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Top scientists, business leaders and policy-makers from China and around the world joined us to discuss possibilities for tackling future challenges in energy supply and demand.
Following speakers were invited:
- BAO Xinhe
- President of Shenyang Branch of Chinese Academy of Sciences, China. Principal Investigator of the “Clean Energy Facing the Future” Programme
- Philip Campbell
- Moderator. Editor-in-Chief, Nature Magazine, UK
- Wolfgang Dehen
- Sector CEO Energy, Siemens, Germany
- DU Xiangwan
- Vice President, Chinese Academy of Engineering, China
- FENG Weizhong
- General Manager of Waigaoqiao No. 3 Power Generation, China
- Jason Grumet
- Executive Director of National Commission on Energy Policy, Former Advisor on Energy and Environment for President Obama, USA
- Peter Gruss
- President of the Max Planck Society, Germany
- HAN Wenke
- Director General, Energy Research Institute of the National Reform and Development Commission, China
- Guenther Hasinger
- Director, Max Planck Institute of Plasma Physics, Germany
- LI Jiayang
- Vice president of Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
- LI Junfeng
- Deputy Director, Energy Research Institute of the National Development and Reform Commission, China
- Steve Kay
- Dean and Richard C. Atkinson Chair in the Division of Biological Sciences, University of California, USA
- Peter Löscher
- President and CEO, Siemens AG, Germany
- Kishore Mahbubani
- Dean, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore
- Delia Meth-Cohn
- Moderator. Editorial Director CEMEA Economist Intelligence Unit, UK
- Jaana Remes
- Senior Fellow, McKinsey Global Institute, USA
- Ferdi Schueth
- Director, Max-Planck-Institute for Coal Research, Germany
- SHI Zhengrong
- Founder and Chairman, Suntech Power Holdings, China
- SU Wei
- Director General of Climate Change, National Development and Reform Commission, China
- Nicholas You
- Senior Advisor, Policy & Strategic Planning，UN-HABITAT, Chair expert commission for cities and renewable energy of the World Future Council, Kenya
- XU Jianguo
- Chairman of the Board, Shanghai Electric Corporation, China
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BAO Xinhe,
President of Shenyang Branch of Chinese Academy of Sciences, China. Principal Investigator of the “Clean Energy Facing the Future” ProgrammeTopDr Bao is a professor at the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics and President of the Shenyang Branch of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. As a world expert on energy-related catalysis, he is the Chief Scientist on a Key Project focusing on the optimal utilisation of natural gas and coal-based methane. He is also the principle investigator of the Academy’s “Clean Energy Facing the Future” programme.
Dr Bao spent six years as an Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow and Guest Scientist at the Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society in Germany working in the fields of surface chemistry and catalysis before taking up his professorship at Dalian, where he ran the Institute of Chemical Physics until 2007. In 2009, he became a Member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry in the UK. He is also Editor-in-Chief (with Prof. A.T. Bell) of the Journal of Natural Gas Chemistry. He has a PhD from Fudan University, China. -
Philip Campbell
Dr. Philip Campbell is Editor-in-Chief of Nature and Nature Publications, based in London.TopHe has a BSc in aeronautical engineering (University of Bristol), an MSc in astrophysics (Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London) and a PhD and postdoctoral research in upper atmospheric physics (University of Leicester).
His areas of responsibility include the editorial content and management of Nature and the long-term quality of all Nature publications.
He has worked with the UK Office of Science and Innovation, the European Commission and the US National Institutes of Health on issues relating to science and its impacts in society. He is a trustee of Cancer Research UK. He was the founding editor of Physics World.
He is a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society and a Fellow of the Institute of Physics. He was awarded an honorary DSc by Leicester University and Bristol University. He is an Associate of Clare Hall, Cambridge University. -
Wolfgang Dehen
Sector CEO Energy, Siemens, Germany
Member of the Managing Board of Siemens AGTopWolfgang Dehen is Chief Executive Officer of the Siemens Energy Sector and Member of the Managing Board of Siemens AG, a position he has held since January 2008.
The Siemens Energy Sector is the world’s leading supplier of a complete spectrum of products, services and solutions for the generation, transmission and distribution of power and for the extraction, conversion and transport of oil and gas.
