Our Team

Tatia is part of the Energy Access team, with a focus on integrating mini grids and off-grid solar into electrification programs. Previously, Tatia spent nearly six years in the World Bank’s Africa region, working on mainstreaming grid-based, mini grid, and off-grid energy access solutions into lending projects in Sub-Saharan Africa, promoting regional power integration in West Africa, and supporting the energy efficiency agenda in Energy and Extractives Global Practice. Before joining the World Bank, Tatia worked with Sidar Global Advisors, where she oversaw research and business intelligence in the energy and infrastructure sectors for Eurasian public and private sector clients. She holds an MA International Economics, International Affairs and Energy Policy from the Johns Hopkins University Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, and an MSc in European Political Studies from the London School of Economics and Political Science.

Xiaoping joins the ESMAP Energy Transition workstream where she will focus on energy transition and climate finance. Xiaoping has worked extensively in the energy sector, including sector reforms and policy dialogue, renewable energy, energy efficiency, transmission and distribution, utility performance, energy access and regional integration. 

Most recently, she was Program Leader for infrastructure and oversaw infrastructure engagement in Ethiopia, Sudan, South Sudan and Eritrea. Xiaoping has also worked in South Asia, East Asia, Latin America, Eastern Europe, and taken field assignments in Bangkok, Kathmandu and Addis Ababa. During her first stint with ESMAP in 2012-17, she led the setup of the SE4ALL facility and its implementation as well as led the power sector resilience agenda. 

Yaejun is part of the Energy Transition team focusing on the Hydropower Development Facility with extensive experience in renewable energy and energy efficiency projects to support energy transition. Before joining ESMAP, he spent seven years at the World Bank’s Europe and Central Asia Region (ECA) Energy Group where he engaged in energy transition dialogues with governments and implementation of energy operations for Bosnia and Herzegovina, Albania, Serbia, Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova, Türkiye, and Kyrgyz Republic. 

Prior to joining the World Bank, Yaejun also worked in the private sector as an IPP developer where he facilitated private sector investments, focusing on market analysis, project acquisition feasibility studies, due diligence, financial modeling, and the technical development of renewable energy including solar, biomass, hydro, and waste-to-energy projects through non-recourse Project Financing.  Yaejun also served as a CDM project manager overseeing GHG abatement facilities and securing carbon emission reduction credits under UNFCCC. He holds MSc in Sustainable Forest Management from the Oregon State University, and BS in Environmental Material Science from the Seoul National University.