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. As CEO of Yallourn Energy and Managing Director of Powergen Australia, Roy was actively involved in the establishment of the National Electricity Market where he formed and chaired the National Generators Forum and was a Director and Board member of the Electricity Supply Association of Australia and VENCorp, the Victorian Energy Corporation. Roy has a passionate interest in the development of efficient and transparent electricity markets.

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.

Present Government Positions : • Director General, Hamriyah Free Zone Authority. • Director General, Sharjah Sea Ports. • Director General, Sharjah Customs. Other Experiences : • Gas Plant Manager, Amoco Sharjah Oil Company (Had Scholarship from the Government to study Petroleum Engineering while working with Amoco Oil Company). • Chairman and Founder of Alleem Corporation, Sharjah. Honor’s Received: • Honorary PHD degree from Somali National University from Somalia in recognition to the humanitarian services. • Official member of International WHO's WHO of professional’s from USA for Administrative skills. • Honorary Membership in Humanitarian Services from Islamic Supreme Council of Ethiopia. • Executive Member of the Committee of the Word of Gratitude to the Ex-President of the UAE Late Sheikh Zayed Sultan Al Nahyan. • Referred in Dr. Kifa Ayyash‘s Golden Experiences as among the “Top 100 Influential leaders of the Arabic World”. • Certificate in completing A Decade of Safe work in the operations from Amoco Sharjah Oil Company. • Honorary PHD from Atlantic International University (USA) in recognition to social and economic activities. • The International Arch of Europe Award in the Diamond Category. • Recognition as one of the Khaleej Times City Celebrity in the U.A.E. • Certificate of recognition from Microsoft International Company for Intellectual Properties Protection & developing Computer Software's in organisations worked in. • Member of Honourable International Council, Spain for quality by Business Initiative Directions. • Achievement Award from League of Arab States 5th Marketing Conference held in city of Al Hamamath in Tunisia. • Man of Achievement Award in International Freezone held in New Delhi, India. • Golden Honorary Member in the French Management Association Club (OMAC). • Golden Medal from the Mayor of Cannes, France in 9th Water Symposium in recognition for International effort and supporting research and strategies in Saving Water. Qualification : • Certificate in Intensive English Program from Language Centre of the Pacific from the USA. • First Certificate in English from the University of Cambridge from the UK. • High Diploma in Petroleum Refinery from International Correspondence School, Pennsylvania (USA). • Bachelor of Science with a major in Business Management from Atlantic International University. (USA) • Masters in Business Administration from an International University affiliated to Atlantic International University (USA). • PHD in Business Administration from American Global University, Florida, Miami. Social Volunteering Responsibilities : • Board Member of Sharjah Health Care Advisory Committee. • Board Member and Director General of Sharjah Charity International (Sharjah based relief organization). [On voluntary basis]. • Member of the Advisory Committee of the Higher College of Technology. • Board Member of Sharjah Port Services. • Board Member of Sharjah Cold Storage Company. • Board member of Omar Bin Abdul Aziz School for teaching “Quran”. • Member of Business Development Committee of American Business Council of Dubai and the Northern Emirates. • Board Member of Al Qassimi Hospital. • Board Member of Sharjah Education Council. • Governing Body Member of World Association for Small and Medium Enterprises (WASME), India. • Member of World Trade Development Council in Hong Kong. • Board Member of Council of Trustee in Dar Al Marif Islamic University in Bangladesh. Experiences : • Lectured in numerous Local and International Universities and attended several International Conferences, Seminars in Arabic and English. • Involved in several missions for Humanitarian Causes. (World wide). • Certified writer by the UAE Federal Government, written numerous books , Newsletters etc. for Executives , Business Personnel’s and Professionals ( both in Arabic and English Languages). • Member of Arab Environment and Development Forum. • Member of “Arabisation Governing Committee” formed to translate Franklin Covey’s books, to Arabic. • Participation in number of International courses in Industrial, Administrative and economical field in several countries like U.S.A, U.K, Japan, Holland, Singapore, Egypt, South Korea, Vietnam etc. • Represent Government of Sharjah for Gas, LPG, Oil Selling to Japan to South Korea. Skills: • Expert in Project / Program Management. • Expert in Marketing Strategies. • Strong leadership networking and communication skills. • Excellent team building and team leading skills. Key Competencies  Calm leadership in pressurized or sensitive situations.  Creative thinking and providing innovative solutions.  Ability to improve quality and performance via key management strategies.  Ability to engage at all levels, delegate and motivate teams to deliver.  Devising tailored strategies and implementing detailed action plans.  Friendly with a natural capacity to connect and build strong client rapports.  Highly efficient, pragmatic and results-orientated.

