JEFF HUMBER is the Director of Strategic Partnerships for Pacific Clean Energy Partners. For more than 35 years, Jeff has worked with private companies and public sector organizations helping to develop and financially close large and small-scale clean energy projects in more than 60 countries.  Jeff has worked in the development and financing of projects, non-recourse debt and equity finance, project due diligence and SWOT analyses, the creation of public-private partnerships, the creation and management of U.S. government programs designed to leverage private finance and investment to developing country markets, and business development. Jeff is experienced in renewable (geothermal, solar, wind, hydro) energy systems, climate change, upstream and downstream fossil fuels, large infrastructure, distributed generation, and private start-ups in cement, telecommunications, and IT.  He has more than 17 years of project experience in India, Pakistan, Central Asia, and Afghanistan; 15 years in sub-Saharan Africa; and broad experience in eastern Asia and Latin America.

Jeff previously served as a Senior Energy Adviser to USAID’s Africa Bureau, where he developed programs to attract over $1 billion of private energy finance to countries in sub-Saharan Africa.  He created and directed the $55 million Africa Infrastructure Program (AIP), which worked with African governments to create conditions necessary to attract and financially close private projects in their electricity sectors. AIP provided technical, financial, regulatory, and legal assistance to 18 African countries to help establish conducive investment environments and close energy deals. The program exceeded its targets and subsequently served as the template for USAID’s follow-on $4.5 billion Power Africa Program.

Jeff also provided strategic guidance, technical assistance, and political and institutional advice developing USAID energy assistance programs in Eastern and Central Asia, Afghanistan, and Pakistan focusing on advancing renewable energy, climate change, leveraging private finance and investment, private sector engagement, and electric vehicles. He regularly engaged other U.S. government agencies, private energy companies, financial institutions (debt, equity, multilateral), other bilateral agencies, and host country governments in this work.  

Prior to his work at USAID, Jeff was Vice President of Advanced Engineering Associates International, a global engineering, energy and environmental services company supporting USAID. He was also a Vice President of Project Finance for the Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi (BTM) Capital in Boston, tasked with expanding their business into emerging markets, establishing strategic partnerships, and identifying nearly $1 billion of financial advisory and placement mandates.  Prior to BTM, Jeff was K&M Engineering’s Director of the USAID Private Sector Energy Development Program, where he managed technical, legal, and financial assistance teams creating technical, policy, institutional, and regulatory frameworks in client countries that attracted over $4 billion in foreign investment. In addition, Jeff has been a Project and Finance Advisor for the World Bank Group; a Private Power Developer on the $1.7 billion Hub Power Project in Pakistan; and a Management and Senior Energy Consultant for Cresap McCormick, and Padget and ICF-Kaiser Inc.   

Jeff has a Master of Management Science (MBA) from the MIT Sloan School of Management, a Master of Urban Planning from Boston University, and a Bachelors degree in Business and Arts and Sciences from the University of Massachusetts Amherst.