BNERI INTERNATIONAL ADVISORY BOARD

MEMBERS (IAB)

Before joining UKERC, John was Corporate Vice-President of Technology and Intellectual Property at Alstom's head office in Paris. He is a graduate in Mechanical Engineering from Imperial College, London, where he also spent five years in computational fluid dynamics research. His professional career has been predominantly in industrial research and development for the electronics and electrical power industries, including advanced, high power industrial gas turbines, new energy conversion systems, spacecraft thermal management, electrical and materials development for electricity generation and transmission equipment, and electronic control systems. For several years he has been extensively involved in national and European public sector technology programmes, as a member of various advisory committees and chair of policy reviews in the area of future energy systems. He is the UK member of the European Energy Research Alliance, a member of the European Advisory Group on Energy, and Advisor to the European Commission Directorate-General Research, Assessor for the Technology Strategy Board, Non-Executive Director of the Ministry of Defence Research & Development Board, and a member of the UK’s Energy Research Partnership. He was also Co-Chair of the Implementation Panel of the EC Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Technology Platform, which produced the future plan for European fuel cell commercialisation, and is currently Co-Chair of the Implementation Committee of the International Partnership for the Hydrogen Economy. He was previously a member of EPSRC Council. John is a Chartered Engineer, a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, a Fellow and Past-President (2008) of the Institution of Engineering and Technology, and Fellow of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, the City & Guilds of London Institute, and the Royal Society of Arts. He is Honorary Professor of Cardiff University, Honorary Fellow of Queen Mary University of London, and a Freeman of the City of London.

Professor John Loughhead Executive Director UK Energy Research Centre

Mr. Masakuza Toyoda Chairman & Chief Executive Officer The Institute of Energy Economics, Japan

Mr Toyoda has a long career history at Japan's International Trade Policy Bureau, with positions including Director-General for both the International Economic Affairs Department and Multilateral Trade System Department. Mr Toyoda joined the Ministry of International Trade and Industry (MITI) in 1973, followed by the Petroleum Department, Energy and Resources Agency, two years later. He then followed up on his Bachelor of Law degree from the University of Tokyo with a Master in Public Affairs from Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. In 1981, he was recruited by the Division of Alternative Energy, Energy and Resources Agency, before he came onboard the International Energy Agency (IEA), OECD, in 1983. In 1987, Mr Toyoda became Director for International Trade Policy Planning, General Affairs Division, International Trade Policy Bureau. This was followed by a stint as Secretary to the Minister of International Trade and Industry in 1990. A year later, he was made Director of the Tariff Division, International Economic Affairs Department, International Trade Policy Bureau, and then as Director of Aircraft and Ordnance Division, Machinery and Information Industries Bureau, in 1992. Since then, Mr Toyoda has assumed a number of directorial positions, ranging from General Affairs Division, Environmental Protection and Industrial Location Bureau to Special Adviser (METI), to Secretary-General, Secretariat of Strategic Headquarters for Space Policy, Cabinet Secretariat. He joined KAPSARC as an International Advisory Board Member in 2011.

Dr. Phillipe Tanguy Vice President R&D Total International, France

Dr Philippe A. Tanguy, BScA (Paris), PhD (Laval) is Vice-President, R&D Programs, Partnerships and International Relations, of the international oil company Total. Before joining Total, he was Professor and Director of the Research Centre in Industrial Flow processes at École Polytechnique of Montreal. He is the author of 185 articles and 11 patents in process engineering and he has supervised 95 postgraduate researchers. Dr Tanguy is the president of the 8th World Conference on Chemical Engineering (Montreal, August 2009).

Mr. Gerald Schotman Chief Technology Officer Shell Global, Holland

Gerald Schotman was appointed as Chief Technology Officer at Shell in 2009. His role is ensuring that Shell develops and implements the right technology to deliver our energy projects across the world. Gerald was also appointed Executive Vice President Innovation/R&D during the same year, making him responsible for the technology strategy at Shell, as well as for the creation and development of new technologies. He graduated as a Civil Engineer from Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands and joined Shell as a research engineer in 1985. He has held technical and commercial positions and worked on assignments in the UK, Brunei and Oman before becoming Vice President Strategy within Exploration & Production. Gerald is married with three sons and lives by the coast in the Netherlands.