Wolfgang Dehen started his professional career in 1979 with the Alfred Teves GmbH in Frankfurt, Germany. Before he assumed various management positions. In 2002, Dehen was appointed as CEO of Siemens VDO Automotive AG in Germany.
Wolfgang Dehen was born on February 9, 1954, in Solingen, Germany, and holds a degree in business administration from the University of Siegen. He is married and has two children. In his spare time, Dehen enjoys driving vintage cars. -
DU Xiangwan
Vice President, Chinese Academy of Engineering, ChinaTopProf Du Xiangwan is the Vice President of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, Senior Scientific Advisor of the China Academy of Engineering Physics and Member of the Standing Committee of the China Association of Science and Technology. He serves as the deputy head of the National Energy Advisory Committee and is chairing a series of studies on China’s energy development strategy.
Prof Du is specialised in applied physics and high-power laser technology, and has long been engaged in theoretical designs and neutronics research of nuclear weapons and study of diagnostic theory of nuclear tests. He served as the leader of laser technology in the “863 Program” of China. Directly led and instructed by him, his team solved a large number of technical and physical problems, promoted related studies in engineering, and eventually succeeded in demonstration tests. The success made China among the leading countries in this high-tech field. His achievements in nuclear weapons and high power laser technology won him numerous awards, including a Top Award of National Scientific and Technological Progress. -
FENG Weizhong
General Manager Waigaoqiao Power Generation, ChinaTopWeizhong Feng is general manager of Shanghai Waigaoqiao No. 3 Power Generation Co., Ltd. (2x1000MW USC), the most advanced coal-fired power plant in China as well as in the world. A professor of electric power at Shanghai Electric Power Institute, Mr. Feng started as a chief engineer at the power plant and has been responsible over the years for optimizing its efficiency, researching and developing innovations in the plant system design and in environmental standards, along with other technical improvements. Waigaoqiao No. 3 Power Generation Co., Ltd. has set a new efficiency benchmark for the global coal-fired power generation industry.
Among many awards and honors, Prof Feng was named one of the Top Ten Talents of Science and Technology Innovations of Shanghai in 2008. He has published more than 40 academic papers in China and overseas, focusing on ultra-supercritical power generation technology. He has 10 patents certified by the State Intellectual Property Office of China and many others pending. -
Jason Grumet
Executive Director of National Commission on Energy Policy, Former Advisor on Energy and Environment for President Obama, USATopJason Grumet is an influential and bipartisan voice on energy issues in the US and its associated environmental challenges. He works daily with top-tier deciders in political, academic and industry circles to ensure energy policies that bring real change.
Grumet began advising Barack Obama on energy issues in 2005. He was the Chair of the Energy and Environmental Policy Group for Obama's presidential campaign. Currently, he is the Executive Director of the National Commission on Energy Policy, a nonpartisan group studying energy, climate and security. In 2007, Mr Grumet founded the Bipartisan Policy Center, which works on the challenging public policy proposals facing America: energy, security, transportation, agriculture and health care. Grumet is a former national collegiate debate champion, appears in the media and is a frequent witness at Congressional hearings. -
Peter Gruss,
President of the Max Planck Society, GermanyTopPeter Gruss was born in 1949 in Alsfeld in Germany. In 1968, he began his studies in biology at the Technical University in Darmstadt. After graduating, he went on to research his doctoral thesis at the Institute for Virus Research at the German Cancer Research Center. In 1977, he earned his PhD in biology from the University of Heidelberg.
The following year he began work at the Laboratory of Molecular Virology of the National Institute of Health in Bethesda, Maryland (USA). In 1982, he was appointed professor of the Institute for Microbiology at the University of Heidelberg. One year later, he was appointed to the board of directors of the Center for Molecular Biology in Heidelberg.
In 1986, he was appointed director of the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Göttingen and made a scientific member of the Max Planck Society.
Since 1990, Peter Gruss has held the status of honorary professor at the University of Göttingen. He has been president of the Max Planck Society since mid-2002. -
HAN Wenke,
Director General, Energy Research Institute of the National Reform and Development Commission, ChinaTopHan Wenke is director general of the Energy Research Institute, China’s foremost research organisation conducting comprehensive studies on national energy issues as part of the National Development and Reform Commission. Prof Han has a long and rich experience of energy policy research, focusing on strategy and planning for national and regional energy development, as well as for the petroleum, natural gas and power industries. He has also led research on the commercialisation of new and renewable energies, the energy market and energy pricing reform, sustainable energy development and energy conservation.
