Contributors

Geoff Zeiss

Geoff Zeiss is Director of the Utility Industry Program at Autodesk. He has more than 20 years experience in the geospatial software industry and 15 years experience developing enterprise geospatial solutions for the utilities, communications, and public works industries.

Gerard Burg

Gerard Burg has over a decade of experience as a professional economist, currently specialising in international economic research. He is responsible for monitoring and forecasting trends in emerging Asian economies, with a particular emphasis on China. He is also a member of NAB’s commodities research team, focusing on trends in iron ore and coal markets. Gerard joined the bank in 2005, and previously focused on risk analysis across a range of industry sectors in Australia and abroad.

Ghee Peh

Ghee Peh is an energy finance analyst with a focus on the Asian coal industry and South East Asia. Ghee has worked on major mining IPOs in Hong Kong and Indonesia including coal, copper and gold companies and has a deep interest in commodity markets. 

Prior to IEEFA, Ghee had a 25 year career as a sell-side analyst with different investment banks most recently with Jefferies, BNP Paribas and UBS. Ghee has relationships and contacts among different stakeholders including investors and companies in the commodity sector. He takes a consensus building and analytical approach to his research.

Ghee has a Bachelor of Commerce from University of Western Australia. He also has two research degrees on accounting theory Bachelor of Business (Honours) and a Master of Commerce from Curtin University.

Girish Ghatikar

Girish (Rish) Ghatikar is a Deputy Lead for the Grid Integration Group overseeing the U.S. and international Demand Response (DR) technologies, Open Auto-DR (OpenADR) standards, and related energy technologies, services, and business. He is also a Project Director of U.S.-India Joint Center for Building Energy R&D (U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory).

Graham Tyler

Graham has worked 25 years in the global energy sector, joining Galway Group in October 2015. He is an experienced consultant in the gas and power sectors. Prior to joining Galway Group, Graham worked for Wood Mackenzie, moving in 2007 to Singapore to lead the Wood Mackenzie’s Asia gas and power research team.

Grant Hauber

Grant provides energy and financial market analysis for IEEFA’s Asia Pacific team, with an emphasis on region’s emerging markets.  As a core member of IEEFA’s debt markets team, he provides insights to project finance, multilateral development institutions, and financing the energy transition. In the area of LNG, Grant supports IEEFA’s global fossils team to track market trends and impacts. 

Grant’s experience spans over 30 years in 30 different countries, covering energy markets and infrastructure public-private partnerships (PPP). He has garnered experience as a project developer in both renewable and conventional electricity, a project finance investment banker, and energy asset strategist. More recently, he served as a Principal at the Asian Development Bank in Manila, spearheading creation of the bank’s PPP Operational Plan and advising governments across South and Southeast Asia how to integrate PPP principles into their public planning. 

Based in Boston, Massachusetts, Grant served on the advisory board to the Metropolitan Area Planning Council supporting design of Greater Boston’s long-term development plan, MetroCommon 2050, covering 101 municipalities. 

Grant holds a Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering from Carnegie-Mellon University and an MBA from the Yale School of Management.

Being an avid cyclist, as well as an infrastructure policy wonk, as part of his support of MetroCommon 2050, Grant has ridden across every one of the 1,900 mi2 (4,600 km2) of the Greater Boston Metropolitan Statistical Area, whether on road or trail.

Haneea Isaad

Haneea Isaad is an energy finance analyst at IEEFA. Based in Pakistan, she covers Asian energy markets with a focus on Southeast Asia and Pakistan.

Haneea has been actively engaged with the energy transition underway in Pakistan. Her past work has actively focused on highlighting the socio-economic impacts of coal power development in Pakistan, while making an economic case for variable renewable energy such as solar and wind based power systems.

She holds a Master’s in environmental management from the Yale School of the Environment, with a specialization in Energy Economics and Policy Analysis.

Harsh Thacker

Harsh Thacker is Senior Research Analyst, Energy & Environment, Asia Pacific, Frost & Sullivan.   

Hazel Ilango

Hazel Ilango is an energy finance analyst, debt markets. At IEEFA, Hazel partners with analysts and allies to disseminate expert research to media and target audiences.

Prior to IEEFA, Hazel was an analyst in a leading credit rating agency in Malaysia and South-East Asia, covering the data and credit analytics segment with an ASEAN focus (Association of Southeast Asian Nations).

Her experiences include financial and sensitivity analysis of ASEAN corporates, corporate and structured finance related studies, quantitative/qualitative credit modelling in financial industries for corporate and SMEs portfolio, as well as conducting credit assessment of corporate companies.

In addition to her professional experience, Hazel is actively involved with a non-profit welfare organisation to lead programmes and promote the social welfare of people and communities in Malaysia.

Hazel holds a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics from the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire.

Henry Lau

Henry Lau is the Senior Vice President and Managing Director, Regional Sales and Services for the APAC region in AspenTech.