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SE ASIA IS READY TO BUILD
Venue: Mandarin Orchard Singapore
Date: 10 September 2014,8:30 - 16:40
5 Public CPD Points | Crucial in achieving the ambitious goals of the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) is cooperation in infrastructure development for physical connectivity. With institutional aid coming from multinationals such as the ASEAN Infrastructure Fund of Asian Development Bank and the coming into force of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, more investment opportunities await in this promising region. The 2nd ALB SE Asia Project Finance Conference will once again gather the movers and shakers of the region’s booming infrastructure, energy and transportation sectors to tackle the endless opportunities in SE Asia’s amidst its stifling burueacracy and regulatory uncertainty. |
Key Topic Highlights
The role of multilaterals and the coming into force of the Asia Infrastructure Investment Bank
ASEAN Economic Community: promoting infrastructure development for physical connectivity
The challenges of investing on a successful PPP project in the region
Updates on energy and recent projects in oil, gas and the renewables sector
Myanmar and its infrastructure needs as a new frontier
Political risks in Asia - issues of breach in contract, unstable regulatory environment, expropriation, terrorism, corruption etc.
Ideal Project Finance Lawyer: How to work with a good project finance lawyer
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Welcome to ALB SE Asia Project Finance Conference 2015
Venue: Singapore
Date: 10 September 2014, 8:30 - 16:40
Please see brochure here
| 08:30 | Registration and networking | |||
| 09:00 | Chair's Opening Remarks | |||
| 09:05 | Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank: bridging Asia’s funding gap?
HUANG JING Director, Centre on Asia and Globalisation National University of Singapore | |||
| 09:35 | Panel Discussion – ASEAN infrastructure development: how connectivity will determine the success of ASEAN integration
CHRISTOPHER STEPHENS General Counsel Asian Development Bank HODAKA SHOJI Chief Investment Officer Mizuho AsiaInfra Capital MARK BEDINGHAM Chief Executive Officer and President Singapore Myanmar InvestCo | |||
| 10:35 | Refreshment Break | |||
| 10:50 | Panel Discussion – Overview of PPP projects: Is SE Asia ready to make PPP work?
MODERATOR: MINERVA LAU PFI Asia Pacific Editor Thomson Reuters PANELISTS: MARK MOSELEY Lead Lawyer Public Private Partnership World Bank JAMES CAMERON Managing Director, Head of Project HSBC JIN TEIK OON Chief Operating Officer Singapore Sports Hub ALLARD NOOY Chief Executive Officer InfraCo Asia | |||
| 11:50 | The boost in Asia’s Project Bond market
KIYOSHI NISHIMURA Chief Executive Officer Credit Guarantee Investment Facility | |||
| 12:50 | Networking Luncheon | |||
| 13:50 | Panel Discussion – Energy: an update on project finance opportunities
MODERATOR: ALLARD NOOY Chief Executive Officer InfraCo Asia PANELISTS: VALERY TUBBAX Head of Power & Infrastructure Advisory Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation MUNEER VALAPPIL Chief Financial Officer Orka Energy MARK LESLIE Chief Executive Officer The Alternative Energy Corporation | |||
| 15:05 | Refreshment Break | |||
| 15:25 | Panel Discussion – Roadblocks to building: What can be done to address political risks?
