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Rob Adam
Chief Executive Officer
South African Nuclear Energy Corporation (Necsa)
Professor Rob Adam is Chief Executive Officer of the South African Nuclear Energy Corporation (Necsa), South Africa's statutory nuclear technology organization. He has held this position since 2006.
He holds the title of Extraordinary Professor of Physics at both the University of Pretoria and the University of South Africa. Prof Adam also serves on the Council of the Academy of Sciences of South Africa, on the board of PBMR (Pty) Ltd and chairs the steering committee for South African bid to host the Square Kilometre Array Radio Telescope.
Before joining Necsa, Prof Adam was Director-General of the Department of Science and Technology, a position he held for 7 years. In this capacity he was responsible for driving all major national science and technology initiatives of Government.
Prof Adam has held various academic positions in Europe and South Africa, and has published 30 refereed articles on theoretical physics.
Michael Angwin
Chief Executive Officer
Australian Uranium Association
Michael Angwin is the inaugural chief executive of the Australian Uranium Association (AUA), appointed in 2006.
He has been responsible for establishing the AUA, its decision-making processes, its agenda and its advocacy approach. Michael's interest is in research-based advocacy; in widening and deepening the industry's stakeholder relationships based on clearer understandings about how stakeholders perceive the nuclear fuel cycle; and on the need for the uranium industry to establish and make known its stewardship and best practice credentials.
Michael has been a senior executive at the Business Council of Australia and in the Commonwealth and Victorian public services, Rio Tinto's Chief Employee Relations Adviser and the principal of a consulting business. His career in public policy advocacy has focused on industrial relations reform. In business, his focus has been on leadership, organizational effectiveness and modernizing work practices in large companies.
He is the co-author of several books on industrial relations reform and the author of many published articles and public addresses.
John Borshoff
Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer
Paladin Ltd
John Borshoff is a geologist, graduating from the University of Western Australia, who has been involved in the Australian and African exploration and mining industry for over 30 years. John worked for International Nickel and Canadian Superior Mining before joining a German uranium mining group, Uranerz, from 1976 to 1991.He became Chief Geologist/Exploration Manager of its Australian operations and served as its chief executive from 1987 to 1991. He then founded Paladin and was appointed to its board as Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer.
John has extensive knowledge of the uranium industry and uranium supply sector serving on a number of industry boards and organizations. He won the Australian Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award in 2009 in the listed company category.
Anne Chauvin
Senior Procurement Manager
EDF
Anne Chauvin is a Senior Procurement Manager for uranium concentrates in the Nuclear Fuel Division of EDF.
She is an engineer in physics and materials. She joined Altran Technologies in 1994 and EDF in 1996 as a project manager, responsible for the development, and implementation on nuclear sites, of equipment for the maintenance of steam generators for the French fleet of PWRs.
From 2001 to 2005, she was in charge ofthe negotiation and optimization of long term contracts for power exports and imports with other European utilities, building experience on electricity markets. She was then a key account manager for 3 years, responsible for selling electricity, gas and services to electro-intensive customers in the metallurgy sector.
She moved to the nuclear fuel division in 2008, in charge of the supplies of uranium concentrates for the EDF Group.
Jacek Cichosz
Director of Operations
PGE Energia Jadrowa
Mr Jacek Cichosz joined PGE Energia Jadrowa (the nuclear division of PGE Group) in 2011 as Director of Operations and Head of NPP Project Development. Prior to that he had worked for 13 years at Accenture, holding an executive position in charge of the natural resources, energy and utilities sectors for Poland. In that role he was responsible for the management of complex projects in the area of business transformation, process redesign, new business development, investment management and information system implementations for such companies as Vattenfall, RWE, EDF, Energa, ArcelorMittal, MOL and TOTAL among others.
Mr Cichosz graduated with a master's degree in electrical engineering from Warsaw University of Technology, followed by PhD studies in the field of mathematical morphology and image processing at the Ecole des Mines de Paris.
