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Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong
Speaking at: Singapore Energy Lecture
Mr. Lee Hsien Loong has been Singapore’s third Prime Minister since 2004. He was first elected Member of Parliament in 1984 as a candidate of the People's Action Party (PAP) in Teck Ghee Constituency and has been re-elected in five consecutive elections, most recently in 2006. Before becoming Prime Minister, Mr Lee held Ministerial appointments in Trade and Industry, Defence and Finance. He was also Deputy Prime Minister for 14 years, with responsibility for economic and civil service matters.
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Mr S. Iswaran
Senior Minister of State for Trade & Industry and Education
Speaking at: Singapore Energy Summit
S. Iswaran is the Senior Minister of State for Trade & Industry and Education, and is also a member of the Parliament of Singapore. On 1 July 2006, he was appointed Minister of State for Trade & Industry, and on 1 April 2008, he was appointed Senior Minister of State for Trade & Industry.
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Mr Tsunehisa Katsumata
Chairman, Tokyo Electric Power Company
Speaking at: Singapore Energy Summit
Mr Tsunehisa Katsumata has been Chairman of the Board and Representative Director of The Tokyo Electric Power Company since 2008. He joined the company in 1963, and his previous titles include Deputy Director of Planning, Director of Planning, Managing Director, Vice President and Chief Director of New Business Promotion in the Company. He obtained his Bachelor's degree of Economics from The University of Tokyo in 1963.
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H.E. Abdullah Bin Hamad Al-Attiyah
Deputy Premier, and Minister of Energy and Industry of the State of Qatar
Speaking at: Singapore Energy Summit
Abdullah Bin Hamad is the Energy and Industry Minister and the Deputy Prime Minister of Qatar, and the former President of OPEC. He is the chairman of Qatar Petroleum and its subsidiaries. His Excellency started his career in 1972 with the Ministry of Finance and Petroleum of Qatar. He held the post of Head of International and Public Relations at the Ministry from 1973. He has also served as the Director of the Office of the Minister of Finance and Petroleum, director of the Office of the Minister of Interior and the Acting Minister of Finance and Petroleum. Since 1992, Abdullah Bin Hamad Al-Attiyah has been the Minister of Energy and Industry. In 2003 he was appointed as the Second Deputy Prime Minister and in 2007 became Deputy Prime Minister.
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Julie Beatty
Principal Economist at Wood Mackenzie
Speaking at: Energy Industries in a Carbon-Constrained Future Roundtable
Julie joined Wood Mackenzie as the Head of Energy Markets and Principal Economist in 2008. Julie has over twenty years of experience in the resources industry in consulting to leading stakeholders across the metals and mining value chain, as well as leading research and strategy within a corporate team for the global leader in the resources industry.
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Dr Alf Bjørseth
Chairman & CEO, Scatec AS
Speaking at: Singapore Energy Summit
Alf Bjørseth earned his Doctor Phil. degree in physical chemistry from the University of Oslo, Norway in 1979.
In 1994, he started ScanWafer and later three other companies, that merged into Renewable Energy Corporation (REC), where Dr. Bjorseth served as President and CEO from the start until 2005.
He is now running his private company, Scatec AS, where the main objective is to establish new companies based on the latest technologies in the areas of renewable energy and advanced materials.
Dr. Bjørseth is a member of the Norwegian Academy of Sciences and The Norwegian Academy of Technical Sciences, and has been honoured as Commander of The Royal Order of St. Olav
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Mr Nobuo Tanaka
Executive Director, International Energy Agency (IEA)
Speaking at: Singapore Energy Summit
Nobuo Tanaka took over as Executive Director of the IEA on 1 September 2007. Prior to that, he had been Director for Science, Technology and Industry at the Paris-based Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). Mr. Tanaka began his career in 1973 in the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) in Tokyo. He has extensive national government and international experience within METI, the Embassy of Japan in Washington D.C. and the OECD.
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Mr Michael Liebreich
CEO, Bloomberg New Energy Finance
Speaking at: Singapore Energy Summit
In addition to being CEO of the leading independent provider of information and research to investors in clean energy and the carbon markets, Michael Liebreich serves as a Member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on Alternative Energies, Advisory Board Member for the Energy and Climate Change working group for the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) and Steering Group Member for a number of IEA RETD projects.
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Dr Peter Taylor
Head, Energy Technology Policy Division, International Energy Agency
Moderator at: Singapore Energy Summit
Dr Peter Taylor leads the IEA division that analyses and promotes the role of energy technologies in achieving the three goals of the IEA: energy security, economic development and environmental protection. Prior to the IEA, Peter was Technical Director of Future Energy Solutions (a business of AEA Technology plc), a major UK energy and environmental consultancy, and had spent 15 years working in both research and consultancy on a range of national and international energy and climate change policy issues. He holds a PhD in Energy Economics from Imperial College, London.
