Speakers:
- Paul Bradley
- Cheu Ruey Long
- Christopher Findlay
- Ho Beng Huat
- Richard Home
- Mike
Hulley
- Kerrie
Mather
- Chris
Kissling
- Joseph Ochoa III
- Oh
Kyoung Kwon
- David Parsons
- D. Ravindran
- Phillipe Rochat
- Balaji Sadasivan
- Robert Scott
- Karmjit Singh
Paul W. Bradley currently serves as Managing Director of IDS Logistics International - a member of the Li & Fung Distribution Group of Companies. With diverse experiences in the shipping, logistics and supply chain management arenas, Mr. Bradley has held several key leadership positions in various multi-national organizations and has served on numerous government/business advisory committees. He has also published key articles in supply chain management and e-commerce in Asia and Europe. He has served on the ANERA and TSA Shipping Line conferences, the Executive Council of the Hong Kong Liner Shipper’s Association, and the Business Advisory Council on Logistics for the Singapore Trade Development Board.
Mr. Bradley has lectured on international relations,
e-commerce, and supply chain management throughout Asia and the
United States.
Dr. Cheu is also holding concurrent appointment as the Director (Degreed Education) at The Logistics Institute-Asia Pacific (TLI-AP), where he is primarily responsible for the operations of the Dual Master Programme in Logictics & Supply Chain Management jointly offered by the NUS and Georgia Institute of Technology.
Christopher Findlay is Professor of Economics in the Asia Pacific School of Economics and Government. Before that he was in the Department of Economics at the University of Adelaide, where he was co-Director of the Chinese Economies Research Centre. His research interests include the process of liberalization of the services sectors in East Asian economies and the issues involved in the design and implementation of regional trading arrangements. His teaching responsibilities at the ANU include programs in infrastructure management and trade policy. Professor Findlay is Chair of the Coordinating Group of the Pacific Economic Cooperation Council and also Vice-Chair of the Australian Pacific Economic Cooperation Committee.
Richard is Director, Aviation & Post within the Regulatory Affairs Division of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission. In this role, he manages the ACCC’s regulation of Australian airports and the air navigation provider, Airservices Australia. These activities include prices oversight, quality of service and financial accounts reporting functions. He also oversees the regulation of postal prices, and associated activities such as the anticipated introduction of record-keeping rules for Australia Post.
Other experience Richard has had in the ACCC includes work on the rail and airline industries, covering access regulation and related competition issues.
Prior to working with the ACCC, Richard spent several years with National Australia Bank, working in the bank’s economics and corporate strategy departments. He has a Masters degree in economics from the University of
Melbourne
Hulley's career includes five years with IBM, most recently as vice president and general manager of the company's World Wide Travel and Transportation Industry unit where he led strategy, sales and marketing, product development, and deployment for industry-specific solutions. Before joining IBM, Hulley was vice president- products and services for the Transportation Technologies unit of Siemens Nixdorf, where he was responsible for the startup and management of the Travel and Transportation Division.
Kerrie established Macquarie Airports, which listed on the ASX in April 2002 and has invested in a portfolio of airports including Sydney, Rome, Bristol and Birmingham airports.
He is currently convenor of the New Zealand Pacific Economic Co-operation Council's Community Building Forum (NZPECC), New Zealand Board representative on the Eastern Asia Society for Transportation Studies (EASTS), member of the Land Transport Committee of the Canterbury Regional Council; and a Past Chairman of the New Zealand Council of the Chartered Institute of Transport (CITNZ) and he is on the Editorial Review Board of the Asia Pacific Journal of Transport, and the International Editorial Board of the Journal of Air Transport Management.
Joseph Ochoa is the Transportation Security Administration Representative, U.S. Department of Homeland Security in Singapore. Serving under the general supervision of the Chief of Mission, and in close cooperation with appropriate elements of the U.S. Mission, serves as the point of contact on transportation security matters to the following countries: Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Brunei, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Nepal, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, and Singapore.
As TSA’s Representative, Mr. Ochoa fosters greater understanding and coordination of the respective civil aviation security programs of those governments within his area of responsibility, advises TSA Headquarters on requests for technical assistance and training for foreign governments, and coordinates with host governments to facilitate air carrier inspections and airport assessments in the implementation of the ICAO Security Standards and Recommendations.
