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Speakers for Enabling New Nuclear Build 2007 include:
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David Barber
HEAD OF TRAINING
BRITISH ENERGY |
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David joined the electricity supply industry in 1976 and has extensive experience in nuclear power station operations, having worked at Wylfa, Heysham 2 and Heysham 1 Power Stations. David was Station Director at Heysham 1 Power Station from 2000 - 2004 and for the last three years has been based at British Energy's Barnwood office as Engineering Director responsible for the engineering support to the 8 operational nuclear power stations in the British Energy fleet. Since August 2007 he has been Head of Training, responsible for the long term technical skills strategy.
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Frank Barnaby
NUCLEAR CONSULTANT
OXFORD RESEARCH GROUP |
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Frank Barnaby is a nuclear physicist by training. He worked at the Atomic Weapons Research Establishment, Aldermaston (1951-57) and was on the Senior Scientific Staff of the Medical Research Council at University College, London (1957-67). He was the Executive Secretary of the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs (1967-70) and Director of SIPRI, the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (1971-81). He was Professor at the Free University, Amsterdam (1981-85) and Visiting Professor, Stassen Chair, at the University of Minnesota (1985). He currently works for the Oxford Research Group on research into the civil and military uses of nuclear energy and the terrorist use of weapons of mass destruction. He has honorary doctorates in Science from the Free University, Amsterdam, the University of Southampton and Bradford University.
He is the author of many books including: Man and the Atom (Thames and Hudson, 1971); The Nuclear Age (MIT Press, 1974); The Automated Battlefield (Sidgwik and Jackson, 1987); How Nuclear Weapons Spread (Routledge, 1993); The Invisible Bomb (Tauris, 1989); Instruments of Terror (Vision Books, 1996); How to Make a Nuclear Weapon and other Weapons of Mass Destruction (Granta, 2004), and editor of Plutonium and Security (MacMillan, 1992).
He has published a number of research reports on civil and military nuclear issues, including reprocessing and mixed-oxide fuel plants, and was a co-author of the International Mixed-Oxide Fuel Assessment Report (1997).
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Dr Colin Bayliss
OPERATIONS DIRECTOR, BUSINESS GROUP
UKAEA |
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Colin Bayliss has worked for contractor, client and consultancy companies on power construction projects both at home and overseas. This culminated in his work with Transmanche Link, the Channel Tunnel Main Contractors, where he rose from Principal Engineer at the early design phases to become the Fixed
Equipment Engineering Director for that project.
He joined the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority as Planning, Performance and Engineering Director in 1997, and was appointed to the Main Board as Major Projects and Engineering Director in 2003 at a time of increasing decommissioning work. He is now expanding and utilising UKAEA expertise in the commercial market place.
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Didier Bienfait
NUCLEAR MANAGER
BUREAU VERITAS |
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Didier joined Bureau Veritas in 2007 and is responsible for the development of the existing nuclear contract portfolio and strengthening Bureau Veritas’s position in the marketplace for new construction projects in order to become the worldwide reference for QHSE services in this sector.
He has extensive experience in the nuclear industry, having worked with Vallourec Power Industries for ten years and Framatome nuclear services for five years. He held several Executive positions with Sandvik (1998-2003) and with The Chamber of Commerce & Industry of Nice (2003-2006).
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Martin Bond
HEAD, EU ETS, ENERGY MARKETS UNIT
DEPARTMENT FOR BUSINESS, ENTERPRISE AND REGULATORY REFORM |
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Martin Bond heads the EU Emissions Trading Scheme Team in the Energy Markets Unit of the Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform.
Martin is a policy adviser with broad experience of regulatory and competition issues. He has worked previously in the Office of Fair Trading on financial services and on EU and international consumer and competition policy in DTI. More recently he has carried out better regulation work in DTI, leading its administrative burdens measurement exercise, and strategic work on the creative industries for UK Trade and Investment.
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John Bowman
PARTNER
DEWEY & LEBOEUF |
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John Bowman's practice focuses on planning law, regulatory matters (including regulation of the nuclear, power and telecommunications sectors) and non-contentious environmental law.
John advises on the consents process for major infrastructure projects including power stations (nuclear, coal, gas, CHP), gas storage facilities, roads, mineral developments, railways, mixed use developments, development on government land and large scale residential developments.
He also advises companies on the regulatory impact of EU legislation, such as the EU Emissions Trading Scheme. In addition, he assists clients in the assessment and management of planning and environmental risk in the context of mergers and acquisitions and complex financing transactions involving assets in the power, chemical, retail and leisure sectors.
