Wini Rizkiningayu serves as Southeast Asia regional director at RMI, focusing on driving a low-carbon future and energy transition in the region. With 18 years of experience, she builds partnerships and develops innovative solutions tailored to Southeast Asia’s unique energy challenges. Collaborating with stakeholders like energy departments, central banks, private utilities, and NGOs, Wini and her team aim to redefine energy as a means for resilience, better livelihoods, and environmental stewardship.

Her career reflects the energy transition from fossil fuels to clean energy. She began as a field engineer on drilling rigs, becoming a petrophysicist, and later led Asia Pacific business development for a geoscience tech company. A decade in oil and gas has solidified her commitment to systemic change in the energy sector. After shifting to renewable energy, her works include facilitating geothermal and renewable energy trade missions and strategic initiatives between Indonesia and New Zealand at the New Zealand Trade Enterprise, conducting research on energy transition and technical education readiness at Oxford Martin School, and serving as a field strategist fellow on green jobs and energy transition with Schmidt Futures. Her work has driven her to work for just energy transition – where people and social equitability should be the heart of energy transition.

A Chevening Fellow, Wini holds a master’s in public policy from the University of Oxford and a BSc in electronics and instrument science from Universitas Gadjah Mada, Indonesia. In addition to her professional pursuits, she actively mentors and advises youth policy initiatives and social impact organisations in Indonesia.