Dr Pradeep Tharakan Guest Lecture

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, Dr Tharakan has been involved in the origination, implementation, and close-out of energy infrastructure projects totaling nearly 4 billion USD. This includes solar parks, large hydropower projects, energy efficiency investments, battery energy storage and cross-border power trade projects.

He has also led project facilitation and policy advisory work across a variety of technology areas including solar and wind power, geothermal energy development, carbon capture and storage, rural electrification, and energy efficiency.

Pradeep’s research has been published in Nature, Energy Policy, and the Energy Journal, among others.