Mr Angus McCrone has overall editing responsibility for BNEF’s research on clean energy and transport, working closely with BNEF’s 120-strong team of analysts. He writes about energy investment trends, project finance, and early-stage technologies. Before joining New Energy Finance in 2007, Mr McCrone was a financial journalist for UK national newspapers for 18 years. He also worked as senior economist for a leading London-based think tank, and founded an FSA-authorised financial services firm. Mr McCrone has a MSc Economic History, London School of Economics, MA Economics and Modern History, St Andrews University and Certificate of Investment Management

Dr Ashok Haldia is the Former Managing Director, PTC India Financial Services Limited (PFS) an Infrastructure Finance Company - a leading Financial Institution in renewable power projects. He is a Chartered Accountant, Management Accountant, and, a Company Secretary. He has wide experience in the power sector, policy and reforms, infrastructure financing, public sector reform and policy, corporate governance, regulation, mobilization of funds, and, formulation of accounting standards. He was/is members of the committee(s) of trade and industry associations, professional bodies, government, and other national and international bodies.

Mr Bruce Hogg is the Head of the recently-established Power & Renewables (P&R) team at the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB). CPPIB is a professional investment management organization that invests the funds not needed by the Canada Pension Plan (CPP) to pay current benefits on behalf of 20 million contributors and beneficiaries.  Bruce's mandate is to build a diversified global portfolio of value-add power and renewables investments, taking advantage of growing market opportunities as the energy sector transitions and global power demand grows, especially for low-carbon energy alternatives.  Since its establishment in late 2017, the group has invested approximately C$2.8 billion in three transactions across North America, South America and Europe.

Most recently, Bruce was Managing Director, Head of Americas for Infrastructure where he was responsible for teams in Toronto, Sao Paulo and Sydney.  Prior to joining the CPP Investment Board in October 2007, Bruce led the private markets infrastructure team at OPTrust.  Previously, he spent a number of years working with Macquarie Bank in London and Toronto in corporate finance after having worked in investment banking at RBC Dominion Securities.

Bruce holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree from the University of Alberta and Bachelor of Law degree from the University of Toronto.

Mr David Rasquinha is the Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of the Export-Import Bank of India. He has a wide exposure in the field of export credit, having worked in the areas of Treasury, Multilateral Agency Funded Projects, Planning & Research, Risk Management, Trade Finance, Project Finance and Project Exports. 

Mr David Rasquinha is the Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of the Export-Import Bank of India. He has a wide exposure in the field of export credit, having worked in the areas of Treasury, Multilateral Agency Funded Projects, Planning & Research, Risk Management, Trade Finance, Project Finance and Project Exports. 

Mr Douglass Sims is Director of the Natural Resource Defense Council's (NRDC) Center for Market Innovation, where he leads a team that provides analysis, advocacy and thought leadership on innovative financing for low carbon and climate resilient infrastructure. Douglass began his career at Allen & Overy LLP, working on energy and infrastructure projects in Latin America, Africa and the Caribbean. Douglass was instrumental in the design and launch of the New York Green Bank in the United States and is a co-founder of global Green Bank Network, a membership organization whose founding members are the Clean Energy Finance Corporation (Australia), Connecticut Green Bank, GreenTech Malaysia, Japan Green Finance Organization, NY Green Bank and UK Green Investment Group, NRDC and the Coalition for Green Capital, announced at COP 21 in Paris. Douglass also regularly advises jurisdictions around the world on the green investment bank model and is a member of the Standards Board of the London-based Climate Bonds Initiative. Mr Sims holds a law degree from Harvard Law School and bachelor’s degree from Stanford University.

Mr Michael Eckhart is a Managing Director and Global Head of Environmental Finance in the Corporate and Investment Banking Division of Citigroup in New York City. Previously, he was founding President of the American Council On Renewable Energy (ACORE), a Washington DC-based non-profit organization, where he emerged as a national and global leader in the renewable energy field. 

Earlier, Mr Eckhart developed financing for solar energy under the SolarBank Initiative in Europe, South Africa and India; was Chairman & CEO of United Power Systems, Inc.; Vice President of Areté Ventures, Inc.; a strategic planner of General Electric Company’s power systems sector; and a Principal with the energy practice of Booz, Allen & Hamilton. 

He has received numerous awards and recognitions, including Renewable Energy Man of the Year of India in 1998, the Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship in 2008, the Good Deal for All Award in 2009, the ISES Hermann Scheer Global Leadership Award in 2013, and Biofuels Financier of the Year in 2014. 

He has received a degree in Electrical Engineering from Purdue University and an MBA from Harvard Business School, and served in the US Navy Submarine Service.

As Deputy Executive Secretary at the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD), Dr Monga provides strategic support to the Executive Secretary and the Secretariat to implement the mandate and activities of the Convention that links environment and development to sustainable land management, and contributes to the global efforts to reverse and prevent desertification and land degradation, and to mitigate the effects of drought in affected countries in order to support climate action and environmental sustainability. 

The Convention’s parties work together to improve the living conditions for people in dry lands, to maintain and restore land and soil productivity, and to mitigate the effects of drought. The UNCCD is particularly committed to a bottom-up approach, encouraging the participation of local people in combating desertification and land degradation. The UNCCD secretariat facilitates cooperation between developed and developing countries, particularly around knowledge and technology transfer for sustainable land management. 

As the dynamics of land, climate and biodiversity are intimately connected, the UNCCD collaborates closely with the other two Rio Conventions; the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) and the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), to meet these complex challenges with an integrated approach and the best possible use of natural resources.

Mr Sean Kidney is CEO of the Climate Bonds Initiative, an international NGO working to mobilize debt capital markets for climate solutions. Projects include a green bond definitions and certification scheme with $34 trillion of assets represented on its Board and some 200 organizations involved in its development and governance; working with the Chinese central bank on how to grow green bonds in China; an international Green Infrastructure Investment Coalition; market development programs in Brazil, Mexico, Colombia, Nigeria and East Africa; and a green finance aggregation platform with UNDP. He is a member of the EU Technical Expert Group on Sustainable Finance, co-Chair of the India Green Bonds Council and a member of the Astana International Finance Centre’s Green Advisory Committee. He has previously been a consultant on green bonds to the United Nations Secretary General, a member of the European Commission's High-Level Expert Group on Sustainable Finance and the UK Government’s Green Finance Task Force.

As a Vice Chairperson in AVAADA, Sindoor is responsible for strategy and leadership development. Apart from her business responsibilities, she is keenly involved in the company's sustainability endeavour.

Sindoor started her career by working with a $500mn private equity fund and then proceeding to be an entrepreneur. She was instrumental in setting up Welspun Energy’s initial solar portfolio, at a time when few companies were in the business. She spearheaded Equity fundraising by bringing on board institutional investors like ADB, DEG and GE. Thereafter, she successfully handled the sale of the organisation’s ~1140 MW renewable portfolio to Tata Power.

Dr Tomas Kåberger is Professor in Industrial Energy policy at Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden and Executive Board Chair of Tokyo based Renewable Energy Institute. He serves as a non- executive director of the European power company Vattenfall, as senior Advisor to Beijing based GEIDCO, and as member of the Swedish National Climate Policy Council. He has previously served as Director General of the Swedish National Energy Agency, and in leading positions of renewable energy companies, environmental and renewable energy organisations. He is an elected member of the Swedish Royal Academy of Engineering Sciences and the Swedish Association of Energy Economists..