Ali Arabnya Email & Phone Number

Washington, DC, US

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Quanta Technology is the independent consulting arm of Quanta Services (NYSE: PWR), a member of the S&P 500 and the largest specialty engineering construction company in North America, serving energy companies and communication utilities around the world.

• Advised university leadership on energy transition, campus climate neutrality, and strategic planning.
• Published two books and over 20 papers on energy economics and climate mitigation & adaptation in energy systems.
• Led development of research programs on climate resilience, quantum computing, and transactive energy.
• Served as the PI in federal and state-funded research projects and as co-advisor to postdoctoral and PhD students in Electrical & Computer Engineering Department.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

• Climate Risk & Sustainable Finance:
• Led a strategic project on policy advice development and analytics for macroeconomic & socioeconomic impacts of climate change in eight countries in Europe & Central Asia region.
• Led a climate risk & resilience financing engagement for energy sector of a country in Southeast Asia region
• Led a climate risk & resilience financing engagement for water sector of a country in South Asia region
• Led a climate risk & resilience financing engagement for transportation sector of Small Island Developing States
• Liaised with diverse stakeholder groups, including government officials, international organization representatives, think tanks, and private sector executives on various climate risk financing projects across the globe

New York, New York, United States

• Quantitative Finance & Risk Management:
• Led a financial stress testing and capital planning engagement for a top-tier U.S. investment bank
• Led a credit risk, counterpart risk, and market risk model development engagement for a top U.S. bank
• Audited an interest rate and market risk model, and assessed effectiveness of controls for a federal U.S. loan agency
• Advised the executives of a U.S. financial regulator in phasing out over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives regulations for 10 global banks
• Led the validation of stressed Value-at-Risk (VaR) models for mortgage-backed securities (MBS) portfolios of a top Swiss financial services company

New York, New York, United States

New York, New York, United States

Houston, Texas, United States

• Climate Resilience & Energy Infrastructure:
• Developed five novel techniques in climate risk modeling and resilience enhancement in energy infrastructure asset management
• Published over 15 peer-reviewed articles in climate risk and energy infrastructure resilience in flagship journals and conference proceedings
• Advised two Fortune 500 companies on climate risk and resilience enhancement strategies for energy infrastructure
• Co-founded the 1st Industrial Engineering Research Conference & Expo at University of Houston
• Served as the President of the Institute for Operations Research & Management Sciences (INFORMS) at University of Houston

• Strategic Planning & Operations Management:
• Managed a team of 40+ engineers, accountants, sales & marketing, quality control, and inventory management staff
• Advised the CEO on strategic planning, enterprise risk management, logistics, and human resource development
• Improved performance metrics including 22% in productivity, 15% in sales, and 8% in inventory management cost

• Capital Projects & International Investments:
• Liaised various multi-stakeholder public-private partnerships (PPP) to attract domestic and foreign direct investment (FDI) in capital projects for International North–South Transport Corridor (INSTC)
• Analyzed investment proposals, and conducted various feasibility studies for capital projects in energy & infrastructure sectors for development of INSTC in Chabahar Port