Contributors

Tim Buckley

Tim Buckley, Director Energy Finance Studies, Australia/South Asia with the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA) has 25 years of financial markets experience, specializing in equity valuation, including as a top-rated analyst and as co-founder and managing director of Arkx Investment Management.

Tim Camp

Tim is the Director of Turbine Engineering at LOC Renewables, a part of the premier international marine and engineering consultancy LOC Group. Prior to joining LOC Renewables, Tim spent 19 years at Garrad Hassan and DNV GL, where he led the Turbine Engineering team and was most recently DNV GL’s EMEA Business Development Director for energy advisory services.

Trung Ghi

Trung has more than 25 years of experience in the energy sector with half that time spent in consulting with a specific focus on advising the Asia Pacific / Australasian, Middle Eastern, and North American energy clients. He has advised clients on Energy Reform Strategy, Organizational Restructuring, Growth and Diversification Strategy, and Technology and Digital Strategy.

Recently, Trung has been developing strategies for energy companies across Southeast Asia on their decarbonisation strategy and energy transition roadmaps which includes developing the hydrogen, bio-fuels, nuclear, and convergence technologies. With this, Trung has advised clients in how to set up their new business capabilities and driving results through supporting their feasibility studies on pilot / demonstration plants within the region.

Prior to joining ADL, Trung worked in Schlumberger Business Consulting, Independent Project Analysis, and as an engineer for wireline services with Halliburton.  Trung holds an MBA from Melbourne Business School. He also has a Mechanical and Space Engineering degree (Hons) at the University of Queensland. 

Unnadha Raja

Unnadha Raja is the Head of Sulzer Services, India. With 30 years of leadership experience in manufacturing, industrial services, and business strategy, he has a proven track record in scaling operations, driving profitability, and leading high-performing teams.

At Sulzer, Raja is focused on expanding service capabilities across India, ensuring that industries in the oil and gas, power generation, and energy sectors have access to cutting-edge retrofit, repair, and maintenance solutions. With expertise in equipment modernisation strategies, process optimisation, and asset lifecycle management, he enables customers to maximise efficiency, reduce downtime, and achieve long-term sustainability goals.

Raja can speak about leveraging advanced technology and service innovation to support the evolving industrial landscape, ensuring efficiency and high-performance solutions that align with energy security and efficiency goals.

Urbano Mendiola, Jr.

Bong Mendiola has been with the National Power Corporation (NPC) for the last 39 years and has wide experience in plant engineering/construction, quality assurance, operations, fuel management, IPP contracts management, and power economics.

Victor Nian

Dr. Victor Nian is a research fellow at the Energy Studies Institute, National University of Singapore. His research interest and expertise is in the areas of atomic energy and energy systems modeling. His works in atomic energy include economics of advanced reactor technologies, trends in reactor technology and market developments, risk analysis of radiological events, safety, security and safeguards, nuclear fusion energy, and policy issues related to atomic energy. His works in energy systems modeling include the development of energy systems modelling tools, modeling analysis using MARKAL and TIMES for policy issues facing Singapore and Southeast Asia, technology assessment in the whole-system approach, water-energy nexus, and hydrogen economy. He is a co-leader of the nuclear special interest group in the Institution of Chemical Engineers (Singapore). He holds a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering and a Bachelor in Electrical Engineering with a Minor in Management of Technology from the National University of Singapore.

Vikram Kumar

Vikram Kumar is International Finance Corporation's (IFC) Country Manager for Myanmar, based in Yangon, effective from December 2013. He has established IFC’s presence in Myanmar as the largest foreign financial investor with a cumulative investment program of ~$900m and also as a key contributor to advisory work focused on regulatory reform and capacity building that will promote private sector development in the country.

Prior to this assignment, he was Chief of Staff for the IFC Vice President, Asia Pacific in Washington DC. He has also working in Nairobi, Kenya and in New Delhi, India focusing primarily on infrastructure investments in Africa and South Asia regions respectively.

Kumar’s background also includes the field of Corporate Investment Banking for ICICI Bank, YES Bank in India and in Credit Risk and Portfolio Management with Bank of America in the UK.

Vinit Chitkara

Vinit Chitkara leads the energy function for Equinix across Asia Pacific and is responsible for the delivery of Equinix’s energy sustainability programme including renewable energy and carbon, energy procurement, and risk management. Prior to joining Equinix in 2021, he held similar roles across the public sector, mining, and manufacturing.

Chitkara has a decade of experience working across various markets in Asia Pacific and has previously worked with state-owned energy providers in Laos, Vietnam, Indonesia, Malaysia, and China. 

He holds a Bachelor of Electronics Engineering from Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology and an MBA from Melbourne Business School.

William Byun

William I.Y. Byun is the Managing Director at Asia Renewables - Singapore.

William Byun & Marilia Paraschou

Mr. William I.Y. Byun is the Managing Director at Asia Renewables - Singapore.

Ms. Marilia Paraschou is currently a Legal Researcher in residence at Asia Renewables specialising in the regulatory and policy framework for renewable energy generation programs in South East Asia.