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Mr Tomas Nauclér
Director, McKinsey & Company
Moderator at: Singapore Energy Summit
Tomas Nauclér is a director in McKinsey´s Stockholm office, where he joined the firm in 1992. He has primarily worked with European utilities and basic materials companies on strategic and growth related topics. Between 1995 and 1997 he worked at McKinsey´s Seattle office primarily within the energy sector in Canada. He was until recently the leader of McKinsey’s Global Energy and Materials sector in Scandinavia. He is currently the Co-leader of McKinsey’s Sustainability and Resource Productivity Practice (SRP). Tomas has an MSc in electronics from Ecole Polytechnique de Lausanne, Switzerland and a BSc in Business and Administration from the University of Gothenburg.
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Mr Ivo Bozon
Director, Leader of Energy and Materials sector, McKinsey & Company
Speaking at: Singapore Energy Summit
Ivo Bozon is a Director in McKinsey & Company's Amsterdam Office. He leads the global energy and material sector representing around 20 percent of the Firm's activities. Within this group, he has in addition been the global leader of the oil and gas practice of McKinsey for the last 8 years and has been working with clients in Asia, Russia, Africa, Europe and the US. He has extensive experience in working with International Majors, National Oil Companies, host governments as well as selected independents and oil field services providers.
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Dr Richard Bradley
Head of the Energy Efficiency and Environment Division, International Energy Agency
Speaking at: Singapore Energy Summit
Dr Richard Bradley has been the Head of the Energy Efficiency and Environment Division (EED) at the International Energy Agency in Paris since January 2004. The EED conducts analysis of energy efficiency policy issues in addition to energy/climate change interactions and policy options. The division provides analytical support to the IEA Standing Group on Long Term Co-Operation, the Energy Efficiency Working Party, and to the Annex I Experts Group.
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Mr Michael J. Dolan
Senior Vice President, Exxon Mobil Corporation
Speaking at: Singapore Energy Summit
Michael J Dolan has been Senior Vice President of Exxon Mobil Corp. since April 2008, having served as Vice President of Exxon Mobil Corp. since September 2004. He was also President of ExxonMobil Chemical Company, a subsidiary of Exxon Mobil Corp.
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Mr Sunil Gupta
Managing Director and global head of CleanTech at Morgan Stanley.
Speaking at: Singapore Energy Summit
Sunil Gupta is a Managing Director and global head of CleanTech at Morgan Stanley. He has been involved in the development of CleanTech industry since its early stages and has been advising companies and investors in this industry since its emergence during the last decade. His current work focuses on policy and commercial issues surrounding global climate change and technologies. He covers companies providing products and services to mitigate the impact. He has been covering high technology sector for a decade, with particular focus on semiconductors and electronics.
Sunil is a frequent guest at many of the global clean technology and climate change events. He has a Bachelor in Technology from IIT Delhi, India and a MBA from IIM Ahmedabad, India.
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Professor Frank A. Wolak
Department of Economics, Stanford University
Speaking at: Singapore Electricity Roundtable
Frank A. Wolak is the Holbrook Working Professor of Commodity Price Studies in the Department of Economics at Stanford University. His fields of specialization are Industrial Organization and Econometric Theory. His recent work studies methods for introducing competition into infrastructure industries--telecommunications, electricity, water delivery and postal delivery services--and on assessing the impacts of these competition policies on consumer and producer welfare.
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Dr Daniel H. Yergin
IHS CERA co-founder and chairman
Moderator at: Singapore Energy Summit
Daniel Yergin is a highly respected authority on energy, international politics and economics. He is founder and chairman of IHS Cambridge Energy Research Associates (IHS CERA), which is one of the world's leading consulting and research firms in its field. He received the Pulitzer Prize for The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money and Power (in a new edition in 2009), and is currently writing a new book on energy and geopolitics.
Dr Yergin plays a leadership role in the global energy industry. He received his BA from Yale University, and his Ph.D. from Cambridge University, where he was a Marshall Scholar.
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Dr. Andrew Light, PhD
Senior Fellow at American Progress
Speaking at: ESI Climate Change Roundtable
Andrew Light is a Senior Fellow at American Progress specializing in climate, energy, and science policy. He coordinates American Progress's participation in the Global Climate Network, focusing on international climate change policy and the future of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. He is also director of the Center for Global Ethics at George Mason University. Light is an internationally recognized expert on the relationship between environmental policy and ethics, specializing in restoration ecology, urban ecology, and climate change.
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Professor Lin Boqiang
Director of the China Center for Energy Economics Research (CCEER), Xiamen University
Speaking at: ESI Climate Change Roundtable
A renowned energy economist, Professor Lin Boqiang , was a former Principal Economist of Asian Development Bank. He is currently the Director of CCEER, an independent institute for scientific research and postgraduate education.
