The session will start with two talks, the first one by Mr. RV Shahi, former Power Secretary, Government of India. Mr. Shahi will address the issues of Policy gaps, energy security, options available to India for fuels, climate change, and the reforms on the ground. The second talk by Dr. Debashish Majumdar, Chairman of Indian Renewable Energy Development Association, will focus on the Renewable Energy sector in India with a view towards identifying key interventions that are needed to mainstream Renewable energy in India. Following these talks, we will have a panel discussion where the panelists may take cues from the earlier presentations and respond to some of the issues raised in greater detail. Panelists will debate on how the Energy sector in India can achieve its goals of becoming competitive and sustainable. The debate will focus on the role of regulation in improving efficiency and accountability in a highly political subject of energy, what needs to be done to get the huge amount of investments into the sector efficiently, and how to mainstream renewable energy. Panelists will highlight the experiences of an investor and power developer in the difficult business of setting up power plants in the country, and what needs to change if the generation capacity has to be doubled in the next ten years. The discussions will also focus on the promise of solar energy in India, and the challenges the sector faces in delivering on what is the brightest promise in the energy sector, worldwide. Mr. Shahi and Mr. Majumdar may also participate with their comments. These talks will be followed by detailed discussions with the audience.

The session will start with two talks, the first one by Mr. Tan Thai Pin from Public Utilities Board, Singapore will focus on the success story of Singapore's water supply and how India can learn from this model. The second talk by Mr. Sanjeev Lohia will take a critical look at urban transportation in India with a view towards identifying key interventions that are needed to improve India's urban transport problems. Following these talks, we will have a panel discussion where the panelists may take cues from the earlier presentations and respond to some of the issues raised in greater detail. Dr. T.V. Somanathan, IAS, Managing Director of Chennai Metro Rail Limited will talk briefly on areas of improvement with regards to policies, strategies and capacity to deliver urban infrastructure. Mr. Srinivas, IAS of the Gujarat Urban Development Corporation will then follow by talking about Gujarat's experiences and what other states can learn by highlighting 2 practices to be followed and 2 to be avoided. Dr K.E. Seetharam, Director of the Institute for Water Policy at the National University of Singapore will conclude by talking about what the IIT community can do with regards to improving urban infrastructure in the context of the earlier speakers' remarks. These talks will be followed by detailed discussions with the audience.

Mr Majumdar has been with the Indian Renewable Energy Development Agency Limited (IREDA) (www.ireda.in) for over eleven years and presently heads the organization as its Chairman & Managing Director. IREDA is a unique financial institution set up by the Government of India for financing projects related to renewable energy and energy efficiency on a commercial basis. Currently he is spearheading promotion and development of renewable energy and energy efficiency projects in the private sector through appropriate financing mechanisms.

He has published over 80 papers and articles in journals and newspapers on economics, finance and public policy, and is a regular Visiting Faculty member at several institutions. He is the author of a book on Derivatives (Tata McGraw Hill – 1998), and of chapters in Land Reforms in India (M. Thangaraj [ed.] Sage Publications–2003) and Public Institutions in India (Pratap Mehta & Devesh Kapur [eds.] Oxford University Press–2005).

He served in several Districts as Collector, and subsequently as Additional Industries Commissioner & Managing Director of the iNDEXTb, the Industrial Promotional arm of the Government of Gujarat. He has also served in the Chief Minister’s Office where he has handled varied tasks pertaining to Mega Economic Initiatives and Infrastructure Implementation in the State of Gujarat.

He has been serving as Managing Director of the Gujarat Urban Development Company( GUDC), a specialized Urban Infrastructure Company of the Government of Gujarat ever since 2004. In this assignment he has completed a 550 crore Urban reconstruction programme in Kutch-Saurashtra, several Urban Water Supply Projects, and is now implementing a Rs.300 Crore State Wide Solid Waste Management initiative and an Infrastructure Development Program for 19 tribal town with an outlay of Rs.550 Crores.

