MARCH PUBLISHING - Key Persons
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- Co - Chair of the UK - China Eco Cities Group Will Present on Sustainable Urban Development in Asia
Alan Kell OBE, co-Chair of the UK- China Eco Cities Group will present on Sustainable Urban Development in Asia.
Co-Chair of the UK - China Eco Cities and Green Building Group; Managing Director, Intelligent & Green Systems Limited. Alan Kell is a renowned leader of world-class research and consultancy programmes focussed on delivering the wide-ranging benefits of intelligent & green innovation in buildings, communities and cities. He operates as a governmental advisor, programme director, and international consultant in this field. His career achievements include:
Ashish is the CEO of Strategic Asia Europe and Co- founder of Strategic Asia and has over 20 years of global business experience. He is a Visiting Professor at London Metropolitan Business School in Hospitality, Leisure and Tourism and a Professor at the Centre for International Business and Sustainability. He is also a China and creative industries expert and advises a number of firms on Asian strategy and was formerly in charge of The Emerging Markets Programme for China and India at the London Development Agency on behalf of the Mayor of London.
His achievements include pioneering work at the Barbican Art Centre on China Olympic Programming and the development of a House of Asia centre and was a speaker at the House of Lords on 'Creative Economies and Creative Industries'. He launched a European office at the Barbican and is proud of stating that Strategic Asia Europe focusses on 'unconventional disruptive innovative projects that will change the world.'
Dr Stephen Brown is Programme Director, Carbon Capture and Storage with the Yorkshire and Humber Sustainable Futures Company (SFCo). SFCo is a wholly owned subsidiary of Yorkshire Froward which delivers the agency's aims on sustainable development in a commercially orientated manner. Stephen has a background in the chemistry and chemical engineering of combustion systems and has previously undertaken work for DTI, the EU and US Dept of Energy.
Stephen's role is to work with industry, investors and government to enable the development of carbon capture and storage in Yorkshire and Humber.
At Yorkshire Forward he was responsible for the development of strategy and policy on the low carbon economy and had the challenge of mainstreaming low carbon economy principals across all of Yorkshire Forward's work. Along with two colleagues he was responsible for establishing the Yorkshire and Humber Sustainable Futures Company and set up the Future Energy Yorkshire and Carbon Action Yorkshire programmes to deliver Yorkshire Forward's aims in renewable energy and business engagement on the low carbon economy.
Stephen is Chair of the Yorkshire and Humber Carbon Capture and Storage Partnership, a director of Community Energy Solutions (Yorkshire and Humber) and is a member of the management committee of the UK Business Council for Sustainable Development.
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- Director at the China - Britain Business Council
Giles Blackburne is a director at the China-Britain Business Council. Based in CBBC's office in Yorkshire & Humber, he draws on over 20 year's experience of dealing with China to provide advice on a wide range of business issues, from culture & communications to establishing a presence in China."
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- Chief Operating Officer of ARM
- Chief Operating Officer With Exec Oversight of ARM Asia Pacific
Graham Budd, ARM Chief Operating Officer with exec oversight of ARM Asia Pacific is confirmed to present on ARM Holdings and doing business in Asia Pacific. ARM Holdings is the world's leading semiconductor intellectual property (IP) supplier and is at the heart of the development of digital electronic products. ARM has offices around the world, headquartered in Cambridge and employ over 2,000 people.
Graham Budd was appointed as Chief Operating Officer of ARM in July 2008. Prior to this he was EVP and General Manager of the Processor Division from July 2005. He joined ARM in 1992 as a VLSI design engineer and led the development of several of ARM's early system-on-chip designs. He has been involved in ARM's activities in Asia for 15 years and has recently taken on executive responsibility for the APAC region. He is a Fellow of the IET and holds an MA in Engineering from Cambridge University.
Grant holds a Master of Engineering degree from Imperial College-London (UK), an MBA from Leeds University (UK) and is a Chartered Engineer with the Engineering Council. Grant has extensive experience in the management and delivery of multi-disciplined engineering projects, as well Group wide management of heavy engineering and processing plant and equipment in operational environments. He has held a number of senior positions across the steel, mineral/mining and utility sectors, with responsibilities in the UK, as well as globally within the steel sector. Grant has led the 900MW IGCC power station project proposed by Powerfuel Power at Hatfield in the UK for the past three years. Within this role he has managed in full the development of the project through planning, design engineering, procurement and contracting to be able to take the project forward to construction commencing in 2010.
