Contributors

Grant Hauber

Grant provides energy and financial market analysis for IEEFA’s Asia Pacific team, with an emphasis on region’s emerging markets.  As a core member of IEEFA’s debt markets team, he provides insights to project finance, multilateral development institutions, and financing the energy transition. In the area of LNG, Grant supports IEEFA’s global fossils team to track market trends and impacts. 

Grant’s experience spans over 30 years in 30 different countries, covering energy markets and infrastructure public-private partnerships (PPP). He has garnered experience as a project developer in both renewable and conventional electricity, a project finance investment banker, and energy asset strategist. More recently, he served as a Principal at the Asian Development Bank in Manila, spearheading creation of the bank’s PPP Operational Plan and advising governments across South and Southeast Asia how to integrate PPP principles into their public planning. 

Based in Boston, Massachusetts, Grant served on the advisory board to the Metropolitan Area Planning Council supporting design of Greater Boston’s long-term development plan, MetroCommon 2050, covering 101 municipalities. 

Grant holds a Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering from Carnegie-Mellon University and an MBA from the Yale School of Management.

Being an avid cyclist, as well as an infrastructure policy wonk, as part of his support of MetroCommon 2050, Grant has ridden across every one of the 1,900 mi2 (4,600 km2) of the Greater Boston Metropolitan Statistical Area, whether on road or trail.

Haneea Isaad

Haneea Isaad is an energy finance analyst at IEEFA. Based in Pakistan, she covers Asian energy markets with a focus on Southeast Asia and Pakistan.

Haneea has been actively engaged with the energy transition underway in Pakistan. Her past work has actively focused on highlighting the socio-economic impacts of coal power development in Pakistan, while making an economic case for variable renewable energy such as solar and wind based power systems.

She holds a Master’s in environmental management from the Yale School of the Environment, with a specialization in Energy Economics and Policy Analysis.

Harsh Thacker

Harsh Thacker is Senior Research Analyst, Energy & Environment, Asia Pacific, Frost & Sullivan.   

Hazel Ilango

Hazel Ilango is an energy finance analyst, debt markets. At IEEFA, Hazel partners with analysts and allies to disseminate expert research to media and target audiences.

Prior to IEEFA, Hazel was an analyst in a leading credit rating agency in Malaysia and South-East Asia, covering the data and credit analytics segment with an ASEAN focus (Association of Southeast Asian Nations).

Her experiences include financial and sensitivity analysis of ASEAN corporates, corporate and structured finance related studies, quantitative/qualitative credit modelling in financial industries for corporate and SMEs portfolio, as well as conducting credit assessment of corporate companies.

In addition to her professional experience, Hazel is actively involved with a non-profit welfare organisation to lead programmes and promote the social welfare of people and communities in Malaysia.

Hazel holds a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics from the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire.

Henry Lau

Henry Lau is the Senior Vice President and Managing Director, Regional Sales and Services for the APAC region in AspenTech.

Hirokazu Suto & William Byun

Mr. Hirokazu Suto is the Representative Director - Japan at Greenpower Fuels.

Mr. William I.Y. Byun is the Managing Director at Asia Renewables - Singapore.

Inderpreet S Wadhwa

Inderpreet S Wadhwa is the CEO of Azure Power. 

Inez Rakhmani

Inez Rakhmani is a Senior Consultant with a background from Bachelor’s Degree from Chemistry of Gadjah Mada University. She has undertaken projects in Indonesia region for environmental and social impact assessments, EHS due diligence, and audits, and regulatory review and compliance over 7 years. She has been an EIA Consultant Team Leader issued by Lembaga Sertifikasi Profesi-Lingkungan Hidup or LSP-LH.

Isabel Chong

Isabel Chong is Country Manager for Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore, Electrical Sector, at Eaton East Asia, a leading global power management company.

At Eaton, Chong is responsible for driving the growth of the company’s electrical business within these markets. She oversees go-to-market strategies, product marketing and customer service, to achieve high growth and customer satisfaction levels. Since joining Eaton, Chong has expanded the company’s footprint in the UPS sector by 40%, as well as Eaton’s market presence in the Singapore data center vertical.

Chong holds a bachelor’s degree in electrical and electronics engineering from Nanyang Technological University. Chong is based in Singapore and enjoys traveling and reading for leisure outside of work.

Jackson Seng

Jackson Seng has more than 20 years of regional experience in multiple leadership roles, including in sales, marketing, services, engineering, project management, logistics, quality and customer care functions. He is currently leading Energy & Sustainability Services (ESS) for East Asia - Japan Region for Schneider Electric, and partnering with customers to achieve their sustainability commitments (ESG, science based targets, CDP, UN SDP etc) with renewable energy PPA, RECs and microgrid solutions. He has expertise in automation, power generation, power distribution, sustainable development and energy efficiency from his diverse working experience.

Jackson aims to make an impact in reducing climate impact and making the world a better place to live.