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Speakers 
 Archichimedes Amarra,
Executive Director,
Philippine Sugar Millers Association, Philippines
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 Yong Chen,
Research Associate, Climate and Energy Group,
Stockholm Environment Institute, Sweden
Mr. Yong Chen is a research associate at the Climate and Energy Group of Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI). Mr. Chen is specializing in analysis of policy instruments to promote renewable energy sources with a particular focus on rural applications of bioenergy in Asian countries and Europe. He is also conducting research on the complex linkages between the pattern of energy production and use, the resulting environmental consequences and social-cultural implications. At SEI, Mr. Chen is leading and participating in a number of research projects and is also involved in implementation and development of projects on environment and sustainable development issues in China as well as other Asian countries. Prior to joining SEI, he was working for the State Environmental Protection Administration of China. Yong Chen holds a Master of Science Degree from the International Industrial Institute for Environmental Economics at Lund University of Sweden.
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 Claus Hviid Christensen,
Professor, Director, Center for Sustainable and Green Chemistry, Department of Chemistry,
Technical University of Denmark
Claus Hviid Christensen graduated from University of Copenhagen in 1992. He started his carrier in the Danish engineering company Haldor Topsøe A/S in 1990. Until 2003, he held positions as project manger, manager for recruitment and personnel development, and manager for exploratory research at Haldor Topse A/S. Since 2004, he has been a professor of chemistry at the Technical University of Denmark where he is currently director for the Center for Sustainable and Green Chemistry. Claus Hviid Christensen has published more than 100 papers and is inventor on 29 patents. He is a member of the Danish Academy of Technical Sciences and he has received numerous research awards.
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 Stephen Clarke,
Research Fellow, Sol-Gel Nanotechnology, School of Chemistry, Physics & Earth Sciences,
Flinders University
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 Ian Constance,
Director of Product Programs, Asia Pacific & Africa,
Ford, Thailand
Ian Constance is the Director of Product Programs for Asia Pacific and Africa, a position he assumed in early 2006. In this key Product development role, he is responsible for all aspects of the Ford vehicle product development from strategy, planning through design, engineering to successful vehicle launch in the regions markets.
Based in Ford's Bangkok office, Constance works closely with the Ford's regional product development centres as well as partner operations in Europe North America and Japan to create products focussed on the Asia Pacific customer needs. Constance has development responsibility for Fiesta, Focus, Mondeo, Transit, Ranger pick up, Everest and Escape SUV's.
Prior to this appointment he was Chief program Engineer for the all-new Ford Focus, where Constance led a dedicated team of engineers in the development of a Focus that was designed and engineered specifically to meet the wants and needs of a new generation Focus customers in Asia. The Focus was developed with information and consumer insights gained through extensive customer research studies across diverse markets in Asia Pacific. Focus has been successfully introduced in numerous production plants and markets in the region.
Prior to the Focus, Constance was the Vehicle Integration Manager attached with the Vehicle Engineering C-Car team at Ford of Europe, where he was responsible for the development of the C1 Global Shared Technologies concept, which defines a common process to manufacture new vehicles and working together to develop a broad portfolio of vehicle system technologies.
Constance has extensive experience in automotive engineering including powertrain technology and driving dynamics. Some of the products he had been involved in include the first generation Focus and the Mondeo. From 1996 to 1999, Constance was assigned with the Powertrain Planning and Strategy division for small cars. Earlier, he worked on Powertrain Engineering for C-Cars for more than three years.
He first joined Ford of Britain in 1987 under the Engineering Undergraduate Training Program while pursuing his Engineering Degree, and subsequently joined Ford officially as Manufacturing Engineer in 1991, where he continued to advance his career in product development and engineering with significant success.
Constance has a Bachelor Degree in Engineering from Aston University and a Masters in Automotive Engineering from Loughborough University, United Kingdom.
Constance is a British citizen. He is married with three children.
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 William Dar,
Director General,
International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), India
William D Dar, Ph.D. is a man on a mission and a champion of the poor. Director General of the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) near Hyderabad in Andhra Pradesh, India, since January 2000. He has had a long and distinguished career as an educationist, agricultural scientist, administrator, and humanitarian in his native Philippines and abroad in Asia Pacific region and sub-Saharan Africa. Dr Dar held the distinction of being the first Filipino and Asian to be Director General of ICRISAT and Chair of the Alliance Executive of the Alliance of Future Harvest Centres in 2005, a collegial body that facilitates collective action among the 15 CGIAR Centres. Dr Dar has also been a member of the UN Millennium Task Force on Hunger. Prior to joining ICRISAT, he served as Presidential Adviser for Rural Development, and Secretary of Agriculture in the Philippines (equivalent to Minister of Agriculture), the first ever alumnus of the University of the Philippines Los Baños (UPLB) to become one. Before this, he was Executive Director of the Philippine Council for Agriculture, Forestry, and Natural Resources Research and Development (PCARRD), Director of the Bureau of Agricultural Research (BAR) of the Philippine Department of Agriculture (DA) and Vice President for R & D and Professor of Benguet State University (BSU), Philippines.
