Event Details

As you may know, we launched our inaugural Eminent Speakers Series Salon last week with distinguished speaker Mr. Li Junfeng that received warmly and great positive feedback from all attendees. We are now honoured to have Mr. Zhai Yongping, Technical Advisor of Energy Sector Group of Asian Development Bank as our 2nd speaker. Mr. Zhai will share his thoughts on how development institutes especially ADB could help and facilitate energy industry and green development in China. The salon will be held in AmCham Conference Room on the morning of Feb 29th, 2016 from 9:30am to 11:30am. Please RSVP to Lucinda at lliu@amchamchina.org before Feb 20th as seating is limited and will be based on a first-come/first registration basis. It’s free to ECP members and will charge 100RMB/person for Non-ECP members.

Speakers

  • Yongping Zhai (Technical Advisor, Energy Sector Group at Asian Development Bank )

    Yongping Zhai

    Technical Advisor, Energy Sector Group at Asian Development Bank

    Dr. Yongping Zhai has been working on energy development in Asia and Africa for 25 years. He is currently Technical Advisor, Energy Sector Group, Asian Development Bank (ADB), in charge of overall energy policy coordination and operational support to ADB Energy Divisions of East Asia, South Asia, Southeast Asia, Central and West Asia as well as the Pacific Region. Prior to his current position, Dr. Yongping Zhai was Director, South Asia Energy Division (2010-2015), ADB, covering energy sector operations in Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal and Sri Lanka. In this capacity, he led ADB’s support to renewable energy, energy efficiency and power trade in South Asia. He also served as ADB’s Lead Energy Specialist (2008-2010), in charge of energy sector in Southeast Asia including Indonesia, Philippines, and the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS). In particular, he was instrumental in leading ADB’s support to the power sector’s successful restructuring process in the Philippines. Moreover, Dr. Zhai has played a key role in promoting power trade and cooperation in GMS. From 1993 to 2000, Dr. Zhai was a Principal Program Coordinator/Public Utilities Economist at the African Development Bank (AfDB) in charge of energy projects in Southern African Development Community (SADC). Between 1990 and 1993, he served as an Assistant Professor at the Energy Technology Division (Energy Policy and Planning), Asian Institute of Technology (AIT) in Bangkok, Thailand. Dr. Yongping Zhai graduated from the Thermal Energy Engineering Department, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China (1983) and received a Ph.D in Energy Economics from Institute of Energy Economics and Policy, affiliated with the University of Pierre-Mendès France in Grenoble, France (1989). He is fluent in Chinese (mother tongue), English and French.

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