Tim Cooper
Director, Advisory
Ernst & Young
Tim has 20 years of experience in the nuclear industry where he has held senior management positions with the likes of BNFL, VT Group and Babcock International. He brings experience of introducing stage gate decision making processes on nuclear projects and has held a gate keeper position on complex nuclear projects of over £150m. His roles have included strategy and business development as well as delivery of nuclear related projects across Europe.
Christopher Crane
President and Chief Operating Officer
Exelon
Christopher Crane is President and Chief Operating Officer of Exelon Corporation and President of Exelon Generation.
Mr Crane has worked in the nuclear industry for more than 30 years. He joined Exelon (then ComEd) in 1998, and was named Chief Nuclear Officer in 2004. He was a key player in the dramatic turnaround of ComEd nuclear performance, and the development of Exelon's proprietary Nuclear Management Model, a codification of industry-leading operational, safety, management, regulatory, workforce and financial practices. He became president of Exelon Generation in 2008, with responsibility for Exelon's hydro, coal, natural gas, oil, solar, wind, and landfill gas generating capacity; Exelon Nuclear; and Power Team, Exelon's wholesale power trading organization.
Prior to joining Exelon, Crane served as Browns Ferry nuclear site vice president for the Tennessee Valley Authority, and worked in new plant start-up at the Comanche Peak Nuclear Plant in Texas and Palo Verde Nuclear Plant in Arizona.
Mr Crane is a member of the board of directors of the Institute of Nuclear Power Operations (INPO), and a member of the executive committee of the Nuclear Energy Institute, where he has also served as chairman of the New Plant Oversight Committee, and as a member of the Nuclear Strategic Issues Advisory Committee, the Nuclear Fuel Supply Committee, and the Materials Initiative Group. He is chairman of the World Nuclear Association, promoting the peaceful worldwide use of nuclear energy.
Mr Crane studied at New Hampshire Technical College, and attended Harvard Business School's Advanced Management Program. He has held a senior reactor operator certification.
George Felgate
Managing Director
WANO
George Felgate was appointed Managing Director of the World Association of Nuclear Operators (WANO) in September 2009.
Prior to this he worked at the Institute of Nuclear Power Operations (INPO) in the US for 26 years, where he served in a variety of leadership positions including Vice President of Plant Operations and Vice President of Analysis. Mr Felgate has also held positions with the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission, the Koeberg Nuclear Power Station in Cape Town, South Africa, the Fast Flux Test Facility in the US, and the US Navy Nuclear Propulsion Program.
Mr Felgate holds a bachelor's degree in mathematics from the US Naval Academy and a master's degree from the US Naval Postgraduate School. He is a graduate of the Harvard Advanced Management Program.
James A Glasgow
Partner
Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP
Mr Glasgow, a partner in Pillsbury's Energy Practice, has over 40 years of federal government and private sector experience on a wide variety of regulatory, contractual and international trade aspects of licensing, constructing and operating nuclear power plants and nuclear fuel cycle facilities. He advises clients on domestic and international regulation of nuclear power plants, import/export licensing requirements for components, materials and technology, bilateral and multilateral agreements that govern international nuclear commerce and contracts concerning such commerce.
Before beginning his private law practice in 1981, Mr Glasgow was a trial lawyer at the US Justice Department and later served in senior legal positions at the US Atomic Energy Commission, Nuclear Regulatory Commission and Department of Energy.
Mr Glasgow has testified before committees of the US House of Representatives and presented papers on many nuclear law topics at conferences sponsored by the WNA, NEI, American Nuclear Society, American Bar Association, Uranium Institute and US Council for Energy Awareness. He was formerly Chairman and President of WM Symposia Inc (WMS) and is currently General Counsel of WMS.