MODERATOR: ROBERT TIONG LEE KONG Associate P rofessor Nanyang Technological University PANELISTS: RODDY ADAMS Head of ASPAC Infrastructure Markets KPMG STEVEN LIEW Executive Director - Asia P acific APCO Worldwide | |||
| 16:25 | Chair's Closing Remarks | |||
| 16:30 | End of SE Asia Project Finance Conference |
Welcome to ALB SE Asia Project Finance Conference 2015
 | SUPRIYA SEN Senior Advisor McKinsey & Company Supriya is an international banking and finance expert with 25 years of experience in financing infrastructure projects, public private partnerships and private equity across India, South & South East Asia, China, and Middle East. Currently a senior advisor with an international consulting firm, she serves on the board and/or committees of a few non-profit and for-profit firms in Singapore. She is a regular speaker in regional conferences and guest lecturer/ visiting faculty at leading management schools in the region. Previously, Ms. Sen was Director on the board of Red Fort Capital, a private equity firm, and Chief Investment Officer of Fortune Super Equity, a large sovereign wealth fund. She had earlier held Director-level positions at GE Capital and Citigroup, and prior to that was Principal Specialist at Asian Development Bank and earlier at the World Bank. Ms. Sen has an MBA from Indian Institute of Management Calcutta and Bachelor in Engineering, and completed specialist executive programs at Harvard’s Kennedy School, the World Bank Institute and Florida University. |
 | CHRISTOPHER STEPHENS General Counsel Asian Development Bank Christopher Stephens has been the General Counsel of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) since the start of 2013. ADB is a multi-lateral development bank owned by 67 countries and established in 1966 to facilitate economic development and to alleviate poverty and facilitate regional integration in Asia and the Pacific. In 2014, the Bank loaned and invested more than $23 billion in more than 400 financing and investment transactions. ADB has $60 billion in borrowings, and in 2014 raised more than $14 billion in more than 50 borrowing transactions denominated in 11 different currencies, and 20 public offerings. The Bank has nearly 3000 employees from almost 60 countries, 80 of whom are with the Office of the General Counsel (OGC).OGC also runs ADB’s Law, Justice and Development Program (LJD), in which the lawyers provide technical assistance to ADB’s client countries in areas relating to the role of law in their development. The premise of the program is that functioning legal systems, anchored by the Rule of Law and comprising a comprehensive legal frameworks and effective judicial, regulatory and administrative institutions are necessary preconditions to sustainable development. |
 | VALERY TUBBAX Head of Power & Infrastructure Advisory Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation Valery heads the SMBC Project Finance Advisory team for Asia, responsible for structuring large project financings on a limited/non recourse basis. Valery has 15 years of financial advisory and arranging experience with particular expertise in power & infrastructure and strong focus on South East Asia. He has advised on a wide range of projects in the South East Asian region. Selected transactions include: 2,000MW Central Java IPP project in Indonesia, Nghi Son 2 1,200MW IPP project in Vietnam, 2x660MW Van Phong 1 IPP project in Vietnam, Sumsel 9 & 10 mine mouth IPPs in Indonesia, 240MW Sorik Marapi geothermal power project in Indonesia, Lampung Waste Water Treatment PPP in Indonesia, Tanjung Jati B 5&6 in Indonesia, 1,280MW coal fired IPP in Myanmar. Prior to joining SMBC, Valery was based in London where he worked for Credit Suisse First Boston (CSFB) and HSBC on the development and financing of Public Private Partnerships (PPPs). Valery holds a Master in Finance from HEC Paris. |
 | MICHAEL READING Chief Operating Offcier Orka Energy Over 20 years of professional experience with leading global organizations in development and financing of energy infrastructure and power projects. Unique multi-functional experience in energy infrastructure and power, including development, financing and management of projects from inception to commercial operation. Significant leadership positions in commercial, financing and legal roles on premier project-financed energy infrastructure and power projects. Currently the Chief Operating Officer of geothermal energy developer Orka Energy.Previously the Executive Director for power at BW Maritime leading the power team in connection with the development of power projects as part of an integrated LNG to power business. Served as Senior Investment Specialist, Infrastructure Finance Division 2, Private Sector Operations Department at the Asian Development Bank from 2010 to 2011. Prior to ADB served as the Managing Director of the Island Power gas and power project in Singapore from 2003 until 2009. Responsible for the development of the Island Power Project, a 800 MW CCGT power station and associated infrastructure in Singapore. Holds an MBA (High Honors) from the University of ChicagoBooth Graduate School of Business, a JD/LLM (magna cum laude) in International and Comparable Law from Duke University and an LLM (Fulbright Scholar) from the National University of Singapore. |
