Position: Section Chief, Energy Division.
Organization: ESCAP.
Country: Australia.
About: Michael Williamson is Section Chief of the Energy Division in the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP). Michael works on regional cooperation for sustainable energy across ESCAP’s 53 member countries on intergovernmental cooperation, technical assistance and knowledge building. Prior to this, Michael was the acting Director of ESCAP’s Subregional Office for South and South West Asia overseeing 10 countries of South and South West Asia. From 2015 to 2017 he was Chief of Staff and Senior Adviser to the Executive Secretary of ESCAP in Bangkok. He began his UN career in in India in 2013 as the Head of ESCAP’s Asian and Pacific Centre for Transfer of Technology.
Session: Women in Energy.