Meet our speakers
CFO (Senior Executive Vice President - Finance),
Electricity Generating Public Co. Ltd
Mr. Sakda Sreesangkom is the Senior Executive Vice President – Finance of Electricity Generating Public Company Limited (EGCO).
Mr. Sakda Sreesangkom spent 13 years as an investment banker for several international houses including Nikko Securities, Credit Suisse First Boston and SBC Warburg. In addition, he served as a consultant on debt management for the Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand (EGAT) and Provincial Electricity Authority (PEA) and provided technical assistance to Public Debt Management Office of Ministry of Finance as an Asian Development Bank consultant. Prior to joining EGCO, he was the Senior Vice President in charge of financial management of Glow Company Limited, a company in the Tractebel Group. Mr. Sakda Sreesangkom holds B.A. (Hons.) in Economics from Thammasat University, Thailand and M.A. in Economics from Keio University, Tokyo, Japan.
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President & CEO,
Senoko Power
Roy Adair is the President & CEO of Senoko Power which is the largest electricity generator and retailer in the Singapore Electricity Market. Senoko Power has a licensed capacity of 3,300MW of which nearly 2000MW is combined cycle gas turbine technology.
Roy joined Senoko Power with extensive experience of the UK and Australian electricity markets and worldwide experience of the utilities industry. Roy advised on the privatisation of the UK electricity market and joined Powergen, one of the two large electricity generators, ahead of the commencement of the UK electricity market. Roy held several senior management positions with Powergen prior to becoming Chief Executive of Yallourn Energy, the Victorian generator and retailer acquired by Powergen in 1996 in consortium with several Australian institutional investors.
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Executive Vice President - Generation ,
American Electric Power
Nick Akins is executive vice president - Generation. He is responsible for all generation activities, including fossil and hydro generation; nuclear generation; engineering, project and field services; fuel, emissions and logistics, and business services.
Previously, he was president and chief operating officer for Southwestern Electric Power Company, serving approximately 439,000 customers in Louisiana, Arkansas and northeast Texas. Named to this position in 2004, he had authority for distribution operations and a wide range of customer and regulatory relationships.
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Vice President-Project Development,
PT. Paiton Energy
James Booker is Vice President, Operations & Project Development, for PT Paiton Energy, the developer, owner and operator of the 1,230 MW Paiton I Power Project in East Java, Indonesia. He has 35 years experience in North America, South America and throughout Asia. After working as a consultant in Indonesia for 7 years, he joined Paiton in mid-1998, and is responsible for all plant operations, fuel supply and risk management issues. James was also a key member of Paiton’s negotiation teams for restructuring of the PPA and US$ 1.8 billion project debt following the Asian economic crisis. He is now leading Paiton’s team on the development of the 800MW Paiton Expansion Project, which is scheduled to be in commercial operation in late 2011. James is a Chartered Engineer, and also has postgraduate degrees in business administration, construction law, and arbitration.
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Nicholas Brown is a Partner at the international law firm Pinsent Masons. Nic has accumulated experience in a wide range of capital works transactions in the fields of private development, public works and PPP, across a range of sectors, in the Asia-Pacific, Middle East, Great Britain and Central Europe. Recent work in the power sector includes advising US investors in connection with the procurement of brown field coal-fired thermal power plant facilities in the PRC and advising EPC contracting consortia in connection with negotiations for the turnkey development of hydropower facilities in Laos DPR.
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Country Director,
Ecosecurities
Arnold Bufi is the Country Director of EcoSecurities Philippines Incorporated, a subsidiary of EcoSecurities Group PLC. Arnold joined EcoSecurities in June 2006 to increase the group’s portfolio of CDM Projects in Southeast Asia and the Philippines in particular. Before joining EcoSecurities, Arnold has over 12 years of experience in the environment field in the Philippines of which 2 years were devoted to developing CDM projects in the renewable energy, animal waste, landfill and related sectors. He has worked with the Philippines’ local environmental agency (Environmental Management Bureau), World Bank, Land Bank of the Philippines and was a consultant for various local and international engineering and environmental consulting firms. His experiences include environmental assessments, environmental audits, and CDM of renewable energy projects.
He holds a degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of the Philippines.
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Vice President for Generation ,
CESC Limited
Mr S K Chakraborti, is the head of the Power Generation Division of CESC Limited, Kolkata, one of the leading private power company in India He is a mechanical engineer with post graduate diploma in financial management.