Prof Han is editor general and director of the magazine China Energy, committee member of National Energy Expert Committee, China Energy Research Society, the Investment Association of China, China Economic and Social Council, China Center for International Economic Exchanges, China Energy Conservation Association. He graduated from Xi’an Jiaotong University and is part-time professor at Northwestern Polytechnical University. -
Guenther Hasinger,
Director, Max Planck Institute of Plasma Physics, GermanyTopScientific Director of the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics, Germany
Günther Hasinger was appointed Scientific Director of the Institute for Plasma Physics in Garching in 2008, focusing his research attention on nuclear fusion. He has been chairman of the European Fusion Development Agreement Steering Committee since 2009.
Prof Hasinger began his research career in astrophysics, receiving numerous awards for his contributions in this area, including the Leibniz prize in 2005, for his work on cosmic background x-radiation and black holes, and the COSPAR award in 2010 for outstanding contributions to space science. He has also been active in explaining cosmology to a wider audience, winning a Science Book of the Year Award in 2008 for his book “Fate of the Universe”.
As director of the Institute for Plasma Physics, Prof Hasinger focuses on the synergies between astrophysics and plasma physics, introducing x-ray diagnostics into fusion physics, with the aim of reproducing the sun’s source of energy in a fusion power plant.
Prof Hasinger gained his doctorate at the University of Munich and the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics in Garching. He is married with two children. -
LI Jiayang
Vice president of Chinese Academy of Sciences, ChinaTopLi Jiayang has been Vice President of the Chinese Academy of Sciences since 2004. A plant molecular geneticist, Prof Li graduated from Anhui Agricultural College (now Anhui Agricultural University) in 1984. He obtained his Ph.D. from Brandeis University in Massachusetts in 1991 and carried out post-doctoral research at the Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research at Cornell University until 1994. After returning to China, he served as assistant director and director of the CAS Institute of Genetics and Biological Development.
In addition to his role at CAS, he holds several other leadership positions, including serving as a member of the Asia-Pacific International Biology Network and president of the Genetics Society of China. He previously served as secretary treasurer of the International Association for Plant Tissue Culture & Biotechnology and director of the International Society of Plant Molecular Biology. As a leading scientist in plant molecular genetics, Professor Li is also considered an expert in the field of bioenergy and energy plants. He has been selected as academian of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and fellow of the Third World Academy of Sciences. He also received the Ho Leung Ho Lee Foundation Award for Life Sciences. -
LI Junfeng
Deputy Director, Energy Research Institute of the National Development and Reform Commission, ChinaTopLi Junfeng is Professor and Chair of the Academic Committee of the Energy Research Institute and is currently serving as Deputy Director. Prof Li’s work focuses on renewable energy and on climate change issues such as technology transfer, the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) and carbon trade. He headed the first CDM project in China and is the focal point in East Asia for the global Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Partnership, as well as working closely with the World Bank, UNDP, Global Environment Facility and other programmes for renewable energy development in China.
Prof Li chaired the Sustainable Energy Task Force of the Chinese High Technology 863 Programme and facilitated the implementation of the national high technology programme for Wind and Solar PV within the tenth five-year plan. He was a member of the Hydrogen Task Force of National High Technology 973 Programme. Meanwhile, he was the chief author of the Chinese Renewable Energy Law and has written numerous papers and reports on renewable energy, carbon trade and others issues.
Prof Li is General Secretary of the Chinese Renewable Industrial Association, Vice-Chairman of the Global Wind Energy Council and Vice-Chairman of REN 21, among other positions. He graduated from the Shandong Mining Institute in 1982. -
Steve Kay
Dean and Richard C. Atkinson Chair in the Division of Biological Sciences, University of California, USATopSteve Kay has been the Dean of the Division of Biological Sciences and holds the Richard C. Atkinson Chair in Biological Sciences at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) since 2007. He is also a UCSD Distinguished Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology. Dr. Kay was recently the founding Director of the San Diego Center for Algae Biotechnology (SD-CAB) which is a research hub dedicated to the development of large scale algal platforms for bioenergy, production of green chemicals and therapeutic proteins. His research involves the large scale application of genomics technologies and systems approaches to understand complex regulatory networks in plant and animal cells.
