HFCs Lifecycle Management Workshop under Q-CHAMP
Speakers Biographies
Ono Hiroshi
Vice-Minister for Global Environmental Affairs,
Ministry of the Environment, JapanMr. ONO Hiroshi has served as Vice-Minister for GlobalEnvironmental Affairs since July 2022. He is in charge of
MOEJ’sinternationalaffairs,including
globalenvironmental conservation. He represents MOEJ ininternational dialogues and negotiations.
Before becoming the Vice-Minister, he held prominent
positions during his 35 years in MOE Japan as DirectorGeneral of Global Environment Bureau, DirectorGeneral of Environmental Management Bureau andothers. He has attended various international meetings
representing Japan for environment, climate change,
including G7, G20, and COP. He obtained master’s
degree from the Graduate School of Engineering of theUniversity of Tokyo in 1987.
Gabrielle Dreyfus, Member of the CCAC Scientific
Advisory Panel, Climate and Clean Air Coalition(CCAC)
Gabrielle Dreyfus is chief scientist at the Institute forGovernance & Sustainable Development (IGSD),
Washington, DC and Paris, and an adjunct professor at
Georgetown University. She joined IGSD in 2017 after
nearly a decade of working at the science and policy
interface with the US Department of Energy, rising todeputy director for the Office of International Climate andClean Energy, and previously with the National Oceanicand Atmospheric Administration, and US Senate. Inaddition to dozens of scientific and technicalpublications, Dr. Dreyfus worked as the leadcoordinating author on a synthesis report by theInternational Energy Agency and United Nations
Environment Programme on the intersection of energy
efficiency and the phasedown of hydrofluorocarbons inthe cooling sector. Dr. Dreyfus joined the Scientific
Advisory Panel of the Climate and Clean Air Coalition in2022 and served as a member of the NationalAcademies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Committee on Development of a Framework forEvaluating Global Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Information for Decision Making. She is also a memberof the Montreal Protocol’s Technology and Economic
Assessment Panel Foams Technical Options Committeeand Energy Efficiency Task Force. She was a memberof the technical review committee of the Global CoolingPrize. She also contributed to the design andimplementation of the $50 million Kigali Cooling
Efficiency Program (now Clean Cooling Collaborative); aphilanthropic collaboration housed at the Climate Works
Foundation. She was a 2021 Honoree of Environment
Energy Leader 100. Dr. Dreyfus holds a B.A. in Earthand Planetary Sciences from Harvard University, and amasters and Ph.D. from Princeton University andSorbonne Université in Geosciences.
Osawa Yurie
Deputy Director, Office of Fluorocarbons Control
Policy, Global Environment Bureau of Japanese
Ministry of the Environment, Japan
Yurie Osawa is a Deputy Director of the Office ofFluorocarbons Control Policy at the Global Environment
Bureau of Japanese Ministry of the Environment(MOEJ). She has worked for MOEJ since 2012.
Currently, Yurie has overseen the implementation ofdomestic regulations on Ozone Depleting Substances(ODSs) and Hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) from the lastyear. She also took an active role on forming the updated
target of HFCs emissions under the new NDC.
Ms. Osawa is in charge of international cooperation
programs and activities under the MOEJ-led Initiative on
Fluorocarbons Life Cycle Management (IFL). Believed in
the power of dialogues and collaborative actions she has
managed to work with stakeholders from diverse
backgrounds to advance countermeasures on HFCs indeveloping countries.
Yurie has a Master of Public Health from the Universityof Washington, U.S.A and a Master of Public Policy fromthe University of Tokyo.
Nameeta Prasad,
Joint Secretary,
Ministry of Environment, Forest & Climate Change,
India
Nameeta Prasad is currently overseeing environment
related issues in the government of India, relating tobiodiversity, Himalayan region, carbon markets andenvironment policy and laws.
With over 20 years’ experience in the field of policy aswell as audit of environment related programs andissues, she brings her passion about conservation toinform her work. Her interests largely relate to how
science can inform policy making to make policies morerelevant as well as more relevant to stake holders as wellas drive conservation and stewardship of our naturalresources.
Nameeta Prasad is a Fulbright scholar with masters inEnvironment sciences from the University ofWashington. She also holds a diploma in environment
law as well as a master’s degree in psychology.