Gerald Grandey
Former Chief Executive Officer
Cameco
Jerry Grandey retired in June 2011 from his role as the chief executive officer of Cameco Corporation. During more than 30 years in the mining industry, Jerry acquired a broad range of experience, from practising lawyer specializing in resource and environmental law, to senior executive of several mining companies.
He currently serves on the boards of Canadian Oil Sands Limited, Sandspring Resources, Saskatoon YMCA and Junior Achievement Saskatchewan. He is a member of the Board of Governors of the Colorado School of Mines, on the Dean's Advisory Council at the Edwards School of Business and is past chair of the World Nuclear Association.
Jerry holds a degree in geophysical engineering from the Colorado School of Mines and a law degree from Northwestern University in Chicago. He also spent two years in the US military in the late 1960s.
Malcolm Grimston
Associate Fellow
Chatham House
Malcolm Grimston was educated at Scarborough College and Magdalene, Cambridge, graduating in 1979 having read natural sciences and specialized in psychology. He worked as a chemistry teacher before joining the UK Atomic Energy Authority in 1987. In 1995 he joined Imperial College as a Senior Research Fellow and in 1999 became a Senior Research Fellow at Chatham House, where he is now an Associate Fellow. He is a regular media contributor on energy and nuclear matters. Among his publications are two books co-written with the late Peter Beck: Double or Quits the global future of civil nuclear energy and Civil nuclear energy fuel of the future or relic of the past? His latest paper, Electricity social service or market commodity, was published in July 2010; he is currently part of a consortium carrying out a government-funded project on sustainable nuclear energy. He is an elected member of Wandsworth Council in London and until 2009 had executive responsibility for environment and leisure.
Ralf Güldner
President
German Atomic Forum
Dr Ralf Güldner is Vice Chairman of the Board of Management of E.ON Kernkraft GmbH and also Member of the Board of Management of E.ON New Build and Technology.
Dr Güldner joined Siemens in 1981 and worked in the nuclear fuel business for twenty years before becoming Managing Director of Framatome ANP (now AREVA NP). In 2006 he was appointed Excecutive Vice President of AREVA NP responsible for its global nuclear fuel business.
In September 2008 he joined E.ON Kernkraft as managing director responsible for new build and decommissioning projects. He was also engaged in national and international industry associations, and from 2006-2008 was Chairman of the World Nuclear Association (WNA).
He has been the president of FORATOM since December 2009 and president of the German Atomic Forum since April 2010.
Michael Gunning
President & CEO
Hathor Exploration Ltd
Dr Gunning has more than 25 years of diverse experience in mineral exploration and geological research, including the uranium geology sector. Previous to Hathor Dr Gunning was the President and CEO of Triex Minerals Corporation and joined Hathor following the business combination of Triex and Diamondex Resources Ltd. Prior to Triex, Dr Gunning was the principal Mineral Deposits Research Geologist at the Saskatchewan Geological Survey, before which he was a Senior Project Geologist in Exploration at Teck Cominco Ltd. He has a PhD in mineral deposits and volcanology from the University of Western Ontario, and is a past president of the Saskatchewan Geological Society and the Society of Economic Geologists Student Chapter
Dong-Won Kim
Director, International Cooperation Division
Korea Nuclear Energy Promotion Agency
Before joining KONEPA, Dong-Won Kim worked for over 15 years at Young Gwang NPP, where he had spells both as an operator of Unit 2, and as a commissioning supervisor of Units 3 and 4. He received his Senior Reactor Operator licence in 1991.
He joined the Korea Nuclear Energy Foundation, the organisation which preceded KONEPA, in 1995.
Mr Kim has a bachelor’s degree in Chemistry from Sung Kyun Kwan University, and an MA in Economics from Seoul National University. He is currently undertaking a PhD in Energy Policy from Korea Polytechnic University.
