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Mr Leow Foon Lee joined ESI in June 2017 and is currently a Visiting Senior Research Fellow and heads ESI's newly established Business Office. He is also the founder and Chief Executive Officer of Enerpower Pte Ltd, an energy advisory company focused in energy-related technologies and investments, which he set up in October 2015 along with his appointment by the Asian Development Bank (ADB) as a Technology Expert for Transfer of Low-carbon Technologies to Asia and the Pacific. He joined SGX-listed EnGro Corporation Ltd in October 2021 as an Independent and Non-Executive Director. He is chairman of the Remuneration Committee and also serves as a member of the Audit and Nominating Committees. He is also an adjunct lecturer at the Nanyang Business School in the Strategy, International Business, and Entrepreneurship Division of the National Technological University of Singapore.
Mr. Leow has more than 30 years of experience in the energy and telecommunication sectors, having worked for some of the global US, European and Asian companies, including General Electric, Royal Dutch Shell, RGE, Alcatel-Lucent, and Motorola with global assignments in New York, Singapore, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Beijing, and Shanghai, particularly in the Greater China region where he spent more than 22 years. His career portfolio encompassed leading Asia-Pacific regional operations, infrastructure project development, technology transfers, and licensing as well as board management of the operation of equity joint ventures.
Mr. Leow holds a Bachelor of Engineering (Mechanical) degree from the University of Singapore and a Master in Business Administration from the Lally School of Management, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, New York.
1. Scientific Advisor, "Resilience of Renewable Energy in the Asia Pacific to the COVID‑19 Pandemic", Konrad‑Adenauer‑Stiftung e.V. Report March 2021
2. Co-author, Policy Brief, ASEAN Climate Change and Energy Project: "Challenges and Opportunities for ASEAN’s Energy Sector Towards the Transition" March 2021
3. "Promoting Energy Efficiency Prosperity for the Industry Manufacturing Sector in Singapore – Outlook for Economic Instruments and Energy Services Market" December 2020 for EDB Singapore, NCCS, PMO Singapore.
4. Co-author, ESI Policy Brief "Producing Biogas from Palm Oil Mill Effluent in Southeast Asia—the Green Elephant in the Room", 2020.
5. "Development of inventory for consumption of hydrofluorocarbons in Singapore, 2019 for NEA Singapore.
6. Co-Author on ESI Final Report (ESI/PR-03/2002-01) “The Impacts of COVID-19 on the Role of Renewable Energy in Asia’s Three Largest Carbon Page 2 of 8 Emitting Countries”, Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS) Foundation, January 2022.
7. Principal-Investigator (lead), GIZ (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit GmbH), a German agency Project: CASE (“Clean, Affordable, and Secure Energy") Mapping research and literature on the energy transition in Southeast Asia, June 2022.
8. Co-author, ESI Report, Ref #ESI/RP-13/2022-04, "Evolution of Carbon Pricing Schemes to Meet Climate Goals and Maintain Business Competitiveness" April 2022; 9. Co-author, ESI Report, Ref# ESI/RP-14/2022-04 "Internal Carbon Pricing: Trends and Corporate Behaviour, April 2022.