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Keith J. Bradley
REGIONAL VICE PRESIDENT, UK
ATOMIC ENERGY OF CANADA LIMITED |
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Keith Bradley’s 40 years of experience in the international nuclear and conventional energy industries includes power plant project management, nuclear equipment and engineering services supply management, government and utility relations, international business development and contract negotiation. His career has encompassed energy and petrochemicals industries in Asia, Australasia, Europe and the Americas.
Keith represented Atomic Energy of Canada Limited (AECL) in Asia for almost a decade before becoming Regional Vice President, Business Development for the UK, based in London in August.
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Tim Broyd
GROUP TECHNOLOGY AND INNOVATION DIRECTOR
HALCROW |
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Professor Tim Broyd is the Group Technology and Innovation Director at Halcrow, a position he combines with being the Halcrow Professor of Construction Innovation at the University of Dundee. He is also a Visiting Professor in Construction Management at the University of Reading's department of construction management and engineering and an external examiner at UCL.
Until recently Tim was chief executive of construction industry research body CIRIA. Prior to joining CIRIA he spent more than 20 years with Atkins, including several years as its corporate research and innovation director. He holds BSc and PhD degrees in Civil Engineering from the University of Birmingham, the latter for research on solute transport in UK estuaries. He is actively involved in a number of national forums related to the construction industry and is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering.
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Bill Coley
CHIEF EXECUTIVE
BRITISH ENERGY GROUP PLC |
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Bill Coley, was appointed Chief Executive of British Energy Group plc in March 2005.
Bill Coley was appointed as a non-executive director in June 2003 and is Chairman of the company's Nuclear Performance Review Committee. That year, he retired from the Board of Directors of Duke Energy and as Group President of Duke Power, a regulated power generation, transmission and distribution division of the major US utility where he had a 37-year career.
He is also a non-executive director of Peabody Energy and CT Communications Inc. (both publicly traded companies).
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Robert Davies
MARKETING DIRECTOR
AREVA |
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Robert Davies is Marketing Director for AREVA in UK and is responsible for developing new nuclear build. He has worked for AREVA for some ten years, previously he served in the Royal Navy, commanding three warships and spending ten years working in the Ministry of Defence.
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Andrew Doyle
ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR
PROJECT FINANCE
RBS |
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Andrew joined the Power team in June 2005. He played an active role in the Rugeley merchant coal transaction, the Amorebieta refinancing and the first Project Finance transaction for Hibernian Wind Power Limited.
Andrew has been with RBS since March 2003, primarily with the Corporate & Institutional Banking division across Europe, covering several regions including Benelux & Switzerland with secondments to the Paris & Stockholm offices. While in Stockholm he covered a number of energy utilities and was Relationship Manager for TVO during the financing of their 3rd nuclear unit in Finland.
Previously, he spent 12 months as a Credit Analyst at Abbey National Treasury Services, covering the Project Finance & PFI sector. Andrew holds a Masters in Economics & Management from the University of St Andrews.
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Alfred Fackler
SENIOR ENGINEER
MUNICH RE |
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Alfred Fackler is the senior engineer responsible for the underwriting of nuclear power stations in Munich Re’s head office in Munich. His other areas of expertise are loss of profits insurance and the insurance of offshore wind farms. He has a degree in Electrical Engineering from the Technical University of Munich and prior to joining Munich Re worked for the Brown Boveri Corporation from 1977 to 1980. He speaks English, German and Spanish and worked for Munich Re in Spain and Argentina from 1983 to 1989. Since 1997 he has been a member of Nuclear Insurance Pool Inspection Teams and has inspected many nuclear power stations. He is also a speaker for the Technical Commission of the German Nuclear Pool (DKVG).
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David H Gye
SENIOR ADVISOR
MORGAN STANLEY |
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David Gye is a Senior Adviser to Morgan Stanley, working on the structuring and financing of projects in the UK, Europe and the Middle East. His work is primarily in the energy and infrastructure sectors, working with project sponsors, joint venture partners, governments and financiers.
During an investment banking career of more than 20 years he has arranged financing for major projects in the US, Australia, and the UK. He has advised on project financing and structuring in more than a dozen countries. His work has included public to private sector projects, including several PFI projects.
He was a senior member of Morgan Stanley’s team advising the UK Department of Trade and Industry on financing aspects of its 2006 Energy Review. He is a member of the Advisory Council to the EU Zero Emissions Platform, promoting a Europe-wide approach to carbon capture and storage, where he is the sole representative of the financing community.
He was previously a partner in the specialist New York project finance firm of Beale Lynch Partners, L.P., and before that worked at The First Boston Corporation. He had an earlier career as a civil and military engineer. He has an MA in engineering from Cambridge University, and is a Sloan Fellow of the London Business School and a chartered civil engineer.
