Contributors

Arun Kundu

Arun Kundu is Director of professional services (Asia-Pacific) global strategy at Verizon Enterprise Solutions. He has over 15 years of complex program management, consulting and delivery experience, focusing on technology and business strategy, along with deep experience in emerging technologies, services enablement, partner/channel enablement and complex transformations. Arun attended Insead and the London Business School’s Executive Education program, and holds a BSc in Computer Science and an MBA from Warwick Business School in UK.

Arun Rajamani, Asheesh Sastry

Arun Rajamani is the principal of Boston Consulting Group.

Asheesh Sastry is the managing director & partner of Boston Consulting Group.

Ashley Kelly

Ashley Kelly is the General Manager at PIC Asia Pacific Sdn. Bhd.

Ashutosh Pandey

Ashutosh Pandey is the Chief Executive Officer of Emergent Ventures India Pvt Ltd.

Avanthika Satheesh and Harsh Thacker

Avanthika Satheesh and Harsh Thacker are Senior Research Analysts, Energy & Environment, Asia Pacific in Frost & Sullivan. Avanthika has over four years of experience in the electrical power industry with a particular specialization in the areas of design engineering of Extra High Voltage substations in power transmission & distribution and renewable energy integration to power grid. While, Harsh has over four years of experience in the electrical power indusrty with a particular specialization in the areas of power distribution sector, market research and strategy consulting.

Barry Desker

Ambassador Barry Desker is the Dean of the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Nanyang Technological University (NTU) and concurrently Director, Institute of Defence and Strategic Studies, NTU. He is the inaugural Bakrie Professor of Southeast Asia Policy. Ambassador Desker is a Member of the Presidential Council for Minority Rights, Singapore. He is also a Member of the Board of Directors of the Lee Kuan Yew Exchange Fellowship.

Bill Lowar

Bill Lowar is the Power Division Manager of Victaulic.

Brad Buecker

Brad Buecker is a Process Specialist with Kiewit Power Engineers in Lenexa, Kansas, USA. He has over 32 years of experience in or affiliated with the power industry, much of it in steam generation chemistry, water treatment, air quality control, and results engineering positions with City Water, Light & Power (Springfield, Illinois, USA) and Kansas City Power & Light Company’s La Cygne, Kansas, USA station.

Bree Miechel

Bree is a partner at Reed Smith based in Singapore. She advises on energy and infrastructure projects globally with a focus on emerging markets.

Bree has lived and worked in Asia, the Middle East and Australia acting for sponsors/investors, governments, lenders, contractors and suppliers and understands the drivers and constraints of all parties on major infrastructure projects. She was previously seconded as acting Head of Legal East Asia for a rail group and works efficiently alongside in-house legal and commercial teams.

Bree advises across asset class including on power (conventional and renewable), energy efficiency, oil & gas, water & waste, transport and commercial property projects. As part of a multi-law firm and industry team, Bree is working with TWI and IRENA to develop a standardized suite of documents to de-risk and decrease project and transaction costs to accelerate the development of solar PV projects globally.

Asian Legal Business named Bree Miechel one of the "40 under 40" in 2018, an award that recognizes outstanding legal professionals in the region, and shortlisted her as Woman Lawyer of the Year in 2019. She is recognised by IFLR1000 Financial and Corporate Global rankings 2019 and 2020 as a highly regarded project development lawyer and described in Legal500 as 'brilliant', 'deeply involved in the project' with 'the highest level of professionalism'.

Brett A. Perlman

Brett A. Perlman is Board member of Wind to Power Systems and former U.S. state utility regulator.