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Expert has been based in Hong Kong for last 1.5 years.
Key Achievements:
✔ Spent over 3 years working for a leading multinational oil and gas company (covered New Energies and several China projects)
✔ Expert studied Industrial Engineering at a reputable public research university (Dipl.-Wirt.-Ing.) and completed an MSc at a major research university in Beijing.
✔ Focus of studies: Power Engineering, Renewables and Financial Services.
Relevant China Involvement:
✔ Biotech Germany-China – sourcing China.
✔ Worked on leading multinational oil and gas company startup project – steering China team & interfacing China launch.
✔ New Energies – digital project screening and evaluation for leading multinational oil and gas company.
Expert is a Chinese investment specialist. with a strong academic and professional background in international relations, public policy, climate, energy, and green finance.
Key Achievements:
✔ Expert was most recently a researcher at a leading Chinese University, studying the policy and regulatory frameworks underpinning China’s clean energy transition as well as China’s financing of renewable energy investment projects as part of the Belt Road Initiative.
✔ Expert actively contributed to the research on related topics at a university-based research institute as the authority on green finance and its role in China’s clean energy transition in China.
✔ Expert attended high-level international conferences and workshops on green investment in China’s renewable energy industry, so has a wide network and is familiar with recent trends.
✔ Expert is currently a freelance researcher and consultant, helping clients to better understand the Chinese Market.
✔ Expert speaks fluent English and Mandarin.
Expert has 6+ years’ experience in the Renewable Energy Market in China..
Key Achievements:
✔ Expert has spent the last 3 years as Senior Investment Development Manager for a large investment consulting firm in Beijing.
✔ Expert has extensive experience in strategic planning analysis and research on external new energy industry policies and development trends , to clarify his annual national investment and development strategic plans.
✔ Expert has experience through the entire chain of new energy project investment and development; front-stage (scheme design), middle-stage (investment risk control), and back-end (project management).
✔ *Expert would need to consult in Mandarin*
Expert is Chinese, based in Beijing
Key Achievements:
✔ Expert is currently Senior Business Manager at a multinational service, business energy & regeneration company in charge of Renewable Energy Investment, Corporate and M&A in China.
✔ Expert’s previous role was as Project Manager for a large Solar Energy company, working on large projects such as Worldbank MENA CSP KIP, Kuwait Shagaya Renewable Park, and Chinese solar energy.
✔ Expert also spent 4 years at a leading gas and electricity supplier as Research Engineer and CSP Project Manager, focussing on Solar Energy investment development in the Chinese market.
✔ In his role as Research Engineer, the Expert also focussed on Conventional Thermal Power, Carbon Capture and Storage, and Concentrated Solar Power, producing technical and economic analysis based on the Chinese Market.
Mandarin speaking New Zealander. 35-year resident of Beijing. China green card holder.
Key Achievements:
✔ For 30 years leads Beijing based private equity management company he founded. Offices-Beijing Ningbo and London.
✔ As GP managed five funds totalling approximately USD 300 million, with investments in 29 companies- sectors including agriculture, textiles, optical instruments, automotive parts, construction equipment, FMCG, IT, telecommunications, and solar and wind power technology.
✔ Expert managed a major solar panel company, helping it to restructure and resulting in high returns to the European investors. Expert also worked in the wind power sector assisting a digital pre-emptive maintenance firm place its technology in a wind power business.
✔ Achieved high returns for investors, including pension funds, development finance institutions, European and Asia-Pacific financial entities and Chinese SOEs.
✔ Managed, restructured exited nonperforming loans and stressed equity positions held by international financial institutions. Achieved exits from approximately 65% of assets managed.
✔ Managed back office and compliance requirements.
✔ Travels regularly and widely in China maintaining relationships with business owners and local officials.
✔ Has an extensive grass roots network and can provide due diligence information at levels deeper than many larger institutions
✔ Helped managed melamine infant formula crisis for multinational firm’s alleged illegal gains crisis. Assisted multinational industrial and finance firms to resolve issues in market.
✔ Produces regular strategic assessments of Chinese economic and political landscape. Advises range of international finance institutions.
✔ Regular commentator in Western and Chinese media.
Currently Director Policy and Markets for an established photovoltaic firm in Singapore since 2016.
Key Achievements:
✔ Vice Chairman of renewables for an organisation established to support and represent the interests of companies from the
European Union operating in China from 2013-2016.
✔ Currently Director of clean energy advisory company in China.
✔ EU Renewable Energy Manager For a governmental energy programme, Beijing for two years.
✔ For 6 years served as Technical Advisor for a Renewable Energies in Rural Areas Programme, Beijing.
Educational Background:
✔ Reputable University of Applied Science (FH), Business Sinologist and International Business Management.
✔ Established German University of Applied Science (FH), Licensed Industrial Mechanical Engineering.
✔ Research Institute for Solar Energy, Germany, Research Intern.