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Christopher Harrop
PROGRAMME DIRECTOR
AMEC NUCLEAR BUSINESS |
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Chris Harrop is presently the New Build Project Development Director within AMEC Nuclear Business. With more than twenty five years experience within the power generation sector Chris is one of a few British Directors with recent nuclear new build experience. He received an award in 2002 for his fourteen year contribution to the Chinese Nuclear Power programme. Chris has executed major new high value capital power projects whilst working and residing in Europe, North America and the Far East.
Chris completed his MBA at the Henley Management College; with international business focus in South Africa, North America, Australia and China. The final dissertation asserted and assumed that the UK would fail to meet the Kyoto protocol agreement and reviewed the future strategy of UK power generation.
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David Hayes
SPECIAL PRODUCTS DIRECTOR
NDA |
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David joined the NDA from the Department of Trade and Industry. David was at the forefront of work to establish the NDA.
David played a key role in formulating the Government’s energy strategy, set out in its 2003 White Paper. He had also been closely involved in nuclear issues, including reviews of BNFL corporate strategy and the privatisation of British Energy.
David has wide experience of working in and across Government Departments, in London and overseas (Geneva, Washington), as well as in the private sector.
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Andrew Hiorns
SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT MANAGER
ELECTRICITY NETWORK INVESTMENT
NATIONAL GRID |
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Andrew Hiorns has worked in the electricity supply industry for over 30 years, with the last 10 years working in transmission planning within National Grid. He is presently the System Development Manager where he is responsible for the development of the transmission system in England and Wales. In undertaking this task, Andrew is responsible for evaluating the implication of any generator connecting to the transmission system and determining the appropriate reinforcements required to accommodate the generation.
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Ian Jackson
MANAGING DIRECTOR
JACKSON CONSULTING |
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Ian Jackson is a former nuclear regulator with over 20 years professional experience in the nuclear sector. He has worked as an independent nuclear consultant since 2002. Ian has advised the British government's Energy Review on the siting of new nuclear power stations and he has also advised the government's Committee on Radioactive Waste Management on options for nuclear waste disposal. He has published business articles on nuclear politics and nuclear economics and has appeared on BBC Television's Panorama, BBC Radio Four's File-on-4 and CNBC Europe's Morning Exchange television programmes. His report "Siting New Nuclear Power Stations: Availability and Options for Government" was published alongside the Energy White May in May 2007.
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Bob Jennings
NEW REACTOR BUILD ASSESSMENT TEAM MANAGER
HSE |
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Bob Jennings joined HSE's Nuclear Installations Inspectorate in 1987 after more than 20 years of experience in the power generation and defence sectors. Since joining HSE Bob has worked on the safety assessment of a wide range of nuclear protection and control systems across all sectors of the nuclear industry. He has also worked as Site Inspector at Calder Hall, the UK's first station to produce electricity for the grid. More recently he has worked as a manager of a team of Assessment Inspectors working on the permissioning of Category 1 modifications and periodic safety reviews for all civil nuclear power plant. In August Bob was appointed as Manager of HSE's New Reactor Build Assessment Team (on a contingency basis subject to the outcome of the Government's consultation on the future of nuclear power).
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Dr Bill Kyte, OBE
MA, PhD, CEng, CEnv, FIChemE, FEI, FRSA
ADVISOR ON SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT AND CLIMATE CHANGE
E.On |
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Bill Kyte is Advisor on Sustainable Development and Climate Change at E.ON, one of the best-known names in energy in the UK and a member of the E.ON Group (the largest investor owned utility in the world), where he addresses sustainable development issues and climate change internationally particularly at the EU level.
Bill is a founder member and Chairman of the UK Emissions Trading Group (ETG) Ltd and Chairman of the EURELECTRIC Environment & Sustainable Development Committee.
He is a chemical engineer with a first degree and doctorate from Cambridge University. He has worked in the electricity sector in numerous roles since leaving university - from nuclear safety and research through pollution control to climate change politics.
He was awarded an OBE (Officer of the Order of the British Empire) by the Queen for ‘Services to the environment in the power sector’ in 2003.
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Chris Lambert
DIRECTOR
WESTMINSTER ENERGY FORUM |
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Graduated in 1993 with a Masters degree from London University before working as an Academic Director in the independent education sector. Joined the Adam Smith Institute in 2001 and led projects on education policy, criminal justice reform and energy before independently establishing the Westminster Energy Forum in 2003. The Forum currently serves a network of over 200 Government, private sector and NGOs participants to evaluate strategic energy policies and their associated delivery options.
Chris has also been a political consultant to the UN Energy Security Forum, to the global nuclear risk insurance pool, and he currently several advises corporate and political bodies in the UK and the US on strategic energy policy and security issues.
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Ian Liddell-Grainger
MP
BRIDGWATER |
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Ian was first elected as the Conservative Member of Parliament for Bridgwater and West Somerset at the June 2001 General Election. Four years later he was returned with a greatly increased majority.
