Sustainable and Efficient Cooling for a Warming Planet: Challenges,Opportunities and Solutions
Speakers Biographies
H.E. Mr. Yutaka Shoda, Vice-Minister for Global Environmental Affairs,
Ministry of the Environment, Japan
Yutaka Shoda has served as Vice-Minister for Global Environmental
Affairs since July 2021. He is in charge of MOEJ’s international affairs,
including global environmental conservation. He represents MOEJ ininternational dialogues and negotiations.
Prior to his current position, he served as Deputy Vice-Minister from July
2019, overseeing budgets and personnel affairs at MOEJ. From 2018 to2019, Mr. Shoda served as Director-General of the Nature Conservation
Bureau after having served as its Deputy Director-General. He also served
as Director of the Budget and Accounting Division, Minister’s Secretariat
from 2014; and Director of the Policy Planning Division, Global
Environment Bureau from 2012.
He started his career in 1986 at the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure,Transport and Tourism, formerly known as the Ministry of Construction.
His career covers a wide range of policy fields, including environment,roads, housing, fisheries, and water administration.
He graduated from the University of Tokyo, Faculty of Law in 1986.
Inger Andersen, Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations,Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme
Inger Andersen is Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations andExecutive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme,
headquartered in Nairobi, Kenya. Between 2015 and 2019, Ms. Andersen
was the Director-General of the International Union for Conservation ofNature (IUCN).
Ms. Andersen has more than 30 years of experience in international
development economics, environmental sustainability, strategy andoperations. She has led work on a range of issues including agriculture,environmental management, biodiversity conservation, climate change,infrastructure, energy, transport, and water resources management andhydro-diplomacy. Between 1999 and 2014, Ms. Andersen held several
leadership positions at the World Bank including Vice President of theMiddle East and North Africa; Vice President for Sustainable
Development and Head of the CGIAR Fund Council.

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Yurie Osawa, Ministry of the Environment, Japan
Yurie Osawa is a Deputy Director of the Office of Fluorocarbons Control
Policy at the Global Environment Bureau of Japanese Ministry of theEnvironment (MOEJ). She has worked for MOEJ since 2012.
Currently, Yurie has overseen the implementation of domestic regulations
on Ozone Depleting Substances (ODSs) and Hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs)
from the last year. 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 andactivities 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 in developingcountries.
Yurie has a Master of Public Health from the University of Washington,
U.S.A and a Master of Public Policy from the University of Tokyo.
Makoto Kato, Overseas Environmental Cooperation Center, Japan
Makoto Kato is a member of the Board of Directors and General Managerof 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 planningand implementation of climate change mitigation, market mechanism,and transparency and private sector engagement.
Recently he has increased his engagement in life cycle management offluorocarbons in developing countries through the IFL. The developmentof domestic policy measures and institutional designs for GHGs andODSs control are his major focus. He expects these efforts will contributeto the achievement of the Paris Agreement and the Kigali Amendment.
He obtained a Master of Laws in international law at the Graduate Schoolof International Cooperation Studies, Kobe University. He also enjoys
working with his students as a visiting lecturer at the Graduate School ofMedia and Governance of Keio University at Shonan-Fujisawa Campus.
Luong Quang Huy, Head, Climate Change Mitigation Division,Department of Climate Change, Ministry of Natural Resources andEnvironment, Viet Nam
Currently he is holding the position of Director of GHG emission reductionand ozone layer protection, Department of Climate Change, Ministry of
Natural Resources and Environment, Viet Nam.
His career is built upon research, development, and educational projects
he involved at national and international levels. He has experienced bothacademic and managerial positions in numerous projects in the lasttwenty years. He would like to focus his future career in working withnational and local governments towards a more sustainable future.
He obtained Ph.D. and MSc in development and environmental sciencesat the School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia, UnitedKingdom.

