2015
Project manager and development of curriculum and master course on CSR and Emerging Markets in cooperation project between UIA and KIMEP University (Kazakhstan). Coordinator of the strategy formulation process and accreditation process.
Oliver specialises in identifying and resolving the highest priority communication challenges of public and private sector companies in the emerging markets of China, South East Asia and the Middle East.
He has held regional management and consulting roles with world-leading communications consultancies including Hill+Knowlton Strategies, Grayling, Ogilvy PR and Weber Shandwick and advised governments, blue chip multi-nationals and high-profile individuals across a wide range of industries and practice areas.
He has worked alongside in-house management teams and strategy consultants and was intimately involved in high-profile, award-winning work on three continents. He has led multicultural teams in over 40 markets. He specialises in sector-neutral strategic communications counsel to the executive board; reputation research & management, thought leadership, communications strategy and international coordination and implementation of PR campaigns.
He serves as Lead for Industry Unique Analytics for Telecommunication and Cable Industry in Accenture’s advanced analytics practice.
Madan has more than 13 years of rich experience in Big Data and Analytics across industry including Telecommunications, Financial Services and Consumer goods. He has significant leadership experience in business solutioning, business development, service delivery, statistical analysis, predictive algorithms and optimization models. Madan also holds several patents in Analytics Innovation based on big data. Madan has presented his work in international conferences including INFORMS, largest society of professional in Analytics and Management Science and Mobile World Congress, the largest conference in the world for communications Industry.
Madan holds an MBA in Marketing and Systems from one of premier B-Schools and a bachelor degree in Agriculture Economics.
Professor David Jarvis is Head of Strategic & Emerging Technologies at the
European Space Agency (ESA), and he is responsible for €125 million of R&D
activity and a team of 12 managers and research fellows.
Professor Jarvis has 13 years’ experience conceiving, assembling and managing large-scale, international consortia of academic and industrial scientists in the fields
of new materials, advanced manufacturing and energy research.
This entails the co-development of strategic technologies, with universities and companies
in many different sectors such as space, aeronautics, automotive, power generation, chemical, security and nuclear fusion.
Prof Jarvis holds a BEng and PhD from Swansea University, UK. He has published about 25 scientific papers and made numerous patent applications in materials and manufacturing.
In 2012, Professor Jarvis was elected as a foreign member of the Royal
Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences (IVA).
He is also the Chairman of Metallurgy Europe, a one billion euro programme on metals research.
Ian Dale, General Manager, Global Supply Chain – Core Imaging
Life Sciences, GE Healthcare
Responsible for GSC Core Imaging, Contrast Media, SPECT and PET segments, spanning 8 manufacturing sites and 40 Radiopharmacy and PET sites globally.
Profile:
Prior to joining GE, Ian held Engineering leadership roles at Jacobs Engineering, Guinness and Novartis. Ian holds a Bachelor’s of Science Degree in Chemical and Minerals Engineering from University of Birmingham.
Mr. Kjell Roland, M.Sc. (Econ.), serves as the Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer at Norfund.
Mr. Roland spent six years of doing economic research with the Government.
He served as the Partner and Chief Executive officer of ECON Management AS and ECON Analysis. He founded ECON in 1986, and served as its Senior Partner or Chief Executive Officer over two decades.
As a consultant, his work was much focused on the power sector, in particular development of the liberalized and competitive Nordic market through the 90s.
He has substantial experience as an Adviser to the Nordic government on energy and environment, and also served as an Adviser to a number of developing countries, and multilateral development institutions.
He also spent one year as a visiting scholar at Stanford University. He has been Deputy Chairman of Nordic Mining ASA since June 2013.
Mr. Roland serves as the Chairman of Agua Imara AS and SN Power AS. He served as a Director at Norwegian Microfinance Initiative.
He graduated from the University of Oslo with a degree in Economics. Mr. Roland holds an M.S. in Economics from the University of Oslo and a founding degree in Philosophy from the University of Tromsø”
focuses on the role technology and innovation play in restructuring markets,
especially in oil, gas, power, and other energy and industrial companies.
Matt has spent 25 years serving energy and clients globally. Over time, he has led
the Americas Petroleum and Electric Power and Natural Gas practices and helped
establish the Firm’s Resource Productivity and Clean Technology practices. He has
written and spoken extensively on oil, gas, power, and resource markets around the
world. Currently his work focuses on North American unconventional resources,
restructuring US power markets, and how technology is reshaping capital
productivity and operational efficiency in oil, gas, and power projects.
During 2009-10, Matt served as the Senior Advisor to the US Secretary of Energy,
leading the Recovery Act Implementation. In this role, he had responsibility for
managing the Department of Energy’s $35.2B in Recovery Act appropriations. The
Department of Energy reviewed more than 30,000 applications and funded more than
5,000 projects through the Recovery Act, accelerating US innovation in energy
efficiency, advanced transportation, renewable energy, transmission and distribution
infrastructure, carbon capture, environmental clean-up, and basic science. He held a
US Department of Defense Q clearance to address national security issues.
Matt’s book Resource Revolution: How to Capture the Biggest Business Opportunity
in a Century was published in April 2014. In Resource Revolution, Matt and his coauthor
Stefan Heck argue that the combination of information technology with
industrial technology is changing the way we produce and use natural resources,
restructuring energy, agriculture, transportation and construction markets around the
world.
Matt graduated magna cum laude from Princeton University. After graduation
he joined Credit Suisse First Boston as an energy investment banking analyst.
He earned an M.B.A. from Yale University’s School of Management.
Matt serves on the Board Directors for the United Way of the Bay Area, the Marine
Mammal Center, and St Mary’s College Business School. He is married to the
Honorable Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers, who serves as Federal District Court Judge in
the Northern District of California. They have three children—ages 19, 15, and 13.
Resource revolution: How to Capture the Biggest Business Opportunity in a Century