Professor Yu Hongyuan Deputy Director Institute for Comparative Politics and Public Policy Shanghai Institute for International Studies

Dr. Yang-Hoon Sonn President & Chief Executive Officer Korea Energy Economics Institute

Dr. Yu Hongyuan is an associate professor and deputy director of the Department of International Organizations and Laws at the Shanghai Institute for International Studies. He is also an honorary fellow of Center for International Energy Strategy Studies，Renmin University of China, an visiting fellow for Sustainable Developmental Research Center of China Academy for Social Science, and an honorary fellow of the Centre for Asian Pacific Studies at Lingnan University in Hong Kong. He got his Ph.D degree from Chinese University of Hong Kong, and Mphil degree from Renmin University of China. From 1998 to 2000, he worked with the administrative centre for China’s Agenda 21 at the Ministry of Science and Technology. He is the author of numerous publications, including most recently Global Warming and China’s Environmental Diplomacy in Nova Science Publishers (2008).

Dr. Yang-Hoon Sonn, a former economics professor at Incheon national Univeristy (INU) now serves as the President & CEO of Korea Energy Economics Institute (KEEI) since July 2013. He graduated from Yonsei University with a degree in economics in 1982, and received his master's degree from the same university in the same field in 1984. He then received his doctoral degree from the University of Florida in 1989 and worked as part of the Energy Policy Research Group at the KEEI from 1990 to 1998. Sonn served as an economic consultant to President Park Geun-hye's transition team, and is currently a member of the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy's Energy Committee. He also serves as a National Economic Advisory Council consultant

Professor Dr. Daniel Sperling Director Institute of Transportation Studies; Energy Institute University of California, Davis, U.S.A. Dr. Daniel Sperling is Professor of Civil Engineering and Environmental Science and Policy, and founding Director of the Institute of Transportation Studies at the University of California, Davis (ITS-Davis). The Institute has over 150 faculty, staff and student researchers. He has led ITS-Davis to international prominence by building strong partnerships with industry, government, and the environmental community, integrating interdisciplinary research and education programs, and connecting research with public outreach and education. In June 2013, he was named a recipient of the Blue Planet Prize from the Asahi Glass Foundation. The prize has been described as the Nobel Prize for the environmental sciences. He was recognized for his unique ability to bring together the top thinkers and strategists in academia, government and industry to develop new vehicle- and fuels-policy approaches that are models for the world. In February 2007, Governor Schwarzenegger appointed him to the “automotive engineering” seat on the California Air Resources Board. His appointment was confirmed by the California Senate in January 2008. His chief responsibilities are oversight and design of the state’s climate change, alternatives fuels, vehicle travel and land use, and zero emission vehicle programs. He also served as co-director of the California Low Carbon Fuel Standard study, requested in the Governor’s January 2007 Executive Order. In 2008 he was appointed chair of the “Future of Mobility” Council of the Davos World Economic Forum. ITS-Davis won the 2006 Robert M. Zweig Public Education Award of the National Hydrogen Association, 2005 TRANNY award for Organization of the Year by the California Transportation Foundation, 1998 Employer of the Year Award of the Women’s Transportation Seminar of Sacramento, and was selected as a finalist for the 2003 World Technology Energy Award. He is recognized as a leading international expert on transportation technology assessment, energy and environmental aspects of transportation, and transportation policy. He has testified 10 times to the US Congress and state legislatures, and provided keynote presentations and invited talks in recent years at international conferences in Asia, Europe, and North America. In the past 25 years, he has authored or co-authored over 200 technical papers and 11 books, including Two Billion Cars (Oxford University Press, 2009). He has made 500 professional presentations in his career, including many keynote talks in the past few years. Sperling is an international expert on transportation technology, fuels and policy, with a focus on energy and environment. His research is directed at accelerating the global transition to cleaner, more efficient transportation and energy, and mitigating climate change. The award recognizes Sperling for his unique ability to bring together the top thinkers and strategists in academia, government and industry to develop new vehicle- and fuels-policy approaches that are models for the world. He was lead author of the transportation chapter in the 2007 IPCC report, “Mitigation of Climate Change” (IPCC won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2008) and a member of 13 National Academies committees on Energy Efficiency, Gasoline Taxes, Hydrogen, and Transport in China, Biomass Fuels R&D, Sustainable Transportation, and related topics. He was founding chair of standing committees for the U.S. Transportation Research Board on Alternative Transportation Fuels (1989-’96), and Sustainability and Transportation (2006-08). He is the founding organizer of the premier conference on transportation and energy policy, bringing together every two years since 1988 the leaders from industry, government, academia, and the environmental community. He serves on many advisory committees and advises senior executives of many automotive and energy companies, environmental groups, and national governments, including review committees at three DOE national laboratories. He is widely cited in leading newspapers, has been interviewed many times on NPR radio, including Science Friday, Talk of the Nation and Fresh Air, and in 2009 he was featured on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart.