Jong-Shin Kim
President and Chief Executive Officer
Korea Hydro and Nuclear Power
Mr Kim began his career at Korea Electric Power Corporation (KEPCO) in 1972 and became a Senior Vice President of KHNP after it was founded as a separate entity from KEPCO. Since 2007, he has served as President and CEO of Korea Hydro and Nuclear Power (KHNP), where his work has focused on building a nuclear safety culture and promoting nuclear technology self-reliance such as the OPR1000 and APR1400 reactor designs. With about 40 years of experience in nuclear power generation, he has played a major role in the complete history of Korea's nuclear power development.
Mr Kim received a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering from Seoul National University in 1972 and a master's degree in business administration from Ajou University in 2008. He was also the recipient of a Doctor Honoris Causa from Soongsil University in 2008.
In 2008, Mr. Kim was awarded the Order of the Legion of Honour for his outstanding contribution to nuclear industry cooperation between Korea and France. He also received the WNA Achievement Award in 2009. He has served as Chairman of WANO Tokyo Center Governing Board since 2010. He is a member of the board of the World Nuclear Association and a member of the board of directors of the Electric Power Research Institute.
Kirill Komarov
Deputy Director General, International Business and Development
State Atomic Energy Corporation Rosatom
Dr Komarov joined the Rosatom Group in 2006 to undertake the formation of Rosatom's power equipment manufacturing division in the position of Director General of JSC Atomenergomash. In 2008 he joined Rosatom Group headquarters as executive director of the nuclear power complex directorate in charge of Russian civilian nuclear industry assets management. Since April 2011 Dr Komarov has been responsible for Rosatom expansion to the global market and for business development in Russia and abroad.
Dr Komarov's previous professional background covers public, industry and consulting experience. Prior to joining Rosatom he worked as Deputy Head of the Federal Agency for Water Resources of the Russian Federation. Dr Komarov also spent 5 years working as Chief Legal Officer along with other senior positions in the Russian major private equity holding RENOVA Group. Prior to that Dr Komarov spent seven years in legal consulting mainly focusing on corporate governance, financing and mergers and acquisitions (M&A).
Dr Komarov holds a PhD degree in law.
Rüdiger König
Head of Nuclear Opportunity Development
RWE Technology
Rudy König is in charge of Nuclear Opportunity Development at RWE. He has over 20 years of experience in the global energy markets, with special expertise in the nuclear field.
Mr König has held executive management responsibilities in Germany and the US in the front and backend of the nuclear fuel cycle as well as in waste management and environmental remediation. Outside nuclear, he has been responsible for a renewables business, energy sales and mergers and acquisitions (M&A) projects. He holds a graduate degree in business administration.
Currently, he also serves as Chairman of the FORATOM New Build Task Force.
Madhukar Vinayak Kotwal
Member of the Board and President, Heavy Engineering
Larsen & Toubro
Mr M V Kotwal is a member of the board of Larsen & Toubro (L&T), and President of L&T's Heavy Engineering Division. Within the division, he is responsible for the Heavy Engineering and Shipbuilding operating companies.
Mr Kotwal joined LT in 1968 as a Junior Engineer and subseqently assumed positions of increasing responsibility in the company's specialized manufacturing facilities. He headed the Nuclear and Special Fabrication shops in Mumbai, before taking charge of critical functions at L&T's works complex in Hazira, Surat. Currently, in addition to Mumbai and Hazira, he is responsible for facilities located at five other workcentres in India. In addition he is responsible for a new joint venture with Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd (NPCIL) for special steels and heavy forgings in Hazira, a large shipyard being set up in Kattupalli, near Chennai, and a large heavy fabrication facility in Oman.
He was Co-Chairman of the Confederation of Indian Industry's national committee on defence and amember of the Vijay Kelkar Committee tasked with advising the Government of India on restructuring defence production in the country. He was elected as Chairman of the Process Plant and Machinery Association of India (PPMAI) for 2005-06 and 2006-07. Mr Kotwal was awarded the title of Business Leader of the Year 2009 by the Chemtech Foundation, Mumbai, for development of the engineering industry in India. He was the representative member from India for the Technical Advisory Group for the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) programme.
