Steering Committee asia

DEFILLA Steivan, Swiss national, President Assistant of the APEC Sustainable Energy Center APSEC since 2018, oversees the APEC Cooperative Network of Sustainable Cities created by APEC Leaders in 2014. His APEC Sustainable Urban Development Report – From Models to Results has been published in 2019 as a first APEC publication of APSEC, followed in 2021 by the APEC Integrated Urban Planning Report – Combining Disaster Resilience with Sustainability and the APEC Green Finance Report – Unlocking the Urban Energy Transition, the second ever report of APEC on green finance. He co-authored and edited the APEC Urban Energy Report 2023 – Driving Cities Through the Low Carbon Transition and the Promoting Carbon Neutrality in North Sulawesi – Vision, Targets, Benchmarking and Monitoring (forthcoming). He is a Professor at the School of Architecture, Tianjin University, China, teaching a graduate course on Sustainable Urban Development in APEC under the SDGs. He is the former Director of the Energy Charter (2010-2016), an intergovernmental energy organization with 50 Member states, headquartered in Brussels. He managed the expansion of the Energy Charter to include 30 new observer states, among them China, who all signed the International Energy Charter declaration in May 2015 in an ad hoc Ministerial conference in The Hague, The Netherlands. He also supervised or co-authored 26 studies and analyses and 2 books on energy-related subjects. As Senior Energy Advisor to the Swiss Economics Minister (1999-2010), he contributed to the reform of the Swiss electricity sector, the Swiss infrastructure strategy, and the Swiss foreign energy policy. He wrote a book and co-authored 13 articles in English, German, French, and Russian languages. He also attended Governing Board meetings of the IEA and co-chaired multilateral negotiations at the Energy Charter. Steivan holds Masters degree in Statistics and a Bachelor degree in Economics from the University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland. He also holds a Postgraduate degree in Energy from the Federal Polytechnic Institute in Lausanne.

My interest in evaluation and impact measurement began after seeing clients challenged by program implementation. I started Aartha, a consulting company, to focus design, implementation, and evaluation of program investments. Our work began with Human Capital programs and is expanding to other areas.

I am a keen student in the field of evaluation. I lead Columbia University’s Venture Capital Club’s Impact Program and serve on Asia Pacific Evaluation Association committee on the regional strategy theme of measuring Sustainable Development Goals. I also represent the ROI Institute USA as their Regional Director in Asia Pacific. The ROI Methodology is used to evaluate program effectiveness and impact in many organizations globally.

I hope to contribute to making evaluation more accessible and widely applied in all sectors for all impacts. Much of our success in development and humanitarian goals depends on the ability to measure and value the outcomes we want to achieve.

On another note, I love the outdoors, nature, and hiking. I read voraciously and love to travel. Above all, I aspire to develop genuine relationships with people in all I do.

Dr. Archana Walia is a practicing development professional with over twenty-four years of core experience of working on issues across the sectors ranging from climate change; clean energy, energy efficiency, urban development, water management and integrated resource management.

She has served in several leadership position as a country director, deputy office director, senior climate change advisor and a team leader with demonstrable experience to lead teams of professionals and administrative staff, planning strategies and programs, managing the portfolio for results, planning budgets and financial management.

Serving as the Director of India program at CLASP, she provides leadership, management, and strategic direction to all program activities to ensure the efficient use of resources and achievement of results. She oversees strategies and activities for India’s participation in the Global programs such as Superefficient Appliance and Deployment program (SEAD) under the Clean Energy Ministerial as well as actively develops business development strategies.