Dr. Dar has received a number of awards and honours, including the Ten Outstanding Young Men (TOYM) of the Philippines, Outstanding Young Scientist of the Year, Crop Science Society of the Philippines' Achievement Award for Research Management and Outstanding Science Administrator given by the Philippines Department of Science and Technology. He was also awarded as Distinguished Alumnus of UPLB and Most Outstanding Alumnus of BSU and the Ilocos Sur Polytechnic State College. In November 2002, PCARRD honoured him with its highest and most prestigious award, the Symbol of Excellence in R&D Management. In 2003 he was awarded both an honorary doctorate by the Mariano Marcos State University in the Philippines and in Vietnam the "For the Sake of Agriculture and Rural Development in Vietnam Award".
Dr. Dar led ICRISAT into renaissance, excellence and relevance with the motto of “Science with Human Face”. Dr. Dar's passion is to help alleviate the conditions of the poor people living in the semi-arid tropics of Asia and sub-Saharan Africa.
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 Michael Dosimlunjew,
Director General,
Ministry of Plantation Industries & Commodities, Malaysia
Currently the Secretary General, Ministry of Plantation Industries and Commodities (since February 2005) being responsible among others, the formulation and implementation of key policies on the development of both upstream and downstream sectors for palm oil, notably on Biofuel. ( been in KPPK since August 2004)
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 Al-Hilal Hamdi,
Chairman, National Team for Bioenergy Development, and President of Board of Commissioners,
PT PLN, Indonesia
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 Sung Hur,
Vice President of Business Development, South East Asia,
BP Biofuels, Singapore
Sung Hur holds Masters Degree in Mechanical Engineering from Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, USA. Currently, he holds a position of VP of BP Biofuels Business Development for SE Asia based in Singapore. He has been with BP for the past 16 years and has held numerous positions in Biofuels and Chemicals Businesses ranging from engineering, project management, manufacturing operations, joint venture management, business management & development including marketing, sales & logistics in USA, Indonesia, Malaysia, S. Korea and Singapore.
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Mia Jarumayan,
Commercial Manager,
Bronzeoak Ltd, Philippines
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 Arun Jaura,
Senior Vice President, Automotive PD & R&D,
Mahindra and Mahindra, India
Dr. Arun Jaura is the Vice President of Product Development for Mahindra & Mahindra’s Automotive Sector. Since May 2005, he is heading the R&D and Product Engineering (ongoing and new products) at M&M.
Prior to joining M&M Dr. Jaura was the Head of Vehicle Engineering for Ford’s Escape Hybrid Platform. Dr. Jaura joined Ford USA in 1996 and recently was the recipient of the prestigious Henry Ford Technology Award in the year 2004 for the world’s first Hydrogen Engine Propelled Hybrid vehicle.
Dr. Jaura has over 19 years of experience in the area of Research and Advanced Engineering and Product Development relating to vehicle systems programme management, vehicle engineering and manufacturing processes. He has worked on numerous hybrid vehicle projects in Ford, USA. Prior to his stint in Ford, Dr. Jaura worked for nearly 10 years at a DRDO facility near Chennai on weapon system electrohydraulics and mechanical systems, consolidating his expertise in this area.
He has 2 patents issued in US/ Europe and several in the pipeline, 27 publications in International and national journals and numerous conferences to his name. He has been invited by SAE, ASME, IEE, Academia and Industry for consultations and presentations. He is an internationally known subject matter expert on hybrids and hydrogen vehicles.
In addition, Dr Jaura is the technical consultant to USAID/ KEVA alliance on advanced propulsion and sustainable mobility in South East Asia.
Dr. Arun Jaura has been actively involved along with his family in various community initiatives. He is a car rally enthusiast and has participated in Himalayan Car Rally during late 1980’s.