Oh
Kyoung Kwon began his career in the transportation and logistics
research in 1985. He spent 10 years in the Korea Transport
Institute, during which time he did extensive research into the
transportation and logistics policies, the analysis of freight
demand characteristics, and the development of logistics information
systems.
David Parsons served an earlier term as Director General of PECC in 1993-95 following five years managing PECC’s minerals and energy activities out of the Australian National University. From 1996 until early 1999 he was based at the Centre for Strategic and International Studies in Jakarta working principally in PECC’s Trade Policy Forum. In 1999 he move to Manila to work with the PECC Chair of that time, the Hon. Roberto Romulo. While in Manila he coordinated the PECC assessment of APEC’s individual action plans that was reported to APEC Ministers in Auckland.
In 2000 and 2001, David Parsons was engaged as a full-time consultant to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Brunei Darussalam to work on the APEC 2000 Leaders and Ministerial meetings and the APEC High Level Meeting on Human Capacity Building in Beijing hosted by President Jiang Zemin and the Sultan of Brunei in May 2001.
He returned to become Director General of PECC again at the start of 2002 for a two-year term.
Mr.
Ravindran has over ten years
experience as a management consultant with extensive exposure to
multiple industries and geographies. He specializes and currently
leads A.T.Kearney‘s regional
Transportation consulting practice.
Some
of his experience in the transportation sector includes
helping to reformulate Civil Aviation policies
and liberalization strategies for Asian Government, leading a major strategic repositioning and
operational restructuring exercise of a set of Asian Government
owned airlines, helping to develop an appropriate e-procurement
strategy for an Asia airline. Prior
to consulting, Mr. Ravindran was an aircraft maintenance and
technical services engineer for a regional Asian airline.
Philippe Rochat is Executive Director of the Air
Transport Action Group (ATAG). Philippe Rochat is also in charge of the Aviation
Environment of the International Air Transport Association (IATA),
where he supervises all activities related to noise, emission and
sustainability issues on behalf of the international airlines
community.
In 1985, he was appointed by the Swiss Government to
represent his Country on the Council of the International Civil
Aviation Organisation (ICAO) in Montreal.
He was then elected as Secretary General of ICAO for two
terms, from 1991 to 1997.
Doctor of Laws from the University of
Lausanne,
Philippe Rochat teaches Air Law and Air Transport Economics in
several universities (Geneva, Lausanne, Montreal and
Aix-en-Provence).
Dr. Sadasivan is the current President of the Asian Australasian Society of Neurological Surgeons (1999-2003). He has more than 50 scientific publications and chapters in neurosurgical books. On 12 May 2003, he relinquished his appointment in the Ministry of the Environment and was appointed Minister of State in the Ministry of Health. He is advisor to the Singapore Indian Development Association (SINDA) and the Port officers' Union. He is also a member of the Remaking Singapore Committee. He chairs the Service Improvement Committee for public services.
Robert is a Director and Head of Transportation, Asia in the Global Corporate Finance division of Deutsche Bank. He is based in Hong Kong and is responsible for investment banking coverage and execution of aviation and transportation transactions in the Asian region. Robert has been with Deutsche Bank for six years, working in Sydney and Hong Kong. Prior to this, he worked with Ernst & Young and Wesfarmers Limited. He has worked on numerous M&A and IPO transactions, financings and privatisations of transportation companies, including the Australian airports privatisation, where Deutsche Bank advised various consortia bidding for the airports. He has also performed capital management reviews and debt restructuring for Government owned and private companies.
Robert holds a Master of Applied Finance from Macquarie University and a Bachelor of Commerce from Australian National University. He is also an Associate Member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants and an Associate Member of the Securities Institute of Australia.
Mr
Karmjit Singh (B.A. Hons) is currently Chief Executive SATS Airport
Services. He was the
Assistant Director Corporate Affairs, Singapore Airlines prior to
his current assignment in SATS. He has served with the airline since 1974 in a variety of
managerial capacities covering planning, aviation fuel,
administrative services, General Manager (Apron Services), Chairman
(SATS Security).
He has participated in several international fora on air transport.