Dr. Lock is a Professor (Engineering) at the Singapore Institute of Technology (SIT) and the Head of its Energy Efficiency Technology Centre. He plays an active role in energy efficiency and sustainability, being the Chairman of Accreditation Committee for Energy Service Companies (ESCOs) and the Co-Chair of Steering Committee of Singapore Certified Energy Managers (SCEM) Scheme. He is an Accredited Tier Designer awarded by the Uptime Institute. He is a specialist consulting engineer in the areas of mission-critical electrical design, power quality, EMC, and safety. He conducted many power failure investigations of data centres.

Professor Lock has a unique blend of practicing and academic experience acquired through a career which is equally split between the industry and the academia. He received both his B.Sc. (1975) and Ph.D. (1979) degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Strathclyde, UK. He was a faculty at the Department of Electrical Engineering, National University of Singapore for 17 years when he left to set up his consulting practice in 1997. He returned to the academia as a professor at SIT in 2016 after 20 years in the industry.

He is a registered Professional Engineer (Electrical) and served as a Board Member of the Professional Engineers Board, Singapore for 14 years. He is a Fellow of Academy of Engineering Singapore and an Honorary Fellow of the ASEAN Federation of Engineering Organizations.

He is the co-Laureate of the 2021 WFEO Medal for Excellence in Engineering Education awarded by the World Federation of Engineering Organisations. He received the Public Service Medal (2015) and the Public Service Star (2020).

Dr. Li Chuanzhao received his BEng and MEng from Tianjin University (China), and PhD degree from National University of Singapore (NUS), all in Chemical Engineering. He has worked extensively in industry, R&D and academia. He has 7 years of industry experience as process engineer and project manager in the process development, design, construction and operation of several chemical processes and plants. He has also previously worked in NUS, Institute of Chemical and Engineering Sciences (ICES) and Newcastle University. His research interests lie in process development, simulation and optimization, process engineering and process analytical technology (PAT). He has authored/co-authored more than 50 peer reviewed journal articles and 5 granted/commercialized patents.

Dr. Ir. Dominic Foo is a Professor of Process Design and Integration at the University of Nottingham Malaysia and is the Founding Director of the Centre of Excellence for Green Technologies. He is a Fellow of the Institution of Chemical Engineers (IChemE), a fellow of the Academy of Sciences Malaysia (ASM), a fellow of the Institution of Engineers Malaysia (IEM), a Chartered Engineer (CEng) with the Engineering Council UK, Professional Engineer (PEng) with the Board of Engineer Malaysia (BEM), ASEAN Chartered Professional Engineers (ACPE), as well as the President for the Asia Pacific Confederation of Chemical Engineering (APCChE). He is in the top 1% of world-renowned scientist according to Stanford List, working in process integration for resource conservation and CO2 reduction. He collaborates with more than 50 research scholars and industrial practitioners over Asia, Europe, North America and Africa. Professor Foo is an active author, with eight books, and more than 190 journal papers and made more than 240 conference presentations, with more than 30 keynote/plenary speeches. He served on International Scientific Committees for many important international conferences (CHISA/PRES, FOCAPD, ESCAPE, PSE, SDEWES, etc.).

Professor Foo is the editor-in-chief for Process Integration and Optimization for Sustainability (Springer Nature), subject editor for Process Safety & Environmental Protection (Elsevier), and editorial board member for several other renowned journals. He is the winner of the Innovator of the Year Award 2009 of IChemE, Young Engineer Award 2010 of IEM, the Outstanding Young Malaysian Award 2012 of Junior Chamber International (JCI), Outstanding Asian Researcher and Engineer 2013 (Society of Chemical Engineers, Japan), Vice-Chancellor’s Achievement Award 2014 (University of Nottingham) and Top Research Scientist Malaysia 2016 (ASM). He has conducted more than 100 professional workshops for academics and industrial practitioners worldwide.

Professor Paul Nicholas Sharratt is a Fellow of the Institution of Engineers Singapore and a Fellow of the Institution of Chemical Engineers. Paul is a Chartered Engineer and led a large A*Star (Institute of Chemical and Engineering Sciences) division working in process innovation, scale-up, safety and modelling, including the ICES Kilolab pilot facility. Paul’s research in process innovation resulted in the award of a Royal Academy of Engineering Chair in Innovative Processing and the establishment of a company, BRITEST, that still uses his methods today to help industry partners in process understanding and innovation. Paul’s expertise includes areas of critical consequence such as infrastructure design, techno-economic and risk assessment.

Dr Lim is a front-end project developer with a MNC since 2005 and has roles in technical, production, startup and commercial departments in manufacturing, project development and technology businesses. Currently he is deeply involved with energy transition projects.

A Singapore National, Dr Lim has a First Class Honours in Chemical Engineering from the National University of Singapore and a PhD from the University of Cambridge.  

He developed and implemented the course for “Petroleum Refining Course” for final year chemical engineering undergraduates at NTU. He has served on China CPCIF sub committee as SME for pyrolysis oil standard discussion and provided expert advise to several Chinese projects.