CESC Limited supplies power to around 2.1 million customers in and around the city of Kolkata. It is a vertically integrated company with own coal mine, generating stations & licenced area for power distribution. It is one of the oldest power companies of India and generates around 1000MW power. The company is adding up another 850MW to it's capacity.
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Chairman & CEO,
Meiya Power, Hong Kong
Dr. Alan W. Chan is the Chairman/CEO of Meiya Power Company Limited (MPC), an Independent Power Producer focused on power investment in North Asia.
Alan joined the Company in 1997 and has served as the President and Chief Operating Officer since 1999. He has 33 years’ experience in the power industry. Prior to joining MPC, he held various senior management positions in Stone & Webster Engineering Corporation in the US.
Alan received his BS and MS degrees from the University of California at Berkeley and his PhD degree from Harvard University. He is an internationally recognized expert in seismic engineering as well as in pressure vessel and piping designs. He is also a fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.
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Director - Sustainable Energy,
Verve Energy
In a structural reorganization of Western Power in January 2001, Adrian was reappointed to run a revamped Sustainable Energy Branch focused solely on renewable energy projects. This exciting development required the Branch to investigate, plan, develop, own and operate renewable energy projects Australia wide. In 2006, following the restructure of Western Power into four separate entities, he was appointed to a business development role in electricity generator, Verve Energy, charged to seek out business opportunities across the sustainable energy industry spectrum. Over the past seven years, renewable energy projects valued in excess of A$130 million were installed or are currently under completion.
He is on the Commonwealth Government Renewable Energy Committee assessing grant applications under the A$100 million Renewable Energy Development Initiative, and was formally a member of the A$35 million Australian Greenhouse Office Technical Expert Reference Group for the Advanced Electricity Storage Technologies grants program.
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Managing Director,
Queensland Gas Company
Mr Cottee brings more than 20 years of experience in the energy and resources industries to his role as Managing Director of Queensland Gas Company. He is known for his pragmatism and creativity in bringing vision to reality, and has ensured QGC is perfectly positioned to take advantage of the most exciting period in Australia’s energy sector in over a quarter of a century.
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President ,
National Power Corporation
Mr. Cyril C. del Callar was appointed President of the National Power Corporation (NPC) on 21 March 2005 and assumed office on 1 April 2005.
Prior to his appointment as NPC President, Mr. del Callar was the Undersecretary of the Department of Energy for power-related policies and programs. As Undersecretary, Mr. del Callar was DOE’s focal person on international energy cooperation activities. He represented the DOE in various government agencies, such as the Investment Coordination and Infrastructure Committees of NEDA, and the Governing Board of PEZA. In addition, Mr. del Callar served as Chairman of the Steering Committee of the Wholesale Electricity Spot Market (WESM). The establishment of WESM will facilitate an efficient venue for the trading of electricity.
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Managing Director for Asia Region ,
Chevron International Gas Inc.
Stephen H. Del Regno is Managing Director, Asia Region, LNG Marketing & Trading, Chevron Global Gas, and is based in Tokyo, where he has responsibility for managing Chevron’s natural gas and LNG market development in Asia and representing Chevron’s interests in LNG projects to prospective customers in Asia.
Mr. Del Regno has 30 years of experience in the energy business and has worked in virtually all segments of the gas and LNG value chain, including natural gas marketing, natural gas pipeline and distribution infrastructure development, and development of gas-fired electric power assets in Japan, Korea and Taiwan.
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Chief of Party ,
ECO Asia Clean Development & Climate Program - USAID
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Head of Risk Management,
PT PLN (Persero)
Joint to State Electricity Co - PT PLN (Persero) 1980 - present, with tour of duties :
a. Oil Fire Steam Power Plant Project, Semarang, yr 1980 – 1984
b. Coal Fire Steam Power Plant, Bukit Asam, yr 1984-1987
c. Head of Civil Department of Planning, South Sumatera Region, yr 1987-1988.
d. Head of Internal Auditor for South Sumatera Region Projects, yr 1988 – 1993
e. Head of Technical Affair, Hydro Projects for West Java Region, yr 1993 – 1996.
f. Head of Logistic Sub-Division, PLN Head Office, yr 1996 – 2001.
g. Member of Supervisory Committee for Business Unit of Distribution Lines and Retail of West Java Region, yr 2002 – 2005.
h. Head of Assessment and Monitoring, Risk Management Unit in PLN Head Office, yr 2005 – present.