Archana served as the deputy director of the Office of Clean Energy and Environment at USAID/India. In this capacity, she served as the senior energy and climate change advisor at USAID providing intellectual leadership, advisory and analytical inputs in the development of climate change program strategies including clean energy, sustainable landscape and water. Her experience ranges from developing program strategies and analyzing the financial, economic, institutional, technological and environmental costs and benefits of various regulatory, policy and technological changes especially relating to clean energy and energy efficiency. Prior to this, Archana worked with the Department for International Development (DFID), UK bilateral agency for over four years managing the first ever Power Sector Reform Program in India in the state of Orissa. She worked with the British Council division as Project officer for three years administering and managing projects and training program in the field of Natural Resources and Environment.

R.M. Soedjono (Jon) Respati is currently Chairman of the Indonesian Energy Efficiency and Conservation (MASKEEI). Before taking his current post at MASKEEI, Jon was a senior clean energy development and a long activist with Indonesian Renewable Energy Society (METI) in which he served twice at its Board of Directors, and in other capacities including Director of Business Development, Solar Energy Focus Group, and in organizing several national and international conferences on renewable energy on METI’s behalf. He is currently a member of METI’s Board of R.E. Business Association.

His business and professional career spans over more than four decades in which he has held senior positions at various national and international companies and organizations in Indonesia and abroad.  He began his professional career as a government civil servant in the early 1960s with the Ministry of Public Works, before moving to the Netherlands to pursue his study in Economics and Business at the Vrije University, Amsterdam. In Indonesia, he worked for an international oil company before he took up the position of CEO with a major international brewery and beverage company, and later in various senior positions with companies in the fields of Tourism Business, Power, Plantations and Renewable Energy.

He was a lecturer in Green Economy at a local University, and led the founding of the Center for Sustainability at the same university. He was also a guest lecturer at several high learning institutions and a speaker at many seminars, workshops and conferences on clean energy. He was involved in the founding of the Indonesia Renewable Energy Society in early 2000, and became a senior activist promoting Indonesia development of renewable energy in collaboration with the government. He later founded the Indonesian Energy Conservation and Efficiency in 2014 and became its first Chairman.

Jon attended a Doctoral Studies program at Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, and holds a Master’s Degree in Economics and Business.

Yoonyoung Jung specializes in evaluation and impact assessment within the sustainable development and green growth sectors. Since joining the Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI) in 2013, she has contributed to advancing evidence-based programming and organizational learning. In her current role as an Officer in the Impact and Evaluation Unit (IEU), she both leads and supports project evaluations funded by international partners, post-intervention assessments, and the production of evaluation reports, including for GGGI’s Rwanda Country Program. Her work is focused on synthesizing evidence to inform decision-making and enhance program effectiveness.
Her experience also includes co-leading the Green Growth Evidence Base initiative, which examines indirect impact pathways and contextual influences when direct outcome measurement presents challenges. Yoonyoung is particularly interested in the intersection of robust evaluation practices and the practical needs of green growth policies, recognizing that adaptive learning and continuous improvement are key to scaling climate-positive, socially inclusive results.

Currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Development Cooperation at Ewha Womans University, Seoul, Korea, Yoonyoung holds a Master’s in Criminology from Dongguk University and a Bachelor’s in Global Studies from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

I am currently an Affiliate at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), where I was involved in the evaluation of energy efficiency programs and technology performance measurement for over 36 years. I have been working with colleagues around the world in developing a community of evaluators of energy programs in Asia Pacific. As part of this effort, I have been involved in organizing workshops in Asia, as well as organizing our first conference in Asia in Bangkok in November 2017.

Evaluation is critical for improving our way of life: Developing new energy programs and policies as well as improving existing energy programs and policies, for implementing the path to sustainability.
My work and career is evaluation! My close network of colleagues are involved in evaluation, and I look forward to working with others (especially the “next generation”) in promoting evaluation.

Effective evaluation will lead to many opportunities in the private and public sectors in the design, implementation and evaluation of renewable energy and energy efficiency programs and policies.
I am interested in this area of energy evaluation because of the opportunities for improving society, and I am excited in working with new and experienced individuals and organizations in this effort. Evaluation is often misunderstood and under appreciated: I hope this community of evaluators will change that image.