 | MARK LESLIE Chief Executive Officer The Alternative Energy Corporation Mark Leslie is the Founder and CEO of Alternative Energy Corporation (AEC), which focuses on producing heating, cooling, and electricity from non-conventional and/or renewable sources. Prior to AEC, Mark worked for AES, a 45,000 MW Independent Power Producer (IPP) with over USD $18B in annual turnover. At AES Mark held several positions in Asia, EMEA, and North America working in Safety, Supply Chain, Fuel Management, New Business Lines, Mergers and Acquisitions, and Portfolio Management. Prior to Joining AES, Mark worked for i2 Technologies, now part of JDE, in the Oil, Gas, and Utility and High Tech verticals. Mark has Bachelor’s Degree in International Political Economy from Boston College and an MBA with a concentration in Internal Management from Thunderbird School of Global Management. |
 | MARK MOSELEY Lead Lawyer Public Private Partnership World Bank Mark Moseley is the Lead Lawyer in the World Bank’s Public-Private Partnership Group, based in Singapore. His work is primarily focussed on PPP transactions and the legal and regulatory arrangements for such transactions, particularly in the energy and transport sectors. Mark is also the Task Team Leader for the Public-Private Partnerships Infrastructure Resource Center (PPPIRC) Website Project and coordinates the World Bank Group’s interactions with the G20 in regard to infrastructure. Prior to coming to the World Bank in 2005, Mark was the Practice Group Manager of the Energy, Projects and Construction Group of a major international law firm based in London, which he joined in 1997. Before that, Mark practised as an energy lawyer in Canada for over twenty years. He was born in 1953 in Vancouver, Canada and received his LL.B. from the University of British Columbia in 1976. He is an occasional lecturer at the Harvard Kennedy School and at the University of Dundee’s Centre for Energy, Petroleum and Mineral Law and Policy. |
 | JAMES CAMERON Managing Director, Head of Project Finance HSBC James (Jim) Cameron is head of project finance, Asia-Pacific, with more than 17 years’ experience in the energy and infrastructure sector. Mr Cameron has a wide range of experience, working on transactions in the oil and gas, transportation, power and renewable-energy sectors in advisory, lead arranging (both bank debt and project bond products) and equity roles. Prior to joining HSBC in 2007, he worked with the Commonwealth Bank of Australia in their Sydney-based infrastructure and utilities team. Prior to Commonwealth Bank, he worked for National Economic Research Associates in London. Under Mr Cameron’s oversight in 2013, the HSBC project finance team closed 20 transactions (5 advisory and 15 arranging) in Asia. In the same year, HSBC’s project finance team was awarded Best Project Finance House in Asia by PFI and Euromoney and Best Islamic Project Finance House by Asset magazine. He holds a bachelor of arts from Oxford University and a master’s in economics from Manchester University, UK. |
 | JIN TEIK OON Chief Operating Officer Singapore Sports Hub Viewed by his peers as an experienced leader in both private and public sectors, Jin Teik is currently Chief Operating Officer, SportsHub Pte Ltd, the consortium tasked to design, build, operate, finance the world’s largest and most complex Public Private Partnership social infrastructure project - the Singapore Sports Hub. Prior to this role, Jin Teik was Group Executive Vice President & China CEO, Hyflux Ltd, an environmental water solutions company; and CEO, Singapore Sports Council, a government statutory board tasked to grow the sports ecosystem in Singapore. An Olympian (Singapore Swimming at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics), Jin Teik is also Secretary General of the Singapore Swimming Association, member of Republic Polytechnic’s Board of Governors (including its Chairman of the School of Sports Health Leisure committee), and member of Singapore Totalisator Board’s sports sub-committee. Jin Teik is married to Emily, and they have three sons, Alex 23, Brandon 17, and Chris 13. |
 | HODAKA SHOJI Chief Investment Officer Mizuho AsiaInfra Capital Mr. Shoji is a well respected Project Finance executive having over 23 years of experience been stationed in Singapore (1992-2000), Tokyo (2000-2006, 2012- ), and New York (2006-2012) in various roles at Mizuho Bank (“Mizuho”) as well as the legacy bank the Fuji Bank, Limited. After returning from New York in 2012, he was seconded from Mizuho to Nippon Export and Investment Insurance (NEXI), a Japanese Government Export Credit Agency, at which he was responsible for underwriting Overseas Untied Loan Insurance for project finance loans and Overseas Investment Insurance for investments made by Japanese investors. At NEXI he was instrumental in closing complex cross boarder project finance transaction in the power, mining as well as the oil & gas sector. He is known to offer structuring advice and risk mitigation solution to various clients using his in-depth knowledge of project finance, ECA finance, forfaiting, supply chain finance, as well as structured trade and commodity finance |