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Extensive project development experience in Oil and Gas, In-depth experience in Power Generation business development and project finance, Acquired Black Belt Six Sigma Quality management experience, Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering by background, In-depth analysis of economic, political and commercial risk in developing countries for strategic market planning purposes.11 years of international business experience focusing on the energy sector, held key positions at Mobil Oil Indonesia, GE Power Systems and currently as CEO of PT Medco Power Indonesia
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Vice President and Head of Finance ,
SN Power
Main responsibilities as VP, Head of Finance is to establishing optimal financial solutions for our individual projects; maintaining contact with international banks, MLAs and IFIs; advising the project developers on issues of importance for financial institutions; corporate finance and risk management.
For the past 10 years, he has worked on the financial solutions for various major hydro projects like Bujagali (Uganda), NT2 (Laos), ADHPL (India), HLH (Chile), HLC (Chile) and MAGAT refinancing (Philippines).
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General Manager Development,
Aviva Corporation
Richard has recently been appointed as General Manager Development for Aviva Corporation, an integrated energy company with a growing portfolio of assets in Australia and Botswana. Richard’s role is to advance the company’s integrated energy projects, focusing on the development of power generation opportunities, with responsibilities for commercial off-take agreements, external relations, approvals and licensing.
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Senior Energy Specialist (Economist) - Infrastructure Division,
Asian Development Bank (ADB)
Sohail Hasnie is a Senior Energy Specialist in the infrastructure division of the South East Asia Department. Since joining ADB in 2001, Sohail has been primarily involved in financing of energy projects and focus on power sector de-regulation initiatives in China, Mongolia, Philippines, Central Asia, India, Afghanistan and Indonesia. He takes active interest in renewable energy and energy efficiency, and is currently working on energy efficiency project in Indonesia, Philippines and Cambodia.
Prior to joining ADB, Sohail worked for the multi-sector regulator, Office of Regulator-General, Victoria, Australia for about five years and was responsible for compliance of price controls and wholesale market rule approvals for electricity, gas and the Victorian ports.
He started his career in the electricity industry in 1988 as a Demand Management Specialist in the State Electricity Commission of Victoria, SECV where he worked until 1995 and held positions in system planning, strategic planning, pricing and load forecasting.
He has a MBA from the Melbourne Business School, Australia, and master's degree in water Resources Engineering (focusing on Hydropower engineering) from the Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand.
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Business & Financial News Anchor - Asia Business Report ,
BBC
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Managing Director,
LUKOIL Asia Pacific Pte Ltd
2007 – present time. Managing director Lukoil Asia Pcific Pte Ltd.
2003-2006. Senior vice President “Fedcominvest (Monaco) S.A.M.
2000-2003. Managing partner of US company OILspace Inc (www.oilspace.com).
1997-2000. Managing director Petronaft (Pte) Ltd.
1994-1997. Deputy General Director and co-founder of Swiss oil trading company Projector S.A., Moscow Representative office.
1991-1993. General Director of Swiss oil company Vitol S.A., Moscow Representative office.
1989 –1991. Deputy director of firm Internafta in the state foreign trade company V/O SOJUZNEFTEEXPORT , the USSR monopoly oil export company.
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President and CEO,
NorthWind Power Development Corporation
Responsible for the development of 25 MW Wind Turbine Project including 69kV Transmission Line. Organization of Project Team, Liaison with local authorities for various permits, preparation of Project Implementation and Operation and Maintenance.
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CEO,
Firebox Energy Systems
Jason Janus is the President and CEO of FireBox Energy Systems which has developed and is presently commercializing its proprietary AirBoiler™ power generation technology. Jason has been involved in Canada’s oil and gas sector for more than 15 years and FireBox is his third start-up venture. The bulk of Jason’s projects have dealt with optimization, particularly those associated with environmental concerns for upstream oil and gas production.
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Vice President, Risk Management Services, Asset Management,
Lloyd's Register Asia
Mr Jarman joined Lloyd’s Register in October 2006 as part of the Risk Management Services for the Asia Asset Management stream. He has over 30 years of experience working as a risk consultant and has been integral to the development of risk engineering approaches, systems and tools as a world class provider of risk management services and process safety management activities. Mr. Jarman’s special areas of competence include: Risk assessment (qualitative and quantitative), Process safety management, Business risk management, Safety cases, Due diligence evaluations.
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Managing Director - Quantitative Research abd Risk Analysis,
Platts Analytics
Valery A. Kholodnyi is Managing Director of Quantitative Research and Risk Analysis at Platts, a Division of the McGraw-Hill Companies. Prior to this role he served as Chief Science Officer and Vice President of Research and Development at Integrated Energy Services, Director of Research at TXU Energy Trading, Director of Quantitative Analysis at Reliant Resources, and Professor of Financial Mathematics and Risk Management and Executive Director of the Center for Quantitative Risk Analysis at Middle Tennessee State University. He authored four books and over a hundred research papers in finance, mathematics, physics and engineering. He was an invited speaker at numerous international and national conferences both for the industry practitioners and academic researchers.
