3rd Biomass Trade & Power 2012 Brussels Speakers
Speaker Profile: Ms. Pia Kåll, Associate Principal, McKinsey & Company
Feb 19th
Pia Kåll is an Associate Principal based in McKinsey’s Helsinki office. She is part of the core leadership group for McKinsey’s Bio-systems service line, with special focus on developing biomass to energy.
Pia has focused her work primarily on biomass related topics in the energy and forest products industries, ranging from asset and fuel strategies for biomass and waste fired power and heat assets for energy utilities, strategies for new biomaterials in the pulp and paper industry, and growth strategies for equipment providers. Pia has served companies mainly in the Nordics, Russia and continental Europe.
Pia has a Masters degree in Engineering Physics and Mathematics from Helsinki University of Technology. Before joining McKinsey Pia worked as a research assistant on Fusion and plasma physics.
3rd Biomass Trade & Power 2012 Brussels Speaker
Day 2 – Thursday, February 23
09:00 Chairman’s Welcome & Remarks
16:50 Biomass to Energy Sourcing Economics
3RD BIOMASS TRADE & POWER 2012 conference guarantees insights on maximizing potential of biomass feedstocks for power, biofuels & chemicals production from palm biomass, sugar cane bagasse, cassava waste, rubber wood residues, rice husk, saw dust and algae.
Speaker Profile: Mr. Alexandre Strapasson, PhD Researcher, Energy Policy & Technology, Imperial College London – Centre for Environmental Policy
Feb 19th
Alexandre Strapasson is PhD Researcher at Imperial College London. He works with energy and environmental sciences, focused on bioenergy, and is also Chairman of the Imperial College Brazil Forum. Among his professional experiences he worked at the Brazilian Ministry of Agriculture as Head of the Department of Sugarcane and Agroenergy and Chairman of the Sugar and Ethanol Chamber, which is responsible for the political articulation between government and the industrial and farming associations.
He also worked at the Ministry of the Environment of Brazil (MMA) as Consultant of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) for energy and climate change affairs. He studied Agronomy Engineering at the Federal University of Paraná (UFPR) and took a Masters in Energy at the University of São Paulo (USP), with additional studies in Physics at the University of Brasilia (UnB), in Climate Change at the Japan Overseas Environmental Cooperation Center (OECC) in Tokyo, and in Economics and Management at the IFP Energies Nouvelles in Paris, where he is also occasionally teaching.
3rd Biomass Trade & Power 2012 Brussels Speaker
Day 2 – Thursday, February 23
09:10 Global Growth in Biomass Based Power Generation & Trade/Demand Updates
Day 3 – Friday, February 24
09:00 Chairman’s Welcome & Remarks
3RD BIOMASS TRADE & POWER 2012 conference guarantees insights on maximizing potential of biomass feedstocks for power, biofuels & chemicals production from palm biomass, sugar cane bagasse, cassava waste, rubber wood residues, rice husk, saw dust and algae.
Speaker Profile: Mr. Piotr M. Nowak, Manager – Foreign Solid Fuels Trading Department, Weglokoks S.A.
Feb 19th
Born in Katowice, Poland in 1955. Studied languages, international law and management. Joined Weglokoks in 1979. Responsible for deliveries of Polish coal to USSR. Spent 5 years in Moscow (1989 – 1995) as the Head of Weglokoks Representative Office. Upon returning nominated as the Head of Eastern Sales Department, supervising sales of steam and coking coals to Ukraine, Russia, Lithuania, Slovakia and Czech Republic.
From 2006 to September 2008 Member of the Board of Polske uhli, a.s., a Weglokoks’ daughter company in Ostrava, Czech Republic. In October 2008 appointed as the Head of newly created Coal Purchasing Department, European Markets, mainly covering supplies from Russia, Ukraine and Kazakhstan – both rail and seaborne.
As of October 2010 this Department has also been responsible for biomass trading and subsequently renamed to Foreign Solid Fuels Trading Department.
3rd Biomass Trade & Power 2012 Brussels Speaker
Day 2 – Thursday, February 23
09:10 b) Poland
3RD BIOMASS TRADE & POWER 2012 conference guarantees insights on maximizing potential of biomass feedstocks for power, biofuels & chemicals production from palm biomass, sugar cane bagasse, cassava waste, rubber wood residues, rice husk, saw dust and algae.
Speaker Profile: Dr. Yves Ryckmans, Chief Technology Officer Biomass, Electrabel – Laborelec
Feb 19th
Yves Ryckmans graduated from the University of Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, and conducted a PhD study at the same university on modeling heat transfer in furnaces by finite elements techniques. In 1989, he joined Laborelec research Centre of Electrabel as a research engineer in the field of nuclear energy.
