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Lawrence is a seasoned ESG advisor and energy transition expert, who brings over fifteen years’ experience at the nexus of finance and Asia’s energy transition. Lawrence leads Climate Smart Ventures, a transaction advisory firm specializing in harnessing the full spectrum of financing to deliver capital market-driven solutions that retire fossil fuel-fired plants and replace them with renewables in the context of rapidly growing South and Southeast Asia. Prior to this role, he has served as a Senior Advisor for a range of Fortune 500 companies, family offices, and development projects in Asia and Africa cutting across themes such as clean energy, fisheries, innovative financing, SME development, and digital inclusion. To date, Lawrence has the unique achievement of having led transactions that have resulted in fossil fuel divestments, blended finance facilities, and award-winning partnerships, that have altogether unlocked over USD 100M in sustainable investments. Lawrence was Director for Asia for a frontier markets consulting firm, and senior manager at a leading global renewable energy company. He was a member of the Philippine Delegation to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and Convention on Biological Diversity (UNCBD) from 2009-2012 negotiating on issues related to financing, and climate change mitigation.

Lawrence completed his EMBA from the Asian Institute of Management, and has diplomas on Behavioral Finance from Yale University, and Experimental Design for Business Innovation from the Stockholm School of Economics. He finished his undergraduate studies with a specialization in natural resources management from the Australian National University.