Amit Bando

Amit Bando, Executive Director of the International Partnership for Energy Efficiency Cooperation

Amit Bando is Executive Director of the International Partnership for Energy Efficiency Cooperation Secretariat.^[1][2]

During his career as a policy scientist at the United States Department of Energy and an international consultant, Bando has worked in over 60 nations to promote innovative financing^[3] of clean energy initiatives and climate change mitigation/adaptation options.^[4] In the past five years alone, he has programmed over $1.5 billion worldwide. In addition, he has helped establish the Chicago Climate Exchange, led the development of the US National Energy Modeling System (NEMS)^[5] and represented the USA at the Rio Earth Summit as well as at other ministerial forum on energy efficiency,^[6] climate change and the environment. He has developed several widely used monitoring and evaluation tools for low-carbon initiatives.^[7]

As an entrepreneur, Bando has founded an international management advisory firm,^[8][9]currently operating with a $50 million (annual) portfolio of projects ^[10] in urban infrastructure development, institutional reform,^[11] governance, micro-finance, and environmental project implementation. In the USA, his pioneering efforts have provided greater access to clean technology alternatives among minority populations.^[12] In addition, he has founded the Center for Econometric Modeling and Forecasting (CEMAF) -- a for-profit research institution working on US-Mexico border issues.^[13]

Bando has published^[14][15][16] on the economic evaluation of environmental impacts and presented numerous workshops^{[17][18][19][20][21][22]} on investment finance^[23] and environmental management^[24] has helped private sector entities understand development-financing issues and has designed/implemented training programs^[25] for agencies such as the ADB,^[26][27] World Bank, USAID,^[28][29] NASA,^[30] USEPA and the USDOE.^[31] Working with legal experts, Bando often testifies on the economic implications of regulations on energy and the environment.^[32][33]

Earlier in his career, Bando taught at the Universities of Chicago, Minnesota and Illinois, and New Mexico State University. He completed his graduate and post-graduate studies in Economics and Statistics at the University of Minnesota, Delhi School of Economics and St. Stephen's College, Delhi. Currently based in Paris,^[34] he has lived and worked in India, USA and Kenya.^{[citation needed]}

References

1. ^ www.ipeec.org
2. ^ sites.google.com/site/emakbiz/home/emak-attendees-washington
3. ^ www.igem.com.my/2011
4. ^ ebookbrowse.com/american-carbon-registry-pdf-d70768549
5. ^ www.usdoe.gov
6. ^ www.cleanenergyministerial.org
7. ^ www.osti.gov/bridge/servlets/purl/5140711-s79j6D
8. ^ www.amitbando.com
9. ^ www.linkedin.com/in/amitbando
10. ^ wbcarbonfinance.org/router.cfm?page=complist&itemid=24699&sp
11. ^ www.uncfsp.org/projects/.../Health_Disparities_Conferenc_10-10-2008.pdf
12. ^ ase.org/.../ee-global-final-executive-dialogue-sessions-round-out-ee-education
13. ^ www.nmsu.edu
14. ^ www.gbv.de/dms/tib-ub-hannover/183798783.pdf
15. ^ lnadbg4.asiandevbank.org/oes0019p.nsf/.../$FILE/209ATP.PDF
16. ^ www.ieadsm.org/Files/AdminUpload/Issue%2041%20June%202011.pdf
17. ^ www.docstoc.com/docs/.../PRESENTERS-_-MODERATORS-WHOS-WHO
18. ^ www.energimyndigheten.se/Global/.../EU/Draft_Agenda_M48_110217.pdf
19. ^ africacarbonforum.com/.../Conference%20Program_Final_June%2029.pdf
20. ^ igov.berkeley.edu/.../atlantic-bloomsday-energy-efficiency-conference
21. ^ www.ief.org/.../Agenda%20IEF%20Symposium%20on%20EE%20in%20Developing%20C
22. ^ www.iea-4e.org/files/otherfiles/0000/0091/Conference_Who_s_Who.pdf
23. ^ www.renewableenergyworld.com/.../meet-leading-industry-experts-at-wind-power-turkey-20-21-september
24. ^ http://www.undp.org.tr/Gozlem2.aspx?WebSayfaNo=2384e
25. ^ www.iea.org/work/2011/sbn_april/bando.pdf
26. ^ lnadbg4.asiandevbank.org/oes0019p.nsf/pages/209ATP1
27. ^ www.adb.org/Documents/Integrity/ADB-AFG-Audit.../AnnexuresI-VI.pdf
28. ^ www.sari-energy.org/.../RCL_Annual_Meeting_Agenda_12_Jan_2011c.pdf
29. ^ pdf.usaid.gov/pdf_docs/PDABP440.pdf
30. ^ www.uncfsp.org
31. ^ www.bepress.com/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1003&context=peps
32. ^ www.adb.org/documents/events.2011
33. ^ www.iea.org/work/2011/bloomsday/Session4_bando.pdf
34. ^ www.ipeec.org

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