Fellows | Advisers | Core Team

Fellow

Anindya Bhattacharya

IETS Fellow

Anindya Bhattacharya is an IETS Fellow with more than 25 years of research and consulting experience. Their expertise spans energy planning and policy; climate mitigation and adaptation; climate finance; macroeconomic impact assessment; energy systems modelling. Regional experience across India, South Asia, Southeast Asia, East Asia and the wider Asia-Pacific.

Global

Fellow

Anita Prakash Tripathi

IETS Fellow

Anita Prakash is an IETS Fellow whose expertise spans trade and global value chains, regional connectivity, inclusive trade, economic infrastructure, Indo-Pacific economic architecture and critical-minerals supply chains. Her regional experience covers India, ASEAN, East Asia, Oceania, Africa, Europe and the wider Global South.Prakash is the Founder of Research Lab Asia, where she leads solutions-oriented research on…

Global · Pacific · South Asia · Southeast Asia

Fellow

Biswa Nath Bhattacharyay

IETS Fellow

Biswa Nath Bhattacharyay is an IETS Fellow with more than 35 years of professional experience. Their expertise spans development economics; sustainable development; climate and infrastructure finance; central banking; regional cooperation; financial-sector development and financial inclusion. Experience across Asia, including Brunei Darussalam, Qatar, India, Kuwait, China and Mongolia.

Global · South Asia · Southeast Asia

Core Team

Chin-Hsien Yu

Partnerships and Programme Development Lead; IETS Fellow

Dr Chin-Hsien Yu is Partnerships and Programme Development Lead and an IETS Fellow, with expertise in sustainable development, climate finance, natural disaster management, and the interaction between energy and the environment.

Belt and Road countries · China · Global

Fellow

Chokan Laumulin

IETS Fellow

Chokan Laumulin is an IETS Fellow. Their expertise spans sustainable energy; fundamental science and innovation policy; technology-based development; critical minerals; industry and modernisation in Kazakhstan and Central Asia.

Central Asia

Fellow

Elena Reshetova

IETS Fellow

Elena Reshetova is an IETS Fellow. Their expertise spans global gas and LNG markets; European power and carbon markets; strategic scenario development and foresight; geopolitical and geoeconomic risk.

Europe · Global

Core Team

Elspeth Thomson

Senior Publications Editor, IETS

Elspeth Thomson is the Senior Publications Editor at IETS. Her expertise spans Southeast Asia's energy sector; China’s energy sector; energy economics; energy security; energy and the environment. She provides editorial support to energy researchers across the world, but predominantly in Asia.

China · Global · Southeast Asia

Fellow

Ganbat Enkhbayar

IETS Fellow

Ganbat Enkhbayar is an IETS Fellow with 18 years of professional experience. Their expertise spans thermal power generation; power-system operations; energy efficiency; renewable-energy integration; smart grids; energy-sector project management. Eighteen years of experience in Mongolia's power sector.

Central Asia

Fellow

Hisashi Yoshikawa

IETS Fellow

Hisashi Yoshikawa is an IETS Fellow and energy-policy specialist with more than four decades of experience across government, international organisations and academia. His expertise covers energy and climate policy, energy security, technological innovation, international energy governance, nuclear policy and energy geopolitics, with particular attention to Japan and East Asia.

Core Team

Huanxiu Guo

Program Lead, Carbon Markets and Green Finance; IETS Fellow

Dr Guo Huanxiu is Program Lead for Carbon Markets and Green Finance and an IETS Fellow, with expertise in energy and environmental economics, green finance, carbon markets, and global sustainable development governance.

Belt and Road countries · China · Europe

Fellow

Jakhongir Movlanov

IETS Fellow

Jakhongir Movlanov is an IETS Fellow with 29 years of professional experience, including 18 years in research. Their expertise spans remote sensing; geochemistry; GIS; geological mapping; deep geological structures and critical-mineral exploration. Project experience in Uzbekistan, Türkiye, China and Azerbaijan.

Central Asia

Fellow

Jiahai Yuan

IETS Fellow

Jiahai Yuan is an IETS Fellow. Their expertise spans sustainable-energy transition; renewable power-system resilience; coal-power transition; economic, regulatory, policy and social dimensions of China's energy transition.

Australia · China

Core Team

Jian Yu

Project Lead, Fossil Fuels Transition; IETS Fellow

Jian Yu is the Project Lead, Fossil Fuels Transition and IETS Fellow. Their expertise spans energy transition; energy economics; macroeconomic development; energy regulation; high-quality economic development and sustainable growth.

China

Fellow

Juan Roberto LOZANO-MAYA

IETS Fellow

Juan Roberto Lozano-Maya is an IETS Fellow with more than 20 years of professional experience. His expertise spans energy-transition governance, power systems and energy policy, international cooperation and institutional partnerships, with regional experience covering Mexico, Latin America, North America and Asia-Pacific cooperation.