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 Francis Johnson,
Research Fellow in the Sustainable Energy Programme,
Stockholm Environment Institute, Sweden
Francis X. Johnson is a Research Fellow in the Climate and Energy Programme at the Stockholm Environment Institute, where he conducts policy analysis on energy and environmental systems, with special emphasis on biofuels. Previously he was Senior Research Associate with the Energy Analysis Program at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. His educational background includes Systems Science, Operations Research, Energy Analysis and Policy, and Geography. He has been a visiting researcher at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis in Austria. He has worked with a number of international organizations, including UNIDO, IEA, and FAO and has served as expert evaluator for the European Commission on international energy cooperation projects. During 2001-2005, he served as Scientific Coordinator for the Cane Resources Network for Southern Africa (CARENSA), a thematic research network with thirteen partners supported through the European Commission. He is currently the manager of an international research programme on energy, environment, and development, which is supported by the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida).
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Hock Aun Khoo,
CEO,
Cosmos Fuels, Malaysia
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 Dean Lao Jr,
Chief Operating Officer,
Chemrez, Philippines
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 David Liang,
Director of Advanced Clean Energy,
Institute of Environmental Science & Engineering, Singapore
David received both his B.Sc. (Hon.) and M.Sc. degrees in Chemical Engineering from Queen's University in Canada. The area of his specialization was in combustion engineering and Clean Air technologies. Since his graduation, he has worked in academia, industry as well as government sectors. In total, he has close to 25 years of working experience in environmental research and technology development.
His area of expertise includes gas diffusion flames, combustion aerodynamics, fluidisation, SOx and NOx emission abatement, plasma technology and other high temperature processes. In his previous position as a senior research scientist at Canada Centre for Mineral and Energy Technologies (CANMET), he successfully developed the first pilot-scale circulating fluidised bed (CFB) waste combustion system in Canada with in-bed removal of sulphur and volatile metals. In addition, he designed a 150 kVA AC plasma arc furnace for the recovery of valuable metals from hazardous wastes.
Later, as the program principal at CANMET, David led a team of 10 research staff that was responsible for developing waste utilisation and recycling technologies for various industrial consortia. Projects that he led included utilisation of steel-making slag, energy recovery from petroleum coke, development of ceramic materials from hazardous wastes. Under his direction, the team also published a bimonthly newsletter on recycling technologies entitled R-Net which has a current international circulation to more than 3,000 companies. He also contributed in effluent treatment projects such as ammonia removal from mine effluents, acidic mine drainage (AMD) control and cyanide solution recycling in gold processing.
Since joining ETI, he has held several workshops and conferences in the area of sustainable technology in general, as well as a cleaner production and clean air workshops targeted at the electronic and computer industries. Currently he serves as Director for the Advanced Clean Energy Centre with 10 full time staff at the Institute of Environmental Science and Engineering.
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 Tian Ching Long,
Director,
Vance Bioenergy, Malaysia
Tian Ching is a co-founder and Managing Director at the Vance Bioenergy Group based in Singapore. Vance Bioenergy built one of the first large-scale commercial biodiesel plants in Southeast Asia and has been in commercial operation since mid-2006. It's current facility has a capacity of 150,000 MT per annum and is situated in the Pasir Gudang Industrial Estate, in close proximity to Johor Port - one of the world's largest liquid ports. Tian Ching was closely involved in the development of the business plan of Vance Bioenergy, and helped oversee the planning, construction, erection and start-up of the biodiesel facility. In addition, he also has shared responsibilities for the day-to-day operations of the Group as well as the strategic management of the business. Prior to founding Vance Bioenergy, Tian Ching spent almost a decade in financial services. Tian Ching earned an engineering and finance degree at the undergraduate level, has an MBA from the Wharton School and is a Chartered Financial Analyst.
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 Yash Mankame,
Country Vice President - South East Asia, Far East and Australia,
Praj Industries, India
Mr. Yash Mankame is country Vice-President – South East Asia, East Asia and Australia of Praj industries Ltd. Praj is a leader in technology, engineering and supply of equipment for ethanol plants. Praj has supplied more than 350 ethanol plants in 35 different countries.
Yash Mankame is a chemical engineer by qualification and has had 16 years experience in the Ethanol industry in India and south East Asia.
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 Plinio Nastari,
President,
Datagro Publicacoes Ltda, Brazil
President, Datagro Publicações Ltda., Brazil´s leading consulting company on sugar and ethanol market analysis, since 1984.