Jonathan Mantle was educated at Pembroke College, Cambridge. He is a writer, filmmaker and playwright whose books have been published in over thirty countries including Japan, China, Taiwan, India, South Korea and Indonesia. He has worked for over twenty years with local, national and global corporates in Europe, the Middle East and Asia. Most recently he spoke at the 'Implementing MP3I' conference in Jakarta on the subject of communications and foreign private sector investment. He has two children and lives in London.
Job Titles:
- Consultant for Many Small
- Professor
Professor S.C. Lenny Koh, BEng (Hons), PhD, is Chair in Operations Management, Founder and Director of the Logistics and Supply Chain Management (LSCM) Research Group, Head of the Operations Management Group, Director of Sheffield´s Track 1 Research (SEERC), Director of Executive MBA programme, Former Chief Moderator for CITY College, at the University of Sheffield Management School UK. Professor Koh is a co-founder of Supply Chain Management and Information Systems (SCMIS) Consortium, a global network of leading academic and practitioners driving research and knowledge exchange on supply chain and information systems. Professor Koh joined The University of Sheffield as a Lecturer in Quantitative Methods and Management, then promoted to a Senior Lecturer in Operations Management, followed by a further promotion to a Chair position in Operations Management. She holds a Doctorate in Operations Management and a First-class honours degree in Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering. She has taught in Manufacturing Systems Engineering, Quantitative Methods and e-business, and is now lecturing Operations Management and Supply Chain Management. Her research interests are in the areas of Production Planning and Control (ERP and ERPII), uncertainty management, modern operations management, logistics and supply chain management (green and low carbon supply chain), e-business, e-organisations, knowledge management, and sustainable business. She has been listed in the Marquis´s Who´s Who, Premier Edition 2006. Professor Koh is a Visiting Professor at Universite Pierre Mendes-France, National Chung Hsing University Taiwan, Fu-Jen Catholic University, City Liberal Studies Greece, and The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. She plays a strategic role at University level and serves/served on various University´s committees including the University Senate External Affairs Committee, HEFCE and NAO visit panel, QAA Institutional Audit, Board of Collaborative Studies, Discipline Committee, Sheffield/SEERC Steering Committee, Graduate Research Development Committee, and Centre for Low Carbon Futures (CLCF) Steering Committee (Yorkshire Universities level).
Professor Koh´s work is highly-regarded at an international level and has major impact from the perspectives of novelty and trans-disciplinary, assist businesses and job creation. She crosses supply chain, information systems, energy, engineering, social science and science disciplines in understanding todays and futures complex supply chain problems induced by climate change and uncertainty. She leads and manages several highly complex, trans-disciplinary and cross institutions major initiatives and projects on low carbon supply chains of the £50million Centre for Low Carbon Futures (CLCF) and a White Rose Sustainability Science Network. She has led other highly complex and multi-disciplinary research projects involving multiple European and international partners. Her duties/work also contributes to regional development in upskilling managerial workforce and internationalising supply chains. She has over 234 publications in the forms of journal papers, books, edited books, edited proceedings, edited special issues, book chapters, conference papers, technical papers and reports. Her work appears in top quality journals such as International Journal of Production Research, Journal of The Operational Research Society, International Journal of Production Economics, OMEGA, Supply Chain Management: An International Journal, and Production Planning and Control. She is the Editor-in-Chief of 3 international journals, the Associate Editor of the International Journal of Systems Science (IJSS) and 2 other international journals. She is on the editorial board of many international journals. She has guest edited many high profile journals. She organised and chaired the 3rd International Conference on Supply Chain Management and Information Systems (SCMIS2005) in Greece, co-chaired the SCMIS2004 in Hong Kong and SCMIS2006 in Taiwan, and co-chairs SCMIS2009 in Taiwan. She serves on the board of scientific/international/programme committee of many international conferences worldwide. She is a referee for many top international scientific journals and is a member of IET (UK), IEE (UK), Institute of Operations Management (UK), Chartered