Name
Yurie Kawada
Job Title
Senior Financial Advisor
Company
Green Giraffe Advisory
Speaker Bio
Yurie has 9 years of experience in energy transition.
Yurie joined Green Giraffe Advisory in 2017. Since joining the company, her involvement focuses around offshore wind mandates. She has worked on Sumitomo’s successful acquisition of a stake in two French offshore wind projects in development (1 GW, 2018), three buy-side mandates for UK CfD offshore wind projects, a greenfield onshore wind project financing in Morocco (87 MW, 2020) and an equity raising for an offshore wind project in Japan (300 MW, 2021) and UK & IE floating offshore wind projects. More recently she has been involved in a green hydrogen project in Canada, an equity raising for an offshore wind project in the Baltic region and the successful offshore wind tender in Japan, supporting RWE, Mitsui and Osaka Gas.
Before joining Green Giraffe Advisory, Yurie worked at RES in Tokyo, where she served as a financial and technical analyst for their onshore wind development and also served as a project manager of RES offshore technical advisory work, including the bid preparation for an offshore wind tender in Kyushu, Japan. Prior to RES, she served as an investment analyst at TerraForm in Tokyo, working on utility scale solar PV project acquisitions across the country.
Yurie is a chartered financial analyst (CFA) and studied her master’s degree on environmental technology from Imperial College London. She also holds a bachelor’s degree in electrical and electronical engineering from Keio University.
Yurie joined Green Giraffe Advisory in 2017. Since joining the company, her involvement focuses around offshore wind mandates. She has worked on Sumitomo’s successful acquisition of a stake in two French offshore wind projects in development (1 GW, 2018), three buy-side mandates for UK CfD offshore wind projects, a greenfield onshore wind project financing in Morocco (87 MW, 2020) and an equity raising for an offshore wind project in Japan (300 MW, 2021) and UK & IE floating offshore wind projects. More recently she has been involved in a green hydrogen project in Canada, an equity raising for an offshore wind project in the Baltic region and the successful offshore wind tender in Japan, supporting RWE, Mitsui and Osaka Gas.
Before joining Green Giraffe Advisory, Yurie worked at RES in Tokyo, where she served as a financial and technical analyst for their onshore wind development and also served as a project manager of RES offshore technical advisory work, including the bid preparation for an offshore wind tender in Kyushu, Japan. Prior to RES, she served as an investment analyst at TerraForm in Tokyo, working on utility scale solar PV project acquisitions across the country.
Yurie is a chartered financial analyst (CFA) and studied her master’s degree on environmental technology from Imperial College London. She also holds a bachelor’s degree in electrical and electronical engineering from Keio University.