President, Plinio Nastari Consultoria e Participações Ltda. (PNCP), since 1984, through which provides consulting services to sugar cane mills, trading companies, banks, and the Brazilian Government. For the Brazilian Government has served as advisor in the areas of energy planning (initiatives promoted in 1984/85 and 1990/91), trade negotiations (within Mercosur), trade disputes involving sugar and alcohol (with the US on alcohol, in 1984/86, and the European Communities on sugar, 2002/05), arbitrations in bananas with the European Communities (2005), industry deregulation (1989 thru 2000) and studies related to climate change (IPCC, lead author, second assessment report). PNCP and DATAGRO have offices in São Paulo, Recife, Brasilia and Santos.
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 Valentine Ng,
Service Engineering Director,
Cummins Inc, Singapore
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 Naren Raju,
CEO,
Bioenergy Plantations, Singapore
Naren Raju is the founder and visionary behind Bio Energy Plantations. He has a broad range of experience in business development particularly within the IT sector. He holds Masters Degree in Information Technology from Australia. He quit his IT job in Dec 2005 and incorporated Bio Energy Plantations with firing desire to meet global environmental demands by doing Jatropha Curcas L. plantations in his unutilized land of 121 hectors in India. Now Bioenergy is in the midst of acquiring 7000 hectors of land from governments of India, Vietnam, Cambodia and South Africa for plantation purpose with the help of local and foreign Investors.
Naren strongly believes in the development of bio diesel production from non-edible vegetable oils plantations and the numerous benefits it can bring to the environment and thousands of workers who will can be employed within this industry.
His ultimate vision is to use non-edible vegetable oils to make biodiesel fuel, with a meaningful impact by making the environment a healthier place to live at an affordable price to consumers.
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P. Rambabu,
President of Indian Sugar Mills Association and MD,
EID Parry, India
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 Dr V. Praveen Rao,
Manager, Agro-Knowledge Management,
Netafim Ltd, Israel
Dr. V. Praveen Rao, having brilliant academic career with distinction both in India and Israel is specialized in soil-water-plant relations, crop yield-water modeling, drip irrigation and fertigation of biofuel crops with particular reference to sugarcane, corn, Jatropha and oilseed crops.
Presently Dr. Rao is a member of Global sugarcane crop team & Manager, Agro-Knowledge Management in Netafim and is promoting drip irrigated sugarcane, corn & Jatropha crop’s production in several countries. Further he is a recipient of several scholarships and Awards. In 2004 he was bestowed with “Leadership Award” for promotion of drip irrigation technology in India by the Soil Conservation Society of India.
Dr. Rao as a Technical Advisor to the Government on water issues proposed a mega scale project known as Andhra Pradesh Microirrigation Project in Andhra Pradesh, to cover an area of 250,000 ha in 3 years. The project went ahead and after the huge success of this project, the Gujarat Government launched a similar project (50,000 ha). Both the projects are now running successfully in both the states. The APMIP has set a benchmark in the country concerning micro-irrigation technology and productivity improvements. The above two projects have resulted in a coverage of about 20,000 ha of sugarcane & 1000 ha of Jatropha under drip irrigation.
As Professor of Agronomy has two decades of teaching and research experience under diverse agro-climatic situations and guided 15 PG students and 4 Ph.D. students majoring in agronomy and irrigation management. He has to his credit more than 106 research publications articles in National & International Journals and authored 18 books, 11 Project documents covering different aspects of water management with emphasis on irrigation scheduling, water-yield relations, drip irrigation and fertigation of tropical & biofuel crops.
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 William Roberts,
Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and Director of the Applied Energy Research Laboratory,
North Carolina State University, USA
William Roberts came to NC State in 1994 after two years at NASA Langley Research Center. His research interests include combustion, propulsion, development and application of laser based optical diagnostics in reacting flows, and 2nd generation biofuels.? Current studies include particle transport in the human oral airway, with the targeted deposition of drug aerosols in lungs, soot formation and oxidation in high pressure flames, chemistry-turbulence interactions in premixed, spark-ignited flames, and pulsejets for propulsion, energy conversion, and helicopter emulation.? He is the director of the Applied Energy Research Laboratory at NC State and serves on the executive committee of the Eastern States Section of the Combustion Institute.? He received his Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Michigan in 1992.
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 Manuel V. del Rosario,
President,
Philippine Coconut Producers Federation, Inc
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 Johannes Ruwwe,
Head of Chemical, Chemist,
Degussa AG, Germany
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 Mamat Salleh,
Chief Executive,
Malaysian Palm Oil Association, Malaysia
He has 34 years of experience in various semi government agencies and the palm oil industry. During his active career, he had worked in the Urban Development Authority (UDA), National Livestock Development Authority (NALDA), Federal Agricultural Marketing Authority (FAMA) and Palm Oil Registration and Licensing Authority (PORLA). His last position was with the Malaysian Palm Oil Board (MPOB) as Deputy Director General.
