Governance
Governing Board
Prof. Teck Hua HO
Senior Deputy President and Provost, National University of Singapore
Professor Ho is the Senior Deputy President and Provost at National University of Singapore (NUS), board member of multiple national agencies in Singapore and Fellow of the Singapore Civil Service College and the Academy of Engineering, Singapore. He is a prominent behavioural scientist and has had many significant works published in refereed journals in the areas of behavioural economics, management science, and marketing.
Mr. Russell THAM
Head, Strategic Development and Joint Head, Enterprise Development Group, Temasek Holdings
Russell is the Head for Strategic Development and Joint Head for the Enterprise Development Group in Temasek. He has numerous years of experience in the private sector where he held various regional and global leadership positions across number core business functions for various multinational corporations.
Prof. Siew Hwa CHAN
Co-Director, Energy Research Institute @ NTU (ERI@N), Nanyang Technological University
Professor Chan is the Fellow of Academy of Engineering, Singapore, and the President’s Chair in Energy, leading the hydrogen and fuel cell research in Nanyang Technological University (NTU). He is one of the founding members and a Co-Director of the Energy Research Institute @ NTU (ERI@N).
Mr. Adrian CHUA
Deputy Secretary, Ministry of Trade and Industry, Singapore
Mr Adrian Chua is Deputy Secretary (Industry) at the Ministry of Trade and Industry. He oversees the Ministry’s economic research and forecasting, industry development, and energy policy functions. He also oversees the economic futures and strategy function of the Ministry.
Dr. David DANIELSON
Breakthrough Energy Ventures
David is the Managing Director at Breakthrough Energy Ventures, an adjunct professor at Stanford University and investor in multiple start-ups in the energy sector. David served as Assistant Secretary of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Energy Efficiency & Renewable Energy (EERE), where he led the clean-energy innovation funding agency in the creation of new R&D and organizational models for high-impact climate-tech innovation.
Mr. Bernd HEID
Senior Partner, McKinsey & Company
Global Lead for McKinsey’s Platform for Climate Technologies and Hydrogen Service Line
Bernd is a senior partner in McKinsey’s Cologne office. He is a member of the leadership team in the automotive sector and a leader of McKinsey’s work in the commercial vehicle segment as well as product development and procurement. Bernd is also a leader of McKinsey’s global hydrogen activities and works with the Hydrogen Council, Global Battery Alliance and World Economic Forum on the Future of Mobility.
Prof. Thomas JARAMILLO
Associate Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, Stanford University
Professor Jaramillo is an Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering and Director of the SUNCAT Center for Interface Science and Catalysis at Stanford University. His research efforts are aimed to develop materials and processes that can accelerate important chemical transformations related to energy conversion to enable the development of cost-effective, clean energy technologies.
Prof. Can LI
Director, State Key Laboratory of Catalysis, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Professor Li is the Director of the Dalian National Laboratory for Clean Energy, Director of State Key Laboratory of Catalysis, Chinese Academy of Sciences and Chairman of the Molecular Spectroscopy Society of China. His research interests span spectroscopic characterization of catalysts, catalytic reactions, environmental catalysis and heterogeneous chiral catalysis.
Dr. Lean Weng YEOH
Chief Sustainability Officer, Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR)
Lean Weng is the Chief Sustainability Officer at the Agency for Science, Technology and Research, and board member of multiple national agencies in Singapore. He is responsible for the development of R&D strategy and management of Singapore’s national R&D programmes in urban solutions covering energy, water and land & livability sectors to meet Singapore’s national needs.
Centre Management
Prof. Bin LIU
Director
Provost’s Chair Professor, Head of Department, Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, NUS
Senior Vice Provost (Faculty & Institutional Development), National University of Singapore Deputy Editor for ACS Materials Letters, American Chemical Society
Prof. Wei CHEN
Deputy Director
Professor, Department of Chemistry & Department of Physics, NUS
Director, NUS-TJU Joint Institute at Fuzhou
Assoc. Prof. Ning YAN
Deputy Director
Associate Professor, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Ms. Lin Huey YI
Lab Executive