He has hands-on experience of agriculture, managing an arable farm, and has run a number of property and development groups. He is still a Major in the Territorial Army.
The nuclear installations at Hinkley Point are among the major employers as well as one of the prominent landmarks in his constituency.
Ian has campaigned hard to ensure that Bridgwater College becomes a key British “centre of excellence” for the future training of decommissioning staff. He has made it his business to understand the industry and has visited plants in the UK, Europe and the USA.
His Parliamentary reputation as a scourge of “red tape” comes from his experience on the powerful Public Administration Committee. But his subject interests are extensive – taxation, defence, law and order, health and education, especially for children with special needs.
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Jean Llewellyn
PROJECT DIRECTOR
NATIONAL SKILLS ACADEMY |
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Jean Llewellyn is the Project Director of the National Skills Academy for Nuclear. She has spent the last four years working with employers and partners in the Nuclear Sector, Chairing the Nuclear Skills Advisory Group, to identify the key skills and training challenges and issues facing the sector and developing the proposal to establish a National Skills Academy for Nuclear (NSAN) to address these challenges. This proposal has recently received formal Government approval and the Academy is now moving into operation.
This lead on addressing the skills issues facing the Nuclear Sector is as part of Jean’s role as the Head of Skills Policy at the Northwest Development Agency. In this role she leads on the Northwest approach to addressing sector skills challenges facing the region and implementing national skills policy at a regional level.
She has had an extensive career in the skills and education arena spending 12 years in Higher and Further Education and in establishing various innovative skills development initiatives. She gained a Post Graduate Certificate of Education whilst lecturing at Manchester Metropolitan University.
Jean graduated in Hospitality Management and has managed hotels in Scotland, England and Italy as well as spending 5 years as an AA Hotel Inspector. Jean is totally committed to the skills agenda and has been on the Boards of a variety of organisations including: The Nuclear Academy, The Hotel and Catering International Management Association, LSC Manchester Council, SPRITO and a school Board of Governors.
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Dr. Jason Lowe
CLIMATE SCIENTIST
THE MET OFFICE |
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Dr. Jason Lowe has been researching the climate system for the past 15 years, with the last 10 years spent at the Met Office Hadley Centre. He is particularly interested in projections of climate change over the 21st century and beyond, and on the mechanisms that drive future changes. A significant fraction of his work has focussed on future sea level, including changes in extremes. Currently he is working on a new set of risk-based extreme sea level estimates for the United Kingdom.
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John Lynch
MANAGING DIRECTOR
ENERGY & POWER GROUP
MERRILL LYNCH |
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Mr. Lynch is a Managing Director in the Energy & Power Group of Merrill Lynch. He has been covering European utility and power sector since 1998 and most recently has been based in London since 2005. His clients include a host of enterprises who are owners and operators of nuclear power stations as well as active in new build nuclear. Select relevant clients include British Energy, Centrica, SSE, Fortum, EDF, Iberdrola, RWE, Eon, ENEL, CEZ, Vattenfall, FPL Group, Constellation Energy, Duke, Dominion Energy, AEP and Entergy. He has been active in advising clients on acquiring, selling, financing and hedging of nuclear power plants including plants in the UK, Seabrook Nuclear Power Station, Millstone Power Station, Ginna Nuclear Power Station, the South Texas Nuclear Power Station, and Cernovoda Nuclear Units 3 and 4.
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Andrei Marcu
PRESIDENT AND CEO
INTERNATIONAL EMISSIONS TRADING ASSOCIATION |
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Andrei Marcu is President and CEO of the International Emissions Trading Association, a business association with offices in Geneva, Switzerland and Toronto, Canada. IETA includes organizations such as bp, Shell, Tokyo Electric, Ontario Power, Dupont, TransAlta, etc dedicated to the creation of an efficient and environmentally robust market for greenhouse gases to address the issue of global warming and climate change.
In this capacity he has been deeply involved in COP process and the national and international effort to make the provisions of the Kyoto Protocol operational and create its governance regime.
Mr. Marcu has spent most of his career in the electric power industry with Ontario Hydro in Toronto, Canada where he has worked in many areas of the corporation in a senior capacity position including contracts, energy efficiency, regulatory affairs, and international operations.
As Deputy Managing Director of the E7 and Chair of the Climate Change Subcommittee he has had the opportunity to work on issues related to sustainable energy development in a sector critical to development and in implementation of Agenda 21.
He has also worked in the field of development as Manager of Private Sector Cooperation in the United Nations Development Programme, where he has pioneered cooperation between the UN system and multinational corporations.
Mr. Marcu holds a degree in electrical engineering from McGill University in Montreal and an MBA from the University of Toronto.
