Philip LaRocco

Philip LaRocco has more than thirty years of experience at the intersection of the public and private sectors, leveraging public purposes and private sector initiative, blending financial, economic, social and environmental returns. Director of Trade and Economic Development for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, where he managed the NY World Trade Center, developed inner city industrial parks in the South Bronx, Yonkers and Elizabeth, and developed the Essex County (Newark) 2,250 ton-per day waste to energy facility.

In 1994 founded pioneering not-for-profit energy investment company, which operated in Sub-Saharan Africa, Central America and Southeast Asia. Served as E+Co's CEO until 2009, directing investment in over 150 energy enterprises in more than twenty developing countries. Teaching at Columbia (SUMA and SIPA} for more than a decade. Committed to making training, education and capacity building materials readily available to energy entrepreneurs, and other sector professionals.