Join us as we welcome Dr Pradeep Tharakan, Director for Energy Transition at the Asian Development Bank, to the Business School.

Dr Tharakan will be presenting his insights on "Scaling the energy transition across developing Asia and the Pacific: notes from the front lines".

Dr Tharakan has worked for the Asian Development Bank since 2010. He currently serves as the Bank’s Director for Energy Transition and is responsible for guiding their engagement in industrial decarbonisation, managed coal phaseout, critical minerals and clean energy supply chains, offshore wind development, and scaling up climate finance for the energy transition. Over the past decade, he has been involved in the origination, implementation, and close-out of energy infrastructure projects totalling nearly 4 billion USD. This includes solar parks, large hydropower projects, energy efficiency investments, battery energy storage and cross-border power trade projects. His research has been published in Nature, Energy Policy, and the Energy Journal, among others.

The lecture and Q&A will run from 14.30 – 15.30 on Friday 20 February, followed by networking drinks until 17.00.