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Before joining UKERC, John was Corporate Vice-President of Technology and Intellectual Property at Alstom's head office in Paris. He is a graduate in Mechanical Engineering from Imperial College, London, where he also spent five years in computational fluid dynamics research. His professional career has been predominantly in industrial research and development for the electronics and electrical power industries, including advanced, high power industrial gas turbines, new energy conversion systems, spacecraft thermal management, electrical and materials development for electricity generation and transmission equipment, and electronic control systems. For several years he has been extensively involved in national and European public sector technology programmes, as a member of various advisory committees and chair of policy reviews in the area of future energy systems. He is the UK member of the European Energy Research Alliance, a member of the European Advisory Group on Energy, and Advisor to the European Commission Directorate-General Research, Assessor for the Technology Strategy Board, Non-Executive Director of the Ministry of Defence Research & Development Board, and a member of the UK’s Energy Research Partnership. He was also Co-Chair of the Implementation Panel of the EC Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Technology Platform, which produced the future plan for European fuel cell commercialisation, and is currently Co-Chair of the Implementation Committee of the International Partnership for the Hydrogen Economy. He was previously a member of EPSRC Council. John is a Chartered Engineer, a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, a Fellow and Past-President (2008) of the Institution of Engineering and Technology, and Fellow of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, the City & Guilds of London Institute, and the Royal Society of Arts. He is Honorary Professor of Cardiff University, Honorary Fellow of Queen Mary University of London, and a Freeman of the City of London.

Professor John Loughhead Executive Director UK Energy Research Centre

Professor Hidetoshi Nishimura Executive Director, ERIA

Mr. Gerald Schotman Chief Technology Officer Shell Global, Holland

4. Adnan Z. Amin, Director-General of International Renewable Energy Agency

Professor Hidetoshi Nishimura is the Executive Director of the Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia (ERIA). He graduated from the Faculty of Law, the University of Tokyo and joined the Ministry of International Trade and Industry in 1976. He has assumed numerous positions, including Representative of the Asia-Pacific Region of the Japan Overseas Development Corporation, Director of the Southeast Asia and Pacific Division of the Trade Policy Bureau, administrative officer of Ehime Prefecture, Director-General of the Business Support Department of the Small and Medium Enterprise Agency, Managing Director of the Japan-China Economic Association, and Director of the Japan- China Northeast Development Association. He assumed the position of ERIA Executive Director in June 2008 and is currently a Visiting Professor of Waseda University and Miyazaki Sangyo-Keiei University and Fellow of Meiji Institute for Global Affairs, Meiji University.

Gerald Schotman was appointed as Chief Technology Officer at Shell in 2009. His role is ensuring that Shell develops and implements the right technology to deliver our energy projects across the world. Gerald was also appointed Executive Vice President Innovation/R&D during the same year, making him responsible for the technology strategy at Shell, as well as for the creation and development of new technologies. He graduated as a Civil Engineer from Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands and joined Shell as a research engineer in 1985. He has held technical and commercial positions and worked on assignments in the UK, Brunei and Oman before becoming Vice President Strategy within Exploration & Production. Gerald is married with three sons and lives by the coast in the Netherlands

