Professional Experience:
I am a senior international development, energy, climate, infrastructure, and development-finance executive with several decades of experience leading country portfolios, global programs, multidisciplinary teams, policy dialogue, investment operations, institutional reform, and partnerships across emerging markets and fragile and high-risk settings.Â
During my World Bank career, I held global, regional, and country-level responsibilities and completed resident assignments in India, Afghanistan, Nigeria, and Tanzania. I served as Program Leader for Infrastructure and Sector Leader for Sustainable Development in Afghanistan; led infrastructure and energy portfolios in Nigeria and Tanzania; and served as Sector Leader for the Planet Practice Group in India. My responsibilities extended beyond energy to transport, digital development, water, agriculture, environment, climate resilience, urban development, disaster-risk management, and social inclusion. I worked closely with ministers, regulators, utilities, country management, development partners, civil society, industry, investors, and technical teams to establish priorities, resolve implementation constraints, and connect policy reform with investment.
I created and directed a global, multi-donor World Bank program supporting carbon management and industrial decarbonization for approximately fifteen years. I managed strategy, governance, budgets, procurement, staffing, donor relations, technical quality, risk, monitoring, and results reporting while overseeing work across Africa, Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and Latin America. I directed approximately US$55.8 million in program allocations and represented the program in international policy, industry, and research forums. This experience strengthened my ability to build programs from inception, mobilize resources, manage diverse stakeholders, and translate complex subjects into practical government and investment decisions.
My sector expertise covers conventional, renewable, and nuclear energy; power generation, transmission and distribution; regional electricity trade; energy efficiency; offshore wind; green hydrogen; CCUS; carbon management; industrial decarbonization; and climate mitigation and adaptation. I have supported project preparation, concessional and climate finance, guarantees, public-private partnerships, co-financing, private-capital mobilization, and collaboration among the World Bank, IFC, MIGA, governments, and other development institutions.
My broader experience includes utility and regulatory reform, tariffs, extractive-industry transparency, environmental and social safeguards, institutional capacity, public accountability, and donor coordination. I have worked in both stable and crisis-affected operating environments and have led multicultural teams of up to approximately twenty professionals.
Before joining the World Bank, I held positions with the Asian Development Bank, USAID, PA Consulting Group, a European Commission-funded regional program, and organizations supporting U.S. Department of Energy activities. I also provided consulting services to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and U.S. Department of Energy. My early career included university research and teaching, nuclear power plant engineering, and policy advisory work.
I now serve as President and CEO of NATA Consulting LLC, providing senior advisory support across international development, energy, climate, infrastructure, institutional reform, and development finance. I bring an unusual combination of executive leadership, country and portfolio management, financial and policy judgment, technical depth, cross-cultural communication, and the ability to work effectively across public, private, multilateral, and research institutions.