Speakers Profile RE-Users Summit 2022Increasing Electricity from Renewable Energy with Additionality

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  Mayumi Tsuryu
  Executive Officer, Senior Officer, Sustainability Development Dept., Corporate Development Div.,  Seven & i Holdings

   

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  Ken Haig
  Head of Energy and Environment Policy, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Asia-Pacific region and Japan
  
  Ken Haig (Ph.D.) is Head of Energy and Environment Policy for Amazon Web Services (AWS) in the Asia-Pacific region and Japan. Before joining AWS, Ken helped launch the APAC business for Opower, a startup that pioneered the blending of behavioral science and data science to promote large-scale energy management programs (acquired by Oracle in 2016), and prior to this was a U.S.-based academic teaching/researching comparative politics and public policy at U.C. Berkeley, Harvard University, and Bard College. Ken holds a B.A. from Harvard University, and a Masters and Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of California, Berkeley.

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  Masaki Hori
  Line Manager, Real Estate Investment Dept., Facility Management Div., First Class Architect, The Dai-ichi Life Insurance Company

   

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  Kohzo Hirose
  Deputy Director, New and Renewable Energy Division, Agency for Natural Resources and Energy, Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) 
  
   

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  Kae Takase
  Associate Director, CDP Worldwide-Japan

  Kae Takase received her Ph. D in environmental studies from graduate school of frontier science, University of Tokyo. She was an economist at Institute of Energy Economics, Japan, and her specialty was econometric modeling of energy supply and demand, and renewable policy. She has worked at Research Institute of Innovative Technology for the Earth, Center for Low Carbon Society Strategy, Japan Science and Technology Agency, and University of Tokyo, and also a senior manager at the CDP Japan. She has been successful in engaging Japanese companies to join Science-based Target (SBT) initiative, and in engaging government to consider better corporate renewable sourcing environment, as a technical partner of RE100.

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  Shuta Mano
  Business Division Deputy Director, UPDATER, Inc.

  After working for Mitsubishi Research Institute and Renewable Energy Institute, Shuta Mano joined SB Energy to engage in the power generation business by renewable energy sources. Recognizing that increasing demand-side needs and innovation are key to boosting renewable energy growth in Japan, he joined Minna Denryoku in 2017, an electricity supplier that offers environmentally-friendly renewable energy from all around the country.  One of the company’s features is connecting customers with the people who generate the energy they use, or ‘electricity which allows you to see the faces of those who make it.” Mano also provides consulting services to companies that are dedicated to sustainable business practices, such as the RE100 companies, that are keen in using renewable electricity for their operations.

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  Katsuhiro Koyama
  General Manager, Environment Department, Daiwa House Industry

  Katsuhiro Koyama was born in Shiga Prefecture in 1970. Graduated from the Department of Precision Engineering, Kyoto University in 1992 and joined Daiwa House Industry Co., Ltd. in the same year. While working at the company, he studied architecture at night course university, and became in charge of construction and designing of large building projects such as "Daiwa House Osaka Building" and "Nobuo Ishibashi Memorial Museum". For the administration building at Daiwa House Tohoku Factory, which was completed in 2005, Koyama collaborated with Mr. Gunter Pauli, an advocator of zero emissions, developed natural symbiosis type office that uses the principle of termite ventilation system. Taking this opportunity, he volunteered to transfer to the Environment Department in 2006 and has been taking charge of environmental management strategy planning and promoting measures against global warming for the Daiwa House Group. Koyama has been in position of General Manager since 2015. Qualified architect of the first-class and CASBEE evaluator. 

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  Shinjiro Okuma
  Senior Manager, Electric Power Business Department II, Energy and Eco Services Business Headquarters, ORIX Corporation

  Shinjiro Okuma previously worked as a consultant of real estate securitized business. He entered in Special Investments Group ORIX Corporation in 2007 and engaged in business of revitalization for non-performing loan and solution for financial institution.
  He joined Electric Power Business Department Ⅱ and engaged in energy and eco services business since December 2014.
  He worked at sales for solar power system and battery for home builder and started up on-site PPA business.
  He has been in charge of restructuring product for PPA business since April 2021.
  He holds Certified Member Analyst of the Securities Analysts Association of Japan and Certified International Investment Analyst (R).