Adnan Z. Amin was elected as the Director-General of the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) in April 2011. In this capacity he is charged with the responsibility of establishing a sound institutional management structure and clear strategic vision for the implementation of the agency’s mandate to promote the adoption and use of renewable energy worldwide. Mr. Amin brings to this position over 25 years of experience in the fields of international environment and sustainable development policy, as well as in the political, management, and interagency coordination functions of the United Nations (UN) work. Mr. Amin served as Head of the UN System Chief Executives Board for Coordination (CEB) Secretariat. In this function, he was responsible for overseeing the Secretariat supporting the CEB in its UN system-wide policy coordination under the Chairmanship of the UN Secretary-General and comprising the Executive Heads of UN System organisations. The CEB is the highest level interagency coordinator framework in the UN system and oversees UN coordination on Policy, Management and Field Operations. Mr. Amin also served as the Executive Director of the Secretariat of the Secretary-General’s High Level Panel, co-chaired by the Prime Ministers of Mozambique, Norway and Pakistan, on UN System-wide Coherence. The Panel undertook an ambitious and unprecedented level of consultation on development, environment, and humanitarian aspects of the work of the UN System and proposed an ambitious reform programme that still continues in the UN General Assembly under the framework of the “One UN ”. The development of coherent field operations, harmonised business practices across the United Nations System, and the establishment of a new organisation , UN Women, are outcomes of the process launched by the panel. Previously, Mr. Amin served as the Director of the New York Office of United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and Special Representative of the UNEP Executive Director. He was responsible for environment policy coordination and collaboration with other UN Agencies, and for outreach to civil society and the private sector. He played the lead role in supporting the ministerial-level intergovernmental process to review International Environmental Governance and UNEP’s participation in the World Summit on Sustainable Development. He has also served from 2000-2006 as a Trustee and member of the Board of Directors of the Cambridge, UK-based World Conservation Monitoring Centre that is one of the premier Biodiversity information institutions in the world. Mr. Amin is a development economist specializing in sustainable development. He is a national of Kenya.

Mr. Adnan Z. Amin Director-General, IRENA

Shigetoshi Ikeyama Senior Energy Analyst, Global Energy Economics International Energy Agency (IEA), Paris

Shigetoshi Ikeyama took up the position of Senior Energy Analyst in the International Energy Agency (IEA) on 1 October 2012. Mr. Shigetoshi Ikeyama is responsible for energy analysis focusing on Asia in the Directorate of Global Energy Economics (GEE). He co-ordinated the analysis of the World Energy Outlook Special Report, Southeast Asia Energy Outlook, which provides a comprehensive picture of the region’s energy future. Prior to joining the IEA, Mr. Ikeyama worked as senior analyst for international energy affairs in the Agency for Natural Resources and Energy, Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry of Japan, where he developed expertise in energy policy, including energy efficiency, renewables, electricity, gas and heat. Recently, he was involved in energy cooperation with Asian countries and organizing Asian energy ministers’ meetings in Japan. He holds a diploma in public law from the University of Tokyo.

Dr. Yu Hongyuan is an associate professor and deputy director of the Department of International Organizations and Laws at the Shanghai Institute for International Studies. He is also an honorary fellow of Center for International Energy Strategy Studies，Renmin University of China, an visiting fellow for Sustainable Developmental Research Center of China Academy for Social Science, and an honorary fellow of the Centre for Asian Pacific Studies at Lingnan University in Hong Kong. He got his Ph.D degree from Chinese University of Hong Kong, and Mphil degree from Renmin University of China. From 1998 to 2000, he worked with the administrative centre for China’s Agenda 21 at the Ministry of Science and Technology. He is the author of numerous publications, including most recently Global Warming and China’s Environmental Diplomacy in Nova Science Publishers (2008).

Professor Yu Hongyuan Deputy Director Institute for Comparative Politics and Public Policy Shanghai Institute for International Studies.

Jeff Skeer is Senior Programme Officer for Technology Cooperation at the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA). In this post, within IRENA’s Directorate for Country Support and Partnerships, he is working to promote clean energy corridors in Africa and other regions through zoning to cluster renewable power plants in areas of high renewable resource potential, planning to include greater shares of cost-effective renewable electricity in the generating mix; enabling of financing and investment, and capacity building to plan and operate power grids with higher shares of renewable power. He is also coordinating IRENA’s Global Renewable Energy Islands Network (GREIN) to share best practices and build capacities for expanded use of renewable energy on islands and virtual islands, where renewables displace high-cost fossil fuels from distant sources. From 2004 to October 2012, he worked in the Office of European and Asian Affairs, Office of Policy and International Affairs, United States Department of Energy (DOE). He was DOE’s delegate to the Energy Working Group of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC), which comprises the United States and 20 other economies. From 2006 through 2011, he chaired the APEC Biofuels Task Force, which studied biofuel resource potential, economics, infrastructure, and sustainable development practices. Jeff was actively involved in the launch of the US-EU Energy Council in November 2009. He was engaged with DOE programs and laboratories and the European Commission’s Directorates General for Energy and Research to foster cooperation on technologies for biofuels, hydrogen and fuel cells, solar energy, carbon capture and storage, energy efficient buildings, smart grids, fission, fusion and advanced materials. He collaborated with EU counterparts to organize workshops on electric vehicles, grid storage, and critical materials for clean energy development. He monitored cooperation on policies to promote energy efficiency, smart grids and electric vehicles as well. At the Asia Pacific Energy Research Centre in Tokyo from 2002-2004, Jeff led studies on Natural Gas Market Reform in the APEC Region and Electric Power Grid Interconnections in the APEC Region and contributed to a study of Energy in China. Related articles on China’s power and transport sectors have appeared in Energy Policy. From 1996 to 2002, he served as a U.S. delegate to the Standing Group on Long-Term Cooperation of the International Energy Agency (IEA). At DOE, he organized three IEA reviews of U.S. energy policies and programs. From 1989 to 1996, he worked at IEA in Paris, catalyzing multilateral agreements on electric demand side management, hybrid vehicles, hydropower and the environment, and photovoltaic power systems. He began his career at the DOE’s Office of Electricity Policy, from 1980 through 1989. He holds a Bachelors degree in Public Administration from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University (1978) and a Masters in Public Policy from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard (1980).

