ENERGY NEEDS FOR ASIA’S DEVELOPMENT

As Asian economies like China and India develop, their energy needs have begun to rise at a staggering pace.  Asia’s increased need for energy has major implications for the global energy supply. As Asian and international energy providers compete to provide traditional and alternative forms of energy, environmental policy is being implemented at the national and global levels.  Issues of economic development, environmental sustainability, supply-chain reality, and political stability all combine to make energy one of the most fascinating aspects of Asia’s future growth.

The Energy Panel brings together experts in Asian energy issues to explore the diverse challenges and possibilities that an increased demand for energy brings to Asia’s future.

Prof. Tom Lyon

Dow Professor of Sustainable Science, Technology and Commerce; Professor of Business Economics; Professor of Natural Resources
PHD, Stanford University, 1989
M.S., Stanford University, 1984
B.S.E., Princeton University, 1981

Thomas P. Lyon holds the Dow Chair of Sustainable Science, Technology and Commerce at the Stephen M. Ross School of Business.  Professor Lyon earned his bachelor's degree at Princeton University and his doctorate at Stanford University.  He has been a visiting professor at the University of Chicago and at the University of Bonn, and a Fulbright Scholar at the Scuola Sant' Anna in Pisa, Italy.  He spend the academic year 2002/2003 as a Gilbert White Fellow at Resources for the Future in Washington, D.C., and 2003/2004 as a visiting economist at the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice.  Professor Lyon serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Regulatory Economics and the Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, and his research has been published in such journals as the RAND Journal of Economics, the Journal of Law and Economics, the Journal of Public Economics, the Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, and the Journal of Law, Economics and Organization.

Professor Lyon's primary research interest is the interplay between corporate strategy and public policy, which he has pursued in a number of application areas, including corporate environmentalism, electric utility investment practices, natural gas contracting, innovation in the health care sector, and the introduction of competition in regulated industries.  His book Corporate Environmentalism and Public Policy is forthcoming from Cambridge University Press in November 2004.  Professor Lyon's teaching experience includes managerial economics, business and government, game theory, business strategy, and the management of innovation.

Jan L. McAlpine

Visiting Scholar and Senior Research Fellow
Senior Negotiator and Advisor for Forests,

Fellow,International Forestry Resources & Institutions (IFRI)
Office of Oceans, International Environmental and Scientific Affairs, Department of State

Topic:"A Negotiator's Bird's Eye View of Asia and Sustainble Energy Policy." 

Jan McAlpine is Visiting Scholar and Senior Research Fellow for International Forestry Resources & Institutions (IFRI) in 2007 and 2008, based at the University of Michigan’s School of Natural Resources and Environment. She is working on the IFRI and National Science Foundation funded Central Africa Forests and Institutions (CAFI) research project.   She previously served as the first Visiting Scholar to the Graham Environmental Sustainability Institute and as a Senior Research Fellow with the School of Natural Resources and Environment in 2006-2006.  Ms. McAlpine is on sabbatical at the University of Michigan from the U.S. Department of State, Washington DC. 

Jan has been the Senior Negotiator and Advisor for Forests for the United States Department of State in Washington, DC in the Office of Oceans, International Environmental and Scientific Affairs since 1998.  In this role she heads the interagency process related to international forest policy matters and serves as the primary interface on these issues for the USG with civil society, including NGOs, industry and other stakeholders.  She also heads US Delegations to a number of international processes related to forests and has negotiated in the United Nations for the US: in the Commission on Sustainable Development, the United Nations Forum on Forests, the Food and Agriculture Organization’s Committee on Forestry and the International Tropical Timber Organization (ITTO).  Jan briefed the UN Sanctions Committee on Liberian timber issues related to conflict timber in 2004 and 2005 to gain support for continuing sanctions on timber.  She was elected Chairman of the 59-country International Tropical Timber Council from 2004-2005 and was co-Chairman of the Guadalajara Country Led Initiative on the Future of the International Arrangement on Forests in 2005.  Jan was instrumental in the development and establishment of the Forest Law Enforcement and Governance (FLEG) processes (Asia September 2001 in Bali, Indonesia; Africa in Yaounde, Cameroon October 2003; Europe and NE Asia, St. Petersburg, Russia, November 2005).  She was the lead in the development, formation and launch of the Congo Basin Forest Partnership (CBFP) and the Liberia Forest Initiative.  All three of these initiatives have magnetized millions of dollars for work on forests and forest policy around the world. 

