Eugene Tan is Associate Director of Catalytic Capital for Climate & Health (C3H), the catalytic investment vehicle of Temasek Trust backing innovative early-stage companies in climate and health. Based in Singapore, he oversees the strategic deployment of catalytic capital to advance solutions with the potential for system-level impact. His prior experience spans investment banking and corporate strategy, advising on M&A transactions at UBS, Credit Suisse, and Standard Chartered, and driving growth initiatives at JustCo, a GIC portfolio company.

Dr. Vasu is a seasoned professional specializing in the establishment of strategic solution alliances within the energy sector specializing in low carbon fuels and carbon capture value chains. With a focus on securing funding and grants for carbon solution projects through government and private sector collaborations, he plays a pivotal role in driving decarbonization efforts across industries.

With over 30 years of diverse industry experience, including over 25 years in the energy sector—Dr. Vasu has a proven ability to manage alliances with a strong commercial focus. He has successfully led global partnerships, deal structuring, and cross-functional initiatives, having held significant leadership roles across sales, supply chain, project management and lean six sigma.

He holds a Doctorate in Business Administration, a bachelor’s in mechanical engineering, and a Postgraduate Certificate in Business Administration. Based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, he remains actively engaged in advancing the energy transition across Asia-Pacific.

Dr. Arvind is a seasoned professional specializing in ESG, CSR, strategy, corporate governance, and risk management, boasting over 35 years of experience across sectors like fertilizers, petrochemicals, steel, cement, shipping, glass, FMCG, pharmaceuticals, and automobiles in both national and multinational contexts. Throughout his 35-year career, Arvind has spent 15 years as a C-suite executive and has been a member of various management and executive committees. 
 

Currently, Arvind serves as the Chief Sustainability Officer at ArcelorMittal Nippon Steel. Prior to this role, he was the Executive Director-ESG and Chief Risk Officer at Dalmia Bharat Group. Before that he served as an Executive President UltraTech Cement and Global Chief Sustainability Officer for Tata Motors. In addition to his focus on risk and sustainability, Arvind has experience in operations, business excellence, marketing, and human resources. 
 

He holds a doctorate in climate science and marketing and is a certified independent director from the Institute of Directors. He also teaches corporate governance, CSR, ESG, and risk management as part of the independent directors' course. Due to his extensive expertise and knowledge, he has been appointed to various boards and advisory bodies like:
 

• Director on the Board of Global Cement & Concrete Association- India
• CEO and on board member Dalmia Bharat Foundation.
• Director on the Board of the Society of Safety Health Environment & Sustainability Professionals (SHESPRO)
• Director – CSR & Sustainability Institute (CASI)
• Director on the Board of National Safety Council India
• Advisory board member of prestigious international not-for-profit organization ‘We Mean Business’ (WMB)
• Director on the board of Taloja Manufacturers Association
• Member of Board of studies like ITM, IIM Lucknow and Symbiosis
• FICCI Committee on ESG
• Various committees of Ministry of Steel, Min of Env. & Forest and NITI Ayog.
  

In the capacity of subject matter expert, Arvind has spoken at more than 150 National and International conferences.
Arvind has 25 research papers/publications to his credit which has been referred by more than 100 researchers for their PhD work.

Dr. Haoxin Xu is a Chief Consultant at Ramboll Energy, Singapore, specialising in Carbon Capture for thermal power and hard to abate sectors across Asia Pacific. She has led and supported CCUS feasibility studies, techno economic assessments, and FEED verification (design review) for projects spanning thermal power, waste to energy, cement, and steel. Her experience covers the capture technology selection and cost modelling to integration with industrial and urban systems. Haoxin regularly advises investors, and developers on practical, scalable CCUS deployment tailored to Southeast Asia’s industrial landscape.

Nadiya currently heads the Strategy and Development for ACT Commodities in Asia Pacific. In this role, she drives regional growth and opportunities for ACT Group across carbon markets, renewable energy, biomethane, and other emerging environmental products. Her work sits at the intersection of policy and markets — translating evolving regulatory landscapes and sustainability commitments into opportunities & actionable strategies that foster decarbonisation across the region. Her expertise lies in bridging climate ambition with market execution — ensuring decarbonization strategies are both impactful and economically viable.

Win Sim is Verra’s Regional Representative for the Asia and Pacific region. He handles strategic relationships and collaboration with government partners to promote VCM and the use of Verra standards. He is involved in engaging in policy dialogue and providing government partners technical support such as VCM capacity-building programs, registry interoperability and the operationalization of Article 6.2 of the Paris Agreement.

Muhammad Rizal Azmi has close to two decades of experience across power, renewables and sustainability. Starting as a production engineer, he transitioned to business development at Malakoff Corporation, Malaysia’s largest power producer. Between 2015-2017, he undertook a passion project in organic farming, before returning to corporate business development roles. This includes venturing into the district cooling sector under the ENGIE Group, and eventually the solar sector under Plus Xnergy.
 