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John Matthews
PARTNER, ENERGY PRACTICE
MORGAN, LEWIS AND BOCKIUS LLP |
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John E. Matthews is a partner in the Energy Practice of Morgan, Lewis and Bockius, LLP, resident in the Firm's Washington, DC office. He received his Juris Doctor from the University of Virginia, School of Law. He is a member of the Federal Energy Bar Association and the International Nuclear Lawyers Association.
Mr. Matthews has successfully assisted clients in obtaining NRC regulatory approvals for “first?of?kind” commercial transactions involving nuclear power plants. He advises clients regarding the acquisition and financing of NRC-licensed assets, decommissioning funding issues, NRC's review of license transfers, and liability issues associated with the ownership and operation of nuclear assets. He has been actively engaged in the development of policy and programs to facilitate the financing of new nuclear plant construction, including activities for the Nuclear Energy Institute's "New Plant Finance Task Force." He also assists clients in NRC hearing matters and complex litigation in state and federal courts involving nuclear assets.
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Alan Myers
OPERATIONS DIRECTOR
TRANSPORTATION BUSINESS GROUP
HALCROW |
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Alan Myers is a Fellow of the Institution of Civil Engineers and was a past runner up in the Civil Engineering Manager of the Year award. Alan has been involved in numerous high profile projects at a senior level such as the Channel Tunnel, the Heathrow Express and the Channel Tunnel Rail Link where he was Contract Manager of the North Downs Tunnel and the Medway Crossing on Section 1, and Project Manager of the area around Ebbsfleet including the Thames Tunnel on Section 2.
Having worked for a contractor for 26 years Alan has spent the last 9 years working for Halcrow and is an Operations Director within the Transportation Business Group. He also leads Halcrow's programme to improve profitability on projects Groupwide.
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David Norfolk
MANAGER, SPECIAL PROJECTS, STRATEGY AND BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT
BRITISH ENERGY |
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David Norfolk is with British Energy’s Strategy and Business Development team, preparing for any new nuclear programme that might follow the UK Government’s current consultations.
Previously he has contributed to each of the major transformations in UK nuclear generation since the industry was privatised in 1990. This included central roles addressing challenges in the regulatory, legal and Government environment, as well as roles on the management team of several nuclear stations.
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Steven Norcliffe
ENGINEERING UNDERWRITING MANAGER
MUNICH RE UK |
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Steven Norcliffe is the Engineering Underwriting manager at Munich Re London where he has worked for the last 13 years. He has a degree in Mechanical Engineering and is both a Chartered Engineer and a Chartered Insurance Practitioner. He commenced his career working for Escom on the commissioning of their first nuclear power station in South Africa and then worked on the commissioning of one of the UK’s last advanced gas cooled reactors in Scotland. He also worked for both GEC Alstom and Siemens prior to joining Munich Re.
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Mike D Parker
GROUP CEO
BNFL |
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Mike Parker was born in Liverpool and educated in the North West of England, receiving a Bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Manchester and an MBA from the Manchester Business School.
He began his career with Dow in 1968, serving in a wide variety of jobs in research, manufacturing and the commercial area. His first job for Dow was in research and development. He moved on to become a production engineer followed by appointments in a series of commercial and business leadership roles. International experience has seen him working in the USA, UK, Switzerland and Hong Kong.
He was President and Chief Executive Officer of The Dow Chemical Company in Midland, Michigan, USA from November 2000 to December 2002 and a member of the company's Board of Directors from 1995 to February 2003.
He has also been a board member of the American Plastics Council, the American Chemistry Council, the Dow Corning Corporation and the National Legal Centre for Public Interest in America.He was appointed as Group Chief Executive of BNFL on 1 August 2003 and joined the Invensys plc Board as a Non-Executive Director on 24 May 2006.
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David Porter
CHIEF EXECUTIVE
ASSOCIATION OF ELECTRICITY PRODUCERS |
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David Porter began his career in public administration, where he was concerned with planning. He then ran businesses of his own, including a successful restaurant in Cornwall and later a PR consultancy. He was an adviser to the Association from 1987, becoming its Chief Executive in 1991. He is a Director of the Parliamentary Renewable and Sustainable Energy Group (‘PRASEG’) and a member of the Coal Forum. He also sits on the board of the European electricity body, Eurelectric. He was awarded an OBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List 2007 for services to the electricity generating industry.
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David Powell
REGIONAL VICE PRESIDENT UK
WESTINGHOUSE |
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David Powell is Westinghouse’s UK Regional Vice President, responsible for identifying and developing business opportunities for Westinghouse in the UK. Prior to taking up this role in January 2006 he was Managing Director of Springfields Fuels Limited, responsible for the safe running of the Springfields site of around 1400 people as management and operations contractor to the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority, covering all aspects of safety, site license responsibility, operations, finance and people development.
