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Nithi Nesadurai is the Director and Regional Coordinator of Climate Action Network Southeast Asia (CANSEA) and the President of Environmental Protection Society Malaysia (EPSM). Nithi leads CANSEA’s involvement in a global consortium currently implementing Just Energy Transition in a coal mining region in Indonesia. He also manages ongoing projects on Influencing Just Energy Transition in Indonesia, Malaysia, and the Philippines.
Since 2021, Nithi has represented CANSEA in co-hosting the Just Transition Forum Asia (JTFA), co-organized annually with Friedrich Ebert Stiftung. As EPSM President, Nithi led the introduction of two sustainability instruments in Malaysia –Ecological Footprint Analysis in 2007 in Malaysia, to launch the society’s Sustainable Living in Malaysia programme, and Local Agenda 21 in 1997. Nithi is an elected Civil Society Observer to the Climate Investment Funds (CIF) since 2021. He also serves as an Advisor to CIF’s Evaluation & Learning Initiative. He is also a member of Oxfam’s Asia Leadership Forum.