Jeff Skeer Senior Programme Officer – Technology Cooperation IRENA, Abu Dhabi, UAE

Professor Hidetoshi Nishimura is the Executive Director of the Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia (ERIA). He graduated from the Faculty of Law, the University of Tokyo and joined the Ministry of International Trade and Industry in 1976. He has assumed numerous positions, including Representative of the Asia-Pacific Region of the Japan Overseas Development Corporation, Director of the Southeast Asia and Pacific Division of the Trade Policy Bureau, administrative officer of Ehime Prefecture, Director-General of the Business Support Department of the Small and Medium Enterprise Agency, Managing Director of the Japan-China Economic Association, and Director of the Japan- China Northeast Development Association. He assumed the position of ERIA Executive Director in June 2008 and is currently a Visiting Professor of Waseda University and Miyazaki Sangyo-Keiei University and Fellow of Meiji Institute for Global Affairs, Meiji University.

Dr. Yanfei Li is an Energy Economist at the Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia (ERIA). He holds a Bachelor of Science in Economics from Peking University, China and PhD from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore in Economics. He has experience teaching at various Universities in Singapore and has been active in writing on Energy-related topics relevant to the region.

Professor Hidetoshi Nishimura Executive Director, ERIA

Dr. Yanfei Li Energy Economist, ERIA

JOINT ERIA-BNERI SPECIAL SEMINAR ON RENEWABLE ENERGY

Dr. Phoumin Han is an Energy Economist at the Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia (ERIA). He holds a Bachelor of Science in Agriculture and Animal Production from the Royal University of Agriculture, Cambodia and Master of Science from the Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand and a PhD from Kobe University, Japan. He has over 15 years of experience working at various international and inter-governmental organizations and multi-disciplinary research consortiums related to poverty, governance, integrated water resource management, economic development and energy economics in the region of ASEAN and EAST ASIA. He specializes in economic development and policy and applied econometrics. His knowledge and interests extends to renewable energy including bio-fuels, energy efficiency and savings, energy security, energy consumptions and forecasting, and water resource development and management.

Dr. Venkatachalam Anbumozhi is an Energy Economist at the Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia (ERIA). He holds a PhD from the University of Tokyo. His previous positions include Project Manager and Senior Policy Researcher at the Institute for Global Environmental Strategies, Kobe, Japan, Assistant Professor at the University of Tokyo, Assistant Manager and Senior Engineer at the Pacific Consultants International, Tokyo and Research Associate at the Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand.

Dr. Phoumin Han Energy Economist, ERIA

Dr. Venkatachalam Anbumozhi Energy Economist, ERIA

He was graduated from the Faculty of Computer and Information Sciences, the Hosei University in 1973. He joined the Energy Data and Modelling Center, the Institute of Energy Economics, Japan as head of Statistics Information Office in 1993 and became Senior Research Fellow in 2005. He has been engaged in preparation of energy statistics in APEC region and energy modeling work applying econometric and input-output approaches for a long time. Using these expertises, he has been conducting capacity building on energy statistics and energy outlook modeling to ASEAN region for more than 10 years. He has been also in charge as leader of ERIA Working Group for Preparation of Energy Outlook and Analysis of Energy Saving Potential in East Asia from 2007. From July 2013, he has taken the current position, Special Adviser to Executive Director on Energy Affairs of ERIA.

Mr. Shigeru Kimura Special Adviser on Energy Affairs, ERIA