Marlon Apañada

Executive Director

Asia Engine for Net Zero

- Southeast Asia Lead, World Resources Institute, a world-leading global think tank.

- International scholar, Master in Business Management major in Green Energy and Climate Finance, funded by the German Ministry for Environment (2020 intake, completed 2022)

- Country Lead for Philippines, Clean Energy Investment Accelerator (www.cleanenergyinvest.org), an international public-private partnership co-led with NREL (www.nrel.gov) and WRI (www.wri.org) present in 7 countries.

- Strategic Advisor, Allotrope Partners (www.allotropepartners.com), a California headquartered clean energy investment and advisory firm. - Green Finance Leadership Program (www.gflp.org.cn) network member and Convenor, SE Asia Greening the Finance System Initiative supported by ECF (www.europeanclimate.org).

- Led business development of successfully commissioned 20 MW own-use rooftop solar projects and successfully secured 50 MW service contracts of utility-scale solar projects in the Philippines since 2011.

- Led structuring of first bank-financed C&I solar projects in the Philippines in 2010-2014.

- Country expert on emissions trading mechanisms and carbon markets since 2007 as founding team in the Philippines of Ecosecurities (www.ecosecurities.com).Other key credentials:- Certified Green Finance Specialist accredited by the Finance Accreditation Agency (www.faa.org.my) Malaysia- MBA Candidate, MBA Renewables, Beuth University of Applied Sciences, Berlin (www.beuth-hochschule.de)

- Finished course on Sustainable Finance from University of Oxford's Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment (www.smithschool.ox.ac.uk)

- Internationally recognized expert on Philippine renewable energy policy and regulatory landscape, including Feed-in Tariffs, onsite power generation, Net Metering, and incentives programs