Nuki Agya Utama has academic and research background as post-doctorate in Graduate School Energy Science Kyoto University for energy scenario planning in South East Asia. He’s holding a PhD, with research on Life Cycle Energy Analysis from Joint Graduate School of Energy and Environment, the University of Technology King Mongkut (KMUTT), Thailand.

Prior assuming his position in ACE, he had worked at Baryon HP as Director and as senior energy consultant for NIKE Inc. He used to work as consultant in UNDP and UNEP working for energy and environment related issues. He had started his international career with ENVIMA a German-Thai consulting firm working on renewable energy, energy efficiency and environmental consulting. He had also been served as the Head of Environmental Engineering department at Surya University, Indonesia and as senior lecturer in Swiss German University, Indonesia.