Dr. Kay is trained in genetics and genomics and received his Ph.D. from the University of Bristol, UK. He has held faculty positions at The Rockefeller University, University of Virginia and The Scripps Research Institute prior to joining UCSD. He has also served as the Director of Discovery Research at the Genomics Institute of the Novartis Research Foundation (GNF), where he built a large Department applying human genome science to biomedical research and drug discovery.
Dr Kay has published over 200 papers and is named by ISI as a highly cited scientist. His recent interests lie at the interface between food and energy security with basic plant and microbial science, as well as continuing to apply genomics to the discovery of therapeutics. Dr. Kay has founded several start-up biotechnology companies. His work has been cited in Science magazine’s “Breakthroughs of the Year” consecutively in 1997, 1998 and again in 2002. In 2008 he was elected a Member of the National Academy of Sciences USA, in 2009 elected a AAAS Fellow, and in 2010 awarded the UCSD Chancellor's Associates Faculty Award for Excellence in Research. -
Peter Löscher,
President and CEO, Siemens AG, GermanyTopPeter Löscher took over as President and CEO of Siemens AG on July 1, 2007. He is the twelfth CEO in the 160-year history of the company and the first to be named from outside Siemens.
He has years of domestic and foreign experience in various companies in the pharmaceutical and medical fields. His international management experience began in 1988 with the Hoechst Group, and in the course of his eleven years with the company he held top management positions in Spain, the United States, Britain and Japan. Later he moved to General Electric Healthcare and GE Healthcare Bio-Sciences. Immediately prior to his appointment as CEO of Siemens, he served as President of Global Human Health at Merck & Co, Inc., in the United States.
Peter Löscher studied economics at Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration and at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He received his Master of Business Administration (MBA) from Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration. Mr Löscher graduated from the Advanced Management Program of Harvard Business School.
He was born in Villach, Austria, is married and has three children. -
Kishore Mahbubani
Dean, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of SingaporeTopProfessor, author and former ambassador, Kishore Mahbubani is a global thought-leader and Asia’s best-known diplomat. Dean of the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore, Mahbubani served for 33 years as a diplomat for Singapore with postings in Malaysia, Cambodia, Washington DC and New York where he served twice as Singapore’s Ambassador to the UN and President of the UN Security Council. For many years he has been a consultant to policymakers throughout Asia and to multi-national corporations looking to invest and grow in the region.
His latest book, The New Asian Hemisphere: The Irresistible Shift of Power to the East, is an incisive analysis of the dominant story of our time. He explores why Asia’s rise is happening now and how it will alter the world in the coming decades. He also is the author of Can Asians Think? and Beyond the Age of Innocence: Rebuilding Trust between America and the World.
His articles — on topics from globalisation and free trade to political leadership — have appeared in Foreign Affairs and The New York Times. Profiled by The Economist and TIME, he was listed as one of the top 100 public intellectuals in the world by Foreign Policy and Prospect magazines.
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Delia Meth-Cohn
Moderator. Editorial Director CEMEA Economist Intelligence Unit, UKTopDelia Meth-Cohn is the Editorial Director for Continental Europe, Middle East and Africa, responsible for the quality of the Economist Group’s research, conference and business services in the region. Delia chairs and speaks at conferences around the world and frequently provides in-house briefings to senior executives at international companies.
Delia has worked with the Economist Group since 1993, when she joined and later became editor-in-chief of the monthly magazine Business Central Europe. She has written numerous in-depth reports on topics from EU enlargement to corporate structures, as well as several travel books. She has an MA in International Politics from Columbia University and a BA from Durham University. She is married with two children. -
Jaana Remes
Senior Fellow McKinsey Global Institute, USATopJaana Remes is a senior fellow at the McKinsey Global Institute (MGI), McKinsey's economics research arm. She leads MGI research on energy markets, examining energy users across the globe to understand how changes in price and GDP impact global energy consumption and identifying opportunities for reducing energy demand growth through higher energy productivity. Most recently, MGI has assessed the near-term balance between demand and supply for oil and other major fuels.In addition, Jaana has led MGI research examining the process of global industry restructuring across countries and the impact of multinational companies on developing-country economies.
