Philip Andrews-Speed

Oxford Institute for Energy Studies, UK

Dr Andrews-Speed is a Senior Principal Fellow at the Energy Studies Institute, National University of Singapore. He has nearly 40 years in the field of energy and resources, starting his career as a mineral and oil exploration geologist before moving into the field of energy and resource governance. Until 2010, he was Professor of Energy Policy at the University of Dundee and Director of the Centre of Energy, Petroleum and Mineral Law and Policy. His main research interest has been the political economy of the low-carbon energy transition. China has been a particular focus for his research, but in recent years he has been more deeply engaged with energy challenges in Southeast Asia. His latest book China as a Global Clean Energy Champion: Lifting the Veil appeared early in 2019.

Weerawat Chantanakome

Ministry of Energy, Thailand

Dr. Weerawat Chantanakome is currently the Councilor and Senior Policy Advisor to the Ministry of Energy, the Royal Government of Thailand. Before joining the Ministry, Dr. Weerawat was the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Brunei National Energy Research Institute (BNERI) established in 2011. Prior to joining BNERI, he was the Senior Team Leader of the Asia-Pacific Energy Research Centre (APERC) in Tokyo (2009-2011) working with 21 Member Economies. From 2004-2009, Dr. Weerawat was the Executive Director of the ASEAN Centre for Energy (ACE), the ASEAN Secretariat based in Jakarta serving 10 ASEAN Member States. Dr. Weerawat holds M.S. (Industrial Engineering) from Ohio University, D.E.A. (Energy Economic) from University of Paris 2 (Sorbonne), and Ph.D. (Energy Policy & Planning) from University of Waterloo, Canada. Dr. Weerawat has over 25 years of experience in program and project development both locally and internationally for multi-disciplinary projects with UN, World Bank, IRENA, IEA, EU, ADB, ASEAN, APEC, EAS, ACE, USAID, ERIA.

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

Fromer Secretary General of International Energy Forum

Dr Sun Xiansheng took up post as the International Energy Forum （IEF) Secretary General on 1 August 2016. Prior to his election Dr Sun was the President of China National Petroleum Corporation’s (CNPC) Economics and Technology Research Institute (ETRI) where he lead a team of over 370 staff members. With more than 30 years of experience in the oil & gas industry, Dr Sun has accumulated practical industry experience in oil & gas production, trading and pipeline construction. In previous roles he has served as Director of the Legal & Contract Department of CNPC International Cooperation Bureau, Vice President of CNODC (China National Exploration and Development Company), Chairman of JOC and President of Greater Nile Petroleum Operating Company CNPC and also President of PetroDar company. Dr Sun also served as Chairman of the CNPC subsidiary companies in Azerbaijan and Uzbekistan, and as Chairman and Chief Negotiator of China Kazakhstan Oil Pipeline Co. Moreover, as a representative of the Chinese government, Dr Sun participated in the dialogue with OPEC and worked as chief coordinator in setting and revising production sharing contracts both for crude oil and unconventional gas for CNPC. Dr Sun holds an LLM and Ph.D from the University of Dundee, UK.

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.