Tran Hong Ha

Minister of Natural Resources and Environment of Vietnam

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Cáit Moran

Ambassador of Ireland to the Socialist Republic of Vietnam

Ms Cáit Moran is Ambassador of Ireland to the Socialist Republic of Vietnam and holds non-resident accreditations to Lao People’s Democratic Republic and the Kingdom of Cambodia.
Cáit joined the Irish Department of Foreign Affairs in 1998 as a Third Secretary, serving in the European Union Division. In 1999 she was posted to the Consulate General of Ireland in New York as Vice Consul. In 2003 she took up the position of Assistant Chief of Protocol in Departmental HQ in Dublin.
In 2005 she became Deputy Director of the Emergency and Recovery Section of the Development Cooperation Directorate (Irish Aid) in Dublin.
In 2007 she was appointed as Head of Development at the Embassy of Ireland in the Republic of South Africa with responsibility for Irish Aid programmes in South Africa and Zimbabwe.
In 2012 she returned to Dublin to take up the position of Counsellor leading Irish Aid’s Hunger, Climate Change and Global Health engagement.
In 2014, she was appointed Humanitarian Director in the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade and led Ireland’s preparations for the Global Humanitarian Summit and the launch of a new Irish Humanitarian Policy.
In 2015 she was nominated to be Ireland’s Ambassador to the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, with non-resident accreditations to the Lao People’s Democratic Republic and the Kingdom of Cambodia.
Cait Moran holds a Bachelor of Civil Law Degree from University College Cork and a Master’s degree in Human Rights and Emergency Law from Queen’s University, Belfast in 1996. Following graduation and prior to joining the Diplomatic Service she spent two years working in the non-governmental sector in Brussels, where her work included supporting European Union programmes on the promotion of human rights. She speaks fluent Irish, has working French and Spanish and is learning Vietnamese.

Bui The Duy

Deputy Minister of Science and Technology, Vietnam

Mr. Bui The Duy graduated MA in IT at Wollongong, Australia in 2016. He successfully defended the IT Doctorate in 2004 at Twente University, Holland. Before being appointed to be the General Director of the Ministry of Sciences and Technology in October 2014, he used to hold the position of the Head of the IT Department of the Technology College of Hanoi National University. From August 2011 to 2014, he was the Vide Director, Director of the Vietnam Youth and Teenagers Institute and the Associate Professor of the Human-Machine Interactive Lab of the Technology College, Hanoi National University.

Lars Andresen

Ph.D., Managing Director, Norwegian Geotechnical Institute (NGI), Norway

Dr Andresen has expertise within numerical and constitutive modelling for a broad range of geomechanical problems. He has 23 years of experience working as a consultant and researcher at NGI. Projects have included design of anchors and foundations for offshore structures, design of support systems for deep excavations in soft soil, analysis of progressive failure and localisation of sensitive clay, analysis of tailing dams.

Since 2007 he has been in the management group of NGI and since 2012 NGIs CEO and Managing Director. Dr Andresen is a member of ISSMGE TC103 Numerical modelling since 2011 and ISSMGE TC207 Soil-Structure Interactions in 2011-2015 and a board member of the Association of Consulting Engineers Norway in 2014 – 2016.

He obtained an MSc in Civil Engineering from Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway and a PhD in Geology from the University of Oslo, Norway in 2002. He has been an author and co-author of more than 50 articles published in journals and conferences.

Lars Andresen

Recent advances in offshore foundation design

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Mark Randolph

Professor at the University of Western Australia, Centre for Offshore Foundation Systems.

Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science, Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering.

Mark Randolph holds the Fugro Chair in Geotechnics in the Centre for Offshore Foundation Systems at the University of Western Australia. His two main research interests are piled foundations and offshore geotechnics, co-authoring books in each area: Piling Engineering, now in its third edition, and Offshore Geotechnical Engineering. His research has embraced centrifuge model testing, numerical analysis and plasticity solutions, with a primary on developing simplified models of analysis that are suitable for application. These have included various pieces of software for analysis and design of piles and pile groups.

Professor Randolph interacts closely with industry, both in research and through his role as Technical Advisor within Fugro AG. He is a Fellow of several learned academies, including the Royal Society and the Australian Academy of Science, and in 2013 was elected Scientist of the Year in Western Australia. In 2015 he received an honorary doctorate from ETH Zurich.

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Nick Ramsey

GeoConsulting Leader, Fugro GeoConsulting, East Australia

Nick has more than 30 years offshore geotechnical experience; his particular interest is the integration of geophysical, geological and geotechnical information to produce cost-effective and project-specific ground models for engineering purposes.