Previous roles include Vice President of Westinghouse’s European Fuels Business, a spell based in Tokyo as President of the joint BNFL/Westinghouse offices in Japan, and two years as Special Assistant to BNFL’s Chairman and Chief Executive.
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Heikki Raumolin
VP NUCLEAR POWER
FORTUM POWER AND HEAT OY |
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Heikki Raumolin is currently working in the staff of Fortum Generation having over 37 years experience within nuclear industry. His main duties are now nuclear waste management including both technical and economical measures and other nuclear liabilities. He is also the chairman of the managing group of the project for the environmental impact assessment of Loviisa 3. He is a member of the board of the nuclear waste management company Posiva Oy from 1996. He joined Fortum in 1994. His earlier duties included preparation licensing and construction of a new nuclear power plant as technical director in Perusvoima Oy (joint venture between TVO and Fortum for NPP unit Finland 5), management of the nuclear waste and spent fuel of the Olkiluoto NPP in TVO and project management of the Olkiluoto 1 NPP in TVO.
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Brian P. Reilly
PRINCIPAL VICE PRESIDENT
BECHTEL POWER CORPORATION |
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Brian P. Reilly is Principal Vice President of Bechtel Power Corporation, located in Frederick, Maryland, USA. Brian received a Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering from Rutgers University in 1980 and was a Registered Professional Engineer in Virginia. He most recently served as Bechtel’s Project Director for the Browns Ferry Unit 1 Restart Project. He holds twenty-seven years in the commercial power field in positions of increasing responsibility. Brian’s experience includes a broad spectrum of nuclear project work that comprises new plant engineering, licensing, and construction, steam generator replacements, plant modifications, and decommissioning. Previously, Brian was General Manager of Bechtel Power’s North American commercial nuclear business. His experience also includes management of greenfield fossil generation EPC.
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Vincent de Rivaz
CHIEF EXECUTIVE
EDF ENERGY |
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In February 2002 Vincent de Rivaz was appointed Chief Executive of London Electricity Group (LE Group).
Since that time he has been responsible for the integration of London Electricity and Seeboard group of companies, which includes 24 Seven and the distribution network serving the East of England, creating EDF Energy – one of the UK’s leading energy companies.
He was appointed member of the Executive Committee for EDF Group in December 2004.
Mr de Rivaz joined the EDF Finance Department in 1999 as Deputy Chief Financial Officer and in 2000 Mr de Rivaz became Head of Strategy and Finance with group-wide responsibility for the financial strategy and operations for EDF Group.
Between 1995 and 1998 he worked as Deputy Head of EDF International Division, creating a new Projects Department which he managed. This enabled Mr de Rivaz to be involved in, among others, the acquisition of London Electricity in 1998. Between 1991 and 1994, he was Managing Director of the Hydro Power Department. Between 1985 and 1991 he has managed the Far East region placing EDF as a major international energy player in China, developing projects in the different areas of activity like nuclear, thermal and hydro generation and transmission.
A Hydroelectric Engineer, he joined EDF in 1977 in the External Engineering Centre which managed the construction of energy sites for international clients, being part of several initiatives in Africa, Guyana and New Caledonia.
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Dougie Rooney
NATIONAL OFFICER, ENERGY AND UTILITIES
UNITE/AMICUS |
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Dougie Rooney was born and educated in Edinburgh. On leaving school he began an apprenticeship as a Mechanical Fitter with a company called Ferranti. On completion of the apprenticeship, he worked as a craftsman with this company, which manufactured defence equipment for Military Aircraft, i.e., radar systems etc.
He became a Shop Steward in 1970 and was a Senior Shop Steward leading over 50 Shop Stewards and representing 2,500 members from 1974 to 1985.
In 1985 he stood for and won the election as Divisional Organiser for the Amalgamated Engineering Union and was subsequently re-elected 3 years later.
On the amalgamation with the EETPU, creating the AEEU, he was promoted to National Officer in 1997, responsible for Energy and Utilities throughout the UK and Ireland. This is the position he holds at present for Unite/Amicus. He has also been a member of the General Council of the TUC for 10 years.
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Dr Thomas E. Shea, PhD
DIRECTOR
GLOBAL NUCLEAR POLICY FORUM
WORLD NUCLEAR UNIVERSITY |
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At WNU, Dr Shea is pursuing measures to stimulate the global expansion of nuclear power to moderate the impacts of global warming, stimulate economic growth in the developing areas of the world and strengthen the international nuclear nonproliferation regime.
Prior to joining WNU in August of 2007, Shea served as Chief Nonproliferation Scientist at the Pacific Northwest Center for Global Security and as the Director of Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation Programs at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.
