Contributors

Rachel Schelble

With over 15 years of experience working in the oil and gas industry, Rachel Schelble recently joined Wood Mackenzie as a Director in Corporate Research with a focus on Midstream Infrastructure, Carbon Management, and Energy Transition Strategies.

Prior to joining Wood Mackenzie, Rachel worked for ExxonMobil where she held multiple positions in competitor analysis, commercial negotiation, value chain integration, infrastructure development, geoscience integration, and resource evaluation in roles based in Russia, Canada, and the U.S.  Most recently, she led a project focused on understanding the potential of nature based solutions for carbon sequestration, and development of carbon management strategy profiles for U.S. oil and gas companies.

Prior to this, Rachel was located in Midland, TX and worked as part of XTO Energy (a subsidiary of ExxonMobil), focused on developing the Permian Basin, leading commercial infrastructure and marketing negotiations and working to align business objectives across the Permian Value Chain from Upstream through to Chemicals.

Rachel has a PhD in Earth Sciences from the University of Southern California, and a BSc in Earth and Planetary Sciences from the University of New Mexico.

Rasika Gokhale Athawale

Rasika Gokhale Athawale is the Founder of MindCrunch. In the past while working with Management Consulting firms KPMG and PwC, she has advised clients on business plans, market entry and growth strategies, competition analysis and PPP structuring. She regularly writes for business magazines such as SMEWORLD, Business Review India and EQ International.  

Richard Bowmaker

Richard Bowmaker is an energy expert at PA Consulting Group. His in-depth knowledge of energy market systems and wide range of IT implementation skills help to develop, test and apply energy market applications, models and simulations. Richard’s clients include energy market system and market operators, energy investors and bankruptcy courts. Richard has been designing, implementing, testing and applying energy market-specific software systems since 1996, building on his electrical engineering qualifications and commercial software development experience.

Richard Jun Li

Richard Jun Li is a Research Director who leads Lux Research’s China Innovation practice. Lux Research provides strategic advice and on-going intelligence for emerging technologies. 

Rizky Aditya Putra, Dynta Trishana Munardy, Alfred Gurning

Rizky Aditya Putra is a Senior Officer of ASEAN Plan of Action for Energy Cooperation (APAEC) at the ASEAN Centre for Energy. He holds a Master of Science degree in Oil & Gas Enterprise Managementfrom the University of Aberdeen in the United Kingdom. Expert in project management, energy efficiency and conservation, and clean coal technology.

Dynta Trishana Munardy is a Technical Officer of ASEAN Plan of Action for Energy Cooperation (APAEC) at the ASEAN Centre for Energy. She holds a Master of Science degree in Energy & Natural Resources Management from the State University of New York in the United States. Expert in life cycles assessment of energy systems.

Alfred Gurning is a Technical Officer of ASEAN Plan of Action for Energy Cooperation (APAEC) at the ASEAN Centre for Energy. He holds a Master of Nuclear Engineering from Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya and Master of Material Science for Nuclear Energy from Grenoble INP - Phelma. Expert in civilian nuclear energy and clean coal technology.

Rob Brendal

Rob Brendal is the Asia-Pacific Manager in Honeywell.

Robin Pickup

Robin Pickup is the Global Leader, Manufacturing at Lloyd’s Register. 

RV Ahilan

Dr RV Ahilan is Joint CEO and Group Director, Renewables Advisory & Energy Technology at LOC Group. He holds a BSc (Leeds) and MS (Caltech) in Civil Engineering, a PhD (Cantab) in Engineering Fluid Mechanics and an MBA (Imperial). He is a well-known and highly respected technology and business leader with over three decades of industry experience, more than 15 years of which has been at board level. Prior to LOC, Ahilan was EVP of the Renewables Advisory Division of DNV GL, with strategic and operational responsibility for the world’s largest technical advisory firm in renewable energy.

Sam A. Rushing

Sam A. Rushing is president of Advanced Cryogenics, Ltd. (www.advancedcryogenicsltd.com . He is a chemist by background, and has been in the CO2 industry for over 30 years, with a strong merchant CO2 industry background as well as a diverse CO2 and cryogenic consulting history covering all subjects and source types.

Sam Reynolds

Sam Reynolds, energy finance analyst with the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA), focuses on the economic, financial, and climate risks associated with natural gas and liquefied natural gas (LNG) infrastructure developments in emerging Asia. He is the author of several studies concerning the region’s transition to renewable energy, stranded asset risk in the natural gas sector, and the macroeconomic risks associated with a greater regional dependence on imported LNG.

As a former political and regulatory risk analyst focusing on global oil and liquefied natural gas (LNG) markets, Sam analysed judicial, legislative, and executive actions that impacted U.S. energy and environmental policy. His work has been published in local and international media outlets around the world. Sam has a master’s degree in energy economics and international environmental law from Johns Hopkins University and a bachelor’s degree in international development from McGill University in Montreal, Canada.