Professor Shahbaz Khan

Dr Elliot Tonkes

Elliot is the Director of Risk and Analytics at Energy Edge Pty Ltd which offers trading and financial risk management services in commodity markets including water, carbon and electricity.
Energy Edge provides services on derivative pricing methods, quantitative risk assessment, trading strategies, portfolio optimisation, corporate risk policy frameworks and the installation of software to undertake these activities.
Elliot was previously the chief analyst at a major diversified electricity generator and prior to that spent five years in academia.
He holds degrees in mechanical engineering and science and a PhD in mathematics from the University of Queensland. His research interests cover partial differential equations, dynamic programming and applications in fields as diverse as energy markets and sports science.

Dr Ian Rose

Ian is Managing Director of ROAM Consulting, which is a specialist Energy Modelling company serving more than fifty clients including NEM Generators and Retailers, Transmission Corporations, and NEMMCO. ROAM Consulting also conducts modelling of Western Australia, New Zealand and California markets.
ROAM Consulting employs 12 staff with mathematics, engineering, commerce and IT qualifications.
He worked for 33 years in the Queensland Electricity Supply Industry on a range of activities that included transmission, generation and system operations, until forming ROAM Consulting in 2000.
His extensive experience in Australia, Canada and the USA has included electricity network modelling, software development and application, power flow, loss factor analysis, linear and dynamic programming.
He completed his M. Eng. Sc. at the University of Queensland in 1973 and his PhD University of Waterloo, Canada in 1977. He is a Member of IEEE (since 1974), Fellow IEAust (member since 1978). Ian is a representative on CIGRE Australian Panel, Markets and Regulation.

Dr Graham Weir

Graham has been Team Manager of the Applied Mathematics Team in Industrial Research Ltd (IRL), Lower Hutt, New Zealand for 16 years. IRL is a government owned company of about 300 scientists.
The majority of the commercial work done by the Applied Maths team concerns porous media flow, especially geothermal modelling, and historically some petroleum and irrigation modelling. The geothermal modelling concerns all aspects from modelling surface features, well testing, field assessment, chemical transport and deposition, reinjection, and the development of regional models of geothermal regions.
Graham's special interests in geothermal include modelling geyser behaviour, developing the theory for two phase flow in boiling regions of geothermal fields, and constructing large-scale models of geothermal field behaviour.
He is also interested in plastic behaviour of materials, both at the macroscopic and nano-scales.
Graham has a DSc from the University of Canterbury, is a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand, a Life Member of AIChE, and belongs to several applied mathematics bodies.

Professor Michael O'Sullivan

Mike is a Professor in Engineering Science at the University of Auckland. He is interested in computational fluid dynamics applied to environmental fluids problems and specialises in modeling the behaviour of geothermal reservoirs. He acts as a consultant for Contact Energy Ltd. on modeling Wairakei and Ohaaki geothermal fields and for Mighty River Power Ltd. on modeling Mokai.
He has worked with PB Power on geothermal projects in Indonesia, Japan, Kenya, Mexico and USA. His secondary research interests are in modeling tidal flows and the dispersion of pollutants in rivers and estuaries, coal-bed methane extraction and carbon dioxide sequestration.
He holds degrees in Civil Engineering and Mathematics from the University of Auckland and a PhD in Applied Mechanics from California Institute of Technology. He is a Fellow of IPENZ.

Dr Mukand S. Babel

Mukand is an Associate Professor and Coordinator of Water Engineering and Management program at the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT), Thailand. He also leads the Regional Center of the UN Water Virtual Learning Center, which offers an e-learning diploma course on Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM), the first of such kind in Asia.
Dr. Babel's professional experience in teaching, research and consultancy spans over 25 years in India, Thailand and Vietnam.
With doctorate in water resources engineering, his current research emphasis is on hydrologic and water resources modeling as applied to IWRM.
He currently leads interdisciplinary research relating hydrology and water resources with economic, environmental and socio-economic aspects of water to address diverse water problems and issues in Asia.
Dr Babel has carried out several capacity development, research, and sponsored projects in collaboration with international agencies/organizations such as Danida, UNEP, ADB, UNESCO, UNU, IGES, APN and universities in Japan, South Korea and USA.

David Swift

David is the Chief Executive of the Electricity Supply Industry Planning Council of South Australia. The ESIPC provides an expert, independent source of advice to the Energy Minister and the industry regulator (ESCOSA) in South Australia in relation to the State's electricity industry. It also has an oversight role in the development of the power system and undertakes certain planning responsibilities.
David joined the Planning Council in June 2004 after four years in the National Electricity Code Administrator (NECA) as the Associate Director responsible for market development. In that role David led a number of major reviews of the national market rules including reviews of technical standards, ancillary services, transmission pricing and regional pricing.
David has an ongoing interest in the operation and development of energy markets and the likely impacts on those markets of profound industry change.
David has worked in the electricity industry for many years and in 2006 David was appointed by the Council of Australian Governments to an expert panel responsible which recommended further reform of Australia's energy sector. Those reforms are now being implemented.

Jacques Ganoulis

Jacques Ganoulis is a Professor of Civil Engineering at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (Greece). He holds a PhD (Doctorat dEtat) from the University of Toulouse (France) and has been a visiting scholar at the Universities of Erlangen (Germany), McGill (Canada), Melbourne (Australia), and Paris VI, (France).
He is an internationally well-known expert on groundwater and surface water resources management and the director of the UNESCO Chair/International Network of Water-Environment Centres for the Balkans (INWEB) on sustainable management of water and conflict resolution. The UNESCO Chair/INWEB is a network of academic and non-academic institutions from the 10 Balkan countries, which concentrates mainly on transboundary water issues and cooperates closely with UNESCOs International Hydrological Programme.
Prof. Ganouliss research interests mainly include engineering risk analysis, fuzzy ecological modelling, floodplain management, marine pollution and coastal circulation, as well as the integrated management of internationally shared water resources. He has published more than 180 papers in scientific journals and conference proceedings, is the editor of 10 books including Transboundary Water Resources Management: Institutional and Engineering Approaches (SPRINGER, 1996) and is the author of the book Risk Analysis of Water Pollution (WILEY-VCH, 1994; 2nd edition, 2009; translated in Chinese).