He is a Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE) and a member of SectionalCommitteeIX (Nuclear Power & Energy Technologies). In March 2011, he was appointed Chairman of the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) Committee on Defence and joined their National Executive Committee for the year 2011 as a Special Invitee.
Jérôme Le Page
Senior Analyst
MSCI ESG Research
Jérôme Le Page is a Senior Analyst at MSCI ESG Research and a senior content advisor for the utilty sector.In this role, he focuses on environmental and social risk and opportunity in the energy field, covering electric, gas, and multi-utilities worldwide.
Prior to joining the MSCI ESG Research team, Mr Le Page served as a corporate governance analyst and consultant at ISS Governance, which is now part of MSCI. Additionally, he was a legal advisor at the Invest in France Agency and conducted macroeconomic research with the International Labour Organization (ILO).
Mr Le Page holds a masters in international economic law from Paris I-Panthéon Sorbonne university and a bachelors degree from Paris I and Cologne.
James Malone
Chairman
Hathor Exploration Limited
Jim Malone is Chairman, Hathor Exploration Ltd and recently retired as Vice President, Nuclear Fuels, Exelon Corporation, where he served for some ten years. While supervising a staff of over 50 nuclear fuel professionals, Mr Malone was responsible for providing strategic direction and tactical guidance for Exelon's nuclear fuel cycle activities. Prior to Exelon, Mr. Malone spent ten years as a Vice President and Senior Consultant for NAC International, a nuclear fuel cycle consulting firm; today, beyond Hathor, Mr Malone remains active consulting in the fuel cycle sector.
Akira Omoto
Commissioner, Atomic Energy Commission of Japan and
Professor, University of Tokyo
Before assuming his current positions as Commissioner at the Atomic Energy Commission of Japan and Professor at the University of Tokyo, Akira Omoto was until 2009 director of the Division of Nuclear Power at the IAEA. Prior to serving at the IAEA, Mr Omoto was until 2003 a General Manager of the Department of Nuclear Engineering of the Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO).
By education, he is a nuclear engineer. He graduated from the Department of Nuclear Engineering of the University of Tokyo and received his doctoral degree from the same university.
Sophie Prévot
Secretary General
Women in Nuclear Europe
Sophie Prévot graduated from the Institute of Political Science of Lille (France) and obtained a bachelor of arts in politics, philosophy and economics in Europe from the University of Kent (England) in 2006.
She also completed a masters in diplomacy and international relations from the University of Paris 11 in 2007. From 2007 to 2009, she worked as the assistant nuclear counsellor for the French Atomic Energy Commission in the Embassy of France in Washington DC. She then worked as a communication officer in AREVA's crisis department. In 2011, she joined ONET Technologies as a project manager.
Currently, Sophie is the General Secretary for Women in Nuclear (WiN) Europe. WiN Europe gathers together women professionals working in all fields of application of nuclear techniques and sciences (energy, medicine, biology, art, agriculture, space exploration). In addition, WiN Europe belongs to the WiN Global network which has a combined total of 3400 members in 80 countries.
In conjunction with her professional experience, Sophie is a member of the Core group of the French Nuclear Society Young Generation.
Colin Read
Partner
Pinsent Masons
Colin Read is a partner in the Energy Sector team at international law firm Pinsent Masons LLP. Colin is an insurance and reinsurance specialist who joined from Clifford Chance in 2007. He advises on policy wordings and insurance structures with an emphasis on the construction, engineering and energy sectors. Colin regularly acts for clients seeking to understand existing and potential liabilities under nuclear liability regimes and the insurance and reinsurance structures which sit behind them.