2Faustin Munyazikwiye, Deputy Director General, Rwanda Environment
Management Authority, Ministry of Environment, Rwanda
Munyazikwiye Faustin is Deputy Director General (DDG) of Rwanda
Environment Management Authority (REMA) since November 2017 up tonow. He is the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change(UNFCCC) National focal point for Rwanda and Coordinates Green
Climate Fund (GCF) NDA secretariat, Global Environment Facility (GEF)
operation FP office, Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) on Carbon
market DNA office for Rwanda and Climate Technology Center andNetwork (CTCN) NDE for Rwanda.
Previously, Faustin has held a wide range of technical and senior
management positions and responsibilities in the field of environmentand climate change including 5 years as Director of climate change andinternational obligations Unit.
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Eleni Myrivili, Senior Advisor for the Arsht-Rockefeller Resilience
Center of the Atlantic Council, City of Athens Chief Heat Officer
Eleni Myrivili is senior advisor for resilience and sustainability to the Cityof Athens. A tenured professor with executive experience in local
government, she is an expert on urban resilience and climate adaptation,national borders and cultural theory.
Elected to city government (2014-2019) she served as Athens’ Deputy
Mayor for Urban Nature and Climate Resilience pioneering multimillioneuro programs in equitable blue and green infrastructure development.
Overseeing a staff of 400, she introduced a clear vision for Climate
Adaptation and Urban Ecology, driving collaborative design and digitalsolutions that also protected the city’s most vulnerable populations. Her
work on heat resilience established Athens’ leadership in international
urban climate change responses.
In 2015, she was appointed the city’s Chief Resilience Officer andlaunched in 2017 the Athens Resilience Strategy for 2030 as part of theRockefeller Foundation’s 100 Resilient Cities initiative. She establishedthe first office of Resilience and Sustainability in the city, embedding
resilient methodologies, influencing strategic planning, and building
capacity within the city’s administration.
Kevin Fay, Executive Director, Alliance for Responsible AtmosphericPolicy
Kevin Fay is recognized as a successful businessman, community leader,and as one of the foremost global environmental policy advocates overthe last three decades. He currently serves as Executive Director of theGlobal Food Cold Chain Council.
He is also Executive Director of the Alliance for Responsible AtmosphericPolicy, where he provides critical industry leadership and perspective on
the negotiation and implementation of the Montreal Protocol on
Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer and the United States Clean Air
Act. The Alliance was the leading industry voice in support of thesuccessful negotiation in October 2016 of the Kigali Amendment toaddress HFCs under the Protocol.

3Also, as Executive Director of the Business Institute for Sustainability,
formerly known as the International Climate Change Partnership (ICCP),
Fay serves as one of the most visible policy voices in the global effort toaddress the climate change issue. An advisor to significant Fortune 100
industries, he is frequently consulted by governments, industry,nongovernmental organizations, and media representatives on the global
climate change policy process. Fay also is active in and around hiscommunity. He is the Vice Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of
Alcalde & Fay, in Arlington, Virginia, a public and government affairs firmin the Washington, D.C. area.
Sophie Bordat, COP26 Climate Champion’s Cooling Transformation
Lead (event moderator)
Sophie works at the cutting edge of multiple large-scale sector andmarket transformation initiatives around the world and is COP26 Climate
Champion’s Cooling Transformation Lead. She has played a key role inthe delivery of the Carbon Trust’s net zero cooling and energy accesswork over the last three years. Sophie was the lead analyst on the Carbon
Trust’s thought leadership report on net zero cold chains for food and on
developing the Cooling Climate Action Pathway to Net Zero incollaboration with the COP26 High Level Champions, the Kigali Cooling
Efficiency Program, Cool Coalition and Oxford University.
As part of her COP26 Climate Champions role she engages with coolingmanufacturers to help them join the Race to Zero. Sophie’s work includes
extensive international stakeholder engagement and analysis working
with colleagues across the Carbon Trust’s UK, South African, and Mexico
teams as well as conducting desk-based research and quantitative
analysis for innovative projects such as financing the blue economy inSouthern Africa.
Sophie holds a master’s from the University College London in
Environment and Sustainable Development where she gained expertise indevelopment and environmental planning and participated in fieldresearch in informal settlements in Freetown, Sierra Leone.

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