Nick has been Fugro’s lead geotechnical engineer and/or project manager on numerous geotechnical projects throughout the world - including projects offshore UK, Norway, Africa, Brazil, Australia, Indonesia, Russia, Bangladesh, New Zealand, Gulf of Mexico and Caspian Sea. Nick’s extensive international experience includes offshore site investigations, advanced laboratory testing, advanced geotechnical site characterization and ground model development, and the geotechnical design of offshore foundations.

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Nguyen Hong Minh

Deputy General Director, Vietnam Petroleum Institute, Vietnam.

Dr. Minh obtained PhD in geophysics from the Moscow Geological Prospecting University, in 1995, and Executive MBA in International Business and Technology Management from Asian Institute of Technology, in 2001. He has more than 20 years experiences in geophysical data interpretation, data management and research.

Dr. Minh had been involved in several research and international cooperation projects for capacity building in geosciences for Vietnam Petroleum Institute as well for the Member Countries of The Coordinating Committee for Geoscience Programmes in East and Southeast Asia (CCOP). Currently, he is Deputy General Director of Vietnam Petroleum Institute (VPI), in-charge of training and human resources development, economic and management studies. In recent years, he had been actively participating in some strategic studies including corporate development strategy and strategy for training and human resources development, strategy for technology development for Vietnam National Oil & Gas Group.

Nguyen Hong Minh

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Ian Hatton

Chairman, Founder Director, Enterprize Energy, UK.

Ian Hatton is Chairman and Founder of Enterprize Energy, a company focused on low-carbon energy project development in the transition to a fully renewable energy based global economy. He is a petroleum geologist by profession and from 1979 held senior positions in exploration and development with Phillips Petroleum and Kerr-McGee, successfully exploring for oil and gas in NW Europe.

In 1999 he founded Enterprize Energy’s innovative forerunner company Eclipse Energy conceiving the UK’s Ormonde Offshore Wind Farm, the first commercial project to utilize 5 MW turbines on ‘jacket-type’ substructures.

In 2009 he founded Singapore-based Enterprize Energy following the acquisition of Eclipse by Vattenfall in October 2008. He spent five years developing onshore and offshore wind projects for subsidiary Baryonyx Corporation in Texas and was a US Department of Energy Principle Investigator in respect of a pilot offshore wind farm in the hurricane -prone US Gulf of Mexico.

This led Enterprize to investigate development in the challenging Taiwan Strait offshore Taiwan where it originated the Hai Long Offshore Wind Farm in Taiwan, a 1,044 MW project, introducing partners Northland Power and most recently Mitsui. It has originated the Ke Ga Offshore Wind Project, Vietnam projected as a multi-phased development of 2,400MW.

Completing an evolutionary cycle, Enterprize has recently returned to the UK with plans for a new natural gas / offshore wind development based on the undeveloped Bedevere Gas Field and nearby suspended Anglia Gas Fields in the Southern North Sea where it plans to ‘re-purpose’ the fields as part of an overall concept to transform near life-end gas fields into an offshore hub for renewable energy.

Ian Hatton

Bluewater Offshore Wind Energy for Vietnam – Challenges and Opportunities

Vietnam’s offshore wind resource can provide substantial low-carbon energy to support national GDP growth.

Existing industrial resources are already developed for Vietnam’s offshore oil and gas industry which can provide the basis for an internationally competitive offshore wind supply chain.

This will help Vietnam reduce the need for high-cost early incentives employed in Europe and elsewhere to encourage supply chain development, but also can help Vietnam become a regional and international market leader.

Globally, as offshore wind energy costs continue to fall in common with other renewable technologies, the commercial model for offshore wind development will evolve. This author envisages the evolution will be toward a more vertically integrated approach using other technologies to reduce or eliminate commercial disadvantages for energy production variability, maximize the economic utilization of the asset base and enable offshore wind to underpin new high-value natural resource and technology industries.

Mai Hong Quan

Dean of Coastal & Offshore Engineering Faculty, NUCE, Vietnam.

Dr Quan achieved PhD degree on Offshore Structure in NUCE (National University of Civil Engineering, Vietnam). He has over 20 years of experiences in researching, teaching and designing fixed steel offshore structures like Jacket, Tripod, Monopile...In Vietnam, he has closely cooperated with companies in oil & gas industry for many years.

His main research interests are fixed steel offshore structures, offshore wind turbine, offshore structural reliability, fatigue analysis of offshore structure, wave loads on offshore wind turbine and applied in oil and gas industry.

Harvey Burd

MA, D.Phil. MICE, Associate Professor, Department of Engineering Science, Oxford University and Tutorial Fellow at Brasenose College, Oxford.