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Vice President – Power Generation,
Sindicatum Carbon Capital
Jenya has over 9 years’ experience, the majority of which working internationally in the power generation industry, and encompassing both thermal and renewable energy sectors. Prior to joining Sindicatum Carbon Capital in 2007, he had worked on developing the CDM business for a global renewable energy company, as well as coordinating that company’s effort to overhaul its corporate strategy.
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Senior Vice President, Transmission Division,
Korea Electric Power Corporation, KEPCO
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Chairman,
Malavalli Power Plant Private Limited
Over 30 years experience in the Conventional Energy Sector in capacities of Managing Director – Ansaldo, Vice President – Dodsal, General Manager-Voltas.
Over 10 years experience in Distributed Generation based in Renewable Energy Technologies in capacities of Chairman – FEZ Projects Pvt. Ltd. (Promoter of Renewable Energy Special Economic Zone in partnership with Tamil Nadu Energy Development Agency), Chairman – MPPL Renewable Energy Pvt. Ltd., President – Grameena Abhivrudhi Mandali.
Above companies work with off grid as well as grid connected Distributed Generation solutions coupled with initiatives for Decentralised Management of Rural Electricity Distribution and Micro Enterprises development.
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Group Director ,
Abhijeet
PN Krishnan is the Group Director of Abhijeet Group guiding the Group on its Infrastructure and Power Sector businesses with particular focus on Finance and Commercial matters. Mr Krishnan has over 22 years of rich and varied experience in the fields of Corporate and Project Finance, Commercial and Legal matters with diverse industries. He gained invaluable experience in the Power Sector during his 12 year long tenure with Essar Power where he headed the Finance, Legal and Commercial functions. He was Director – Finance of Essar Power, prior to his association with Abhijeet Group. Mr. Krishnan has also founded Pyramid Infrafinance Pvt. Ltd. which focuses on rendering Project Finance Advisory Services.
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VP, Business Development,
Tuas Power Ltd
Mr Ben Lau is the Vice President (Business Development) of Tuas Power Ltd, and is responsible for seeking strategic business options and developing sustainable new businesses that will contribute to the Company’s long-term growth. He has been instrumental in the development of cogeneration/trigeneration for industries, and is actively promoting high efficiency systems as the new paradigm in Singapore’s approach to better energy management.
Prior to his current portfolio, Ben was the Vice President (Retail Business and Regulation) where he formulated and drove the strategies of Tuas Power’s retail operations via its
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Director General,
Korea Electric Power Corporation, KEPCO
▪ Joined KEPCO in 1976
▪ 1999 - 2001 Director, Restructuring Office
▪ 2001 - 2006 Director General, Restructuring Office
▪ 2006 -- Director General, Overseas Project Department
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Head of Risk Management,
Intergen
Michael Lynch is the Head of Risk Management at InterGen Australia. Michael has over 9 years experience working in various risk management related roles in the financial and energy sectors.
During his time at InterGen, a global power generation company, Michael has worked both in Australia and the UK on various projects, including implementation of a global risk management framework and development of proprietary trading book analytics. His current responsibilities include risk management oversight of the energy trading operations and the broader enterprise-wide framework.
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Chief Executive Officer,
Synergy Energy
Jim Mitchell has been Managing Director of Synergy, Western Australia’s largest energy retailer, since January 2006, leading the new energy retailer’s transition and development in the emerging energy market in Western Australia.
Prior to joining Synergy, Jim was Chief Financial Officer of state government owned Ergon Energy in Queensland, both a retail energy business with more than half a million customers in Queensland, NSW, Victoria and the ACT, and a distribution business covering 97% of the state outside the south east corner.
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General Manager for Finance ,
Tata Power
Ashok Mitra is General Manager (Finance) with The Tata Power Co. Ltd. (A USD 1 billion company registered in India) since February 2005.
He has worked on pricing of 2 x 4000 MW ULTRA MEGA POWER PROJECTS including its Legal documents, risk analysis, funding arrangements both overseas and rupee funding. Negotiated commercial contracts of large value. Key member in acquisition of coal mines. Involved in legal documentation, funding, company formation, structuring and tax planning. Dealt all aspects of finance, accounts, commercial and audit of TELECOM BROADBAND and STRATEGIC ELECTRONICS DIVISION. Dealt with Department of Telecommunication on regulations, compliance of statutory rules, etc.