David Higgins
Department of Climate Change,Environment and Water, Australia

Energy,theDavid is the Assistant Secretary, International Net Zero
Branch in the Australian Government’s Department ofClimate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water
and is Australia’s Head of Delegation in the G20’s
climate and energy transitions tracks.
David has a wealth of public sector experience ininternational and multilateral affairs, with over 20 years’
experience in the Public Service. His posts haveincluded economic and finance policy matters in theAustralian Treasury, Department of Industry, and theDepartment of Foreign Affairs, where he serviced as anAustralian Diplomat at the European Union, and inrecent years as a leading policy export in international
climate change negotiations.
In 2018, David served as Advisor to the Executive
Director at the World Bank where he played a key role inbrokering a realignment in shareholding, which wasintegral to a AUD13 billion increase in available capital.
He was instrumental in securing agreement toAustralia’s pledge to the Green Climate Fund (GCF) in2014 and ran the successful campaign to secure the CoChairmanship of the Board for Australia in 2015, at thetime leading the Department of Foreign Affairs Green
Climate Fund Taskforce.
Prior to his work on the GCF, David led the Departmentof Foreign Affairs’ development finance team and led thenegotiation of the UN Financing for Development
process that underpinned the Sustainable Development
Goals. While working the then Department of Climate
Change and Energy Efficiency, David led teams
responsible for the formulation of Australia’sinternational climate finance policy and its prosecution in
the UNFCCC and other fora, and also served as
Australia’s lead climate finance negotiator. David has an
academic background in science and law.

Monica Medina
Assistant Secretary
Bureau of Oceans and International Environmental
and Scientific Affairs
Previously, Assistant Secretary Medina was an adjunctprofessor at Georgetown University’s School of ForeignService. She was also a Senior Associate on theStephenson Ocean Security Project at the Center for
Strategic and International Studies, and Co-Founder andPublisher of Our Daily Planet, an e-newsletter on
conservation and the environment.
A former Principal Deputy Under Secretary ofCommerce for Oceans and Atmosphere, she served as
General Counsel of the National Oceanic andAtmospheric Administration (NOAA), and Special
Assistant to the Secretary of Defense. Earlier in hercareer, Assistant Secretary Medina served as the SeniorCounsel to former Senator Max Baucus on the Senate
Environment and Public Works Committee, as theSenior Director for Ocean Policy at the National
Geographic Society, as the ocean lead at the Walton
Family Foundation, and in senior roles in otherenvironmental organizations.
She attended college on an Army R.O.T.C. scholarshipand began her career on active duty in the Army GeneralCounsel’s Office. She received the Department ofDefense Medal for Distinguished Public Service and theArmy Meritorious Service Medal. She has a Bachelor’s
degree from Georgetown University and a J.D. fromColumbia Law School.
Woochong Um
Managing Director General,
Asian Development Bank (ADB)
Mr. Um is ADB’s Managing Director General. He
assumed the position on 22 February 2021. Mr. Um
reports to the ADB President and is responsible forsupporting bank-wide coherence on key initiatives andissues. He provides oversight to ADB’s Department ofCommunications, the Office of Professional Conduct,
and the Office of the Ombudsperson. Mr. Um joined ADBin 1993. He served most recently as Director Generaland concurrently Chief Compliance Officer of ADB’s
Sustainable Development and Climate Change
Department, leading knowledge management andinnovation work in all thematic and sector operationalareas. He served as ADB Secretary from 2014 to 2018.
Prior to joining ADB, he worked for Pfizer Inc. in New
York and Pitney Bowes Inc. in Stamford, Connecticut,
United States. Mr. Um holds an MBA from New York
University Stern School of Business and a Bachelor ofComputer Science degree from Boston College.

Kato Makoto,
Board Member,
Overseas Environmental Cooperation Center, Japan
Makoto Kato is a member of the Board of Directors andGeneral Manager of the Overseas Environmental
Cooperation Center, Japan (OECC). He has been
engaged in technical cooperation with developing
countries on climate change around 20 years. His work
includes supporting planning and implementation ofclimate change mitigation, market mechanism, andtransparency and private sector engagement.
Recently he has increased his engagement in promoting
life cycle management of fluorocarbons in developing
countries through the IFL. The development of domestic
policy measures and institutional designs for GHGs andODSs control are his major focus. He expects theseefforts will contribute to the achievement of the Paris
Agreement and the Kigali Amendment.
He studied international law at the Graduate School ofInternational Cooperation Studies, Kobe University. He
also enjoys working with his students as a visiting
lecturer at the Graduate School of Media andGovernance of Keio University at Shonan-Fujisawa
Campus.