He is also associated with the structuring and implementation of a range of Urban PPP projects, such as the Gujarat International -Tec City(GIFT), the 24x7 Water Supply programs in Morbi & four other towns of Gujarat, the Carbon Trade Initiative-for which the GUDC is the designated State Intermediary, the State wide Enenrgy Efficiency Initiative through the ESCO (Energy Service Companies) program and several others.

He is currently structuring a range of other Urban Infrastructure Projects such as the World Bank aided GUDP, the Ahmedabad-Gandhinagar Metro Rail System, and some mega townships under the Gujarat Integrated Township Policy.

Prior to joining IDFC, Dr. Lall was a Partner with Warburg Pincus. He joined Warburg in 1997 and handled strategic initiatives in the Singapore, Hong Kong and New York offices of the firm. He was responsible for private equity investments in the area of financial services across non-Japan Asia including India; portfolio of investments in the Philippines and Malaysia; advice on regulatory and macro issues relevant to investments in Asia and the views of Warburg on global economics and financial markets.

From 1995 to 1997, Dr. Lall was Executive Director and Head, Asian Economic Research, with Morgan Stanley Asia Limited, Hong Kong and was responsible for research on Asian Markets, especially India and China, for clients and operating divisions of the firm. He advised institutional investors on asset allocation decisions and participated in marketing of debt and equity deals for clients in India and China.

Dr. Rajiv B. Lall was with the World Bank, Washington, from 1988 to 1995 where he focused on policy issues confronting the Chinese economy and advised the Bank on lending strategy, and macroeconomic and trade policy issues. Prior to the World Bank, Dr. Lall was with Manila office of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) for three years during which he reviewed the financial and lending policies of ADB and conducted due diligence for port and road development projects. He advised the agency on feasibility analysis of infrastructure and energy projects and researched approaches to public private partnership in infrastructure development.

From 1983 to 1985, Dr. Lall was an Assistant Professor with the Florida Atlantic University where he conducted independent research and taught graduate and undergraduate courses in macroeconomics, international trade and finance, and development economics.

Dr. Rajiv B. Lall has a number of publications to his credit; is conversant in French; is instruction friendly in Mandarin and Spanish and avidly tracks strategic developments in emerging markets.