Husain A. Babur is Director (industry Structure and Privatization) at the National Electric Power Regulatory Authority (NEPRA), Pakistan. He has over 28 years of rich and varied experience mainly in infrastructure finance, privatization and financial sector restructuring. He has lead managed regulatory approval for the privatization of a 1600 MW integrated electric power utility, developed tariff model for over 29.0 GwH electricity distribution network, was part of policy making which attracted over 6000 MW of IPPs and is presently managing development of power markets in Pakistan. He has worked as a World Bank consultant, as USAID Private Sector Specialist and was Executive Director at a major financial advisory and brokerage firm in Pakistan. He has Advanced MA Certificate in Economics of Law and Regulation and a MA in Economics from State University of New York at Buffalo, USA and a MBA from Cook School of Business, Saint Louis University, USA.

Rob Broadstock heads Sales and Solution Consulting at Oracle’s Utilities Global Business Unit (formerly SPL WorldGroup). He joined SPL in 1997. Previously he worked as a consultant in application development and package evaluation methodologies in a wide range of industries and applications. Rob has over 11 years of experience implementing, architecting, demonstrating and selling software solutions for the utility industry, with project experience across the world. He holds Bachelors degrees in Arts (linguistics) from the University of Melbourne, and Applied Science (computer science), from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology.

Mr. S. Chandrasekhar is Managing Director of Bhoruka Power Corporation Limited, a leading Renewable Energy Developer in the country. The company has received several awards in the field of “Green Power”. An Electrical Engineer and Alumnus of London Business School, he has been associated with power sector in India for over 30 years and has worked in several reputed Companies. Mr. Chandrasekhar is the Past President of Bangalore Chamber of Industry & Commerce (BCIC), current Chairman of ITI Task Force BCIC, Member - National Steering Committee, World Bank ITI Project, Ministry of Labour, Government of India, Chairman Hydro Sub Committee, CII Renewable Energy Council, Convener – Energy & Environment Panel, CII Karnataka. He is also a member of the Advisory Board, Karnataka Electricity Regulatory Commission, and a Resource Person to speak on the subject of Renewable Energy in various Fora, both in India and abroad. He has also presented several papers in India and abroad on the subject of Renewable Energy, Open Access Policy etc.

Joined Sarawak Electricity Supply Corporation (SESCo) in May 1978 as meters & protection engineer. From there on been assign to various post both in planning and operational capacity within the company. In 1985 was promoted to Head of Transmission & Engineering Services Department, entrusted with the operation, design & construction of the grid and construction of power plants. In 2000 assigned as Head of Distribution & Marketing Department responsible for the design, construction and operation of the Distribution Network and Marketing Business of SESCo. In 2004 reassigned back to Transmission Department as General Manager. In 2006 promoted to Chief Operating Officer with direct responsibility for Distribution & Marketing. In July 2008 promoted as Chief Operating Officer of the Holding Company, Sarwak Energy Berhad responsible for the operation of the electricity busness from generation, transmission, distribution, marketing and retail.

Nino has over 20 years’ experience in the Australian energy industry. Having led SPI PowerNet since 2001 he now leads SP AusNet in the role of CEO. Nino brings to his position an intimate knowledge of the market forces and regulatory policies that shape the Australian national electricity market.

Glen is from Australia and has been working with IBM whilst resident in Singapore and China in the last eight years. He has had vast experience in Communications, Utilities and Asset Intensive industries. His work with Utilities over the last few years has spanned Asia Pacific; focused on helping customers develop and implement Smart Grid strategies. During the 1990’s and the late 1980’s Glen managed a number of startup businesses and was formerly the General Manager of a Telecommunications startup that was acquired by AT&T in 1993. He was also Principal of two Consulting Business orientated around the critical processes in the Energy and Petrochemical industries – specializing in Asset Management and Abnormal Situation Management. Mr. Garner holds a number of technical and business qualifications in Communications, Electronics, IT and Management including a Masters of Business and Technology from the University of NSW.