 | KIYOSHI NISHIMURA Chief Executive Officer Credit Guarantee Investment Facility Mr. Kiyoshi Nishimura is the Chief Executive Officer of the Credit Guarantee and Investment Facility (CGIF) and a member of CGIF Board of Directors since October 2011. Mr. Nishimura, a Japanese national, has extensive experience in development banking and international finance before joining CGIF. Along with his work at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development as acting director of its Financial Institutions Business Group, Mr. Nishimura has also held senior positions at the Japan Bank for International Cooperation, Export-Import Bank of Japan and the International Monetary Fund. CGIF, a new multilateral facility, provides guarantees for local currency denominated bonds issued by ASEAN+3 companies, with the aim of promoting economic development, stability and resilience of financial markets in the region. CGIF is a key component of the Asian Bond Markets Initiative of the ASEAN+3 cooperation. |
 | HUANG JING Director, Centre on Asia and Globalisation National University of Singapore Professor Jing HUANG is the Lee Foundation Professor on US-China Relations and Director of the Centre on Asia and Globalisation. As an internationally recognised expert on Chinese politics, China’s foreign relations and security issues in Asia-Pacific, Professor Huang has written three books and numerous journal articles, book chapters, policy papers, and op-eds on Chinese politics, China’s foreign policy, the military, US-China relations, and security issues in Asia-Pacific. His book, Factionalism in Chinese Communist Politics (Cambridge University Press, 2000), won the prestigious Masayoshi Ohira Memorial Prize in 2002. Professor Huang also serves as a Senior Overseas Economic Analyst for China’s Xinhua News Agency. This appointment has obliged him to provide advice to China’s policy-makers on major policy issues. Before joining the Lee Kuan Yew School, Huang was a Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution (2004-2008). He also taught at Harvard University (1993-94), Utah State University (1994-2004) and Stanford University (2002-2003). Professor Huang was a Residential Fellow at the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Centre (2012), and a Richard von Weizsäcker Fellow at Bosch Academy (2014). He received his PhD in Political Science from Harvard University. |
 | MARK BEDINGHAM President & CEO Singapore Myanmar InvestCo Mark Bedingham was appointed as President and CEO on 23 January 2015 with Singapore Windsor Holdings Limited, now operating under its new corporate identify of Singapore Myanmar Investco. He is responsible for the Group’s corporate plans, policies and business development as well as the general management of the Group’s operations. Began his career with Jardine Matheson and held positions with various key divisions in Hong Kong, Malaysia and Japan before being appointed as a Director of Jardine Pacific. He joined LVMH Moët Hennessy • Louis Vuitton S.A. (“Moet Hennessy”), based in Hong Kong, in the mid-1990s as the Regional Managing Director of Asia Pacific. Spearheaded the development of Moet Hennessy’s business in China and succeeded in growing the Chinese market into Moet Hennessy’s largest global market. During his tenure, he also led an expansion of new subsidiaries in emerging markets across South East Asia, as well as Australia and New Zealand. Under his management, the Asia Pacific region became the largest contributor to Moet Hennessy’s global business activities. He also served, for nearly seven years, on the board of DFS, the world’s largest travel retailer, and he is also a member of the Strategic Advisory Board of L Capital. During his time in Japan, he was appointed as a member of the Japanese Prime Minister’s Administrative Reform Council and he was also elected as Chairman of the European Business Council in Japan. Mark graduated with a Master’s degree in Agricultural and Forest Sciences from the School of Biological Sciences of Oxford University. |
 | ALLARD NOOY CEO InfraCo Asia Allard Nooy joined InfraCo Asia mid-2013 and is responsible for InfraCo Asia’s strategic transformation process, i.e. the development and implementation of its ‘multi-developers’ and co-investment programme, including a dedicated programme for Myanmar. Allard reports to the InfraCo Asia Board of Directors and also provides over sighting of a private placement process for some of the renewable energy projects. Allard has over 25 years of strategic executive leadership experience in the infrastructure sector, primarily in emerging markets. He has successfully led and acquired infrastructure, energy and environmental companies throughout Asia. His key focus has been on the development and implementation of growth strategies, the creation of new assets and the financing and execution of infrastructure projects. The format of these projects varied widely and included PPP’s and BOOT structures in the water, waste water, solid waste management, waste-to-energy, power, and renewable energy sectors. His previous positions include: CEO of Jindal Aquasource (JITF Water Infrastructure Ltd) and Jindal Ecopolis (JITF Urban Infrastructure Ltd), while based in New Delhi, India; President Asia Pacific with Covanta Energy Corporation, the world's largest Energy from Waste Company and listed on the NYSE, while based in Shanghai, China; Regional Director Infrastructure Development and Director China with the Leighton Group in Asia, Australia’s largest engineering and contracting group, Regional Director Greater China at Thames Water International, the world's third largest private water company, both while based in Hong Kong SAR; and General Manager of Vermeer - Ballast Nedam, while based in Vietnam. Allard holds a Bachelor of Science (Eng) in engineering management and an MBA in international business. He is a regular speaker at conferences with senior government officials and industry leaders in the Asia Pacific. |
