Date: Tuesday, 2 November 2010
Time: 10:00 am to 12:00 noon
Venue: Suntec Singapore International Convention &
Exhibition Centre
Level 2, Room 203
Registration fee: S$120(normal rate), S$100(bundled rate)
Lunch included.
For those interested in attending, please register via the SIEW website at www.singapore.iew.com.sg. For enquiries please contact Ms Jan Lui at esilyyj@nus.edu.sg or +65 65162000.
About the Roundtable
The issues to be covered in the Roundtable include:
- The likely shape of an emerging climate change policy architecture.
- The expected impact on energy industries, including elements related to “leakage” and “regulatory arbitrage”, differential impacts on costs and business; and technological developments in the fossil fuels and renewable energy sectors.
- The initiatives undertaken by the energy industry in facing the challenges posed by an increasingly carbon-constrained future.
Speaker
- Professor Robert Stavins, Albert Pratt Professor of Business and Government, Director of the Harvard Environmental Economics Program.
- Dr Cho-Oon Khong, Chief Political Analyst in the Global Business Environment team, Shell International.
- Dr Tilak Doshi, Chief Economist and Principal Fellow, Energy Studies Institute.
About The Speakers
Professor Robert Stavins is the Albert Pratt Professor of Business and Government, Director of the Harvard Environmental Economics Program, Chairman of the Environment and Natural Resources Faculty Group at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, and Director of the Harvard Project on International Climate Agreements.
He is also a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, University Fellow of Resources for the Future, former Chair of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Environmental Economics Advisory Board, and a member of the editorial councils of scholarly periodicals.
Professor Stavins’ research has examined diverse areas of environmental economics and policy and has appeared in a variety of economics, law, and policy journals, as well as several books. Professor Stavins also directed Project 88, a bipartisan effort cochaired by former Senator Timothy Wirth and the late Senator John Heinz to develop innovative approaches to environmental problems. He has been a consultant to government agencies, international organizations, corporations, and advocacy groups. He holds a BA in philosophy from Northwestern University, an MS in agricultural economics from Cornell, and a PhD in economics from Harvard.
Dr. Cho-Oon Khong is Chief Political Analyst in the Global Business Environment team, Shell International, with 15 years of experience in leading and participating in country scenario projects. Dr. Cho advises on political trends, is responsible for political risk analysis for the Shell Group, and leads the external environment assessments for the Group’s country reviews. He was actively involved in developing the 1995, 1998, 2001 and 2005 sets of Shell Global Scenarios and the 2008 Shell Energy Scenarios.
Dr. Cho is also an active scenarios practitioner, focusing on using scenarios in futures thinking, and advising on scenario development for risk analysis for the Shell Group. He has worked on a range of scenario projects with international organisations, governments, universities, research institutions and business companies in Asia, Europe, the US and Africa. He is a member of the advisory panel of the Evian Group based at IMD, Lausanne.
Dr. Cho tracks politics and international relations and is particularly interested in issues of political development in Asia and the Middle East. He previously taught Politics and International Relations at the University of Bath and the National University of Singapore, researching political development in East Asia. He was also Senior Economist at the Commonwealth Secretariat in London and Laski Scholar at St John’s College, Cambridge. He graduated from the University of Singapore, and received his M.Sc. and Ph.D. from the London School of Economics.
Dr. Tilak K. Doshi, Chief Economist and Principal Fellow, Energy Studies Institute, is an industry expert with over 15 years of international work experience in leading oil and gas companies. Among his prior executive management positions, Dr. Doshi was appointed by Dubai Multi Commodities Centre (a Dubai World company) as Executive Director for Energy in 2005 to implement infrastructure and product development for the Dubai oil, gas and petrochemical sectors. Prior to joining DMCC, he worked as Specialist for Saudi Aramco in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia in the crude oil sales and marketing and corporate planning departments. Previously, he has held senior positions as Director of Industry Analysis at the Atlantic Richfield Company (ARCO), Los Angeles; Chief Asia Economist, Unocal Corporation, Los Angeles and Singapore; Head of Research, Louis Dreyfus Energy Asia, Singapore; and Consultant at Arthur D. Little Inc., Singapore.
Before joining the private sector, Dr. Doshi was Head of the Energy Project at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies. Dr. Doshi is the author of the first book to be published on the Singapore oil industry (Houston of Asia: The Singapore Petroleum Industry, ISEAS, 1989.) He received his Ph.D. Economics from the University of Hawaii on a scholarship provided by the East-West Center, Honolulu. His dissertation was on an Indonesia computable general equilibrium model for studying the impacts of energy-economy interactions. He was one of two candidates which were granted the 1984 Robert S. McNamara Research Fellow award by World Bank, Washington, D.C., and he received a Distinction for MA in Economics by Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.
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