A power sector veteran of nearly 3 decades, Mr Ghosh has been with North Delhi Power Ltd. since November 2005. He brings with him extensive learning in Transmission and Distribution operations restructuring of the power sector and institutional strengthening of electricity utilities to enable them to cope with regulatory controls. This learning, garnered through association with electricity utilities in India and Mauritius, equips him well to tackle the enormous challenges in reforming the electricity business at Delhi. As Chief Operating Officer his core responsibilities are Project Engineering, Network Operations, Materials Management, Power Procurement and Commercial Management including Customer Care. He supported the Chief Executive Officer in tackling the daunting challenge of turning around a state owned loss making utility and making it a commercially viable independent entity. Now that the Utility is profitable the next targets are improving efficiency. The tasks at hand are reducing AT&C losses, improving the quality of supply by efficiently investing in Plant and equipment setting in place world class systems and procedures and significantly investing in human resource to build a committed team Mr Ghosh is a self confessed team player and firmly believes it’s the team with a responsive leader which would ultimately make the difference and be the force to reckon with. Between March 2002 and September 2005, as Transmission and Distribution Manager (later as Adviser) at Central Electricity Board, Mauritius, Mr, Ghosh was responsible for all T&D matters including materials management, human resource and administration. Simultaneously he anchored the effort to internally restructure the state owned utility to effectively face a regulatory environment. He worked closely with the Government of Mauritius and multilateral financial institutions in framing new legislation that would allow restructuring of the utility sector. During his tenure at Mauritius, the organisation was thoroughly restructured involving major redeployment of human resource after training, T&D infrastructure was significantly expanded operations were almost fully automated and systems were put in place to reduce costs and dramatically improve efficiency. The business environment was also altered with that country’s parliament voting into law the required changes in the legal framework. Prior to Mauritius, Mr Ghosh was with CESC Ltd. (earlier known as Calcutta Electric Supply Co. Ltd.) from March 1979 to March 2002. In these 23 years he journeyed from Graduate Engineer Trainee to Deputy General Manager, being associated with almost the entire spectrum of Transmission and Distribution activity at increasing levels of responsibility. During the latter years he had the opportunity to leverage his technical and commercial competencies to advice on the restructuring of the electricity sector at Haryana and Andhra Pradesh as a consultant in World Bank funded assignments. These were in addition to his line function responsibilities at CESC. In between, he led the operational aspects of the very first electricity privatisation experiment in the country at Greater Noida. For 2 years he was deputed from CESC to Noida Power Co. Ltd. as General Manager (Engineering). Prior to CESC, Mr Ghosh had worked for 2 years in the electrical manufacturing industry, initially with The National Insulated Cable Co. of India Ltd. and subsequently with Crompton Greaves Ltd. Mr Ghosh is an alumnus of Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur. Subsequently he has received formal training in general management at Administrative Staff College of India, Hyderabad (MDP), Indian Institute of Management, Kolkata (EDP) and Xavier Labour Relations Institute, Jamshedpur (EDP). He has also received training in regulatory matters from Institute of Public-Private Partnerships Inc (IP3), Washington D.C.

He completed a Bachelors degree in Electrical Engineering at University of Brighton, Sussex, United Kingdom in 1973 and also holds a Masters in Business Administration from Ohio University. Started work with the National Electricity Board which was later corporatised to be known as Tenaga Nasional Berhad. He has gathered a wide expanse of experience over 30 years of career advances in Tenaga Nasional Berhad, covering Operations and Maintenance, Power Plant Project, EPC and Corporate Office Management. In 1998, he was seconded to the Economic Planning Unit in the Prime Minister’s Department, to assist in the studies for the restructuring of the Malaysia Electricity Supply Industry. He was the Vice President of Generation Division (from April 2004 – 31 December 2007), charged with the responsibility of development and operations of generation facilities for the TNB Supply Network. As of 1st January 2008, he has been appointed as the Senior Vice President of Corporate Affairs.

Shri S. Majumdar has got 32 years of working experience in Power Sector after a brief stint of working in private companies for two years in the beginning. Started professional career with Damodar Valley Corporation in November, 1974 and joined NTPC in November, 1979 as Sr. Engineer (Operation Services) where he worked in different capacities before joining POWERGRID in 1991 as one of the founder member. In POWERGRID, during these fifteen (15) years of association, headed various key depts. like Corporate Planning, Corporate Communications, Contracts Services, Materials Management and Distribution Management Services before taking over the charge of Director (Projects). His contribution has resulted in POWERGRID to be recognized as the largest and one of the best among the Central Transmission Utility not only in the country, but also at international level.

