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Mollah Amzad Hossain

Job Title: 
Editor
Organization: 
Energy & Power Magazine (Bangladesh)

Mollah M Amzad Hossain has been working in Bangladesh’s media since 1982. During his long 38 years of experience in journalism, he has been publishing and editing the country’s first and only energy sector magazine ‘Energy & Power’, begun in 2003. Before bringing out his own publication, he worked with different newspapers of the country. 

Mr. Mollah developed his expertise on the energy sector though having initial reporting command over diverse fields like trade and business, environment, politics, and aviation. He has covered several international and regional events on energy, trade and business. He also has attended different international conferences and meetings as a resource person and a panelist, and in some cases, presented papers on the energy sector.

Mr. Mollah is often invited to take part in TV talk shows as an energy and environment analyst. His special interest is in the fields of media, communication, energy, environment, IT, travel, reading, and community development.

When he was an undergraduate student at the University of Rajshahi, Mr. Mollah was actively involved in student politics, apart from social and cultural activities. He received his Masters in Bengali literature from the University of Rajshahi.

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Tim Daiss

Job Title: 
Founder of APAC Energy Consultancy
Organization: 
Energy Markets Columnist for Asia Times Financial

Tim Daiss is the Founder of APAC Energy Consultancy and is an Energy Markets Columnist for Asia Times Financial. He has been working in LNG and energy markets in the Asia-Pacific region for more than ten years by being strategically based in the region in several countries, including Taiwan, the Philippines and now Vietnam. He has performed risk analysis and consulting for US, UK and Singapore based energy consultancies, including Enerdata and KBR, in addition for key media outlets: S&P Global Platts, Nasdaq, Interfax Natural Gas Daily, Asia Times Financial, Forbes and others. He is part of the senior advisory network for UK-based Critical Resource.

He has recently increased his focus on the growth of pricing benchmarks, investment in LNG/gas infrastructure in Vietnam, Thailand, Philippines, and Indonesia, changing dynamics of LNG contracts, small-scale to mid-scale LNG development, and LNG-to-Power in Southeast Asia.

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Speaker

Amanda Battersby

Job Title: 
Asia Bureau Chief
Organization: 
Upstream

Amanda Battersby for 19 years has been Asia Bureau Chief for Upstream, the global oil and gas publication, after joining the company as a Singapore-based correspondent four years prior.

Amanda in 1992 completed her journalism training in London and joined industry publisher NorOil the same year, initially covering the North Sea market. She then worked for Hart Energy in the UK, where she launched the weekly Asia Petroleum News as managing editor.

Outside of work she enjoys travel, yoga, coastal walking and good - vegetarian - food.

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Speaker

Tanvi Madhusudanan

Job Title: 
Country Manager
Organization: 
U.S. Trade and Development Agency

Tanvi Madhusudanan is a Country Manager for the Indo-Pacific Region at the U.S. Trade and Development Agency (USTDA). In this role, she is responsible for business development and project preparation, management and supervision of USTDA activities in the region, with a focus on the energy and water and environment sectors.

Before her current role as a Country Manager, Ms. Madhusudanan was a Research Analyst for the Indo-Pacific team at USTDA. Prior to USTDA, she has served in various positions in the international development space including as a Peace Corps Volunteer in the Republic of Moldova, where she taught English and helped develop a student-centered English language curriculum, and the U.S. Department of State.

Ms. Madhusudanan holds an M.A. in International Affairs and Economics from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) and a B.A. in International Relations and Psychology from Knox College.

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Speaker

Maria Pope

Job Title: 
President & CEO
Organization: 
Portland General Electric

Maria Pope is president, chief executive officer and a member of the Board of Directors of Portland General Electric, Oregon’s largest electric company.

Before becoming CEO in 2018, she served as PGE’s senior vice president of Power Supply, Operations and Resource Strategy. In that role, she oversaw PGE’s transition to the Western Energy Imbalance Market, a foundational step in creating a regional smart grid. She joined PGE in 2009 as the company’s chief financial officer.

As CEO, Pope leads PGE’s strategy to create clean, affordable energy Oregon customers expect, while keeping reliability and resiliency at the forefront of the company’s planning efforts.

Prior to PGE, Pope was CFO of Mentor Graphics Corporation. She has also held senior operating and finance positions within the forest products and consumer products industries. Pope began her career in banking with Morgan Stanley.

Pope serves on the Oregon Global Warming Commission. Her other board and commission activities include The Nature Conservancy, Electric Power Research Institute and the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco.

Pope is an alumna of the Stanford Graduate School of Business and earned her bachelor’s degree from Georgetown University.

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USEA Now April 2021

April 1st, 2021
USEA Now

USEA Newsletter: April 2021

April 1st, 2021

In this issue:

  • Letter from Sheila Hollis
  • USEA AMM 2021 Promo
  • Women In Energy: Danielle Merfeld
  • USEA's Forward March feature
  • USEA Programs March Recap

Women In Energy: Danielle Merfeld

April 1st, 2021

Danielle leads technical efforts to develop differentiated products and services across the broadest renewable energy portfolio in the industry, including onshore wind, offshore wind, grid solutions, solar PV...

Paul Pastelok

Job Title: 
Lead Long-Range Forecaster
Organization: 
AccuWeather
LinkedIn: I have forecasting experience for all over the world. I have provided weather information for winter and summer special clients, television talents in top 10 markets, radio stations in top ten markets, utilities, newspapers and internet. I have provided forecasts on the air as well to national and local television networks - Good Morning America, ESPN, Nightly News, and other television stations. My current position is the biggest responsibility. I oversee all U.S. long range products and contribute to our global long range forecasts as well. My team and I forecast for energy, retail and commodity clients all over the world.
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Speaker

Joseph Fiksel

Job Title: 
Professor Emeritus
Organization: 
Ohio State University

Biography

Joseph Fiksel joined Ohio State in 2005 as co-founder of the multidisciplinary Center for Resilience, which is now integrated into the Sustainability Institute at Ohio State. Previously he had a varied career in private industry, including contract research and management consulting. Most recently he was Vice President for Life Cycle Management at Battelle, where his clients included global consortia, leading multi-national companies, and Federal government agencies. From 2010 to 2014, he took a leave from Ohio State to serve as Special Assistant for Sustainability at the U.S. EPA.

Expertise

Joseph has gained an international reputation for his expertise in environmental risk management, sustainable design strategies, supply chain resilience, and complex systems modeling. Joseph holds a B.Sc. from M.I.T., a Ph.D. in Operations Research from Stanford University, and an advanced degree in applied mathematics from La Sorbonne, University of Paris. Currently he is a Visiting Scholar at The George Washington University in Washington, DC, where he offers an online course in Enterprise Resilience.

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Speaker
Secondary Job Title: 
Founder
Secondary Organization: 
Center for Resilience

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