Ramesh Subramaniam: Climate Financing and ASEAN’s Clean Energy Transition

This episode features Ramesh Subramaniam, Director General of the Southeast Asia Department for the Asian Development Bank (or ADB), a regional development bank that works to promote social and economic development in Asia. Under his department, he has managed over $24 billion in projects under implementation. In addition, he currently holds positions as a member of various Global Agendas/Future Councils of the World Economic Forum (WEF) since 2012, and is a co-chair of the ASEAN Hub of WEF’s Sustainable Development Investment Partnership. He started his career in 1991 in teaching and research, with a teaching position at McMaster University, Canada, where he also got a Ph.D, before becoming a Research Fellow on Industry at University of St. Andrews in United Kingdom and a Rockefeller Fellow at Yale University Economic Growth Center.Mr. Subramaniam speaks to Amelie about ADB’s development initiatives within ASEAN, namely ADB’s commitment toward climate financing, and their new operational plan toward poverty reduction and economic growth, entitled ‘Strategy 2030’.Graphic by Sam Tran. Support the show