Dr Pallapa Ruangrong is a Commissioner on Thailand’s Energy Regulatory Commission, established in January 2008. The ERC has responsibility for the regulation of Thailand’s power and gas sectors and includes authority for licensing operators, regulating energy security, safety, efficiency and standards, power and gas tariffs and power purchase. The ERC is an autonomous agency reporting to Thailand’s National Energy Policy Commission. Prior to her appointment to the ERC, Dr. Pallapa was a senior official of the State Enterprise Policy Office, a department within the Thai Ministry of Finance responsible for the regulation and supervision of Thailand’s state owned enterprises. Focussing on market structure policy, regulation and commercialization across a number of sectors, Dr. Pallapa was responsible for the preparation of restructuring plans for the transport sector, the corporatization of the energy, telecom and transport utilities including PTT, AOT, CAT, TOT and Thailand Post and the supervision and performance monitoring of a range of state enterprises. She was also a member of the committees responsible for the listing on the Stock Exchange of Thailand of Ratchaburi, PTT and AOT as well as a number of private participation projects including EGCO and the AOT concessions. Before joining the Ministry of Finance, Dr. Pallapa was a senior officer of the National Energy Policy Office responsible for power and gas regulation having commenced her government service at the National Economic and Social Development Board working on energy projects.

Tony has over 20 years experience in the infrastructure/utilities industries and been with UMS for over 10 years, project leading complex strategic asset management, optimization, benchmarking, and operational projects. His clients include all major electric and water urban Australasian utilities and a vast majority worldwide from UK/ Europe, USA, and Asia.

Mr. Schipper is Managing Director – Europe at UMS Group. He has 14 years of management and consulting experience in energy and utilities. Prior to UMS Group he was director Asset Management at Nuon the second largest distribution company in the Netherlands.

Mr Sim Kwong Mian, Managing Director, SP PowerGrid Ltd, has been with Singapore Power for 13 years. Prior to this, he was with the Public Utilities Board for 18 years. SP PowerGrid Ltd today manages the transmission and distribution of electricity and gas in Singapore. Within the Singapore Power Group, Mr Sim serves as Director on the boards of SPI Management Services Pty Ltd, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Singapore Power located in Australia, SP Telecommunications Pte Ltd and SP Global Solutions Pte Ltd. He is also Chairman of Power Automation Pte Ltd, a joint venture company of Singapore Power and Siemens. Mr Sim is a registered Professional Engineer with the Professional Engineers Board, Singapore, and a Senior Member of the Institution of Engineers, Singapore. He holds a Bachelor of Engineering (Electrical) degree from the University of Singapore, a Master of Science (Electrical) from the University of Manchester Institute of Science & Technology, UK and a Diploma in Management Studies from the Singapore Institute of Management. He has also completed the Advanced Management Program at the Harvard Business School, USA.

Shri Berjinder Singh joined the Delhi Electricity Regulatory Commission on 16th February, 2006 to be the second Chairman of this Commission. Before joining the Commission Sh. Singh was Chairman, Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT), Govt. of India. Sh. Singh brought with him multifarious experience of working for more than 37 years in different capacities in the Ministry of Finance, Government of India and the Indian Income Tax Department. After graduating in Law from Punjab University, Chandigarh in 1966, Sh. Singh joined Indian Revenue Service (IRS) in 1968. Before joining DERC he was actively associated with functional and operational analysis of power sector conducted regularly by the Central Board of Direct Taxes, Government of India to assess capital requirements, investment patterns, tariff structure, depreciation profile and profitability of the sector, for providing tax incentives to the sector. He has overseen formulation of specific provisions under the Income Tax Act to encourage generation of power and improve infrastructure for transmission and distribution. With the support of Government of National Capital Territory of Delhi, he carried forward the pace of reforms in the electricity sector to ensure that Delhi maintains its pioneer status in this field. It is due to his vision, leadership qualities and common sense approach that the Aggregate Technical and Commercial (AT&C) loss level in Delhi has come down from around 52% in 2002-03 to around 26% in 2007-08. Some of the landmark regulations, which mark a new era in power sector regulation in Delhi, i.e. Delhi Electricity Supply Code and Performance Standards Regulations, 2007; the Multi Year Tariff Regulations, 2007 for generation, transmission and distribution utilities; and the Open Access Regulations, 2007 being the more significant ones, were issued after he took over. In 2008 the Commission also issued its first tariff order under the Multi Year Tariff regime for the Control period 2007-11. The lead taken by him was well recognized when the DERC was conferred the “Power Market Enabler Award for Excellence in Development of Power Sector”, in 2007 by the leading infrastructure magazine in the country namely ‘Infraline’. The role of DERC in actively promoting interest of Delhi Electricity Consumers, involving them in the Commission’s activities continually and for a host of pioneering regulatory reforms carried out by the Commission recently are worth special mention. He has also been laying strong emphasis on strengthening the grievances redressal mechanism for consumers, both within the Utilities and independent of them.

