Adam Schwarz

Adam Schwarz is the Founder and CEO of Asia Group Advisors (AGA), a strategic consultancy for businesses, philanthropies, non-profits, and development institutions in Southeast Asia. He has tackled various sustainability challenges in the region, including combating illegal fishing, enhancing regulatory incentives for renewable energy, developing blended finance solutions for the early retirement of coal-fired power plants, securing carbon credits for deforestation prevention, and promoting reduced plastic use. Adam has been engaged in environmental and climate change issues in Southeast Asia since the late 1980s. As an environmental correspondent for the Far Eastern Economic Review during the 1980s and 1990s, he reported on sustainability challenges in Indonesia's palm oil, sawmill, plywood, and forestry sectors and covered the first Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro in 1992. He is the author of the acclaimed A Nation in Waiting: Indonesia’s Search for Stability.