Philip Andrews-Speed

Oxford Institute for Energy Studies, UK

Dr. Philip Andrews-Speed is a Senior Research Fellow at the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies’ China Energy Research Programme. He previously served as Senior Principal Fellow at the Energy Studies Institute, National University of Singapore. Originally a mineral and oil exploration geologist, he transitioned to focus on energy and resource governance. His primary research interest lies in the political economy of the low-carbon energy transition, with a particular emphasis on China, and more recently, Southeast Asia. Philip has published widely on China’s energy governance, and his latest book, co-authored with Sufang Zhang, is China as a Global Clean Energy Champion: Lifting the Veil (Palgrave, 2019).

Weerawat Chantanakome

Ministry of Energy, Thailand

Dr. Weerawat Chantanakome is the Ministry Counselor for International Affairs at Thailand’s Ministry of Energy. Previously, he served as Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Brunei National Energy Research Institute (BNERI) and as Senior Team Leader at the Asia-Pacific Energy Research Centre (APERC). From 2004 to 2009, he was the Executive Director of the ASEAN Centre for Energy (ACE). With over 25 years of experience, Dr. Weerawat has led multi-disciplinary energy projects with major organisations such as the United Nations, World Bank, Asian Development Bank (ADB), International Energy Agency (IEA), and International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA).

Quentin Grafton

Australian National University, Australia

Quentin Grafton is Professor of Economics and Chairholder UNESCO Chair in Water Economics and Transboundary Water Governance. He is an Australian Laureate Fellow, a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia, a former President (2017-18) and also Distinguished Fellow of the Australasian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society (AARES). He has published more than 160 scholarly (including in journals like Science), 46 chapters in books and 17 edited or co-authored books (in Oxford University Press and Cambridge University Press).

Fukunari Kimura

ERIA

Professor Kimura is Chief Economist of Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia. He then received Master of Science and PhD titles from the Department of Economics, University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1990 and 1991, respectively. He worked for the Department of Economics, State University of New York at Albany as Assistant Professor in 1991-1994, and in the Faculty of Economics of Keio University as Associate Professor in 1994-2000. In particular, he has recently been active in writing academic/semi-academic books and articles on international production networks and economic integration in East Asia.

Ken Koyama

Institute of Energy Economics, Japan

Dr. Koayam is Managing Director, Chief Economist, Strategy Research Unit, Institute of Energy Economics, Japan (IEEJ). His fields of Expertise: Economic and Political Analysis of the World Oil Market / Economic and Political Analysis of the World Natural Gas Market / Energy Security and Geopolitics of Energy

Xiansheng Sun (孙贤胜)

Chairman, ISETS Council

Dr. Xiansheng Sun is the Chairman of the International Society for Energy Transition Studies (ISETS) and previously served as the fourth Secretary-General of the International Energy Forum. He has extensive experience with the China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC), where he played a pivotal role in negotiating and signing numerous collaborative contracts for projects both domestically and internationally. Additionally, Dr. Sun served as President of the CNPC Research Institute of Economics and Technology (RIET), the corporation’s think tank, until the end of 2015.

Naoyuki Yoshino

Keio University, Japan

Dr. Naoyuki Yoshino is Professor Emeritus at Keio University, Tokyo, Japan. From 2014 to 2020, he was Dean & CEO of the Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI). He obtained his Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University (United States) where his thesis supervisor was Sir Alan Walters, economic adviser to former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. Dr. Yoshino has been a visiting scholar at the MIT (United States) and a visiting professor at various universities including the University of New South Wales (Australia), Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques (France), the University of Gothenburg (Sweden) and Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg (Germany). He has also been an assistant professor at the State University of New York at Buffalo (1979-1981), an associate Professor at GRIPS (National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies, 1982-1990) and an economics professor at Keio University (1991-2014). Dr. Yoshino’s professional career includes membership in numerous government committees. He was named Director of the Japan Financial Services Agency’s (FSA) Financial Research Center (FSA Institute) in 2020. He was appointed as Chair of the Financial Planning Standards Board in 2007. He served as Chairperson of the Japanese Ministry of Finance’s Council on Foreign Exchange as well as its Fiscal System Council (Fiscal Investment and Loan Program Section). Additionally, he was a Board Member of the Deposit Insurance Corporation of Japan and President of the Financial System Council of the Government of Japan. He was nominated for inclusion in Who’s Who in the World for 2009, 2013, and 2020. He was awarded honorary doctorates from the University of Gothenburg (Sweden) in 2004, Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg (Germany) in 2013 and received the Fukuzawa Award in 2013 for his contribution to research on economic policy. He served as the T20 Japan, Lead-chair during Japan’s Presidency of the G20-2019 meeting and the Lead Co-chair of the T20 Infrastructure Financing Task Force. He handed over T20 presidency of Japan to Saudi Arabia’s presidency in 2020 and Italy’s Presidency in 2021. He received the International Green Finance Lifetime Achievement Scientific Award from the Central Bank of Hungary which was held at the Planet Budapest 2021 sustainability EXPO summit. He is a member of Economic Advisory Group (EAG) of Republic of Palau in 2022-2024.

Xiao-Ping Zhang

Birmingham Energy Institute, UK

Xiao-Ping Zhang is a Professor of Electrical Power Systems, Director of Smart Grid, Birmingham Energy Institute, and Co-Director of Birmingham Energy Storage Centre sponsored by UK, and Head of the Electrical Power & Control Systems Group

Professor Zhang has been conducting active research in the fields of Energy Union, Global Power & Energy Internet, Super Power Grids, Smart Grids, modelling and control of FACTS and HVDC, renewable generation (wind and wave) control, integration of EVs into power grids, energy markets & game theory applications, smart metering, distributed energy management and services for homes and buildings and wide area grid awareness. He has received major grants from UK Government Science City Initiative, FP7 EU Smart Energy Network (Smart Grid) Programme, EPSRC and Industry etc. In 2010, he initiated the UK-China Smart Grid Workshop series, which has led to 13 UK-China joint research projects on smart grid, electric vehicles and energy storage.

Professor Zhang is Chair of the IEEE WG on Test Systems for Economic Analysis and also Secretary of IFAC Technical Committee on Power and Energy Systems Control. He is advisor to the IEEE PES UK & Ireland Chapter. He published the visionary article on Smart Energy Community for Smart Cities in the IEEE Smart City News Letter in 2018.

He is co-founder of the UK-China Strategic Workshop Series on Smart Grid. He has been appointed as a panel member of the International Exchanges Committee of Royal Society since 2018. In recent years, he contributed to two reports on energy for Prime Minister’s Council for Science and Technology and UK Government Science Office.