Tackling the Energy Transition: Insights from ASEAN and Beyond

Han Phoumin has more than 20 years of professional experience working at various international and inter-governmental organizations and multi-disciplinary research consortiums related to energy market and technologies, environment, integrated water resource management, governance,and economic development in the region of ASEAN and EAST ASIA. Currently, he serves as a senior energy economist at the Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia. Much of his career in the past twelve years has revolved around the power sector, especially in the areas of electricity market integration, waste to energy, sustainable hydropower development, renewable energy policy research, energy efficiency and conservation, clean coal technology, energy security, carbon capture utilisation and storage, financing energy transitions technologies, gas master plan, and energy demand and supply forecasting. My works and research feed into the high-level policy forum through East Asia Energy Minister Meeting and the regular East Asia Energy Forum organised by ERIA. Dr. Han earned his PhD in economic development and policies from Kobe University, where he also specialized in applied econometrics. He also serves as guest editor for various international journal. Those included, the energy frontier, the Energy Policy journal and energy Sustainability journal and International Journal of Hydrogen Energy.

Xunpeng (Roc) Shi is a Professor of Energy and Environmental Economics and Sustainability and Research Principal at the Australia-China Relations Institute, UTS; President of the International Society for Energy Transition Studies(ISETS); and a Council Member (President, 2016-2018) of the Chinese Economics Society Australia (CESA). His research interests cover the full spectrum of energy, climate change and other environmental issues in economics, policy, and sustainable development, with regional focuses on Australia, China, ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations), and Northeast Asia. He was listed in 2020 as Australia's leading researcher in the field of Environmental Law and Policy, the top 2% of the world’s top scientists in the energy field, and the top 2% of authors in the world’s largest database of economists (RePEc). He has worked in the energy sector for more than 28 years in roles spanning industry, government and research institutes in Australia, Brunei,China, Indonesia, Singapore, and an international organisation Roc’s ultimate aim is to promote the cost-efficient transition to a low carbon future while protecting vulnerable stakeholders through research, service and global leadership. He has received a Bachelor of Engineering from China University of Mining and Technology, a Master of Laws from the University of Dundee, a Master of Environmental and Resource Economics (MERE) and a PhD in Economics from ANU.

Fukunari Kimura is currently Professor Emeritus and Senior Professor, Keio University and President, Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade Organization. He received his Bachelor of Laws from the Faculty of Law, University of Tokyo in 1982. He then received Master of Science and PhD titles from the Department of Economics, University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1990 and 1991, respectively. He worked for the Department of Economics, State University of New York at Albany as Assistant Professor in 1991-1994, and in the Faculty of Economics of Keio University as Associate Professor and Professor in 1994-2024. He was also Chief Economist, Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia in 2008-2024. He has been active in writing academic/semi-academic books and articles on international production networks and economic integration in East Asia.