Earlier, at the International Atomic Energy Agency Safeguards Department, Shea developed safeguards policy and implementation arrangements for plutonium processing and use facilities and for uranium enrichment and other facilities. He headed the IAEA Trilateral Initiative to develop an IAEA verification system for weapon-origin fissile material released from military use and IAEA fissile material cutoff treaty studies.
Shea was awarded a Special Fellowship from the United States Atomic Energy Commission and received his Doctor of Philosophy in Nuclear Science from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Nuclear Materials Management and received the 2007 INMM Distinguished Service Award. He was elected as a member of the International Nuclear Energy Academy in 2007.
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Bryce L. Shriver
PRESIDENT-CORPORATE NUCLEAR STRATEGY
PPL CORPORATION |
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Bryce L. Shriver is president of Corporate Nuclear Strategy for PPL Corporation, directing developing of a comprehensive nuclear strategy for the company’s nuclear power operations. He was named to that position in July 2007, after serving as president of PPL Generation for three years. Prior to that, Shriver had been senior vice president and chief nuclear officer. Previously, he held key management positions during a 16-year career at Virginia Power Co.
Shriver holds Bachelor of Science and doctorate degrees in metallurgical engineering and a master’s degree in nuclear engineering, all from the University of Missouri at Rolla. He also earned a Master of Business Administration degree from Averett College, Danville, Va.
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Jouni Silvennoinen
SENIOR MANAGER, ENGINEERING, OL3 PROJECT
TVO |
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Jouni Silvennoinen is Engineering Manager of Teollisuuden Voima Oy (TVO) Olkiluoto 3 Project. He graduated as MSc in Nuclear Engineering in 1988. He joined TVO’s OL3 Project in 2003, initially as Risk Manager, and since 2006 Jouni has worked in his present position with responsibility for mechanical, electrical and I&C systems. He worked previously in insurance and I&C-sectors.
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Andrew Steel
MANAGING DIRECTOR, HEAD OF ENERGY AND UTILITIES
FITCH RATINGS LTD |
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Andrew Steel is a managing director of Fitch Ratings and is responsible for Fitch's energy and utilities rating services in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. His group rates issuers in all links of the upstream and downstream oil, gas, and power industries.
Prior to joining Fitch, Andrew was head of ABN Amro’s structured industry finance, power and utilities group for Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. He has also worked for Edison Capital Europe as a private equity investment director, for PowerGen plc as a senior project finance manager, and in the banking sector as a mezzanine, leveraged buy-out and cross-border M&A lender.
Andrew graduated from The University of Bristol with a BSc (Hons) in Psychology.
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Ian Streatfield
NEW BUILD ASSESSMENT TEAM MANAGER
ENVIRONMENT AGENCY |
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Ian Streatfield joined the Environment Agency in 1998, following nine years in the nuclear industry working on radioactive waste management, Since joining the Environment Agency, he has been a site inspector regulating radioactive waste disposals and discharges from a number of nuclear licensed sites in North England and Wales. He is currently managing the Environment Agency’s New Nuclear Build Assessment Team, working closely with the HSE to undertake generic design assessment of reactors that may be constructed and operated in the UK.
Ian is a Chartered Engineer and Chartered Environmentalist, and holds degrees in Chemical Engineering and Environmental Law.
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Mark Tetley
MANAGING DIRECTOR
NUCLEAR RISK INSURERS |
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Mark Tetley is Managing Director of Nuclear Risk Insurers Ltd, being appointed on 1st May 2002. He was previously an underwriter with Cox Nuclear Syndicate and Cox Political Risks Unit at Lloyd's and has also held other underwriting positions and directorships at Lloyd’s relating to general property insurance.
Mark Tetley is a Non-Executive Director of Pool Re (Nuclear) Limited.
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Dr. Mike Thorne
DIRECTOR, MIKE THORNE AND THORNE ASSOCIATES LTD AND
VISITING FELLOW, CLIMATIC RESEARCH UNIT, UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA |
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Dr. Mike Thorne has over 30 years experience in radiological protection, including the environmental transport of radionuclides and the effects of climate change on that transport. He has a BSc in physics and a PhD in experimental high energy physics. He spent five years with the Medical Research Council working on the radiotoxicology of plutonium and developing biokinetic models for radionuclides in man. For most of the last 25 years he has been employed by various private consultancies and he is now the director of his own company specialising in radiological and environmental issues. Much of his work has related to estimation of the radiological impacts of liquid and gaseous releases of radioactive effluents, and of solid radioactive waste disposal. For the last 20 years, he has co-ordinated the Nirex (now NDA/RWPD) biosphere research programme. Dr Thorne is a former member of ICRP Committee 2 and a former President of the UK Society for Radiological Protection. He is also a Visiting Fellow at the Climatic Research Unit, University of East Anglia. Dr Thorne has published books on the environmental distribution and transport of radionuclides, and on the pharmacodynamics of chemical carcinogens in man. His journal papers cover a wide variety of topics ranging from the microstructure of mouse bone to the elicitation and aggregation of expert judgments in nuclear safety studies. He has appeared as an expert witness in several US cases relating to exposure of workers to ionising radiations. His current work includes evaluation of the effects of climate change and landform evolution on NDA sites, including the Low Level Waste Repository near Drigg, West Cumbria.