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  Teruyuki Ohno
  Executive Director, Renewable Energy Institute

  Teruyuki Ohno joined Renewable Energy Institute in 2013. He has actively participated in the policy formation of Japan’s climate change measures as a member of the subcommittee of carbon pricing and others led by the Ministry of the Environment Japan. Before joining the Institute, he was Director General of the Bureau of Environment, Tokyo Metropolitan Government for three years, covering a broad range of environmental issues including energy, climate change, waste management, pollution control, natural environment, and sustainable development. His notable achievements include the “No Dirty Diesel Vehicle Strategy in Tokyo” which reduced the air pollution and PM emissions, and implementation of Japan’s first Cap-and-Trade Program in Tokyo in 2008, involving the industries and successfully building a grand consensus. His active leadership in promoting renewable energy and energy efficiency led to the formation of the foundation of Tokyo’s energy policy. He also serves as part-time lecturer at the University of Tokyo, Adviser for ICLEI Japan, Board Member of WWF Japan and Counselor to the Governor on Zero Emission Tokyo and Environmental Policy.
  He received the Haagen-Smit Clean Air Award from the California Air Resources Board in 2014. His publications include "Energy Strategies of Municipality Governments" (Iwanami, 2013, Japanese) among others.

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  Mika Ohbayashi 
  Director, Renewable Energy Institute

  Mika Ohbayashi is Director of Renewable Energy Institute since its foundation in August 2011. Before joining the Institute, Ohbayashi worked for the International Renewable Energy Agency, IRENA, based in Abu Dhabi, as Policy and Project Regional Manager for Asia Oceania. She worked at the British Embassy to Japan as Climate Change Project Advisor, and she served as Director at the Institute for Sustainable Energy Policies. She started her career in the energy field by joining the Citizens' Nuclear Information Center in 1992, where she was in charge of energy issues and Asian nuclear power program. She was awarded the Global Leadership Award in Advancing Solar Energy Policy by the International Solar Energy Society (ISES) in 2017.

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  Masaya Ishida 
  Senior Manager, Business Alliance, Renewable Energy Institute

  Masaya Ishida joined Renewable Energy Institute in 2017 to lead research on renewable energy deployment for business activities. He is responsible for organizing the Renewable Energy Users Network (RE-Users), a network of corporate energy users to accelerate renewable energy procurement, and the RE-Users Regional Alliance, a joint initiative with CDP-Worldwide Japan aiming to disseminate renewable energy development and procurement practices across local regions in Japan. He is a member of Technical Advisory Group at RE100 from September 2021.
  Prior to joining the Institute, he was Executive Producer at “Smart Japan,” a leading online media in Japan focusing on renewable energy deployment and electric power market reformation. He has held senior positions at several technology information media and internet businesses, including “EE Times Japan” and “Nikkei Computer.” He holds a B.S. and M.S. in Information Engineering from Tokyo Institute of Technology.

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  Keiji Kimura
  Senior Researcher, Renewable Energy Institute

  Keiji Kimura joined Renewable Energy Institute in 2013. In 2007, he completed his doctorate course at the graduate school of International Relations at Ritsumeikan University and specializes in environmental economics and renewable energy policy theory.
  At Renewable Energy Institute, his research focuses on renewable energy policies and its institutional challenges and power generation cost analysis. He is also responsible for compiling renewable energy statistics on the Institute’s website.

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  Mika Kudo
  Senior Researcher, Renewable Energy Institute

  Mika Kudo joined Renewable Energy Institute in 2016. After graduating from the University of Tokyo, she worked as a law practitioner from 1999. She started her career as a researcher in the Research Office for Judicial Reform of Japan Federation of Bar Associations (JFBA) in 2002 when the Japanese government engaged in the judicial reform from 2001. She was in charge of research on the implementation of Saiban-in (lay judge or jury) system, reform of criminal procedure, law school system, the social impact of increasing in-house counsels, as well as judicial systems and researches in foreign countries related to those issues. While working as a staff attorney for JFBA for over 10 years, she also served in the Civil Legal Aid Division of the Japan Legal Support Center in 2010.
  At Renewable Energy Institute, her research focuses on interconnectors, market design for electricity system reform and the institutional challenges for renewable energy such as offshore wind.

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