Philip LaRocco | Committee Chairperson
Founder of E+Co - Energy investment NPO operating in Sub-Saharan Africa, Central America and Southeast Asia | Sustainability Management lecturer - Columbia University | Author of Money Management for Energy Enterprises
Philip (Phil) LaRocco has over thirty years of experience at the intersection of the public and private sectors, leveraging public purposes and private sector initiative, blending financial, economic, social and environmental returns. In 1994 he founded a pioneering not-for-profit energy investment company E+Co, operating in Sub-Saharan Africa, Central America, and Southeast Asia. He served as E+Co’s CEO until 2009, directing investment in over 150 energy enterprises in more than twenty companies, building relationships between big institutions (e.g. Rockefeller Foundation, UN Environmental Programme, European Development Finance and Development organizations, U.S. AID, World Bank Group and International Finance Corporation), and more than 150 small and medium-sized energy enterprises (e.g. SELCO-India, Toyola-Ghana and La Esperanza-Honduras). He is the author of Money Management for Energy Enterprises, preparing a Toolkit for Energy Entrepreneurs for UNEP and the UN Foundation, authoring an online training and coaching program for energy entrepreneurs. He is a Sustainability Management lecturer at SIPA, Columbia University.

Philip LaRocco

Committee Chairperson

  • Founder of E+Co - Energy investment NPO operating in Sub-Saharan Africa, Central America and Southeast Asia
  • Sustainability Management lecturer - Columbia University
  • Author of Money Management for Energy Enterprises

Caroline Ochieng

Committee Member

  • PhD in Public Health and Policy - University of London, UK
  • MSc in Sustainable Finance - Frankfurt School of Finance & Management
  • BA in Environmental Studies - Kenyatta University, Kenya.