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Hanna Trojanowska
DIRECTOR OF INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS AND NEW TECHNOLOGIES
POLSKIE SIECI ELEKTROENERGETYCZNE SA |
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Hanna Trojanowska has the Director of International Affairs and New Technologies Department at the PSE SA for10 years.
This Department is responsible, among others, for preparation of analyses and studies enabling decision-making processes in relation to participation in the construction of new NPP in Ignalina and the development of nuclear energy in Poland.
Mrs. Trojanowska was appointed for 5 years as a Chairwoman of the WG “External Trade of the IEM” in the Union of Electricity Industry EURELECTRIC up to the January 2007.
Since 2006 she has been a Secretary General of the Polish Electricity Association.
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Philip Veale
GLOBAL PRACTICE GROUP, POWER
AON |
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Philip has been with Aon for twenty years and was instrumental in establishing and leading the Power Services Team on its formation in 1992. In 2004 Philip was appointed to lead Aon’s global power and utility initiative within the Natural Resources Practice Group.
With a background in engineering, Philip has supported many modern power projects through construction and operational phases, resolving their technical and financing’ challenges. This has included finding insurance solutions acceptable to the project developers, contractors and bankers. Projects have been spread all over the world form Hydro Electric power stations in South America to Nuclear Power stations in China and the PBMR demonstration plant in South Africa. The projects have also varied in size, from $250m to $2.5bn.
The underlying lessons have been gained from over 30 years experience in the insurance industry dealing with risk in its many forms
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Lubomir Velkov
CHIEF EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
NEK |
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Lubomir Velkov has been Chief Executive Director at NEK since 2005. Previously, he was Head of Investments and Development Division at NEK, as well as Head of Project Management Department, Reconstruction and Modernization Division at Kazladuy NPP. Lubomir has also been responsible for the Research and Design Department at Kazladuy. He speaks English and Russian.
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Vincent de Rivaz, CEO, EDF Energy
Bill Coley, CEO, British Energy
Ian Streatfield, New Build Assessment Team Manager, Environment Agency UK
Bob Jennings, New Reactor Build
Assessment Team Manager, HSE
Andrew Hiorns, System Development Manager, National Grid UK
Martin Bond, Head, EU ETS, Energy Markets Unit, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform
Andrei Marcu, CEO, International Emissions Trading Association IETA
Bryce Shriver, President, PPL Generation
Heikki Raumolin, VP Nuclear Power, Fortum Power and Heat Oy
Keith Bradley, Regional VP, UK, Atomic Energy Canada Limited
Paul Longsworth, Executive Director, Fluor
Frank Barnaby, Nuclear Consultant, Oxford Research Group
Brian P. Reilly, Principal Vice President, Bechtel Power Corporation
Mike Parker, Group Chief Executive, BNFL
Didier Bienfait, Nuclear Manager, Bureau Veritas
Ian Liddell-Grainger, MP for Bridgwater, Conservative Party
David Norfolk, Manager, Special Projects, Strategy & Business Development, British Energy
Ben Wilson, Executive Director, European Utilities, Lehman Brothers
Lubomir Velkov, Chief Executive Director, NEK, Bulgaria
David Barber, Head of Training, British Energy
Robert Davies, Director, Nuclear Power, Areva
David Powell, Regional Vice-President UK, Westinghouse
Jouni Silvennoinen, Senior Manager, Engineering, OL3 Project, TVO
Thomas Scheibel, Director, Dresdner Kleinwort
Andrew Steel, Managing Director, Head of Energy and Utilities, Fitch Ratings
David Barber,
Director of Skills, British Energy
Dr Colin Bayliss,
Operations Director, Business Group, UKAEA
Jean Llewellyn, Project Director, National Skills Academy
Dougie Rooney,
National Officer, Energy and Utilities, Unite/Amicus
John Bowman, Partner, Dewey & LeBoeuf
Hanna Trojanowska, Director, International Affairs and New Technologies Department, Polskie Sieci Elektroenergetyczne SA (PSE)
Steven Norcliffe, Engineering Underwriting Manager, Munich Re UK
Alfred Fackler, Senior Engineer, Munich Re Munich
Mark Tetley, Managing Director, Nuclear Risk Insurers
Ian Jackson, Managing Director, Jackson Consulting
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