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Dato Che Khalib Mohd Noh, President & CEO,
Tenaga Nasional Berhad
Dato’ Sri Che Khalib bin Mohamad Noh, 42 years of age, was appointed as the President / CEO of TNB on 1 July 2004.
He is a Fellow of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (United Kingdom) and a member of the Malaysian Institute of Accountants.
Dato’ Sri Che Khalib has held several key positions in the private sector. He started his career with Messrs Ernst & Young and later joined Bumiputra Merchant Bankers Berhad. Between 1992 and 1999, he served in several companies within the Renong Group, including Projek Lebuhraya Utara-Selatan, HBN Management Services Sdn Bhd., Renong Overseas Corporation Sdn. Bhd. and Marak Unggul Sdn. Bhd, the consortium company responsible for the management of Keretapi Tanah Melayu Berhad. In June 1999, he joined Ranhill Utilities Berhad as the Chief Executive Officer. He was the Managing Director and Chief Executive of KUB Malaysia Berhad prior to his appointment as President/Chief Executive Officer of TNB.
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Mr Ong is the Chief Operating Officer (COO) of Singapore Power Ltd, from 1 Oct 07.
Prior to that, he was with Temasek Holdings since 2002, holding various portfolios and responsibilities which included Strategic Relations, Strategic Projects, leadership development and business continuity planning. Concurrently, he was the CEO of Temasek Management Services (TMS) which comprised business subsidiaries in the areas of leadership & wealth management education, IT, corporate services and logistics management.
Mr Ong left MINDEF in 2002 as a Brigadier General, after serving the SAF in both command and staff senior positions in diverse fields which included operations, strategic planning, personnel and ground commands.
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Head of Power and CO2 Trading & Origination ,
Endesa
2004 - ….. ENDESA, S. A. Head of Futures Markets. Deputy Manager.
2001 - 2004 ENDESA, S. A. Head of Iberian Trading. First electricity company in Spain.
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Philip Patman, Jr., a licensed attorney, has fourteen years of experience in the electric power and natural gas sectors and in legal practice. His experience has included business development, acquisitions, asset management and divestments. He has had business experience in Asia and the U.S. Mr. Patman is Director of Business Development, Asia, for Globeleq, based in Singapore. At Globeleq, he has pursued generation sector business development opportunities in South Asia, Southeast Asia and the Middle East. He has led teams in both the acquisition and divestment of assets and has executed board level duties in the course of his asset management activities. Mr. Patman has a Juris Doctor from the University of Houston Law Center and a B.A. from the University of Texas at Austin (Plan II).
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Presenter ,
Al Jazeera International
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Investment Officer, Infrastructure,
International Finance Corporation
Mr. Perez has worked at IFC for seven years participating in all phases of the project cycle from business development to portfolio supervision. Mr. Perez has worked mostly on infrastructure projects developed both by private sector companies as well as municipalities and other local public sector entities. His geographic exposure to emerging markets encompasses most regions of the world and he recently moved to Hong Kong to focus on the IFC infrastructure investments in East Asia. Prior to IFC, Mr. Perez worked at Constellation Power, the international investments subsidiary of Baltimore Gas and Electric, and at PDVSA, the Venezuelan state-owned oil company. Mr. Perez holds a degree in Electronic Engineering from Universidad Simon Bolivar, Venezuela, an MBA with focus in finance from the University of Maryland, USA, and is a CFA charterholder.
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Director, Business Development, SE Asia,
BP Asia Pacific
V.V. Rao has worked in the energy industry for 25 years in Power, Gas and LNG. He has taken on increasingly responsible assignments in various parts of the world including Chile, Middle East, USA, Canada, India and Asia-Pacific. His background includes extensive experience in energy commercial origination, business analysis, risk assessment, strategic planning, power system planning/operations. He is currently BP Alternative Energy’s Regional Vice-President for Thermal Power business development in Asia and Europe. BP Alternative Energy is engaged in the business of providing low carbon power solutions in the areas of Wind, Solar, Hydrogen, Gas and other frontier power technologies. Mr. Rao is based in Singapore.