Wade Smith is vice president – Transmission Engineering & Project Services, AEP Transmission, responsible for directing the capital service function in Transmission, with responsibility for Transmission Asset Management, transmission projects engineering and the project and construction management groups. These responsibilities include development of transmission engineering standards, transmission system planning, engineering and design of new or refurbished transmission line and substation facilities, project and construction management, capital cost management, right-of-way/property acquisition, and transmission system maintenance program management. His duties also include the development and application of performance measures and conducting competitive surveillance to evaluate cost effectiveness of asset management and service provider processes and to provide direction of strategic and tactical transmission business plans. He also ensures that the Transmission Engineering & Project services organization will be position to implement the organisation’s growing capital plans that have been developed in alignment with the company’s long- term Transmission strategy and aids in developing vendor alliances in support of those capital plans Prior to joining AEP Transmission in February 2008 as managing director – transmission, Smith was director, Gas Turbine & Joint venture – Generation, where he was responsible for AEP’s combustion turbine-based generation in the east, the company’s wind generation facilities and the jointly-owned coal plants that are not operated by AEP. Before assuming that role, he was executive director – IPP & director of Florida Operations for CSW Energy from 1995 – 2000 and managed the partnerships that owned 2 cogeneration facilities in central Florida. Smith began his career with the former Central and South West Corporation in 1989 as an engineer at Fort Phantom Power Station in Abilene, Texas. He worked for several years at Oklaunion Station and was plant manager at Oak Creek. Smith earned a Bachelor of Science degree in mechanical engineering from Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas, and a master of business administration degree from Abilene Christian University in Abilene, Texas.

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. Mr Thomas began his career with Putnam, Hayes & Bartlett (PHB) in the USA in 1988 and moved to New Zealand in 1997. He launched and headed CRA’s operations in New Zealand in late 2000. Based now in Hong Kong, he heads CRA’s energy practice in Asia.

Greg Thorpe has extensive experience in the energy utility sector starting as power system engineer over 30 years ago in Victoria, Australia. He heads CRA's energy practice in Australia and New Zealand and is based in Melbourne. He leads multi disciplinary teams of economists, engineers and policy analysts to assist businesses and market authorities with commercial and regulatory questions in both electricity and gas. He was at the centre of much of the reform that led to the creation of the Australian National Electricity Market (NEM) and its initial years of operation as an Associate Director of the National Electricity Code Administrator. Since joining CRA in 2001 he has led a range of influential projects for market authorities in the national and Western Australian electricity markets and the competitive bidding market for gas in Victoria. He specialises in market design and governance, transmission and system reliability issues. Greg has also worked for clients in Canada, Singapore, Philippines, Malaysia, New Zealand and South Africa and he has sat as a member of panels hearing disputes under market rules in both gas and electricity.