Jan McAlpine is a Civil Servant, joining the U.S. Government in 1989, first with the Environmental Protection Agency where she headed up the staff work for an advisory committee to the EPA Administrator on international policy issues.  There she developed and provided the staff direction for the first government advisory group on the nexus and conflict between trade and environment (1991).  In the early 90’s, Jan then served as the staff coordinator for President Clinton’s Council on Sustainable Development on eco-efficiency issues in the Executive Office of the President (EOP).  Subsequently, EPA detailed her to the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative in the EOP as a negotiator in the newly established Assistant U.S. Trade Representatives office on trade and environment issues, where she served for four years during the Clinton and Bush administrations.  As Director of Trade and Environment, Jan’s portfolio at USTR included issues related to international agreements, including the Montreal Protocol, the US position on tobacco, trade and health in trade negotiations and on all issues relating to international forests and timber trade with respect to environment.   In her position at USTR she co-chaired the United States delegation to the OECD in the first interdisciplinary committee on trade and environment, was instrumental in the framing and development of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation’s (APEC) Environmental Goods and Services liberalization initiative and subsequently was the US negotiator for early negotiations in this area (1997).  In the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) in its early work in the mid-90s on the intersection between trade and environment, she served as lead for the US on environmental issues.

Prior to her work with the US government Jan worked for the Water Pollution Control Federation, an international, educational association in the water quality field, where she headed the staff work on membership, marketing and public education.  Highlights of her work in the water pollution control area included winning the U.S. Industrial Film & Video Festival Silver Screen Award as Producer of the video “H20 TV,” accompanied by a teacher’s and student curriculum for middle schools on water pollution control and a role in facilitating the establishment of the Water Environment Research Foundation (WERF).  In the mid-70s Jan was the Associate Editor for a lay-health publication Life & Health, prior to that she was Interim Public Affairs Officer for Andrews University in Berrien Springs, Michigan and Editorial Assistant for Consulting Engineer Magazine, St. Joseph, Michigan.  She has taught courses in business and technical communications to students at the School of Technology at Andrews University and Colombia Union University in Takoma Park, Maryland.  

Jan McAlpine grew up in Francophone Africa: Rwanda, Burundi, Congo, Kenya and South Africa during the 50s and 60s. 

Yoon I. Chang, Ph.D.

Argonne Distinguished Fellow
Argonne National Laboratory

Topic: Prospects for Nuclear Energy in Asia

Dr. Chang has been a leader of advanced reactor design and fuel cycle development activities at Argonne National Laboratory in positions of increasing responsibility including associate director of the Applied Physics Division, director of the Large Pool Plant Project, general manager of the Integral Fast Reactor (IFR) Program, Associate Laboratory Director for Engineering Research and Interim Laboratory Director.

Argonne is the birthplace of nuclear energy and has maintained its international reputation as the center of advanced reactor development. Dr. Chang’s most significant achievement is the creation of the IFR concept which completely altered U.S. advanced reactor research direction. In recognition of his technical analyses, decisions and leadership of all aspects of the IFR program, he was awarded the U.S. Department of Energy’s prestigious E.O. Lawrence Award. Among his other awards and honors are the Outstanding Alumnus Award, Nuclear Engineering Department, University of Michigan and the Walker Cisler Medal of American Nuclear Society. 
He received his B.S. in Nuclear Engineering from Seoul National University, Korea; an M.E. in Nuclear Engineering from Texas A&M University; a Ph.D. in Nuclear Science from University of Michigan; and an M.B.A. from University of Chicago.