Rizal’s foray into the carbon industry started with him joining Bureau Veritas, a leading carbon validation & verification body (VVB). He is currently the Vice President of Business & Product Development at Bursa Carbon Exchange (BCX), playing a key role in shaping the future of voluntary carbon and renewable energy certificates (RECs) trading. Rizal is an engineering graduate of University Teknologi PETRONAS (UTP) and holds a MicroMasters in Sustainable Energy from University of Queensland.

Amir Hisham Albakri or in short, AHA is an experienced conference moderator with a strong focus on Carbon Capture, Utilisation and Storage (CCUS) within the oil & gas and energy sectors. He is known for delivering well-received, thought-provoking sessions that explore the technical, regulatory and commercial dimensions of CCUS, with a particular emphasis on its role in strengthening industry competitiveness and supporting long-term economic value creation for the nation.

Antonio Della Pelle is the East Asia Pacific Industrial Decarbonization Program Lead at IFC, based in Singapore. A chartered chemical engineer with over 27 years of experience in the energy industry, Antonio has held leadership roles at McKinsey, KBR, Enerdata, and KBC, and has been living and working in Asia since 2002.

Antonio’s expertise centers on supporting the decarbonization of hard-to-abate sectors—including steel, cement, chemicals, fertilizers, glass, and aluminum—and scaling up circular economy solutions. Over the past three years, he has led multiple decarbonization projects across Southeast Asia, with CCUS as one of the key levers for achieving deep emissions reductions.

Antonio is recognized for his hands-on leadership, technical depth, and ability to bridge policy, finance, and technology to deliver impactful decarbonization solutions. He is frequently consulted on CCUS project structuring, market development, and the integration of CCUS into broader industrial decarbonization strategies.

Dewi has more than 15 years of experience in the oil and gas industry. Since 2019, she has major role as Group Leader of CCS/CCUS at PT Pertamina (Persero), where she has led the development of major decarbonization initiatives across the Pertamina Group to support the company’s Net Zero Emissions (NZE) and ESG targets, in line with the energy transition roadmap. These programs will demonstrate Pertamina’s contribution to the Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) target as well as regional decarbonization targets.

Previously, she served as Head of Commercial LNG and Gas at PT Nusantara Regas (a joint venture between Pertamina and PGN) from 2017 to 2019, and as Manager of LNG Sales Operations – JMG at PT Pertamina (Persero) from 2014 to 2017. She also has more than 10 years of experience in upstream operations, supply chain management, and process engineering.

She holds a bachelor’s and a master’s degree in chemical engineering.

Aymeric is Managing Director and Head of “Energy Security and Decarbonization” at Natixis CIB. Aymeric has nearly 25 years of experience as an Energy and Industry Banker, with engineer expertise in the sector.

He graduated from IFP School and Texas A&M University and started his career as a consultant in the O&G industry and joined Natixis CIB in 2007 to lead a team of in house engineers providing support on various types of transactions ranging from project finance to private equity raise or M&A  in the global energy space (covering O&G, Geothermal, Bioenergies,  SAF/e-fuels, Carbon Capture & Storage and Hydrogen/Ammonia  projects).

Within the Energy Transition & Natural Resources Industry Group at Natixis CIB, Aymeric is since 2025 the Industry Banker in charge of the O&G and CCUS/decarbonization sectors with a worldwide coverage.

Dr Vinay Mulgundmath is an Engineering Specialist within Saudi Aramco’s Process Consulting Services Department, specializing in clean energy technologies and Carbon capture. He is a member of International Association of Oil and Gas Producers (IOGP) CCS Commi??ee and contributes to Strategic Planning at King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (KFUPM)’s Interdisciplinary Research Centre for Hydrogen Technologies and Carbon management.

Previously, Vinay served as Chief Technologist at Scotland’s Oil & Gas Technology Centre (now Net-Zero Technology Centre), driving innovation in low-carbon solutions. He also held board roles at the Scottish Environmental Protection Agency (SEPA) and the Scottish Energy Advisory Board (SEAB) co-chaired by the First Minister, advising on energy and environmental policy.

Currently, Vinay is a Non-Execu??ve Advisor to Scottish Carbon capture and Storage (SCCS), the Scotland’s Hydrogen Accelerator at the University of St. Andrews, and an Honorary Administrator at the University of Aberdeen’s Directorate of Research & Innovation. He holds a PhD in Chemical Engineering with specializa??on in carbon capture technologies from Canada and an MSc in Process Engineering from France. A Guest Professor and Subject Matter Expert, he focuses on cross cutting themes including decarbonization, clean energy technologies, and sustainable energy systems.