Susan Tomasky is president - AEP Transmission, responsible for Transmission operations and new transmission business ventures. She reports to the chairman. Prior to this, since 2006, she was executive vice president - Shared Services, responsible for human resources, information technology and telecommunications, procurement and supply chain services. She served as EVP and chief financial officer from 2001 to 2006, and prior to that was the company’s EVP and general counsel, serving in that position from 1998 to 2001. Prior to joining AEP, Tomasky was a partner with the Washington, D.C., office of Hogan & Hartson, where she was a member of the firm's energy group. From 1993-97, she served as general counsel of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), where she was a primary legal and policy advisor to the commission. Tomasky has testified before Congress, other federal agencies and state utility commissions on a wide range of federal regulatory issues. She serves on the board of the Keystone Institute and is a frequent speaker on industry restructuring issues. In 2001 and 2002, she was named one of the world's "50 key women in energy worldwide" by energy consultancy Rader Energy in association with Commodities Now magazine and corporate sponsors. A native of Morgantown, W.Va., Tomasky holds a juris doctor degree with honors from George Washington University National Law Center in Washington, D.C., where she was a member of the Law Review. She also is an honors graduate of the University of Kentucky in Lexington. Tomasky participates in numerous civic and community activities. She is a member of the board of the United Way, the Columbus Symphony Orchestra, the Columbus School for Girls, and Mount Carmel Health Systems. She was named a Woman of Achievement for 2008. She lives in Columbus with her husband, Ronald Ungvarsky, and their daughter, Victoria.

Bradley Williams is currently Vice President of Oracle Utilities Global Business Unit’s Product Management responsible for Outage Management, Distribution Management, Mobile Workforce Management, and Work and Asset Management utility applications. Brad had more than 23-years utility technology innovation experience. Prior to Oracle, Brad was a Research Director in Gartner’s Energy & Utilities Industry Advisory Services focusing on utility applications of GIS, SCADA/EMS/DMS, Outage and Work Management, and Transmission & Distribution Asset Management research. Prior to being a Research Analyst, Brad directed PacifiCorp’s T&D Asset Management responsible for long-term asset strategies and Business Technology that developed and implemented comprehensive IT investment programs. As Director of T&D Infrastructure Planning, Brad was responsible for PacifiCorp’s Subtransmission Planning, Telecommunications, and operations Technology Development groups. Brad also worked at Southern California Edison where he was involved in transmission system planning, distribution automation, and reliability programs.

John is a Partner with international law firm Pinsent Masons. His 17 years of Asian based energy experience includes working with sponsors, lenders and governments across Asia. He has handled project and acquisition financings, M&A, restructurings and privatisations, involving single asset Greenfield projects through to entire asset portfolios. John spent nine years at CLP Group (China Light & Power), giving him a unique combination of legal and business management experience, together with an in-depth understanding of the energy industry across Asia. His current or recent mandates include advising on the development of a USD2bn greenfield BOT project in Vietnam with AES Transpower as the sponsor, the USD3.95bn privatisation of the national transmission network of the Philippines to a consortium that includes China State Grid, and also the ongoing virtual generation sales of contracted capacity in the Philippines. John is recognised as a leading project development lawyer, and was named in Euromoney's Guide to the World's Leading Energy and Natural Resource Lawyers, as well as being named as a Projects Infrastructure and Energy lawyer in Chambers Asia 2009.

In 22 years as a professional journalist, Glenn van Zutphen has done most jobs in print, radio and television news -- while living in the U.S., Japan, Switzerland, Hong Kong and Singapore. He is the founder and owner of VanMedia, a Singapore-based media consultancy. His work focuses on television production, freelance journalism projects, Journalist training, Media training for executives and Seminar Moderating & Facilitating. Most recently as Executive Producer of The May Lee Show, he co-developed Asia’s First pan-regional talk show produced for the modern women of Asia. The first season was on STAR World from the Philippines to the Middle East. Prior to that, as News Editor for CNBC Asia/Pacific in Singapore, he oversaw the daily editorial content, direction and news coverage at the network’s Asia headquarters and for bureaus around the Asia-Pac region. He also field-produced series on the Korean Economy and the 2004 Asian Tsunami. While a Producer, Anchor & Reporter at CNN International, van Zutphen helped to cover stories ranging from the NATO-led bombing of Yugoslavia and Millennium celebrations, to Gulf War II and the War Against Terror. Prior to CNNI, van Zutphen was an Anchor, Reporter & Producer for Hong Kong’s Wharf Cable Television covering local and regional stories before, during and after the 1997 handover to China. In Switzerland and Japan he worked for ABC News Radio (U.S.) and USA today newspaper. While in Tokyo he was also a television and radio broadcaster for NHK. A native of Chicago, Illinois USA, Van Zutphen has permanent resident status in Singapore, where he lives with his wife and daughter. He is the immediate past-President of the Foreign Correspondents Association of Singapore (2007-2008) and is an active member of the FCA Executive Committee. He is also an active member of the Singapore Press Club.