Friday 5 December 2008
(Lead Sponsor and Host: Rouse)
(Supported by: ALMT Legal and ZLWD)
This is the second seminar in a series comparing Chinese and Indian performance in specific sectors (the first was on aviation). Both countries are relatively short of clean, indigenous energy and are having problems combining fast growth with environmental efficiency. This seminar will look at how the two countries are performing on the environmental front, and will then look to the future.
Chair
Speakers
Location: Rouse & Co. International 11th Floor Exchange Tower 1 Harbour Exchange Square, London, E14 9GE
Nearest stations: Canary Wharf (Jubilee Line) or South Quay (DLR): see http://www.iprights.com/document.aspx?fn=load&media_id=507 for the final walk.
Timing: 9.30 - 11.00 (with coffee beforehand)
Pricing:
To Register your interest: please send your details (name, institutional affiliation, email address, phone number) to biz@aptn.org
Stephen Brandon
is a former senior corporate executive, who now invests in and advises selected ventures. He has particular interests in India and renewable energy, drawing on his 20-year experience of doing business in India and career-long involvement in the energy industry. He graduated in chemical engineering from Cambridge, spent four years with Foster Wheeler on process plant projects in the UK, Spain and Cuba, and then took an MBA from Cranfield. He spent 13 years with McKinsey, based in London and focusing on clients in the process industries worldwide, before joining GE to lead international business development from London. He move to Delhi as GE's National Executive in 1989, and to KL as VP South East Asia in 1993. In 1995 he returned to London to join the Board of British Gas, where he was responsible for the International Downstream businesses and Corporate Development up till the demerger of BG and Lattice group in 2000. He directed significant investments by BG in gas-based projects in Brazil, Egypt, India, the Philippines, Trinidad, and the UK, and in telecoms infrastructure in the UK. Since retiring from BG, he has advised PE firm Antfactory, chaired strategy consultants Credo, and is now Chairman of Iskrawind, who design and manufacture small wind-turbines. He leads a network of McKinsey alumni interested in promoting use of renewable energy in emerging economies like India.
Mark Foreman
Mark began his trade mark career in the trade marks departments of two multi-national companies: Unilever and ICI. He then moved to private practice in 1991, joining City law firm, Clifford Chance, to help establish its Trade Marks Department. In 1999, he joined IP Consultancy, Rouse & Co. International, to develop its international Trade Mark Agency practice. The practice is now well-established, operating from offices in eleven countries and responsible for the global portfolio management of some of the world’s leading brand owners including GSK, Diageo and B&Q. Since 2005, he has managed Rouse’s business in the United Kingdom. Mark obtained an honours degree in Law from London University and qualified as a Trade Mark Attorney in 1987. He was elected a Fellow Member of ITMA in 1996 and since then has served on the ITMA Council and acted as an ITMA Examiner. He is a European Trade Mark Attorney, an Associate Member of INTA, a member of Nominet (the UK Domain Name Authority), and lectures widely on a range of trade mark and related issues.
Rouse is a leading global IP firm, with offices in Asia, Europe and the Middle East. We focus on all areas of IP law and practice, from patents and trade marks to copyright and designs and provide both non-contentious and contentious services. Clients include major IP owners, many of whom are household names, from a range of industry sectors. We assist clients in all aspects of IP commercialisation - negotiating and drafting a wide range of agreements, including licences and franchise agreements, advising in relation to IP strategy and management and undertaking IP due diligence investigations. We also have thriving trade mark and patent filing and prosecution practices. We provide a wide variety of dispute resolution services including litigation and various forms of alternative dispute resolution including mediation. We also devise and implement enforcement strategies and work closely with enforcement agencies in many jurisdictions.
Isabel Hilton
is London based international journalist and broadcaster. She has an MA (hons) in Chinese from Edinburgh University and, after two years postgraduate work in Edinburgh, studied in China for two years, first at the Beijing Foreign Language and Culture University and then at Fudan University in Shanghai. She began her career in journalism with Scottish Television, then worked for the Daily Express and the Sunday Times before joining the launch team for The Independent in 1986. In 1992 she became a presenter of the BBC's flagship news programme, The World Tonight and a columnist for The Guardian. In 1999 she joined the New Yorker as a staff writer. Her work has appeared in the Financial Times, the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Granta, the New Statesman, El Pais, Index on Censorship and many other publications. She has reported from China, Latin America, Africa, the Middle East and Europe and has written and presented several documentaries for BBC television. Since 2001 she has been a presenter of the BBC Radio Three's cultural programme, Night Waves. She has authored and co-authored several books and holds an honorary doctorate from Bradford University.
Founded by international journalist Isabel Hilton in 2006, chinadialogue is the bilingual source of high-quality news, analysis and discussion on all environmental issues, with a special focus on China. chinadialogue.net is an independent, non-profit organisation based in London, Beijing and San Francisco. It was launched on July 3, 2006. chinadialogue is funded by a range of institutional supporters, including several major charitable foundations and the UK Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.