Management Institute (UK), Operational Research Society (UK), APICS (USA), EUROMA (Europe) and INFORMS (USA). She has delivered many keynote speeches in international conferences and invited lectures in many institutions. She has received external grants/awards/sponsorships totalling over £1.5million from Regional Development Agency (RDA), Yorkshire Forward, White Rose Consortium, European Regional Development Fund (ERDF), European Union (EU), National Science Council (NSC) (Taiwan), The British Academy (UK), The Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO - UK), Ministry of Education (Macedonia), Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation (Malaysia), Rolls-Royce (UK), rent-it-systems (UK) and London Area Procurement Network (LAPN). Professor Koh has successfully supervised PDRAs/RAs/research students, examined many PhDs, reviewed research grant applications for EU, ESRC, EPSRC, British Academy, Canada Research Council, Hong Kong Research Council and served on promotion panel for senior appointments for Chair. She is also an external examiner for The University of The West Indies, St. Augustine, Brunel Business School and Leeds University Business School. She is an advisor to National Development and Reform Commission of China (NDRC) (super ministry) on impact of climate change on low carbon supply chain, Doncaster Chamber Knowledge and Enterprise Group, EPSRC future research themes, and a committee member of the South Yorkshire Green Business Club and Sheffield First for Environment.
Professor Koh has been a consultant for many Small and Medium sized Enterprises (SMEs) and large-scale manufacturing and service enterprises in the UK and abroad, in information and production systems operations, management and implementation, and supply chain management. She works very closely and collaboratively with industry internationally, and has led and managed suites of knowledge exchange projects including developing executive education and management training, facilitating management development programme, developing relational database for material cutting optimisation, managing and implementing MRP/MRPII/ERP systems, optimising supply chains, transformational logistics programme, green and low carbon supply chains collaboration and export readiness programme. Her industrial experiences include implementation and operations of MRP/MRPII/ERP systems in SMEs, batch-manufacturing and high-tech environments, directorships/leaderships in agricultural sector, directorships and management in business-to-business and business-to-consumer food supply chain, business venture and investment.
Job Titles:
- Entrepreneur in Residence, Centre
Entrepreneur in Residence, Centre for Entrepreneurial Learning, Judge Business School, University of Cambridge, Distinguished Guest Professor at Xiamen University, Visiting Professor at Shanghai College of Science and Technology and at the Fujian International School of Economics and Business, Fuzhou. Alan has spent almost 30 years in senior executive positions in technology based industries and has become one of Cambridge's most articulate promoters of entrepreneurship. Following a scientific training and six years working in clinical laboratory medicine in the NHS at the start of his career, he worked around the world with Baxter Healthcare and was its UK Chief Executive for six years. Subsequently, he joined Domino Printing Sciences plc as Managing Director. Domino became a public company and now has a market capitalization of more than half a billion euros. Following six years with Domino ,he joined Willett International Group, an industrial electronics company, and was its CEO, building its global business into a major success.
He was then instrumental in launching the Cambridge Gateway Fund, a 70millions Euros fund, to support early stage technology businesses in the region and became its Managing Partner,and has been involved with a number of charities including the Papworth Trust, the Royal Society of Arts, the Centre for Tomorrow's Company and The Prince's Trust. He is currently International Advisor to Youth Business China. He works closely with a number of Science Parks and Innovation Centres in Cambridge, elsewhere in the UK and overseas. He received The Queen's Award for Enterprise Promotion in 2006. In October 2009 The Regional Strategic Health Authority for the East of England appointed Alan Chairman of the NHS Innovation Council and in November he accepted an invitation to act as Chairman of the External Advisory Board of NACUE - the National Consortium of University Entrepreneurs, an organization which grew in its first year to have 40,000 members and embrace 80 University Enterprise Associations. Alan is a member of Cambridge Angels and Sophia Business Angels ( France ) and advises numerous early stage companies internationally. Alan is also the Founding Partner of Cambridge Worldwide Associates.
