Location: Marks & Clerk LLP, 90 Long Acre, London, WC2E 9RA, UK
Nearest tube station: Covent Garden
Timing: Registration from 17:00: seminar from 17:30 - 19.15 (followed by refreshments)
Pricing:

• Free to Marks & Clerk clients and APTN's annual supporters
• £45 + VAT (Executives)
• £25 + VAT (Asian citizens/institutions, officials, executives from Small Companies)
• £12.50 + VAT (Academics),
• Free for the Media

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Professor Sandro Macchietto
Sandro is a Professor of Process Systems Engineering in the Department of Chemical Engineering, a Director of the cross-faculty Energy Futures Lab and a Member of the Court of Imperial College (Engineering). His research expertise include the application of mathematical methods to process design, control and operation, and the development of model-based experiment design techniques for rapid model development and validation. More recently, he has become interested in the use of systems methods for the analysis, development and optimisation of sustainable energy systems, with particular applications in the biofuels area. Interested in exploring the relation between people and research environment to generate sparks, he has promoted the creation of innovative mechanisms for fast track research, such as a successful Process Concept Studio, and interfaces between academia and industry. He co-founded and was a director of the interdisciplinary Centre for Process Systems Engineering, launched one of the first Imperal College spinouts and has been a driving force behind the formation of the Energy Futures Lab. Sandro is a visiting professor at the University of Padova, Italy, a member of the Advisory Board of ENSIACET (Institut National Politechnique) in Toulouse, France, a member of the Chatham House based Asia Pacific Technology Network, and a frequently invited speaker on technology and R&D policy. He was made a Cavaliere of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic by its President in 2004

Kirsty Hamilton
Kirsty Hamilton leads the Renewable Energy Finance Project, as an Associate Fellow at Chatham House: working since 2004 at the intersection between leading mainstream financiers and senior policy counterparts, to bring about more effective ‘investment grade’ policy conditions. More recently, she has been involved in the establishment and policy work of the Low Carbon Finance Group.   She has 20 years experience of international climate and energy policy as an Observer at the UN climate change negotiations, and is on the World Economic Forum’s Global Council on Renewable Energy; Steering Committee of ‘REN 21’ the international RE policy network; a former Advisor to UNEP’s Finance Initiative and an expert reviewer and contributing author to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

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

Dr Jung-Sik Kim
University Lecturer, Department of Aeronautical & Automotive Engineering, Loughborough University. Visiting Academic Department of Materials, Imperial College London. UK Oversea Advisor Korea Institute of Machinery & Materials(KIMM), S. Korea. Vice President The Korean Scientists & Engineers Association in the UK(KSEAUK). SIG¬E Leader UK Special Interest Group¬Energy & Environment(SIG¬E), KSEAUK
UK RESEARCH INTERESTS
Sintering: Sintering of multi¬layered Cells components, i.e. MOM/MIM ¬Multi¬layered films ¬In¬situ measurement of sintering stress and sintering kinetics
Fabrication - ¬Thin/Thick film deposition, i.e. Screen printing, Tape casting, Electroplating, Sputtering -Micro power devices ( Micro Fuel Cells/ Microengine) ¬Micro/nano powder sintering, Micromoulding, Electroplating ¬Magnetic microcomponents ¬Micro¬/nano¬patterning, i.e. E¬Beam, FIB, LIGA, Photolithography ¬Warm & Hot metal forging, Powder forging ¬SU¬8 polymer microcomponents, especially with nano particle inclusion ¬Polymer, Metallic, Magnetic, and Ceramic processing
Key Skills ¬FEA i.e. DEFORM 2¬D & 3¬D, Pro¬ENGINEER / Pro¬MECHANICA ¬Computer Aided Design (CAD) / MatLab ¬Mask Aligner/Focused Ion Beam(FIB) ¬SEM & EDX, XRD, Interference Microscope, AFM, Taly Surf ¬TGA & DSC ¬Dilatometer, Optic Dilatometer

Peter Oates
Peter Oates runs a corporate advisory business based on the concept that corporate (ie strategic ) venturing is, in the long term more valuable to high growth businesses than straight-forward venture capital. In the last three years most of his time has been spent working with major Japanese investors and UK investees especially in the cleantech sector. A graduate of Cambridge University he was previously Head of M&A Advisory Services at HSBC/Midland Bank Corporate Finance in London as well as being in charge of Inward Investment there.

Professor Steve Thomas
Professor Thomas is a researcher in energy policy with more than 30 years of experience. His work is international in scope and the main areas of research are on economics and policy towards nuclear power; liberalisation and privatisation of the electricity and gas industries; and trade policy on network energy industries.
Recent projects In recent years, his research has included: an evaluation of the economics of nuclear power; an assessment of the impact of the marketisation of essential services on low-income consumers; an assessment of the European Commission’s Directives aimed at opening the electricity sector in Europe to competition; an assessment of the South African government’s attempts to develop a new design of nuclear power plant; a review of the corporate policies of the major European energy utilities; and a review of methods of funding nuclear power decommissioning liabilities
Official appointments He has been a consultant to the International Atomic Energy Agency, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, the Inter-American Development Bank, as well as the Brazilian and South African national governments
Professional affiliations Member of the editorial boards of: Energy Policy, Utility Policy, Energy and Environment, and International Journal of Regulation and Governance.
Major research funders European Federation of Public Service Unions, European Commission, Public Services International