Dr. Noranida Zainal is the Director of the Environmental and Natural Resources Division at Malaysia’s Ministry of Economy, where she drives the integration of sustainability into national development planning. She holds a Ph.D. in Urban and Regional Planning from The University of Sheffield, United Kingdom. With extensive experience in socioeconomic and environmental policy, she focuses on advancing climate action and sustainable growth. Her work centres on applying practical policy tools and economic approaches to support Malaysia’s transition towards a more sustainable future.

Michael is currently the Director Energy Regulation in Regulation and Compliance Division in the Department of Energy and Mining of South Australia. He holds a degree in Chemical. He has over 30 years of experience in the oil and gas industry covering many aspects of the industry including reservoir engineering, tight gas, EOR, drilling and well operations, pipelines and facility engineering and process safety management.

Michael has developed the South Australian safety and environmental legislation for the oil and gas industry and the state's hydrogen safety and renewable energy legislation. 
 

Michael is the South Australian government representative on the many standards committees including chair of the Australian mirror committee for the International Standards Organisation (ISO) committee on standards for Carbon Capture and Storage where he is active on international working groups for CO2 pipelines, storage, flow assurance, monitoring and verification and shipping. 
 

He is an adjunct lecturer in Process Safety and Risk Management in the School of Chemical Engineering at the University of Adelaide. 
 

He is a Fellow Chartered Engineer with IChemE and a member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers

Nur Nadia Mohd Ali is a Senior Consultant at Ramboll Energy, Singapore, specialising in carbon capture and decarbonisation. She has supported CCUS projects ranging from feasibility studies to FEED verification across sectors including oil and gas, bioenergy, waste-to-energy, cement, and data centres. Her work includes technology selection, design verification and cost modelling for carbon capture and decarbonisation projects. She has over 10 years of experience as a process engineer in the oil and gas industry, focusing on refinery and petrochemical. Her background is in process engineering, with specialisation in process design and separations technology. She has since expanded her work into energy management, carbon capture, and bioenergy. 

Hanh Le is CEO of Empacte and an expert in carbon markets in Southeast Asia. She advises governments and businesses on carbon pricing instruments, emissions trading system (ETS) design, and Article 6 transactions.
 

Prior to Empacte, Hanh held senior leadership roles at the Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI) and the Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI), advancing regional energy transition initiatives. She has also advised the Asian Development Bank on carbon markets and ETS in Asia, and the Climate Bonds Initiative on sustainable finance policies, including the ASEAN Sustainable Finance Taxonomy. Earlier, she advised the New Zealand government on carbon pricing and CCS policies and has published on ETS and market mechanisms in Asia. She holds Master’s degrees from Sciences Po (Paris) and the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, NUS, and a Bachelor’s in Finance and Economics.

Mr. Takada has been working as a government official for the Ministry of Finance (MOF) since 1995. He has had a wide range of experience in policy-making at the heart of the government including public finance, tax, trade policies and financial services. During over 20 years of his career he spent 5 years in the UK: study at Cambridge and LSE (1997-99), and secondment to HM Treasury (the UK finance ministry, 2003-06) where he worked on financial regulation, investment market policies and public spending.

In 2009, Mr. Takada became the first staff of the newly created National Policy Unit and worked in the Prime Minister’s Office and the Cabinet Secretariat as an architect of the new public finance framework and as a private advisor to the Prime Minister. After having held senior positions in the Finance Minister’s Secretariat responsible for policy coordination and public relations of the Ministry, he was seconded to the OECD, Paris, where he served as a Senior Policy Analyst at the Green Finance and Investment team, Environment Directorate, from 2015 to 2018.

After his return to Tokyo in 2018, Mr. Takada worked at several offices in the MOF and other parts of the government including the Climate Change Office at the Cabinet Secretariat (2021). From 2022, Mr. Takada served as the Director for Strategy Development at the Financial Services Agency, responsible for financial market policies including promotion of international financial centres and sustainable finance.

From June 2024, Mr. Takada has been seconded to the GX (Green Transformation) Acceleration Agency as its Director. The GX Acceleration Agency is newly launched by the Japanese Government in July 2024 to accelerate decarbonisation and green transformation in Japan and beyond.

Alongside his official jobs, in his private capacity, Mr. Takada launched the Green Finance Network Japan (GFNJ) in 2018 as its Secretary General. The GFNJ is an informal network that brings together key players on green finance in Japan from both public and private sectors and provides a platform for collaborating with international stakeholders.

Mr. Takada received a Bachelor degree in Law (University of Tokyo), a Master degree in Law (Cambridge University) and an MBA (Imperial College London).

