Migara Jayawardena is the Managing Director of AMALA Clean Energy Advisors (www.amalaenergy.com) – a global consultancy specializing in helping clients navigate the clean energy transition for more sustainable development. He leads AMALA’s multi-disciplinary group of global experts in helping clients formulate innovative investment and policy solutions to decarbonize energy systems. Of particular interest to him are formulating solutions at the nexus of energy and environment; utilizing public-private partnerships to achieve development goals; and addressing climate impacts through infrastructure development. He has a proven track record managing skilled experts across different disciplines to develop integrated investment solutions and mobilize financing. Mr. Jayawardena has three decades of experience in energy and infrastructure in developing economies spanning Asia, Africa, Europe and Latin America and the Caribbean.

Prior to managing AMALA, Mr. Jayawardena worked at the World Bank Group for over two decades, leading efforts to help clients reform and develop energy and infrastructure sectors. He primarily worked in the Energy Global Practice at the World Bank and also served as a Lead Evaluation Officer and Thematic Coordinator for Energy and Infrastructure in the organization’s Independent Evaluation Group (IEG).  During his tenure at the World Bank Group, Mr. Jayawardena worked globally on issues related to infrastructure reform and development finance focusing on business development, policy advice, and investment lending.  His work in the energy sector was mostly on power sector and utilities, renewable energy (hydropower, geothermal, solar and wind power, and biomass), transmission and distribution, energy resilience, and rural electrification.  The investment projects he led at the World Bank Group received multiple awards for their design and development effectiveness. 

Before joining the World Bank Group, Mr. Jayawardena served as the Assistant Program Director and a Faculty Member for the Program on Investment Appraisal and Management at Harvard University’s Institute for International Development (HIID).  During this time, he also helped establish Cambridge Resources International (CRI), an investment and risk advisory.  Mr. Jayawardena remains involved in training development professionals in investment evaluation, project management, and risk analysis. He is a Development Practitioner Fellow and faculty member at Georgetown University (USA) where his teaching relates to clean energy investments and project management in developing economies. In addition, he is a faculty member in executive programs on investment evaluation and risk analysis at Duke University (USA) and Queens University (Canada). 

Migara Jayawardena received his B.Sc. in Economics from Towson University (USA), his Masters in Public Policy and certificate in Public-Private Partnerships in Infrastructure from Harvard University (USA).