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Secretary of Power,
Ministry of Power
Shri Anil Razdan is presently Secretary to the Government of India, Ministry of Power. He has held various significant assignments in the energy sector in the Government of India and the Government of Haryana. He has been Director/ Joint Secretary with the Department of Atomic Energy, Joint Secretary, Ministry of Power, Additional Secretary and Spl Secretary, with Ministry of Petroleum & Natural Gas in the Government of India. He has also been Financial Commissioner and Principal Secretary, Government of Haryana in the Power, Irrigation and Public Works Departments. He has also worked as Head of Department in the Industries, Tourism, Education, Information, Town and Country Planning, Urban Development/Estates Departments in the Government of Haryana. While at the University of Oxford in 1994-95, he worked on “Energy and Sustainable Development : Global and Indian Perspectives”.
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Secretary ,
Department of Energy
A VISIONARY and an ACTION MAN, VERSATILE and a TOP-CALIBER LEADER, and many say an overachiever who has helped shape history, will now head the Department of Energy (DOE). Secretary Reyes brings to the office formidable credentials as the 9th DOE Secretary since 1978. He has illustrious professional achievements in the realm of public service.
Before his appointment to the DOE, he has served as the Secretary of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR), Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) and Department of National Defense (DND). Other key positions entrusted to him were those of Chairman, National Disaster Coordinating Council (NDCC); Chief, National Anti-Kidnapping Task Force (NAKTF); Chairman, Cabinet Oversight Committee for Anti-Smuggling and Chief, National Anti-Smuggling Task Force; and Chairman, Ad Hoc Study Group on Mindanao Situation, among others.
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He holds degrees in both agronomy and finance and began his career as an Agronomy Engineer in Mexico. He joined AFD in 1988 as investment officer in charge of project finance in the agro-industrial sector in Ivory Coast, in Cameroon and at PROPARCO’s headquarters. In 1995, he was appointed to the cabinet of the French minister of cooperation in charge of economic and financial matters as well as the follow-up for multilateral and European issues. In 1997 he joined the IFC (World Bank group), in charge of finance structuring in Agribusinesses in Brazil, Argentina and Central America. Three years later, Luc Rigouzzo rejoined the AFD Group as the deputy director for the Mediterranean department. In 2001 he received a mandate from Jean-Michel Severino, AFD’s CEO to lead the team in charge of redefining the Group’s strategy. Finally, from 2002 to 2006, he created and was in charge of the department of non-sovereign funding and financial sector which represented 50% of AFD commitment last year.
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Group Director - Corporate Finance & Development ,
CLP Holdings
Mr. Robertsson is a member of the CLP Group Executive Committee and he has responsibility for corporate finance and development activities throughout the Group. He serves as a Director on several CLP affiliates including Roaring 40s’ (50/50 JV with Hydro Tasmania), OneEnergy (50/50 JV with Mitsubishi Corporation), as well as CLP’s subsidiaries in India and Australia. He is also a member of the CLP China Committee. Before assuming his current role, Mr. Robertsson was Head of Corporate Finance and Treasury for CLP’s international business. He has over 14 years of experience in business development, mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance and project finance in the Asia Pacific region.
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Country Director – Indonesia,
Ecosecurities
Agus Sari is Country Director of EcoSecurities in Indonesia. While his main duties are developing and managing projects in Indonesia, he also manages EcoSecurities’ activities and carbon credit portfolio in SAsia. Prior to joining EcoSecurities, Mr. Sari was Executive Director of Pelangi, a leading environmental think tank in Jakarta. He has been involved in the climate change issue since late 1980s, following the international negotiation process from the very beginning as an independent observer as well as a part of the Indonesian Delegation. He also worked for the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley, USA), the National Environmental Trust (Washington DC, USA), and the Indonesian Forum for the Environment (Wahana Lingkungan Hidup Indonesia, Walhi, Jakarta, Indonesia).
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Senior Energy Specialist & Energy Efficiency Thematic Leader, ESMAP Energy, Transport and Water Dep't,
The World Bank
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Senior Advisor Climate Protection,
The Administrative Centre for China's Agenda 21, Ministry of Science and Technology
Dr. Schwegler studied Applied Physical Geography at the University of Trier, Germany. After that he began with his graduation at the University of Essen, Institute of Ecology on air pollution control. Before Dr. Schwegler came to China he was working for PriceWaterhouseCoopers Germany in the field of Environmental and Risk Management.
Since 2004 Dr. Schwegler is working on behalf of CIM program for “The Administrative Centre for China’s Agenda 21”, Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST), Beijing China as Senior Advisor for Climate Protection.
