The Global Energy Prize International Award Committee

The Global Energy Prize International Award Committee

Rae Kwon Chung
(South Korea)

The Global Energy Prize International Award Committee Chairman; Member, IPCC awarded with the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007; Member of the Board of Directors, Ban Ki-moon Foundation for a Better Future; Director, Center for New Climate Innovations

Adnan Amin
(USA)

Chair of the Officers Council, World Energy Council; Director General Emeritus of the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) 

Thomas Albert Blees
(USA)

President of the Science Council for Global Initiatives (SCGI)

Marta Szigeti Bonifert (Hungary)

Vice President, Institute of Directors Hungary (IoD), Member of the global advisory board of Tokyo University

Frederick Bordry (Switzerland)

Director for Accelerators and Technology of European Council for Nuclear Research (CERN)

William Il Young Byun (Singapore)

CEO, New ASEAN Energy, Inc.; Scientific Advisory Board Member, Maroon Research Institute

Dmitri Bessarabov
(South Africa)

Director at HySA Infrastructure Competence Center, Professor

Nobuo Tanaka
(Japan)

Chair, the Steering Committee of Innovation for Cool Earth Forum (ICEF), CEO, Tanaka Global, In., Special Adviser, the Sasakawa Peace Foundation

Steven Griffiths
(UAE)

Professor and Vice Chancellor for Research American University of Sharjah

Vasiliy Bogoyavlenskiy
(Russia)

Supervisor of the Geoecology Department, Gubkin Russian State University of Oil and Gas

Yury Petrenya
(Russia)

Chair of the Energy and Electric Engineering, Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University

Rachid Yazami
(Singapore)

Founding Director & CTO at KVI Holdings

Valery Stennikov
(Russia)

Director of the Melentiev Energy Systems Institute of Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Corresponding Member of RAS, Doctor of Technical Sciences, Professor

Nikolay Rogalev
(Russia)

Rector of Moscow Power Engineering Institute (MPEI)

Ajay Kumar Saxena
(India)

Senior Director, Electricity and Renewables, TERI, Fellow of the Institution of Engineers

Liye Xiao
(China)

Prof. of University of Chinese Academy of Sciences; Director of Energy Storage Technology Research Department,  & Director of the Interdisciplinary Research Center, IEE-CAS; Deputy Director of Huairou National Laboratory

Anton Maksimov (Russia)

Director of the A.V. Topchiev Institute of Petrochemical Synthesis (TIPS), RAS; Professor of the Department of Petroleum Chemistry and Organic Catalysis, Faculty of Chemistry, Moscow State University

Abel Didier Tella (Republic of Côte d'Ivoire)

Association of Power Utilities of Africa (APUA), Director General

Hortensia Jiménez Rivera (Bolivia)

Director General of the Bolivian Nuclear Energy Agency (ABEN)