Jim Ring
Head of Development
Gighouse Films Ltd
Jim Ring read English at Oxford, joined the advertising industry to work on ('I bet he drinks') Carling Black Label, and ended up writing the the Financial Times' standard text on the business: Advertising on Trial (1993). A spell in Ireland led to a biography of the Irish patriot Erskine Childers (John Murrray, 1996; winner of the Marsh Prize), and three years in Kitzbuhel to How the English Made the Alps (John Murray, 2000). A friendship with a Cold War submariner bred We Come Unseen (John Murray, 2001; winner of the Mountbatten Prize), and a fascination with English colonialism to Riviera (John Murray, 2004).
In 2001 he collaborated on the Channel 5 documentary Submarine, a history of the Royal Navy's submarine flotilla. From this stemmed a TV production company which he co-founded in 2005. His documentary series on immigration, Incomers, was broadcast on ITV in 2008.
His association with the nuclear industry goes back ten years, when he began working on advertising for BNFL. Subsequently he launched British Nuclear Group. At much the same time he began work with the WNA on the Class 7 denial and delay issue, an association that led to a number of film assignments for the IAEA.
He has just been commissioned by Faber to write a sequel to his first Alps book. This will be The Alps under the Swastika.
Daniel Roderick
Senior Vice President
GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy
Danny is responsible for the world wide new units business at GE Hitachi (GEH) from technology development through all aspects of project implementation. He has over 30 years of experience in the nuclear industry, serving in leadership positions in plant operations, technology development, and as a vendor supplier of reactor technology.
He has been deeply involved with expanding the GEH international footprint and involved with governments and companies around the world to expand or start their nuclear power programmes.
In addition to GEH, he has served in various leadership capacities at operating nuclear stations in capacities as Plant General Manger and Site Director, and Vice President Nuclear Operations for large US nuclear operating companies. He has held a Senior Reactor Operator Licence and has a masters and bachelors degree in engineering.
Neil Wilmshurst
Vice President and Chief Nuclear Officer
Electric Power Research Institute
Neil Wilmshurst is Vice President of the Nuclear Sector at the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI). He has overall management and technical responsibility for the approximately $150 million in annual research activities conducted by EPRI with its global nuclear membership.
Wilmshurst joined EPRI in 2003 as a Senior Project Manager within the Plant Support Engineering (PSE) programme. In 2008, he became Director of the Plant Technology department, which encompasses equipment reliability, instrumentation and controls, and risk and safety management.
Before joining EPRI, Wilmshurst worked in a variety of nuclear utility engineering and maintenance roles with AmerGen at Three Mile Island Unit 1 and British Energy at the Sizewell B plant. Prior to joining the civil nuclear programmehe served for 13 years in the Royal Navy as a Nuclear Submarine Engineer Officer.
Wilmshurst received a bachelor of science degree in electrical, mechanical and control engineering from the Royal Naval Engineering College, Manadon, UK, a post graduate diploma in nuclear reactor technology from the Royal Naval College, Greenwich, UK and a masters degree in defence administration from Cranfield Institute of Technology, Shrivenham, UK. He was also certified as a Naval Nuclear Plant Operator.
Yun Zhou
Special Consultant, Ux Consulting and
Fellow, Harvard University
Dr Yun Zhou joined UxC's team as a Special Consultant in July 2011 to support projects focusing on China's nuclear power programme and international nonproliferation issues, as well as various other technical and policy areas. Also, Dr Zhou has been a research fellow at Harvard University's Belfer Center's Project on Managing the Atom and International Security Program since 2009. She is also a research scholar at the Center of International and Security Studies at the University of Maryland.
Her current research interests include international security and safety implications under a global nuclear expansion scenario and alternative nuclear technologies, such as small reactor designs without on-site refueling for developing countries. She has examined China's nuclear energy policy and industry and analyzed security implications of China's nuclear energy growth. Dr Zhou received her PhD in nuclear engineering from the University of California, Berkeley, in 2006. She has been a researcher at General Atomics. She has published articles in a wide variety of journals, including nuclear engineering and design and energy policy.
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