Yuji Aibara joined MOL in 2003 and began his career as a commercial operator handling Capesize and Panamax bulkers in the Coal and Iron Ore Carrier Division. He has worked across multiple divisions within MOL, including in-house ship management, LNG carriers, and offshore support vessels.

Since 2021, he has been engaged in business development related to CCUS.

 Nor A’in is currently the General Manager for PETRONAS Carbon Capture & Storage (CCS) in Carbon Management Division(CMD) and CEO of PETRONAS CCS Solutions Sdn Bhd. She is the Chairman of the Board for Jules Nautica Sdn Bhd-an incorporated JV to undertake the development of liquified CO2 (LCO2) ships for transboundary CCS.

She graduated with a Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) in Troy New York, USA in 2001. In 2016, Nor A’in has obtained Project Management Professional (PMP) certification from Project Management Institute. Nor A’in started off her career with ExxonMobil in 2001 and in 2007 she pivoted to serve PETRONAS. Ever since, Nor A’in carried instrumental role in various offshore field development execution carrying the function as both regulator and project developer for offshore Malaysia hydrocarbon fields. Her experiences include Malaysia deep water projects Gumusut Kakap and Malikai and PETRONAS flagship project Kasawari. Her rich experience of 24 years managing projects has been a valuable contribution to her subsequent assignment in 2020 for PETRONAS Portfolio Intervention and Transition, charting new portfolio for PETRONAS to ride the era of energy transition.

Currently, she is leading the development of CCS Business for PETRONAS new venture by introducing different sets of thinking and perspective whilst observing compliance to technical and commercial assurance including risk management. It is evident that her solution focus approach and her experience as Project Director of mega project with complexity has come into play to the CCS Business development that she is leading in PETRONAS. She has been identified as one of the Thought Leaders in Sustainability upon her completion of Leadership Program on Sustainability in 2022; a joint program delivered by World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD), Yale University and IMD. She has also successfuly completed Cambridge University - Strategic Thinking for the CXO in pursuit of strengthening the effectiveness of her leadership in PETRONAS

A lawyer by training, he spent 27 years in the Investment banking and Finance Industry with assignments in Hong Kong and Singapore.

Eddy Soeparno served as Vice Chairman of the Energy & Industry Commission at the Indonesian Parliament (2019 - 2024) and has since assumed the position as Deputy Speaker at the Indonesian People's Consultative Assembly as well as Member of the Energy, Investment and Environmental Affairs Commission at the Indonesian Parliament.

Serving as the Vice President of Decarbonization Business Development and Energy Management at PLN, Mr. Ricky Cahya Andrian is leading the charge in transforming industrial challenges into sustainable opportunities. He works for PLN over 20 years in the Planning and Operational Power System. Now he has been closely to Green Hydrogen Production, Storage, Distribution and utilization in Indonesia. He joined Indonesia Fuell Cell Energy (IFHE).

Mr. Ricky has been instrumental in exploring circular carbon solutions, notably through microalgae-based carbon sequestration, which converts emissions into valuable bioproducts.

Furthermore, his work extends to the development of Green Hydrogen, positioning Danantara Indonesia and PLN as pioneers in the future of carbon-neutral fuels

Dr.Anawat Ketcong is a Senior Researcher from SCG Chemicals Thailand. His research work involves  catalyst, adsorbent and inorganic material related to purification and pre-treatment unit, renewable energy, CCUS technology to chemicals and direct air capture process. He has 16 years of experiences in R&D at SCG Chemicals.

Charlotte is Head of the Energy and Mining Speciality for Asia at Willis. Based in Singapore, she leads a multidisciplinary team focussed on delivering innovative risk management solutions across the complex and evolving energy sector.  She has extensive experience in the Natural Resources Insurance industry having worked in both London and Singapore and has played a key role in developing strategies that address the shifting dynamics of the global energy landscape including the transition to lower-carbon operations.

Charlotte and her team have supported energy companies in implementing a variety of transition technologies from initial consulting and risk advisory work through to ensuring the risk is placed with the most suitable insurance markets. 

Charlotte has an ACII – Advanced Diploma of the Chartered Insurance Institute, BA Hons.

Stephanie Duran joined ANGEA in March 2026 in a new role as Deputy CEO. Stephanie brings 25 years of experience working as a foreign affairs specialist at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), where she led energy and national security initiatives.
Stephanie has dedicated much of her career to advancing international collaboration on carbon capture and storage (CCS). Most recently, as the Energy Attaché and Director of DOE’s China Office, she successfully restarted U.S.-China technical cooperation on CCS. She also managed international and external partnerships on carbon management for DOE.

Throughout her government career, Stephanie served in leadership roles in Washington and overseas as DOE’s representative in Beijing and Singapore. Upon leaving public service, Stephanie co-founded an advisory firm based in Singapore, which aims to position Southeast Asia as a regional hub for high-integrity carbon removal.