Contributors

Nigel West

Nigel West is an international financial and economic journalist, currently studying the fortunes of emerging markets in Southeast Asia, and their likeness to the 1997 Asian Financial Crisis.

Pallavee Khanna

Pallavee Khanna joined Emergent Ventures India (EVI) as Associate Consultant in Policy and Climate  Change  team. She  completed  her  M.Sc.  in  Water  Resources  Management  from  TERI in  May  2013.  In  EVI, she is working  on  multitudes  of  diversified  themes  viz  NAMAs,  MRV,  Climate Finance, Biofuels, State Action Plans etc.

Paul Curnow

Paul Curnow is the Partner, Environmental Markets group in Baker & McKenzie.

Per Regnarsson

Per Regnarsson is CEO & Managing Partner at CleanWorldCapital Group Ltd. He is also Co-founder at Entropy Environmental Ltd and Chairman of Board of Directors at CWC Biofuels ApS.

Peter Hopper

Peter Hopper, a partner, is managing director of SDG's Technology and Manufacturing practices in Asia-Pacific. He leads SDG's Hong Kong office. Peter has 30 years of operating experience in a wide range of technology-based industries and spent 20 of those years with Philips Electronics. He has an MBA from Manchester Business School and an undergraduate degree with honors in business studies from Northumbria University, UK.

Peter Hopper & Alice Yung

Peter Hopper is managing director of SDG's Technology and Manufacturing practices in Asia-Pacific. He leads SDG's Hong Kong office and has 30 years of operating experience in a wide range of technology-based industries. Alice Yung is a consultant at SDG's Hong Kong office with experience in the power, manufacturing, and financial services industry in China, Singapore, and Japan. She has an MBA from INSEAD and a Bachelor of Science degree in Quantitative Finance.

Peter J. Rae

Peter J. Rae is the principal of Peter Rae Hydro Consulting Ltd.  He has extensive experience with planning and development of energy projects, particularly water power. He provides expert consulting, planning, project management, and development services. 

Philippe Du Four

Philippe Du Four is the Chairman Global Power Practice of Marsh Inc.

Phillip Vaughan

Phillip Vaughan is Director for the Utilities Industry at SAP Asia Pacific-Japan. He drives the regional business development strategy and activities for the electricity, gas, water, waste and recycling sectors.

Pramod Jain & Arun Ramamurthy

Pramod Jain is a leading expert in Wind Power, Energy Storage and Internet of Things. He is a consultant to private developers, the Asian Development Bank, USAID, US Department of Energy, United Nations Development Program, Inter-American Development Bank and others. One of his areas of focus is improving the operations of wind and other power plants through solutions that include sensors, cloud computing and smart analytics. Pramod has provided consulting in the USA, Bangladesh, Guyana, Jamaica, Mexico, Mongolia, Indonesia, Lebanon, Philippines, Sri Lanka, St. Kitts, Suriname and Vietnam. He is the author of a book Wind Energy Engineering, McGraw-Hill, NY, published in April 2016. He holds a B. Tech from Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay and Ph.D. from University of California, Berkeley.

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Arun Ramamurthy is a Senior Public Management Specialist (ICT & e-Governance) at ADB. Arun is an expert in designing and implementing digital technology solutions and innovations in development economics activities of ADB. His recent work includes piloting new connectivity and communications technologies in Bhutan and Myanmar. He is presently involved in conceptualizing Internet of Things and Artificial Intelligence solutions through ADB interventions in India, Cambodia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Nepal, Pakistan, Philippines, and the People’s Republic of China. He was with Tata Consultancy Services, India and worked in the US, UK, and Singapore before joining the ADB.

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