Architrandi (Chitra) Priambodo recently joined Asian Development Bank (ADB) in June 2021 as senior energy specialist in the Southeast Asia Department.

Chitra has 17-year experience in the clean energy sector, particularly in power sector. Her competencies cover team leadership and management of complex clean energy and climate change mitigation projects and programs in Southeast Asia, including Indonesia. Chitra has in-depth knowledge and hands-on experiences in dealing with cross cutting issues of energy projects, e.g., policy and regulatory framework, and climate change aspects including GHG accounting and carbon emission inventory. Prior joining ADB, Chitra was the Director of Castlerock Consulting Pte Ltd in Singapore for almost eleven years, where she identified consulting opportunities, led proposal writing and client negotiation, and managed technical assistance projects/programs and other consulting/advisory assignments in the energy sector and climate change issues. Before 2010, Chitra’s activities covered development of carbon credits projects under Clean Development Mechanism of Kyoto Protocol with the Asia Carbon Group in Singapore, and she used to work as short-term consultants on energy and carbon credit projects with the World Bank office in Jakarta.