Contributors

Dale Gerstenslager

Dale Gerstenslager is the General Manager, Public Relations & Communications Department, Managerial Division at Doosan Heavy Industries Vietnam Ltd, (Doosan Vina)

Dan Perera

Dan is a partner in the Energy & Natural Resources Group of Reed Smith LLP. He specializes in disputes and advisory matters within the fields of commodities and international trade (hard rock minerals, metals, energy, oil and gas), mining (exploration, production and regulatory), shipbuilding and offshore (including rig and FPSO-related matters under EPIC contracts). Dan regularly acts for miners, oil and gas companies and commodity traders, and has conducted arbitrations under, amongst others, SIAC, ICC, LCIA, LMAA and GAFTA rules, and ad hoc arbitrations under the UNCITRAL Arbitration Rules. 

Having been based in Singapore since 2010, Dan worked with a market-leading international arbitration practice before spending three years as senior in-house counsel with a mining major from 2012, where he supported the company’s iron ore, coal, copper and uranium marketing businesses and assisted with group-wide projects and disputes. Dan has been actively involved in the development and refinement of a number of industry-standard commodity contracts, and the implementation of market-based pricing mechanisms within developing markets such as iron ore. He regularly advises on multi-commodity marketing standardisation projects.

Dan is a regular speaker at industry conferences relating to commodities and international trade, deep sea mining, and shipping. In 2016 he was recognised by Singapore Business Review as one of Singapore's most influential lawyers aged 40 and under.

Daniel Nimmo

 Daniel Nimmo is the Vice President, Energy & Resources, SAP Asia Pacific Japan.

David Milligan

David Milligan is Senior Associate at Norton Rose Fulbright Hong Kong.

Debajit Das

Debajit joined Aggreko in 2006 following a merger with GE Rentals and has gained significant experience in a variety of senior management positions within the Group. In January 2013, he was appointed as Regional Director for Asia Pacific. Prior to joining Aggreko, Debajit spent nine years working for General Electric in a variety of leadership positions in their energy business.

Douglas Bellin

Douglas Bellin is the Industry Lead of Cisco Systems, Inc.

Dr Jong Kyun Park

Dr. Jong Kyun Park has been working for the International Atomic Energy Agency since October 2009 as Director, Division of Nuclear Power. He is in charge of nuclear power related activities of the IAEA including nuclear power engineering and nuclear technology development. He is a member of American Nuclear Society and Korean Nuclear Society.

Dr Weerawat Chantanakome

Dr Weerawat Chantanakome is the Chief Executive Officer of the Brunei National Energy Research Institute (BNERI). He was formerly Executive Director of the ASEAN Centre for Energy and Senior Team Leader at the Asia-Pacific Energy Research Centre (APERC) in Tokyo, Japan.

Dr. Victor Nian

Dr. Victor Nian is the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of the Centre for Strategic Energy and Resources (CSER), an independent think-and-do tank established in the spirit of “knowledge and innovation without borders" in Asia. Dr Nian advises public and private organisations on energy strategy, industrial and climate policy, technology management, digital transformation, and other energy transition and sustainable development related issues. He is recognised as one of the go-to-persons on energy modelling and scenario planning, nuclear energy, hydrogen economy, and net-zero strategy in Asia.

Under his leadership, CSER is on a mission to build enabling ecosystems to accelerate energy transition pathways in Asia. Dr. Nian is a Founding Member, elected Council Member, and elected Honorary General Secretary of the International Society for Energy Transition Studies, a professional society with more than 500 members from over 40 countries.

Dr. Nian was previously a Visiting Fellow of the Hughes Hall, University of Cambridge, an Adjunct Full Professor of Tianjin University of Commerce, an interdisciplinary subject matter expert of an energy policy research institute, and an entrepreneur in carbon and sustainability consulting business. He holds a PhD in Mechanical Engineering and a BEng (Hons) in Electrical Engineering with a Minor in Management of Technology, all from the National University of Singapore

Edward Cahill

Edward Cahill is a Research Associate for the Solar service at Lux Research, which provides strategic advice and on-going intelligence for emerging technologies.