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- Deputy Director in UK Trade & Investment
Rob Lally is a Deputy Director in UK Trade & Investment covering high growth Asia markets with a responsibility to ensure that UKTI's overseas teams meet value targets for British business and a focus on delivering business outcomes through UK Ministerial engagement with their Asian counterparts. After an early career working for De Beers, Rob has spent time for UKTI in both Korea and Vietnam. He has also been a Private Secretary for three Ministers of State and has led a team looking at market reform in UK domestic energy markets.
Satish Mishra, M.D of Strategic Asia is flying in from Jakarta to speak about the vast opportunities in Indonesia, he conceptualised and managed the UN Support Facility for Indonesian Recovery (UNSFIR) and led the 1st OECD Mission to Indonesia. Satish has wide experience in managing large inter-disciplinary teams of professionals in difficult economic and political environments, he studied Economics and Politics at Oxford and has a Doctorate in Economics from Cambridge University.
Prior to heading Strategic Asia, Satish Mishra conceptualised and managed the United Nations Support Facility for Indonesian Recovery (UNSFIR) project funded by United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). His other professional experience includes high-level assignments at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), including leading the first OECD Mission to Indonesia during the Asian crisis, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and the World Bank in over 40 countries across Asia, Africa and Europe. Satish Mishra has a wide range of experience in managing large inter-disciplinary teams of professionals in difficult economic and political environments. He studied Economics and Politics at Oxford University and has a Doctorate in Economics from the University of Cambridge.
Job Titles:
- Chairman
- Honorary Fellow of Westminster School
Sir John Boyd was born in 1936 in Cambridge, England. He was educated at Westminster School. After national service in the RAF he went up to Clare College, Cambridge, in 1956, reading first Natural Sciences and then Modern Languages. Captained the Cambridge University fencing team. Attended Yale University as a Clare Fellow, 1960-62, studying Chinese language and history. MA in Far Eastern Area Studies. Travelled in US and Europe with the Yale Russian Chorus.
John Boyd joined the British Diplomatic Service in 1962. Spent two years in Hong Kong as a Chinese language student before being posted for a first spell in Peking (1965-67) at the outset of the Cultural Revolution. Returned as First Secretary to the Foreign Office, going on to serve in Washington (1969-73) and again Peking (1973-75). On promotion to Counsellor, Boyd was on loan to the British Treasury before taking up assignments in Bonn, in charge of economic reporting, and the UK Mission to the UN, where he specialised in ECOSOC issues and the "Global Negotiations". He returned to London as Assistant Under Secretary for Asia at the FCO before being seconded to the Hong Kong Government as Political Adviser to Governor Edward Youde in the period of initial implementation of the 1984 Joint Declaration with China concerning Hong Kong. Boyd was involved in cross border negotiations in a variety of fields and travelled extensively in the mainland.
Boyd is an Honorary Fellow of Westminster School and Clare College and a Life Fellow of Churchill College. He is holder of the Grand Cordon of the Rising Sun, a Japanese decoration.
Job Titles:
- Chairman of Schroder Income Growth Fund Plc
Sir Paul is the Chairman of Schroder Income Growth Fund plc and a Director of ENRC plc, of the United Kingdom Accreditation Service, of Standard Bank Group Ltd of Johannesburg, of Tempur-Pedic International Inc of Kentucky and of Abraaj Capital of Dubai.
Steve Fothergill is a Professor in the Centre for Regional Economic and Social Research at Sheffield Hallam University. An economist by background, he has a long track record of influential research in the field of UK regional development. Over the last two decades he has also occupied a pivotal role in efforts to regenerate Britain's mining areas, for many years as Director of the Coalfield Communities Campaign, representing councils in mining areas, and latterly as Director of the Industrial Communities Alliance, representing local councils across all industrial Britain.
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- Acting Chief Executive of Asia House
Sumantro Ghose is Acting Chief Executive of Asia House, London. He joined Asia House as Director of Public Programmes in January 2009 and became Acting CEO in November 2011.
Job Titles:
- Acting Chief Exec of Asia House Will Be Speaking on Creative and Cultural Opportunities in Asia, Alongside Leading Authorities in This Rapidly Growing Arena.
Sumi Ghose, Acting Chief Exec of Asia House will be speaking on creative and cultural opportunities in Asia, alongside leading authorities in this rapidly growing arena.
Zafar joined UKTI from BIS in 2007 as Deputy Head of the construction sector unit. Zafar's