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Advisor Technical,
UTTAR PRADESH RAJYA VIDYUT UTPADAN NIGAM LIMITED
Girish has worked in almost all the fields of Power Sector e.g. Design, Distribution, EHV Engineering, Hydro and Thermal Generation and have been actively involved in Power Systems for over 42 years. He has worked in Design and Distribution and Thermal Power Stations. He has presented a number of technical papers in National and International events. He has been a guest faculty at IIT Roorkee and a life member of Life Member of Indian Society for Continuing Engineering Education, University of Roorkee.
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Project Director for Eastern Region Projects,
The Tata Power Company
Praveer Sinha is a Graduate Engineer with Masters in Business Law from National Law School, Bangalore. He has nearly 23 years experience in developing and setting up of Industrial and Power Projects activities in India He has been closely associated with diverse Industrial Projects such as Integrated Steel Plants, Power Generation projects, etc. He has thorough knowledge in areas like Technology evaluation, Feasibility studies, Legal and Environmental issues, tieing -up of Finances both Debt & Equity and all issues related to development of green field projects. He is presently Project Director (ER) with Tata Power and looking after development and setting up of Power Projects in Eastern and Northern Parts of India.
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Mr. Tam was appointed CEO of AEI Asia Ltd., subsidiary of Ashmore Energy International, in May 2007. Before joining AEI, Colin was the founder, Chairman and CEO of Meiya Power Company Limited (MPC), a leading foreign IPP company in North Asia with a gross ownership of over 10,000 MW installed power generation capacity from 1993 to 2007. Having over 30 years of experience in the power business, Colin has a deep understanding and broad knowledge of the power industry and its related regulatory environment both in the United States and Asia. During his career with AEP and Air Products and Chemicals, Inc., Mr. Tam held several senior positions in various influential national trade organizations in the US. He is currently Chairman of Energy Committee of the American Chamber of Commerce in Hong Kong, Standing Director of the National China Investment Association and Vice Chairman of its Foreign Investors Committee, and the founder and current Chairman of the Independent Power Producers Forum (IPPF) in Asia.
Mr. Tam was born in China, raised in Hong Kong, and received his college education in UK and USA. He currently resides in Hong Kong and has lived there since 1993.
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Commissioner ,
Energy Regulatory Commission
Mr. Rauf A. Tan is a Certified Public Accountant with over 20 years of extensive experience in the electric power industry in the fields of finance, marketing, management, utility economics and privatization. This has provided him a sound and a firm background to be an effective energy regulator as he is currently a Commissioner of the Energy Regulatory Commission of the Philippines. His oversight functions include economic regulation, market monitoring and retail competition.
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Vice President (Production),
Senoko Power Limited
Tan Cheng Teck is Vice President (Production) of Senoko Power Ltd, in charge of the energy production aspect of the Group.
Cheng Teck is a registered Professional Engineer with Professional Engineer Board, Singapore and a member of Institute of Engineers, Singapore.
Cheng Teck has participated in the Singapore Grid Council and Industry Consultative Committee. He is a member of the Technical Working Group for the National Electricity Market of Singapore.
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Vice President,
CRA International Ltd
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Vice President ,
CRA International
Michael Thomas is an expert in economic and public policy analysis with nearly 20 years experience advising clients on economic, commercial, strategic and policy matters. He brings a broad perspective to the problems affecting energy sector clients, having worked on market design and development, commercial valuation and regulatory strategy assignments in New Zealand and throughout the Asia Pacific region, as well as in the USA. He has testified or prepared economic evidence in matters ranging from transmission investment and cost recover to the recovery of costs of market institutions and the application of appropriate analytical frameworks. Over the past ten years, he has led or contributed significantly to significant assignments for energy sector stakeholders in Australia, Hong Kong, Malaysia, New Zealand, Singapore, South Korea and Thailand.
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Vice President,
CRA International
Greg Thorpe is a Vice President of CRA International, an international business and economics consulting firm and he heads CRA’s Energy and Environment practice in Australia and New Zealand.
He started his career as a power system engineer over 30 years ago and has qualifications in engineering, business, and arbitration & mediation.
From the early 1990s he played a significant role in reform of the electricity sector in Australia that lead to the creation of the National Electricity Market (NEM) and has contributed to gas sector reform. He was an Associate Director of the National Electricity Code Administrator from before the launch of the NEM, until he moved to CRA in 2001. For CRA he has led many multi disciplinary projects combining economic, regulatory and industry expertise for both Australian electricity markets, and market in New Zealand, Canada, Singapore, Philippines and Malaysia.
His recent and current projects address market sustainability, the effects of climate change policy options, investment analysis, market price forecasts, distributed generation, transmission planning and governance, market design, monitoring and surveillance and gas market design.