 | STEVEN LIEW Executive Director - Asia Pacific APCO Worldwide Steven Liew is Executive Director of APCO Worldwide in Asia Pacific. He provides strategic counselling to clients from a pan-Asia perspective in the areas of public policy, regulatory compliance, stakeholders engagement, strategic communications and crisis management. Prior to joining APCO, Steven spent 8 years as eBay’s Associate General Counsel and Chief Government Relations Officer for Asia Pacific. His work included negotiating with anti-trust regulators for approval of eBay’s acquisitions in Asia; engaging regulators to ensure that PayPal was in compliance with financial industry regulations; collaborating with national export-promotion agencies to bring their exporters online; lobbying lawmakers on draft legislations and government policies; developing relationships with intellectual property rights (IPR) owners; and working with cyber-security agencies to go after cyber-criminals. At eBay, Steven co-founded the Asia Internet Coalition, members of which includes eBay, Yahoo, Google, Facebook, LinkedIn and SalesForce. He was the coalition’s 2012 and 2013 Chairman. Before his stint at eBay, Steven set up and led Nokia Corporation’s Asia Pacific Brand Protection Department and Louis Vuitton Malletier’s Greater China Anti-Counterfeiting Department. In both in-house counsel roles, he developed and executed successful IPR policies and enforcement programs. He was also very active in the formation and leadership of IPR coalitions like the International Trademark Association, International Anti-Counterfeiting Coalition and the Quality Brand Protection Committee in China. Steven started his legal career in 1994 as a solicitor at Baker & McKenzie in Hong Kong. In that role, he serviced the IPR needs of multinational brand owners in Asia. His work included counseling clients on IPR issues, enforcing his clients’ IPR and conducting extensive government lobbying on IPR policy in the region. Mid-way through his legal career, Steven spent three years working as a police officer in the Singapore Police Force. He continued serving in the reserve of the Singapore Police Force for another 11 years and retired at the rank of Deputy Superintendent of Police in 2013. Steven is also co-founder of HYPHEN, a creative non-profit organization dedicated to bringing together people and communities through ideas, artistic programming, innovative projects and bespoke events. |
 | MINERVA LAU PFI Asia Pacific Editor Thomson Reuters She joined PFI in late 2000 and has been covering both the international and the fast-growing domestic bank debt markets for projects in the energy, infrastructure and industrial sectors in Southeast Asia, North Asia and more recently also the rapidly expanding markets in the Indian subcontinent. She also produces comprehensive special reports on Asia Pacific and on India, and writes and commissions articles on energy and infrastructure. Prior to PFI, Minerva spent five years with Thomson Reuters publications International Financing Review (IFR) and its regional counterpart IFR Asia. She covered the active syndicated loan market and debt restructuring activities in Southeast Asia, including during its crisis in 1997-98. Her career as a journalist started at Nihon Keizai Shimbun (Nikkei), becoming the first non-Japanese reporter outside Japan. Minerva wrote about the activities of the Japanese businesses as well as major financial and economic developments of the countries in the Southeast Asian region. During the Nikkei years, she was heavily involved in the interviews of many senior government and corporate leaders including those in Singapore such as Lee Kuan Yew, Goh Chok Tong, and the current Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong. Minerva attended the University of the Philippines, holds a Bachelor of Economics degree from Kyoto University, Japan and obtained a MA Asia Pacific Studies from Leeds University, UK. |
 | ROBERT TIONG LEE KONG Associate Professor Nanyang Technological University Dr Robert Tiong is an Associate Professor in School of Civil & Environmental Engineering, as well as Deputy Director of Centre for Infrastructure Systems at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He is the Program Director of the MSc Programme in International Construction Management since its inception in 1991. Dr Tiong graduated in 1981 from University of Glasgow with First Class Honours in Civil Engineering, with specialisation in management. He obtained his M.Eng on Construction Engineering & Management, from University of California, Berkeley in 1987 and his PhD in 1994 from NTU. |
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