Global

Fellow

Laurence L. Delina

IETS Fellow

Laurence L. Delina is an IETS Fellow. Their expertise spans energy justice and insecurity; just energy transitions; decarbonisation pathways; energy resilience; climate and energy governance. Multi-country research experience across Asia.

Australia · Global · Southeast Asia

Fellow

Leong Yuen Yoong

IETS Fellow

Leong Yuen Yoong is an IETS Fellow. Their expertise spans decarbonisation and re-carbonisation; systems thinking; advanced modelling; evidence-based policy; sustainability strategy; ASEAN and Borneo regional initiatives.

Southeast Asia

Core Team

Maggie Xin Zheng

Director; Head of Corporate and Administrative Affairs

Maggie Xin Zheng is Director with responsibility for corporate coordination, administrative management, institutional operations, and external engagement.

Australia · China · Southeast Asia

Fellow

Maxensius Tri Sambodo

IETS Fellow

Maxensius Tri Sambodo is an IETS Fellow with more than 20 years of research and policy experience. Their expertise spans energy transition; political economy; public policy; electricity reform; renewable energy; energy poverty; low-carbon development; coal transition in Indonesia and ASEAN.

Southeast Asia

Fellow

Nophea (Noppy) Sasaki

IETS Fellow

Nophea (Noppy) Sasaki is an IETS Fellow. Their expertise spans carbon accounting and project development; forest carbon; climate finance; nature-based solutions; ESG reporting; AI and digital tools for sustainability.

Global

Fellow

Peng Wang

IETS Fellow

Peng Wang is an IETS Fellow. Their expertise spans critical minerals; circular economy; material-flow analysis; AI-driven supply-chain monitoring; sustainable raw-material cycles and sustainability assessment.

China · Global

Fellow

Phouphet Kyophilavong

IETS Fellow

Phouphet Kyophilavong is an IETS Fellow. Their expertise spans development economics; energy and environmental policy; Lao and ASEAN economic development.

Southeast Asia

Fellow

Phuong Dong Tran

IETS Fellow

Phuong Dong Tran is an IETS Fellow with nearly 30 years of professional experience. Their expertise spans aSEAN economic integration; regional connectivity; energy transition and carbon neutrality; trade facilitation; sustainable development.

Southeast Asia

Fellow

Shabbir H. Gheewala

IETS Fellow

Shabbir H. Gheewala is an IETS Fellow. Their expertise spans life-cycle and sustainability assessment of energy systems; sustainability indicators; circular economy; nature-based solutions; biofuel and agro-industry certification. Extensive industry and research-network experience in Thailand.

Global · Southeast Asia

Fellow

Thai-Ha Le

IETS Fellow

Thai-Ha Le is an IETS Fellow. Their expertise spans energy economics; environmental economics; applied economics and econometrics; philanthropy, science, sustainability and green development.

Australia · Global · Southeast Asia

Fellow

Vinod Kumar Sharma

IETS Fellow

Vinod Kumar Sharma is an IETS Fellow with more than 43 years of professional experience. Their expertise spans sustainable energy; environmental engineering and policy; climate change and development; life-cycle assessment; sustainability management.

Global

Core Team

Xiang LI

Lead, Communications and Programme Development

Li Xiang is a policy communications and programme development specialist with about 20 years of experience in economic, political and international affairs reporting, research and public engagement. He has worked with 21st Century Business Herald, Southern Energy Observer, Southern Metropolis Daily, Time Weekly and Beijing Cultural Review, covering economic development, fiscal and monetary policy, international affairs,…

Belt and Road countries · Central Asia · China

Advisor

Xiansheng Sun

IETS Advisor

Dr Xiansheng Sun is an IETS Advisor with more than four decades of experience in the energy sector, gained across more than a dozen countries through senior roles in industry, policy research and international energy cooperation. His expertise covers global energy dialogue, energy security, energy transition, oil and gas markets, international energy cooperation, and China's energy…

Central Asia · China · Global

Core Team

Xunpeng (Roc) Shi

Founding Convenor and IETS Fellow

Xunpeng (Roc) Shi is the Founding Convenor and an IETS Fellow with nearly 30 years of professional experience. Their expertise spans energy transition; energy economics and security; climate policy; carbon markets; critical minerals; geopolitics; resources and sustainable development. Experience across Australia, China, Southeast Asia, Northeast Asia and the wider Asia-Pacific.

Australia · China · Global · Southeast Asia

Core Team

Zhigao Jiang

Communications and Market Engagement Lead

Zhigao Jiang is an IETS Fellow with nearly two decades of professional experience. Their expertise spans china power-sector reform; electricity-market design and trading; spot and retail markets; storage; energy-policy communication; corporate energy strategy and transition advisory.

China