Biography of Moderators and Speakers
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Biography of moderators and speakers 3rd OECD Green Investment Financing Forum (GIFF) Thursday, 13 - Friday, 14 October 2016 In association with the ADB Institute Location: ADBI: Kasumigaseki Building 8F, 3-2-5 Kasumigaseki, Chiyoda- ku, Tokyo 100-6008, Japan GIFF Website | #OECDGIFF | Flickr This booklet assembles short biographies of moderators, speakers, commentators and lead organisers participating in the 3rd OECD Green Investment Financing Forum in Tokyo on the 13th and 14th of October. Only biographies received by 5 October are included in this booklet. 1 Kenneth Alston Special Advisor to the United States Secretary of Energy, Department of Energy, United States Session 12 Chair Kenneth Alston is Special Advisor to the United States Secretary of Energy. Since joining the U.S. Government in 2012, he has worked at the White House and U.S. Department of Energy on financing clean energy technologies and projects. Kenneth is co-founder of the Clean Energy Investment Center, chairs the Department's Energy Finance Working Group, led the Department's efforts to raise $4 billion for the White House Clean Energy Investment Initiative, and is an advisor on regional energy issues in Asia and Africa. Prior to this, Kenneth worked in venture capital/private equity investing at Penta Group and Investor's Circle, in startups Simbol Materials and Editas, and as a strategy consultant at Booz Allen Hamilton. He holds an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business, and an MS in Environment and Resources from the Stanford School of Earth, Energy, and Environmental Sciences. 2 Masatsugu Asakawa Vice Minister of Finance for International Affairs, Ministry of Finance, Japan Keynote Speaker Masatsugu Asakawa is Vice Minister of Finance for International Affairs and responsible for all international policies of the Japanese Ministry of Finance (MOF). Since he joined the ministry in 1981, he has held many senior positions, including Director-General of the International Bureau, Deputy Vice Minister for Policy Planning and Co-ordination. He also served as Executive Assistant to the Prime Minister (2008-09), and Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister (2012-13). He was also Head for Technical Assistance Management Unit, Fiscal Affairs Department at the IMF, and Executive Assistant to the President of Asian Development Bank. Besides, he held several positions at the Committee on Fiscal Affairs (CFA), OECD, including Co-Chair for Board for Co-operation with Non-OECD Economies, and Co-Chair for Forum on Harmful Tax Practices, and Member of the Advisory Board, and Chair for CFA since June 2011. He obtained his BA from University of Tokyo (Economics Faculty) in 1981, and MPA from Princeton University in 1985. 3 Preety M. Bhandari Director, Climate Change and Disaster Risk Management Division, Sustainable Development and Climate Change Department, Asian Development Bank Session 11 Speaker Preety M. Bhandari is currently the Director for Climate Change and Disaster Risk Management Division of the Sustainable Development and Climate Change Department (SDCC) at ADB, and also serving as Technical Advisor for Climate Change and Disaster Risk Management thematic group. She is responsible for providing policy and strategic direction to ADB’s climate change program and also leads the work on climate finance, with a particular focus on accessing finance from the Climate Investment Funds (CIFs) and the Green Climate Fund (GCF). Coordination of ADB’s activities in disaster risk management is also part of her portfolio. Prior to joining ADB, she was heading the Finance, Technology and Capacity Building Program of the secretariat of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change. She led the support to the international negotiations on climate finance, which culminated in the launch of GCF and the Standing Committee on Finance. She coordinated the establishment of the Technology Mechanism under the Convention, which includes the Climate Technology Centre and Network. She has also worked as the Director of the Policy Analysis Division at TERI (The Energy and Resources Institute) in India. She has over 28 years of experience in environment, climate change and sustainable development, having worked on projects across Asia, and in multicultural and diverse organizations. She is on the editorial board of Climate Policy and has in the past served as a member of the core group on climate change, established by the Government of India to assess India’s strategy for the UN climate change negotiations. 