Assaad is CEO of Gurīn Energy, a clean energy company headquartered in Singapore financing, building and operating renewable energy projects across Asia, Founder and CEO of the Reneum Institute, a Singapore start-up intending to digitise and democratise renewable energy, host of The Angry Clean Energy Guy Podcast, a Trustee of ClientEarth, a Board member of EB Impact, the Singaporean non-profit organisation focused on delivering training and programmes to Asia Pacific’s underserved communities to generate positive sustainable development, a member of the International Council of the National University of Singapore Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, and an occasional contributor to the Huffington Post, Eco-Business, Forbes, The Independent, The Ecologist and others.

With his hands-on experience in clean energy combined with his other roles, Assaad is a high-profile thought leader on climate change, clean energy and the UN climate talks with more than 130,000 followers on Twitter, 100,000 on Facebook, 135,000 on LinkedIn and widely-read newspaper columns.