Aftab Raza is a regulatory and financial specialist in electricity, gas, water and wastewater sectors. He is currently working with the Abu Dhabi Department of Energy as the Head of Sector Financial Management and, since 2000, has held positions of Director of Economic Regulation, Head of Network Price Controls and Senior Economist, leading expert teams on setting tariffs, price controls, performance targets and incentives, undertaking financial and economic analysis, and approving government subsidy and investments. He has also lead the work on developing regulatory frameworks for district cooling, gas distribution, wastewater, EV, DSM and IWPPs.

Before 2000, he worked as the Project Manager for the Private Power & Infrastructure Board of the Government of Pakistan. He has also advised as a consultant the governments and utilities in Asia, Europe and Africa on regulatory and tariff regimes for private power and gas projects and developed IPP bidding documents, contracts and economic and financial models.

With MBA (finance) and electrical engineering degrees, Aftab has over 25 years of experience covering the value chain in the energy sector as a senior management executive as well as a consultant, while managing SMEs, engaging stakeholders and addressing policy, regulatory, financial, accounting, economic, pricing, system planning and investment issues.