4 Timothy Bishop Senior Advisor, Directorate for Financial and Enterprise Affairs, OECD Session 10 Commentator Mr. Timothy Bishop is Senior Advisor within the Directorate for Financial and Enterprise Affairs at the OECD Secretariat. He has been with the OECD since 2006 and is currently responsible for leading selected Directorate-wide projects, including the launch of the new OECD Centre on Green Finance and Investment. He previously led, for several years, the Financial Affairs Division which supports the activities and outputs of the Committee on Financial Markets, the Insurance and Private Pensions Committee, and their sub-bodies, including the Working Party on Private Pensions and the G20/OECD Task Force on institutional investors and long-term investment financing. Mr. Bishop has been responsible for such outputs as the OECD Policy Framework for Effective and Efficient Financial Regulation (2009), Report on the Impact of the Financial Crisis on the Insurance Sector and Policy Responses (2010), the revised OECD Guidelines on Insurer Governance (May 2011), and the G20/OECD Methodological Framework for Disaster Risk Assessment and Risk Financing (2012). Prior to the OECD, Mr. Bishop worked in the Financial Sector Policy Branch at the Department of Finance in Ottawa, Canada. For close to a decade, he worked on a wide range of financial sector policy issues, including domestic and international financial stability and regulatory policy, deposit insurance, payment clearing and settlement systems, and corporate governance and market integrity. Prior to this experience, he worked on a broad range of economic policy issues within the Government of Canada. Mr. Bishop has an M. Phil in Economics from the University of Oxford and BA from McGill University. 5 Adrian Blundell-Wignall Special Advisor to the OECD Secretary-General on Financial Markets and Enterprise Affairs, OECD Session 5 Speaker / Session 7 Chair Dr. Adrian Blundell-Wignall is the Special Advisor to the OECD Secretary-General on Financial Markets and Enterprsie Affairs. The OECD supports governments to improve the domestic and global policies that affect business and markets. Key areas of work include anti-bribery, competition, corporate affairs, international investment, financial markets, insurance and private pensions. He is founder and chairman of a charitable foundation (The Anika Foundation) that raises and invests an endowment fund to provide scholarships in a critical area of healthcare. Mr. Blundell-Wignall is an Australian citizen. He has a 1st class Honours degree and PhD in Economics from Cambridge University, UK. He is the author of extensive publications on financial markets and monetary policy in learned journals and books, as well as broker analyst studies and reports. He held senior positions such as: 2014- 2016 Director in the OECD Directorate for Financial and Enterprise Affairs 2007 -2014 Deputy Director in the OECD Directorate for Financial and Enterprise Affairs 2000 - Executive Vice-President, head of Asset Allocation, BT Funds Management 1993 - Head of Derivative Overlays and Levered Products at Bankers Trust Funds Management, building a new $4 billion business 1991 - Head of the Research Department at the Reserve Bank of Australia: directing a department and participating in monetary policy discussions at the internal pre-Board meetings Early in his career he held economist positions in: the OECD Economics Department, the Reserve Bank of Australia and the Economic Planning Advisory Council of Australia. 6 Brian Cahill Managing Director, Moody’s Investors Service Pty Ltd Session 4 Speaker Brian Cahill is Managing Director of the Corporate Finance and Public, Project and Infrastructure Finance Groups for Asia and Australia. In this role, he has overall responsibility for Moody’s ratings and research for the region’s corporate, public, project and infrastructure finance institutions, managing teams in Sydney, Singapore, Hong Kong, Beijing, Shanghai and Tokyo. Brian is also the global executive sponsor for Moody’s Environmental, Social and Governance initiatives which coordinates Moody’s activities in this area of growing market focus. Brian has held various senior analytical and management positions with Moody’s. He joined the company in 1996, working first in Structured Finance and then Corporate Finance. He was appointed MD of the Corporate Finance Group for Asia Pacific in 2002, was MD and country manager for Australia from 2005 to 2009 and Managing Director with overall responsibility for Moody’s Financial Institutions Group for Asia Pacific from 2009 to May 2016. Prior to joining Moody’s, Brian practiced as a lawyer in London, New York and Sydney. He received an MA and Master of Law from St. John’s College, Cambridge University. 7 Ben Caldecott Director, Sustainable Finance Programme, University of Oxford Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment Session 4 Speaker Ben Caldecott is Director of the Sustainable Finance Programme at the University of Oxford Smith School