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To make an impact on people’s lives and the planet by contributing to sustainable urban
development and climate action, and by taking on mentorship roles to students and emerging local
champions in the field of sustainability.
Summary of Experience
Marvin, 26, serves as the City Adviser for Quezon City, Philippines for C40 Cities Climate Leadership
Group. He manages the delivery of the city’s Climate Action Planning (CAP) programme ahead of
Deadline2020, C40’s flaship program covering five Southeast Asian megacities (e.g. Jakarta, Kuala
Lumpur, Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh, Quezon City). He was previously affiliated with the International
City/County Management Association (ICMA), where he served as City Program Coordinator for
“Strengthening Urban Resilience for Growth with Equity (SURGE)”, the flagship project of USAID’s
Cities Development Initiative in the Philippines. Before that he was part of ICLEI Southeast Asia,
where he managed a portfolio of urban projects on low carbon development, sustainable energy and
urban research. He served as ICLEI Country Liaison Officer (PHL) for the “Ambitious City Promises”,
an international project supporting nine large cities in Indonesia, the Philippines and Viet Nam (e.g.
Jakarta, Pasig, Hanoi) to establish ambitious climate targets and actions. He also led in developing
the Philippine ‘National Climate Change Mitigation Framework Strategy’ and the UNDP-GEF project
“Supporting Cities to Achieve Low Emission Urban Pathways (SCALEUP)”.
Marvin holds a Master's degree in Political Science major in Global Politics and Bachelor’s degree in
Economics-Honors and Political Science from Ateneo de Manila University, and served as lecturer at
the Department of Economics at Ateneo de Manila University. He was a recipient of the Erasmus
Mundus Master’s Mobility with Asia at the University of Warsaw (Poland) and the Joint Master’s
Research Mobility of the ASEAN University Network and Kyoto University Graduate School of
Energy Sciences (Japan).
o C40 City Inventory Reporting and Philippines, Indonesia, Thailand, Viet Nam,
Information System (CIRIS) and ICLEI Malaysia, Japan, South Korea, Pakistan,
ClearPath Software for completing cities’ Germany, Poland
GHG Inventory
o Global Protocol for Community-Scale Worked/collaborated with
Greenhouse Gas Emission Inventories (by
WRI, C40 and ICLEI) Philippines: Quezon City, Pasig, Marikina,
o Conducting Vulnerability Assessment Parañaque, Puerto Princesa, Baguio,
o GreenClimateCities (GCC) Toolkit for Low Zamboanga City; Malaysia: Melaka City;
Carbon Planning Pakistan: Karachi Metropolitan Corporation;
o Stata: Data Analysis and Statistical Japan: Kyoto City; South Korea: Seoul
Software
o ‘Building Blocks for a Sustainable Major accomplishments
Transition towards 100% Renewable
Energy’ toolkit by the World Future Council o Developing ‘National Climate Change
o C40 Pathways Low Carbon Scenario Mitigation Framework Strategy & Mitigation
Modeling Tool Goal (provisional)’ for the Philippines
o Developing Global Environmental Facility
Full-Size Project on ‘Sustainable Cities in the
Philippines’
EDUCATION
As Project Officer for ICLEI Southeast Asia, I managed a portfolio of urban projects on
low carbon development, sustainable energy and urban research, and worked directly
with more than ten cities across Asia.
Jul 2018 Project Development Officer for the Green Climate Fund Readiness
Program (Philippines), United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
▪ Provided technical and coordination backstop to the Philippines GCFRP and
various national agencies in preparing a medium-size climate change adaptation
funding proposal (between US$ 50 million - US$ 100 million) titled “Strengthening
the Resilience of the Most Vulnerable Coastal Communities to Climate Change in
the Philippines’ Eastern Seaboard”
▪ A global partnership programme by the United Nations Environment (UNEP),
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the World Resources
Institute (WRI), the Green Climate Fund Readiness Programme builds
developing countries' capacity to access the Green Climate Fund.