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Mr Neil McGregor
Chief Executive Officer, Singapore LNG Corporation Pte Ltd
Moderator at: Singapore Energy Summit
Mr McGregor is the Chief Executive Officer of Singapore LNG Corporation Pte Ltd. Previously, he was Chief Executive Officer of PowerSeraya. Mr McGregor held a seat on the Singapore Stock Exchange trading international indexes and managing portfolio risk. He has also held several senior international positions, including Directorships, in the Electricity and Gas sector in India, New Zealand and Germany.
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Suresh Prabhakar Prabhu
Union Cabinet Minister, India
Speaking at: ESI Climate Change Roundtable
Suresh Prabhakar Prabhu is currently a Union Cabinet Minister. He was born on July 11, 1953 in Mumbai. His father was Sri Prabhakar. Prabhu was educated at the Mumbai University. Later, he was trained at the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India. He was a chartered accountant of Maharastra State Finance Commission in 1995. Later he was elected to the Lok Sabha. In 1996, for the first time, Prabhu became a minister in the Union Cabinet. He was Minister for Industry. He was re-elected to the Lok Sabha in 1998. Later Prabhu was appointed Union Cabinet Minister of Chemicals and Fertilizers.
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Dr Robert N. Stavins
Chairman of the Environment and Natural Resources Faculty Group at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Director of the Environmental Economics Program at Harvard University
Speaking at: Industries in a Carbon-Constrained Future
Robert N. Stavins is the Chairman of the Environment and Natural Resources Faculty Group at the John F. Kennedy School of Government and Director of the Harvard Environmental Economics Program. Professor Stavins’ research has focused on diverse areas of environmental economics and policy, including examinations of market-based policy instruments; regulatory impact analysis; innovation and diffusion of pollution-control technologies; environmental benefit valuation; policy instrument choice under uncertainty; competitiveness effects of regulation; depletion of forested wetlands; political economy of policy instrument choice; and costs of carbon sequestration. He holds a B.A. in Philosophy from Northwestern University, an M.S. in Agricultural Economics from Cornell, and a Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard.
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Professor Kornelis Blok
Professor of Science, Technology & Society in Utrecht
Speaking at: ESI Industrial Energy Efficiency Roundtable
Experimental physicist Kornelis Blok became Professor of Science, Technology and Society in Utrecht in 1999. He was one of the founders of Ecofys and is now one of its directors. Ecofys is active in research, consultancy, project development and product development in the areas of energy efficiency improvement and renewable energy, and employs over 100 people in 6 countries.
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Dr. John Nyboer
Director MJKA Energy Policy Consultants
Speaking at: ESI Industrial Energy Efficiency Roundtable
Dr. John Nyboer is one of the founding members of MKJA and has extensive experience with energy modeling, policy analysis and issues relating to climate change and greenhouse gas emissions. John’s consulting work has included a diverse range of projects for all levels of government, utilities, industry, and non-governmental organizations that promote effective climate change policy through the assessment of proposed regulatory instruments, evaluation of technologies and the development of energy intensity and efficiency indicators.
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Dr Narito Shibaike
Director, Environmental Strategy Research Centre, Panasonic Corporation
Speaking at: Singapore Energy Summit
Dr Narito Shibaike heads the Environmental Strategy Research Centre at Panasonic Corporation in Japan. His interest and expertise in researching and promoting energy efficient and environmentally friendly electronics in many countries has led him to be involved in the Asia-Pacific Partnership on Clean Development & Climate (APP) and International Organisation for Standardisation (ISO). Dr Shibaike has over 30 years of experience in mechanical engineering and material science research including energy efficiency of product, fuel cell cogeneration systems and on standards for environmental performance indicators in the electronics industry. He was also a senior research fellow at the University of Cambridge where he looked into environmentally conscious materials selection in mechanical design.
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Mr Woo Chong Um
Deputy Director General, Regional and Sustainable Development Department, Asian Development Bank
Speaking at: Singapore Energy Summit
Woo Chong Um is the Director for Energy, Transport and Water in the Regional and Sustainable Development Department of the Asian Development Bank. He is responsible for the energy, transport and water sectors, and has considerable experience in planning, evaluating and developing power projects. Mr. Um has been working with ADB for 15 years. Prior to leading the Energy, Transport, and Water Division, he served as ADB's Principal Operations Specialist in the Infrastructure Division of the Mekong Department.
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Mr Ole Enger
President & CEO, Renewable Energy Corporation
Speaking at: Singapore Energy Summit
Ole Enger has been the Chief Executive Officer and President of Renewable Energy Corporation ASA (also called as REC Group) since 2009. Mr. Enger served as the President and Chief Executive Officer of Sapa AB from 2007 to 2009, and has been a member of the Executive Board of Orkla ASA since 2005. He was also the Chief Executive Officer of Elkem ASA from 1992 to 2005, and was once in charge of the Biomarine Division & Hydro Seafood of Norsk Hydro.
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