Prof. Burd is an Associate Professor in the Department of Engineering Science, Oxford University. For over three decades he has been involved in research on the development of computational modelling techniques for construction processes, reinforced soil structures and foundation engineering problems. He was a member of the PISA project team (2013-2016) on the development of new analysis and design methods for offshore monopile foundations for wind turbine support structure applications. He is currently the Oxford Principal Investigator for an extension to the PISA study (PISA2, 2017-2018) that is currently underway, jointly, with Imperial College, London, with Ørsted as the Lead Partner.

Prof. Burd graduated from Oxford University with a D.Phil. in 1986. He has been a Chartered Civil Engineer (MICE) since 2000. He is currently a member of the advisory panel of the journal Geotechnique

Christiaan Homann

Senior Energy Analyst, Mainstream Renewable Power.

Christiaan is a Senior Energy Analyst and is part of the Energy Analysis team at Mainstream Renewable Power, which consists of seven full-time analysts who provide layout designs, resource measurement and energy assessments for all of Mainstream’s wind and solar projects.

Christiaan has completed measurement campaigns and energy estimates for hundreds of megawatts of projects, across various markets in Mainstream’s global portfolio. He has been involved in many stages of development, starting from market entry through the development process to financial close and operations.

Christiaan holds a BEng and MEng in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Stellenbosch. He has recently moved to the Philippines to oversee the resource assessments and measurement campaigns for Mainstream’s projects in the SE Asia region.

Nguy Thi Khanh

Executive Director, Green Innovation and Development Centre (GreenID)

Ms. Nguy Thi Khanh is currently founder and Executive Director of Green Innovation and Development Centre (GreenID) which is working to promote sustainable energy development, good water and air governance and green development (http://greenidvietnam.org.vn). She is the first Vietnamese Goldman Environmental Prize recipient in 2018. She is also the chair of Vietnam Sustainable Energy Alliance and core-members in a number of national and international networks related to sustainable energy, climate change and environment. She has 18 years of experience in integrated community development, network building and advocacy for better Water, Air Governance and Sustainable energy development in Vietnam and the Mekong region. Since 2012, she has led GreenID to champion local energy planning approach, demonstrate the multiple benefits of sustainable energy solutions for household, community and society. Under her leadership, GreenID supported for more than 20,000 people in different communities in Vietnam having access to clean energy and safe water. She also has good engagement with decision-makers, does multi-stakeholders networking to advocate and support for the energy transition in Vietnam towards more renewable energy, energy efficiency, less dependence on fossil fuel and coal power. Since 2016, she initiated the first Renewable Energy week, which become now an open platform facilitating the experience sharing and promoting good clean energy practices. She believes that clean energy will help Vietnamese people to reduce environmental degradation, restore clean Air and Water. She graduated from the Institute of International Relations in Ha Noi, Vietnam with a Bachelor’s degree in Politics and Diplomacy. She hold a number of certificate from international training courses on energy, water and clean environment.

She can be reached at:
Facebook: KhanhGreenID Vietnam
Twitter: KhanhDragon
Website: http://greenidvietnam.org.vn/

Ki-Du Kim

Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Konkuk University, Seoul, South Korea, Vice President of Korean Society of Steel Construction (KSSC), Chairman of Committee of offshore wind, Korean Society of Civil Engineers (KSCE)

Prof. Kim has contributed to research in structural and dynamic analysis and design of offshore structures and foundations. He has led the development of several robust structural dynamic algorithms, nonlinear finite elements, laminate composite and thin-walled elements, pre-stressed concrete elements and successfully applied these in practical structural design. Particularly, he leads the development of the X-SEA supported from Korean government, an integrated finite element structural analysis software that provides for the non linear dynamic analysis and design of offshore steel and concrete structures, including oil and gas structures and wind turbines. The current version of X-SEA includes the results of extensive research and development base on finite element program X-FINAS, which was originally developed in Imperial College, London. Especially, the US NREL’s FAST 8 can be combined with X-SEA environmental load. X-SEA Post-processing can be integrated with GH Bladed.

Prof. Kim graduated with a BEng from Hanyang Univeristy, Seoul, Korea; a MEng from the Asian Institute of Technology, Bangkok, Thailand; and a Ph.D from Imperial College London, UK.

Robert Whittle

Cambridge Insitu Ltd, UK

Robert Whittle is part owner of Cambridge Insitu Ltd (CI) and has been associated with the company since 1978. He has a background in electronics and his initial involvement concerned the production of ancillary equipment for the Self Boring Pressuremeter (SBP). As CI evolved into a service provider as well as manufacturer he became an expert in pressuremeter testing and analysis, operating globally on sites extending from remote parts of Africa to the heart of New York. He has worked extensively in Hong Kong and Singapore and has published several conference and journal papers on aspects of the pressuremeter test and interpretation. His particular interest is the stress and strain dependency governing the unload/reload response of soils.