From 1996 on, he initiated the development of fixed bed gasification and CFB gasification of wood through several Belgian and European projects. In 1999 he became Head of the Biomass Competence Centre of Electrabel at Laborelec. This competence centre covers more than 15 years technical issues like co-firing biomass in pulverised-coal power plants, biomass gasification, biomass fuel quality, biogas applications and biomass sustainability verification. His R&D efforts were focused on CFD modeling of PC boilers, slagging and fouling, NOx and SOx emissions, biomass milling and upgrading, ESP, ash quality and utilisation, as well as the verification of sustainability criteria for solid biomass.
Currently, Yves Ryckmans is Chief Technology Officer Biomass at Laborelec. As such, he is managing research and services for bio-energy applications within GDF SUEZ Group.
3rd Biomass Trade & Power 2012 Brussels Speaker
Day 2 – Thursday, February 23
09:10 c) Progress on Initiative Wood Pellets Buyers’ Initiative on Sustainability & Specifications for Industrial Wood Pellets
3RD BIOMASS TRADE & POWER 2012 conference guarantees insights on maximizing potential of biomass feedstocks for power, biofuels & chemicals production from palm biomass, sugar cane bagasse, cassava waste, rubber wood residues, rice husk, saw dust and algae.
Speaker Profile: Mr. Michael Paik, General Counsel, EnerOne, Inc.
Feb 19th
Michael Paik is General Counsel and Senior Vice President of EnerOne, Korea’s leading waste-to-energy enterprise, with proprietary technologies in heat generation. The company’s core business is the manufacture, installation and operation of heat-generating machines and equipment for the production and management of steam and electricity.
In his twenty years of professional experience in consulting and law practice, Michael has served as consultant or counsel for some of Korea’s most prominent companies, and has assisted Korean, European and US clients in venture capital, public offering, and merger transactions valued in the billions of dollars. Michael has also represented numerous start-up companies, as well as leading venture capital, private equity and investment banking firms. As part of his practice at Hanol Law Offices, Michael served in various client management positions, including as General Counsel of Hankook Tire Company, Ltd. and the STX Group.
From 2004, Michael has been teaching corporate law and technology transactions as a professor at Yonsei University’s College of Law, The Republic of Korea’s Judicial Research & Training Institute and Seoul National University’s College of Engineering, where he has also served as Director of Technology Incubation and Chief Technology Officer for the university’s research and development foundation.
From 2002, Michael has served in various public positions, including as an elected member representing Silicon Valley to the board of directors for the California Young Lawyers’ Association, and legal advisor to the Korean Venture Capital Association, the Korean Nurses’ Association and the Incheon Free Economic Zone Authority.
Michael received his BA (Economics, 1991) from Syracuse University, MBA (Finance,1995) from Yale University and his JD from Columbia University’s School of Law. He is qualified in both New York and California, where he practiced with Cahill, Gordon & Reindel and Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, respectively.
3rd Biomass Trade & Power 2012 Brussels Speaker
Day 2 – Thursday, February 23
11:20 Meeting Korea’s RPS 2012 – Outlook of Biomass to Power
3RD BIOMASS TRADE & POWER 2012 conference guarantees insights on maximizing potential of biomass feedstocks for power, biofuels & chemicals production from palm biomass, sugar cane bagasse, cassava waste, rubber wood residues, rice husk, saw dust and algae.
Speaker Profile: Mr. Ric Hoefnagels, Researcher, Energy & Resources, Faculty of Geosciences, University of Utrecht
Feb 19th
Ric Hoefnagels (MSc) is a researcher at the Energy & Resources group of the Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development at Utrecht University since 2008. He has been involved in many bioenergy projects, including macro-economic effects of bioenergy and biobased materials on a national level in the Netherlands and European and international projects on biomass potentials, trade and sustainability criteria of solid biomass.
Furthermore, he has experience with greenhouse gas balances of biofuels, technological learning and CO2 capture and storage. He has frequently worked for IEA Bioenergy Task 40, amongst others on the development of a comprehensive GIS-based logistic model to analyze intra-European biomass trade.
He is also a member of the Biobench consortium, which recently advised the European Commission on the introduction of mandatory sustainability criteria for solid biomass and possible implications for bioenergy trade.
3rd Biomass Trade & Power 2012 Brussels Speaker
Day 2 – Thursday, February 23
12:10 Insights of Global Trade Flow (Limiting Factors, Cost Structures, etc)
3RD BIOMASS TRADE & POWER 2012 conference guarantees insights on maximizing potential of biomass feedstocks for power, biofuels & chemicals production from palm biomass, sugar cane bagasse, cassava waste, rubber wood residues, rice husk, saw dust and algae.
Speaker Profile: Mr. Shanmugam Pattu, Director, Cetex Energy Generation Co Pvt Ltd
Feb 19th
Mr. S Pattu is a Mechanical Engineer from University of Madras and is a Fellow of various professional bodies like the Institution of Engineers & American Society of Mechanical Engineers. He has worked in Senior capacities in ICI Group, Nagarjuna Fertilizers & Chemicals Ltd, and Nagarjuna Steels Ltd etc before taking up an assignment at Indonesia as CEO of Heavy Engineering Company in the Texmaco/Polysyndo Group. He has hands on experience in setting up of power plant, management of Fertilizer, Petrochemicals & Steel plants.
