally as
President of GWNET (www.globalwomennet.org ). Former Austrian Ambassador to China and Mongolia, and
current Ambassador to Brazil and Suriname.
- Irene Giner-Reichl
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- Hiroshi Takahashi
Professor, Tsuru University, Japan - Hiroshi Takahashi specializes in public policy and energy policy. He obtained doctoral degree from the
University of Tokyo and master’s degree from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, and currently serves
as Professor at Tsuru University. His former career includes Deputy Director at IT Policy Office of Cabinet
Secretariat, Assistant Professor at the University of Tokyo, and Research Fellow at Fujitsu Research Institute.
- Hiroshi Takahashi
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- Emanuele Bianco
Associate Programme Officer, International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) - Emanuele Bianco is an Associate Programme Officer in the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA), where he is responsible for the work on a range of renewable energy policy topics including policy design, regional renewable energy market analyses and power market design assessment. Before joining IRENA, he worked in the International Energy Agency (IEA) in the Italy’s Gestore dei Servizi Energetici (GSE). He has a combined 10 years of experience in renewable energy policy analysis. He has received an M.Eng. in Nuclear and Energy Engineering from the Polytechnic School of Turin.
- Emanuele Bianco
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- Tomas Kåberger
Chair of Executive Board, Renewable Energy Institute - Tomas Kåberger has been the Chair of Executive Board of Renewable Energy Institute since its foundation in
2011. Before joining the institute, he was Director General of the National Swedish Energy Agency from 2008.
He has served on board of several Swedish Government Committees developing energy and environmental
legislation, and China Council for International Cooperation on Environment and Development as a member of a task force on Low-Carbon Industrialization Strategies. He is also a member of the Swedish Climate Policy
Council established in 2018.
- Tomas Kåberger
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- Mika Ohbayashi
Director, Renewable Energy Institute - Mika Ohbayashi is a founding member and Director at Renewable Energy Institute since 2011. Before joining
the Institute, she worked for International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) as Policy and Project Regional
Manager for Asia Oceania. Prior to that, she served as Deputy Director at Institute for Sustainable Energy
Policies since its establishment in 2000. She was awarded the Global Leadership Award in Advancing Solar
Energy Policy by the International Solar Energy Society (ISES) in 2017.
- Mika Ohbayashi
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- Masaya Ishida
Senior Manager, Renewable Energy Institute - Masaya Ishida joined Renewable Energy Institute in 2017 to lead research activities on renewable energy business. He he has published "The Rise of Renewable Energy and Fall of Nuclear Power: Competition of Low Carbon Technologies" (2019), "Guidebook to Renewable Energy Procurement: for corporations and municipalities" (1st edition 2018, 2nd edition 2019), "Renewable Energy in the US Power Sector, the Other Revolution" (2018) , "The Ways Forward for Japan EPCOs in the New Energy Paradigm" (2017) and is a regular contributor to column articles and case-story articles that introduce renewable energy projects across Japan. In addition, he has been responsible to launch Renewable Energy Users Network (RE-Users), a network of corporate energy users that aim to accelerate renewable procurement in Japan.
- Masaya Ishida