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 Natie Tabmanie,
Director of Petroleum Division, Energy Policy and Planning Office,
Ministry of Energy, Thailand
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 Yasunori Takei,
Fuel Expert,
Japan Automobile Manufacturers' Association, Japan
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 Wifred Toledo,
Head of Technical Group,
Petron, Philippines
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 Boonmee Wattanaruangrong,
Secretary General,
Thai Tapioca Starch Association, Thailand
I have been working in agribusiness field since 1984 experiencing in development and procurement of number of agricultural commodities in Thailand. I started working intensively on tapioca since 1996 and was elected as Secretary General of Thai Tapioca Starch Association since 2004. I am currently the Agribusiness Director of National Starch & Chemical (Thailand) Ltd. Before joining National Starch, I headed the Agricultural Services Department in Nestle Thailand with intensive experience in coffee and dairy. I got B.Sc. in Agriculture and M.Sc. in Agricultural Economics.
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 Bryan Wilson,
Chief Technology Officer,
Solix Biofuel, USA
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 Rong Yan,
Senior Research Scientist, Advanced Clean Energy Centre,
Institute of Environmental Science & Engineering, Singapore
Dr. Yan Rong has over 10 years of experiences in environment and energy related technology R&D. Her areas of expertise include combustion science and engineering, biomass energy, waste to energy, fluidized bed technology, various air toxics abatement, biotechnology application in clean air processes, and novel technologies for trace chemical analysis in gas, water and solid samples. She has been actively involved in various research projects at national institutes respectively in China, France and Singapore. From 1992 to 1996, She was a lecturer/researcher in Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST), China. In January of 1997, she moved to France (CNRS - National Institute of Science & Research) to pursue her PhD under the EU research scholarship supported by European Community of Steel and Coal (ECSC). In February 2000, she joined IESE, Singapore as a research scientist. Since then, she has been in charge of various environment related research and industrial projects. She has also been involved in teaching MSc courses (CV6521 - "Air Pollution Management" and SSP278A - "Air Pollution Physics and Chemistry") and co-supervising PhD candidates in Nanyang Technological University (NTU).
Dr. Yan Rong has won recognition for her outstanding achievements in her research work and received several prizes from academic societies and organizations in China. Her doctoral thesis, entitled "Partitioning of Trace Elements in Combustion Flue Gases", was awarded the first academic class in France. She has published more than 100 technical papers in peer-refereed journals and proceedings with a strong SCI citation record. She has been a reviewer of several prestigious journals in both environmental and energy areas, including Environmental Science & Technology, Combustion and Flame, Combustion Science and Technology, Fuel, Energy, Industrial & Engr. Chemistry Research, Water Science & Technology, Journal of Hazardous Materials, Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology, and Journal of Air & Waste Management Association. She was included in the 7th edition "Who's Who in Science and Engineering", 2003 and also in the 22nd edition of "Marquis Who's Who in the World" 2005 and 23rd edition of 2006.
Dr. Yan Rong obtained her Ph.D. degree in Environmental Engineering from CNRS-IMP, France. She received both her MSc and BSc degrees in Applied Chemistry from HUST, China. She is currently a member of Air and Waste Management Association (AWMA) and International Water Association (IWA).
Her current research interests focus on the clean energy for cleaner air, biomass energy, waste to energy, greenhouse gas and climate change, waste minimization and recycling, as well as biotechnology application on air toxics abatement such as advanced biofiltration for odor/VOC removal and bunker oil biodesulfurization etc.
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 Jose Maria P Zabelata Jr,
Regional Director Asia Pacific,
Bronzeoak Ltd, Philippines
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 Wei Zhang,
Head, Molecular Bioprocessing & Bioproducts, Dept of Medical Biotechnology,
Flinders University
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 Yongqiang Zhao,
Research Assistant, Centre for Renewable Energy Development, Energy Research Institute,
National Development and Reform Commission, China
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 Uwe Zwiefelhofer,
Managing Director,
Lurgi Sdn Bhd, Malaysia
Mr Uwe Zwiefelhofer is born in 1960 and studied Chemical Engineering in Germany. He joined Lurgi in 1992 as a Process Engineer and in total has 15 years of experience in this field. His experience include process design, managing petrochemical projects in Germany as well as Australia and he is now responsible for Business Development and Marketing in Asia since 2003. He is currently the Managing Director of Lurgi Sdn Bhd in Malaysia.
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