Michael Wong Email & Phone Number

Washington, DC, US

Washington DC

Spearheaded the global implementation of IFC’s Sustainable Cooling Initiative, a comprehensive cross-cutting program supported by the UK Government, designed to drive sustainable refrigeration and cooling solutions in emerging markets, improving energy efficiency and reducing environmental impact.Led IFC’s firm-wide decarbonization efforts, coordinating.

Washington, District Of Columbia

• Contributed to 20% climate penetration growth by serving as resource on climate metrics and coordinating teams
• Collaborated across IFC to introduce our comprehensive offer in the real estate industry, including showcasing GRIP offer with hotels and the Pillar Global Housing Platform with housing clients
• Fostered IFC’s offer in affordable housing with cross-cutting intranet site and internal and external trainings; oversaw country strategy papers; created Concept Note and governance for $4M Joint Housing Program with.
• Launched Housing4Cities for integrated offer with governments to generate $120M in new investments: developed heat map, pitch materials, mapping of investment models; ran two pilots in Philippines and South Africa
• Oversaw strategic positioning for IFC’s Cities program, through intranet site and talking points; won MENA VPU Team Award for coordinating WB-wide pitch to Amman; produced initial e-mobility strategy for IFC
• Developed retrofit business models for governments through PPPs via municipal finance and investments in ESCOs; piloted engagements in Jordan on national and sub-national level

Washington D.C. Metro Area

• Helped launch the EDGE Program globally and managed launches in S. Africa, Ghana, Philippines, and Kenya
• Served on Management Team for $140M program; hired and onboarded staff, maintained relationships with local consultants
• Created initial Building Resilience Index marketing materials and pitch to companies, governments, investors
• Advised on green finance to 25 IFC investment deals worth $2 billion and 50 EDGE projects worth $1.8 billion; provided technical assistance for green bonds and loans to both real estate and banking partners
• Negotiated term sheets and oversaw IFC’s legal agreements in 5 countries; manage dissolution of global contract
• Presented green business case to associations such as tourism (Sustainable Hospitality Alliance), investors (ICMA, Climate Bonds, Green Banking Academy), developers (CDP, GRESB), and governments (WRI, ICLEI, UNWTO)

Washington D.C. Metro Area

• Co-wrote IFC’s Climate Implementation Plan, identifying scalable solutions and platforms to increase climate finance by 50% by 2020 and mobilize $13 billion, including mapping opportunity across all of IFC’s strategic.
• Completed week-long Credit Investment Overview course, including credit assessment fundamentals and credit analytical tools
• Supported IFC climate managers network across regions and industries in early upstream activities: created strategy documents, new modes of investing for IFC, facilitated knowledge flow of best practices, reported.
• Constructed first-ever profitability analysis of IFC’s then $13 billion climate portfolio, analyzed trends and risks
• Collaborated with Treasury on IFC’s first-ever Green Bond Impact Report which won Environmental Finance Award; advised on 2nd opinion technical questions from CICERO and on inquiries from investors such as BlackRock

Washington D.C. Metro Area

• Launched IFC's first climate-focused external website, showcasing expertise in communications and knowledge management strategy.
• Developed an internal knowledge portal with easily accessible briefing materials, region- and industry-specific resources, and conducted successful training sessions.
• Received accolades for innovative approaches to enhancing communication and knowledge sharing within the organization.

Washington, DC

• Facilitate $150M in revenues and 50% cost reductions for city budgets of Dar es Salaam, Manila, São Paulo, and Jakarta: assist with feasibility studies and applications to clean technology funds, provide policy.
• Accelerate clean tech development in Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Panama, and Peru by fostering first-ever virtual network of 40 senior government officials: initiate technology for e-learning, policy.
• Author marketing materials and videos aimed at high-level officials from European countries contributing ~$10B in funds Examples:
• Produced video on climate change and cities: http://wbi.worldbank.org/wbi/multimedia/c40-cities-and-climate-change

Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

• Altered expansion strategy of Vietnam’s top apparel retailer ($32M in revenue): created region-specific entry framework for all 6 continents based on comprehensive data such as demand predictions, market competiveness.
• Rebranding and positioning plan endorsed by CEO and CMO; marketing plan isolated product improvements in 6 categories, based on primary market research, including testing product concept with 200 international consumers
• Identified reasons for failed US market entry through SWOT analysis, created go-to-market strategy for youth segmentExample:
• Client presentation in.PDF available at http://bit.ly/iQStew
• Identified reasons for failed US market entry through SWOT analysis, created go-to-market strategy for youth segment Example:

Waltham, MA

• Received recognition from national organizations – NACE, ACPA, Intern Bridge – for programmatic standards of excellence
• Improved program participation 15x by crafting strategic plan for experiential education, proposing and leading new initiative across 6 departments; plan was based on addressing delivery gaps recognized from focus.
• Achieved 98% satisfaction by launching Job Shadow program: developed short- and long-term plan, implemented new technology for application and notification, produced marketing materials, executed workshops, measured.
• Enhanced student competencies by 40% by introducing assessment tools that tracked progress across program
• Coordinated transition into new recruiting database: established time table to move 50,000+ records in numerous categories, generated interface for different constituents, improved queries
• Constructed department website, created and presented multi-media workshops on variety of topicsExamples:

Waltham, MA

• Chaired selection committee to hire 4 out of 200 applicants: screened resumes, conducted phone and in-person interviews, processed non-discrimination paperwork
• Hired, trained, supervised, and evaluated 13 staff members
• Served as primary on-call administrator for 4,000+ campus community, responded to student concerns including life-threatening emergencies, interpersonal conflicts, psychological crises, and student conduct

Master Of Business Administration (M.B.A.), International Business

Mba, Global Management