Mika Ohbayashi

May 11

Written By WRI Ross Center for Sustainable Cities

Director, Renewable Energy Institute Japan

Mika is the Director at Renewable Energy Institute since its foundation in August 2011. Before joining the Institute, Ohbayashi worked for the International Renewable Energy Agency, IRENA, based in Abu Dhabi, as Policy and Project Regional Manager for Asia Oceania. Before that, she worked at the British Embassy to Japan as Climate Change Project Advisor, and she served as Director at the Institute for Sustainable Energy Policies. She started her carrier in the energy field by joining Citizens' Nuclear Information Center in 1992, where she was in charge of energy issues and the Asian nuclear power program.

Mika was awarded the Global Leadership Award in Advancing Solar Energy Policy by the International Solar Energy Society (ISES) in 2017.

WRI Ross Center for Sustainable Cities

WRI Ross Center for Sustainable Cities is World Resources Institute’s program dedicated to shaping a future where cities work better for everyone. It enables more connected, compact and coordinated cities. The Center expands the transport and urban development expertise of the EMBARQ network to catalyze innovative solutions in other sectors, including air quality, water, buildings, land use and energy. It combines the research excellence of WRI with two decades of on-the-ground impact through a network of more than 320 experts working from Brazil, China, Colombia, Ethiopia, India, Mexico, Turkey and the United States to make cities around the world better places to live. More information at www.wrirosscities.org.

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