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Responsible for developing the renewable energy as part of the entire energy portfolio. Wind energy occupies the pedestal position and ESSAR is committed to become end to end solution provider in the wind space in the global market.
Esaar Power has been hitherto operating 515 MW combined cycle power plant in the western coast of India for last 10 years fuelled on the indigenous natural gas and now under further expansion. I was initially involved in pushing the expansion process. Organisation is in a fast growth mode. Essar has set up a new business development group headed by me for an accelerated expansion of the power projects in India and overseas.
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H.E. Dr. Bosaykham Vongdara, Minister ,
Ministry of Energy and Mines
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Director General Department of Energy ,
Ministry of Trade and Industry
Appointed as the Director General of the Department of Energy of the Royal Government of Bhutan, and also continuing to hold the charges of the Managing Director of CHPCL. The Department of Energy (DOE) is the agency responsible, on behalf of the Royal Government of Bhutan, for looking after the energy sector and ensuring compliance with the energy policies and goals as are mandated by the Royal Government. Its main role is to effectively promote hydropower development to achieve economic self-reliance, foster the sustainable use of other forms of renewable energy in the kingdom and ensure energy security of the Nation. As an apex agency of the government in all matters of power and energy, the DOE is responsible for carrying out overall co-ordination with and monitoring of all power corporations and project bodies to ensure achievement of national objectives in the energy sector.
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Senior Vice President for Environment & Safety ,
American Electric Power
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President Director,
PT PLN (Persero) Indonesia
1990 - 1995 : Head of Network Operation & Logistic
Subdivision - PT PLN Head Office
1995 - 1998 :Director of Commercial & Development
PT PLN PJB I
1998 - 2001 : Director of Marketing & Distribution
PT PLN (Persero)
2001 - now : President Director - PT PLN (Persero)
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Vice President ,
Motorwave Co.
Mr. Woodring started working with Motorwave in 2005 when his experience and interest with both the environment and water sports led him to quickly understand the potential of this new wave technology being invented in Hong Kong. As a technology entrepreneur, he has worked with some of the leading media and energy related technologies in their respective areas, many of which have been regional or global “firsts.”
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Executive Vice President & President - Asia and Middle East ,
AES Transpower Pte Ltd
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John Yeap is a Partner at the international law firm Pinsent Masons. John has focussed as a power industry lawyer for nearly 15 years. He joined CLP Group in 1995 as internal counsel and was involved with CLP's international business for around 8 years before re-joining private practice. Over this period, John has worked on various power transactions across Asia. With a particular focus on power generation, John also advises on power transmission projects, including the recent privatisation of the Philippine TRANSCO. His current or recent mandates include advising on power BOT in Vietnam and renewable energy in China.
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CEO,
CitySpring Infrastructure Management Pte. Ltd.
Prior to joining the Trustee-Manager, Mr Au Yeung was with Barclays Bank Group, and then JP Morgan and more recently CK Life Sciences Int'l., Inc. which is part of the Cheung Kong Group. During his 17 years in the banking industry, Mr Au Yeung led many transactions in the infrastructure, power and utilities sectors in Asia, Australia, Europe and North America. For example, he has advised a number of Asian governments on their privatisation plans for the power industry, and was involved in each of the first power plant privatisations in Thailand, Australia and Northern Ireland. He has advised a number of Asian utility and infrastructure companies on their merger and acquisition plans, including the first merger of two listed Chinese power companies.
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H.E. Dr. Purnomo Yusgiantoro, Minister,
Ministry of Energy & Mineral Resources
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Endorsed by:
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our distinguished speakers
 Nick Akins
Executive VP for Generation
American Electric Power, USA
 Mark Woodruff
Executive VP & President, Asia & Middle East Region
AES Corporation, USA
 Alan Chan
Chairman & CEO
Meiya Power,
Hong Kong
 Roy Adair
President & CEO
Senoko Power, Singapore
 Fai Au Yeung
CEO
CitySpring Infrastructure Trust, Singapore
 Eddie Widiono
President Director
PT PLN (Persero), Indonesia
 Colin Tam
CEO
AEI Asia, Hong Kong
 Mark TakahashiCEO
One Energy,
Hong Kong
 Fazil Erwin Alfitri
CEO PT Medco Power, Indonesia
 Ong Boon HweeCOO
Singapore Power, Singapore
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Pre-Conference Summit:
Capital Raising Summit
(sponsored by RW Beck)
31th Mar 9am - 6pm
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