Feb 2018 to Short-Term Consultant, M&E for Knowledge & Capacity Development
May 2018 for the National Climate Change Action Plan (Philippines), GIZ GmbH
▪ Joined a team of five technical staff from the GIZ GmbH and Climate Change
Commission to facilitate the evaluation and updating of the Knowledge &
Capacity Development component of the National Climate Change Action Plan
▪ Collected and analyzed extensive climate data from various government
agencies, and prepared report on accomplishments, gaps, synergies, and
recommendations for various indicators (i.e. gender and development,
knowledge and extension services, capacity building, etc)
▪ This consultancy was supported by GIZ through the Support to the Climate
Change Commission (CCC) program ‘Shaping and Implementing International
Climate Regime-Phase II’
OTHER
INTERESTS
▪ In my spare time, I enjoy crossfit, boxing, hiking, surfing, going on local food trips, and
traveling.
KEY SPEAKING
ENGAGEMENTS
Apr 3 2018 Speaker, “The Economics of Renewable Energy: Co-benefits, Challenges and
Opportunities towards Sustainable and Inclusive Development” at the EcoForum
2018 at Ateneo de Manila University, Philippines
Feb 12 2018 Speaker, “Making Cities Resilient to Climate Change: Engagements and Lessons
from Indonesian and Philippine Cities” at the ‘Data and Innovation’ WUF9 event by
ICLEI, UNDP and UNICEF at the World Urban Forum 9, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Oct 13 2017 Speaker, “The Economics of Climate Change”, Ateneo Global Climate Change
Week 2017 at Ateneo de Manila University, Philippines
Sep 7-9 2017 Speaker, “Achieving Sustainable Cities and Communities through Low Emission
Resilient Urban Development” at the 2017 Urban Environmental Accords (UEA)
Summit in Alor Gajah City, Melaka State, Malaysia
Sep 5-6 2017 Speaker, “Building Resilient Cities through the ICLEI-ACCCRN Process: Insights
from Indonesian and Philippine Cities” at the Asian Development Bank (ADB)
Green Cities Conference in Melaka City, Malaysia
Aug 3-4 2017 Resource Speaker and Facilitator, “GreenClimateCities: A Framework towards
Low Emission Urban Development” and “Navigating through ClearPath:
Computing, Completing and Analyzing Greenhouse Gas Inventories for Cities”.
One Planet City Challenge (OPCC) Training-Workshop in Karachi, Pakistan
Jul 15 2017 Judge, Most Outstanding Economic Research Paper Competition for the Young
Economists Convention at the De La Salle University, Philippines
Apr 1 2017 Speaker, “Building a Sustainable Urban Future” and Judge, “Interdisciplinary
Project Pitch”, Science and Society Summit at Ateneo de Manila University,
Philippines
Mar 6-8 2016 Speaker, “Low Carbon Initiatives in Southeast Asian Cities” at the Asia Climate
Change Consortium (ACCC) Regional Workshop in Phintsanulok, Thailand
Feb 6-8 2016 Speaker, “Gender and Low Carbon Urban Development for a Sustainable Asia” at
the Science-Policy Dialogue on Low Carbon Development by the Asia Pacific
Network, LoCARNet, and the AIT at the Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand
Dec 3-5 2016 Resource Speaker and Facilitator, “Tools for Community-wide GHG Management
Inventory” at the “Compact of Mayors capacity building workshop” by ICLEI SEAS
and the Cities Development Initiatives for Asia (CDIA), Ortigas, Philippines
Jul 24 2016 Key Note Speaker, “Cities, Youth and Climate Change”, World Urban Youth
Meeting, UN-Habitat PrepCom3 in Surabaya, Indonesia
May 2015 Presenter, “Governing Energy Transitions in Cities: A Comparative Case Study of
Local Energy Strategies in Quezon City (Philippines) and Kyoto (Japan)” at
Ateneo Center for Asian Studies Graduate Students International Symposium at
Ateneo de Manila University, Philippines