After returning from Indonesia he was head of the automobile business of the well known HINDUSTAN MOTORS Ltd before assuring the office of Chairman of Cetex Petrochemicals Ltd. An entrepreneur with diverse interests in agri based edible oil, power and overseas business associations.
3rd Biomass Trade & Power 2012 Brussels Speaker
Day 2 – Thursday, February 23
11:45 Current Situation in India on Renewable Biomass Power Generation
3RD BIOMASS TRADE & POWER 2012 conference guarantees insights on maximizing potential of biomass feedstocks for power, biofuels & chemicals production from palm biomass, sugar cane bagasse, cassava waste, rubber wood residues, rice husk, saw dust and algae.
Speaker Profile: Ms. Edita Vagonyte, European Affairs Manager, European Biomass Association – AEBIOM
Feb 19th
Edita Vagonyte is currently working as European Affairs manager for AEBIOM, the European Biomass Association.
She started work at Renewable Energy House in spring 2006. Since then Ms Vagonyte has been in charge of the European Affairs and Communication divisions within the Brussels office. Prior to joining AEBIOM, Edita temporarily worked for the European Commission, DG Communication.
3rd Biomass Trade & Power 2012 Brussels Speaker
Day 2 – Thursday, February 23
14:00 Efforts of the European Pellet Council & Progress on Industrial Adoption of ENplus Pellet Certification Scheme
3RD BIOMASS TRADE & POWER 2012 conference guarantees insights on maximizing potential of biomass feedstocks for power, biofuels & chemicals production from palm biomass, sugar cane bagasse, cassava waste, rubber wood residues, rice husk, saw dust and algae.
Speaker Profile: Dr. Marieke Harteveld, Consultant Bioenergy & Biobased Economy, Ecofys Netherlands BV
Feb 19th
Dr. Marieke Harteveld has over 8 years of experience in environmental issues and sustainable biomass production. Marieke holds a PhD in Tropical Ecology from the University of Göttingen. During her PhD, Marieke gained knowledge of forest conservation and soil carbon management.
She recently joined the Ecofys bio-energy team after working for five years at NL-Agency, the Dutch Governmental Agency for Climate and Innovation. At NL agency she worked on sustainability issues related to bioenergy and biofuels, among other things preparing the Dutch input for the development of the sustainability criteria within the Global Bioenergy Partnership (GBEP). Further she represented the Dutch Ministry of Infrastructure and the Environment in the advisory board for the development of the NTA8080 certification standard for sustainable bio-energy (the implementation of the Cramer criteria) and was involved in preparing the Dutch input for the development of the RED.
In addition to her work on biomass sustainability, Marieke worked for the Dutch Biorenewables Business Platform, focusing on strategy development, building partnerships, facilitateing project start-ups and advising the Dutch government on the sustainable development of the biobased economy in the Netherlands. At Ecofys she works as a consultant within the Biomass & Bioenergy Unit, supporting both policy development as the development of corporate strategies regarding the sustainable sourcing and use of biomass.
3rd Biomass Trade & Power 2012 Brussels Speaker
Day 2 – Thursday, February 23
14:25 Latest on Sustainability Criterias for Solid Biomass & iLUC
3RD BIOMASS TRADE & POWER 2012 conference guarantees insights on maximizing potential of biomass feedstocks for power, biofuels & chemicals production from palm biomass, sugar cane bagasse, cassava waste, rubber wood residues, rice husk, saw dust and algae.
Speaker Profile: Dr. Mairi Black, Biomass Sustainability Development Manager, Drax Power Ltd
Feb 19th
Dr. Mairi Black has 20 years of commercial and academic experience in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries, with specific application to non-food uses of plant/marine derived materials (industrial and pharmaceutical uses). She has worked for Reckitt and Benckiser, Du Pont (UK) Ltd, the UK agricultural levy board HGCA and has been working on biofuels/biomass policy, GHG LCA and sustainability analysis of biomass materials since 2004.
Mairi has a B.Sc (Hons) in Horticulture (1991); a PhD (2000) on “The physico-chemical structure of the polysaccharides of Plantago ovata Forsk.” and worked as a Research Associate for the Porter Alliance at Imperial College from 2008 – 2011.
Mairi joined Drax Power Ltd in April 2011 as Biomass Sustainability Development Manager and is involved in the practical implementation of sustainability principles in biomass supply chains.
3rd Biomass Trade & Power 2012 Brussels Speaker
Day 2 – Thursday, February 23
14:50 LCA & Sustainability of Solid Biomass for UK’s Power Generation
3RD BIOMASS TRADE & POWER 2012 conference guarantees insights on maximizing potential of biomass feedstocks for power, biofuels & chemicals production from palm biomass, sugar cane bagasse, cassava waste, rubber wood residues, rice husk, saw dust and algae.
