Contributors

Thomas Hagedorn

Thomas Hagedorn, Head of Sales GT Power Plant Solutions Asia and Pacific of Siemens Energy, has spent almost his whole working life in Asian countries, making him highly knowledgeable about the various cultures in Asia, living and working conditions there, and the power generation business.

Tim Buckley

Tim Buckley, Director Energy Finance Studies, Australia/South Asia with the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA) has 25 years of financial markets experience, specializing in equity valuation, including as a top-rated analyst and as co-founder and managing director of Arkx Investment Management.

Tim Camp

Tim is the Director of Turbine Engineering at LOC Renewables, a part of the premier international marine and engineering consultancy LOC Group. Prior to joining LOC Renewables, Tim spent 19 years at Garrad Hassan and DNV GL, where he led the Turbine Engineering team and was most recently DNV GL’s EMEA Business Development Director for energy advisory services.

Urbano Mendiola, Jr.

Bong Mendiola has been with the National Power Corporation (NPC) for the last 39 years and has wide experience in plant engineering/construction, quality assurance, operations, fuel management, IPP contracts management, and power economics.

Victor Nian

Dr. Victor Nian is a research fellow at the Energy Studies Institute, National University of Singapore. His research interest and expertise is in the areas of atomic energy and energy systems modeling. His works in atomic energy include economics of advanced reactor technologies, trends in reactor technology and market developments, risk analysis of radiological events, safety, security and safeguards, nuclear fusion energy, and policy issues related to atomic energy. His works in energy systems modeling include the development of energy systems modelling tools, modeling analysis using MARKAL and TIMES for policy issues facing Singapore and Southeast Asia, technology assessment in the whole-system approach, water-energy nexus, and hydrogen economy. He is a co-leader of the nuclear special interest group in the Institution of Chemical Engineers (Singapore). He holds a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering and a Bachelor in Electrical Engineering with a Minor in Management of Technology from the National University of Singapore.

Vikram Kumar

Vikram Kumar is International Finance Corporation's (IFC) Country Manager for Myanmar, based in Yangon, effective from December 2013. He has established IFC’s presence in Myanmar as the largest foreign financial investor with a cumulative investment program of ~$900m and also as a key contributor to advisory work focused on regulatory reform and capacity building that will promote private sector development in the country.

Prior to this assignment, he was Chief of Staff for the IFC Vice President, Asia Pacific in Washington DC. He has also working in Nairobi, Kenya and in New Delhi, India focusing primarily on infrastructure investments in Africa and South Asia regions respectively.

Kumar’s background also includes the field of Corporate Investment Banking for ICICI Bank, YES Bank in India and in Credit Risk and Portfolio Management with Bank of America in the UK.

William Byun

William I.Y. Byun is the Managing Director at Asia Renewables - Singapore.

William Byun & Marilia Paraschou

Mr. William I.Y. Byun is the Managing Director at Asia Renewables - Singapore.

Ms. Marilia Paraschou is currently a Legal Researcher in residence at Asia Renewables specialising in the regulatory and policy framework for renewable energy generation programs in South East Asia.

William Byun & Philipp Barrage

William is the Managing Director for Asia Renewables (and its subsidiary Greenpower Fuels), specializing in the development of renewable energy generation projects throughout Asia with past projects in biomass, solar, geothermal, biogas and others.

Philipp is a Researcher in residence at Greenpower Fuels focusing on policy, currently with the London School of Economics.  

Willie Chan

Willie Chan is part of the core strategy team that works closely with Schneider Electric's Country Presidents and Strategy Partners in the formulation and execution of the countries' strategy campaign. Willie specializes in the areas of Energy and Environment and scans the horizons for technologies and concepts related to Smart Cities and Smart Grids, Energy Visualization, Electric Vehicles, and other Clean-tech areas.