ERM Webinar: New Climate Change Aspects of Equator Principles 4 for Vietnam

Tram Le is a Senior Environmental and Social Consultant with fifteen years’ experience in environmental and social impact assessment; compensation and resettlement planning; environmental and social due diligence and environmental and social management system. She is currently leading Renewable Energy sector for ERM Vietnam. She has worked on projects funded by a number of multilateral and bilateral financing and development agencies that are signed up to the Equator Principles, International Finance Corporation/World Bank (IFC/WB) guidelines, Asian Development Bank (ADB) Safeguards, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), Environmental and Social Common Approaches. She has extensive experiences in the Environmental and Social Impact Assessment (ESIA), Environmental and Social Management System (ESMS), and Environmental and Social Management Plan (ESMP) development and implementation. She has been involved in a number of renewable energy projects, including offshore windfarms, thermal power, oil and gas, and manufacturing projects. She is also a specialist in environmental and social due diligence and management systems.

Aniket Jalgaonkar is a Principal Consultant with the Integrated Water Management & Climate Change (IWM&CC) team at ERM India. He is a multi-functional consultant working across the environmental and sustainability domains at various stages of the investment and operations life cycle. Within IWM&CC, Aniket works closely with our clients to evaluate the risks and vulnerabilities due to climate change on their assets and operations, and develop detailed adaptation and resilience plans specific to the asset. Over the years, the team has devised several tools and assessments to estimate and evaluate risk and exposure to climate change. The IWM and CC team has delivered several end-to-end solutions across the Indian sub-continent and Africa.

Oliver Behrend is a Principal Investment Officer at IFC, responsible for IFC’s infrastructure investments in Vietnam, where he focuses on the power, water and logistics sectors. Prior to his role in Vietnam, he was the Acting Global Head of IFC InfraVentures, the project development facility of IFC. Prior to IFC, Oliver developed thermal power plants for E.ON Masdar Integrated Carbon (EMIC), a joint venture E.ON (a German utility) and Masdar (the Abu Dhabi green company), focusing on the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), Sub-Saharan Africa and South-East Asia. Oliver started his career in the Royal Dutch / Shell group, where he worked on European upstream gas and oil developments and on commercial gas transactions before heading Shell Renewables in Asia. A German national, Oliver holds a Master degree in Physics from the Swiss Institute of Technology and a Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Edinburgh.

Putri Handayani is a senior consultant in Corporate Sustainability and Climate Change with 11 years of experience. She have a master degree in MSc. Climate Change, Development and Policy from Institute of Development Studies (IDS), University of Sussex, United Kingdom. She works for multiple industry sectors in Indonesia and Vietnam to conduct project delivery in environmental, social and governance (ESG) Strategy, greenhouse gas (GHG) inventory, GHG Assessment, Climate Change Risk Assessment, Energy Efficiency, Carbon Neutral Strategy and Low Carbon Market Feasibility study.