Jaana was previously a McKinsey consultant in San Francisco and Mexico, working with high-tech clients on strategy-related topics. Prior to joining McKinsey in 1996, Jaana worked as a research fellow and consultant at several international development agencies and universities. She has a Ph.D. in applied economics from Stanford University and a master’s degree in economics and philosophy from the University of Helsinki, Finland. -
Ferdi Schueth
Director, Max-Planck-Institute for Coal Research, GermanyTopFerdi Schueth is Director of the Max-Planck-Institute for Coal Research in Muelheim, where his research interests include energy, catalysis, porous solids, hydrogen storage, high-throughput-experimentation in catalysis and materials science, and solids formation from solution. He is currently vice president of the German Science Foundation (DFG) and vice chairman of Dechema, and he serves on the editorial boards of several international journals. He is also cofounder and board member of hte, a leading provider of high throughput experimentation technology solutions and services in Heidelberg.
Prof Schueth studied Chemistry and Law at Münster, where he received his Ph.D. in Chemistry in 1988 and the State Examination in Law in 1989. Having worked with L.D. Schmidt at the Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of Minnesota, K. Unger in Mainz and G. Stucky in Santa Barbara, he was made a full professor at Frankfurt University in 1995. He was appointed Director at the Max-Planck-Institut in 1998.
Prof Schueth has received several prizes, among them the Leibniz-Preis of DFG, and is elected member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina and the German Academy of Science and Engineering acatach. -
SHI Zhengrong
Founder and Chairman, Suntech Power Holdings, ChinaTopDr. Zhengrong Shi is Suntech’s founder, chairman of the board of directors and chief executive officer. Prior to founding Suntech in 2001, he was a research director and executive director of Pacific Solar Pty., Ltd., an Australian PV company engaged in the commercialization of next-generation thin film technology. From 1992 to 1995, he was a senior research scientist and the leader of the Thin Film Solar Cells Research Group in the Centre of Excellence for Photovoltaic Engineering at the University of New South Wales in Australia.
Dr. Shi holds 15 patents in PV technologies and has published a number of articles and papers in PV-related scientific magazines and at conferences. Dr. Shi received a bachelor's degree in optical science from Chang Chun University of Science and Technology in China in 1983, a master's degree in laser physics from the Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1986, and a Ph.D degree in electrical engineering from the University of New South Wales in Australia in 1992. -
SU Wei
Director General of Climate Change, National Development and Reform Commission, ChinaTopSu Wei is Director General of Climate Change at the National Development and Reform Commission as well as Secretary General of the Coordination Liaison Office, national leading Committee on Climate Change.
From 1986 to 2007 he was a member of the department of Treaty and Law at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People’s Republic of China. Since 2007 he has been working at the National Development and Reform Commission, China. He joined the United Nation Climate Change Conference in 1989 and has served as Chief Negotiator for China since 2005. -
Nicholas You
Senior Advisor, Office of the Executive Director of UN-HABITAT, Kenya, ChinaTopNicholas You recently capped a career as a senior policy and strategic planning advisor at UN-HABITAT, the UN’s lead agency on housing and sustainable urban development. Over the past thirty years he initiated numerous global programmes ranging from training municipal leaders, best practices in improving the living environment, model urban policies and legislation, and most recently, the World Urban Campaign. He is an architect and economist by training and was recently appointed as Chair of the World Future Council’s expert commission on cities and climate change. He is also a senior advisor to the China Real Estate Chamber of Commerce on green building and urban design.
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XU Jianguo
Chairman of the Board, Shanghai Electric Corporation, ChinaTopXu Jianguo is the chief executive officer, chairman and executive director of Shanghai Electric Group, one of China’s largest manufacturers of power generation equipment. He has also held previous appointments as vice secretary-general of the Shanghai Municipal Government and director of the Shanghai Municipal Economic Commission, among other roles.
Mr Xu has over 30 years of experience in industrial business management. He is also a senior economist and adjunct professor at Shanghai University of Finance and Economics. He is the author of Market, Mechanism, Capital, and Talent —Basic Issues State-Owned Enterprises Face in Entering the Market and over 20 scholarly articles. He has also supervised the compilation of ten books including Report on the Industrial Development in Shanghai and Report on the Commercial Development in Shanghai.