• Was appointed Secretary to the Government of India, Ministry of Power in April 2002. This is the top most position at official level in the Power Ministry. Besides being responsible for the entire Indian Power Sector (1,68,000 MW capacity including captive plants), as Secretary, he was directly responsible for the Central Public Sector Undertakings viz. National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC), Power Grid Corporation of India Ltd, National Hydroelectric Power Corporation, Satluj Jal Vidyut Nigam Ltd, Tehri Hydro Development Corporation, Power Finance Corporation, Rural Electrification Corporation, Bhakra Beas Management Board and Damodar Valley Corporation. He was also President of the Governing Council of Central Power Research Institute, Chairman of the Executive Committee of Bureau of Energy Efficiency and Chairman of the Governing Council of National Power Training Institute having 5 large Training Institutes in various parts of the country. Worked as Secretary to the Government of India for almost five years till he relinquished the charge on 31st January 2007.
• During the five year tenure as Secretary to the Government of India, Ministry of Power, the Indian electricity sector witnessed a major restructuring of the power industry through formulation and implementation of several legislative and policy initiatives aimed at creation of a competitive market structure. These include Electricity Act (2003), National Electricity Policy (2005), Electricity Tariff Policy (2006) and Accelerated Power Development Reform Programme (2002). Setting and Operationalising of Bureau of Energy Efficiency under Energy Conservation Act (2001), Rural Electrification Policy (2005), Ultra Mega Power Project Policy (2006), Merchant Power Plant Policy (2006). 50,000 MW Hydroelectric Initiative (2003), 100,000 MW Thermal Project Initiative (2004).
• Academic qualifications: Graduation (Mechanical Engineering), Post Graduation (Industrial Engineering), Post Graduation (Business Management) and Diploma in Advanced Industrial Management (Delft, Holland). He is a Fellow of the World Academy of Productivity Sciences, a Fellow of Institution of Engineers (India), a Fellow of International Institute of Electrical Engineers, and a Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering.
• Was Chairman and Managing Director of BSES Ltd from 1994 to 2002. During this period the company was transformed from a small distribution utility to a multi–unit fully integrated power utility having generation, transmission and distribution. He was, for over 16 years, with National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC) holding various positions between 1978 and 1994. These included General Manager in charge of Dadri Power Project; Executive Director in charge of Southern Region of NTPC; and finally Member on the Board of Directors of NTPC In-charge of Operations, R&D and Commercial functions. Prior to this, Mr. Shahi worked for over 10 years with Hindustan Steel Ltd / Steel Authority of India.
• Chairman or Member on Boards of Directors of various companies also in the Audit Committees of the Boards, during different periods (1991 – 2002). Member on the Board of NTPC; Member on the Board and Audit Committee of Power Grid Corporation. Chairman of World Energy Council – Indian Member Committee (WEC-IMC) during April, 2002 to January, 2007. Member (2003 – 2006) on the Policy Group of Carbon Sequestration Leadership Forum (CSLF) a US led global initiative; Member (2005 – 2006) on the Govt. Steering Committee for the US led global initiative on Zero Emission Future Generation Project. Has been closely associated with industry bodies such as Confederation of Indian Industries (CII), Federation of Indian Chamber of Commerce & Industries (FICCI), Associated Chamber of Commerce and Industry of India (ASSOCHAM) as Member and Chairman of various Committees. Was also a member on more than sixteen Committees and Organizations covering diverse topics related to Energy, Environment, Human Resource Development and Education. Chairman (2006) of the Government constituted Working Group on Power for Eleventh Five Year Plan (2007-12). On the Board of Xavier Institute of Management, Bhubaneshwar (2000-2006). He is on the Boards of Governors of Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Lucknow, Management Development Institute(MDI) Gurgaon.
• Awards: Recipient of Diamond Jubilee Award of CBIP (1993), India International Gold Award-1994 of the NRI Institute and Udyog Ratan Award-1994 of the Institute of Economic Studies, 1997; Top Professional Manager Award of the Institute of Marketing & Management (IMM), 1997 – Indira Gandhi National Award, 2000, Special Award conferred by Lion's Club International and 2000 "Excellence in Corporate Governance Award" conferred by Rotary International District 3050-Ahmedabad; Power-Telecom Convergence Award 2000 by IPPAI; "BEST POWER MAN of the Millennium Year 2000" Award by National Foundation of Indian Engineers; Distinguished Fellow Award 2002 conferred by the Institute of Directors. Eminent Engineer Award by Institution of Engineers, International Executive Award by USEA; Powerline Expert Choice"Award'06 for Biggest Individual Contribution to the Power Sector" on the basis of a survey of power professionals.
• Publications: Has contributed and presented many papers at various National and International Conferences. He has authored a book entitled "Indian Power Sector – Challenge and Response (2005)" and also edited a book entitled "100 Years of Thermal Power in India (2000)". Another book "Towards Powering India: Policy Initiatives and Implementation Strategy (about 500 pages)" and released in November 2007.

Dr. Seetharam is the founding Director of the Institute of Water Policy and Professor at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy.

He is on deputation from the Asian Development Bank (ADB) where he was Principal water Supply and Sanitation specialist, and a focal point guiding ADB's operations in water supply, sanitation, and wastewater management in line with ADB's Water Policy, he supported the following, among others:

• The $10 billion ADB's Water Financing Program 2006-2010—i.e. to double investments in the water sector—together with a $100 million in grants for a Water Financing Partnership Facility to the Program.
• The Water for Asian Cities program, $10 million partnership between ADB and UN-HABITAT that delivered $570 million in ADB loans for water and sanitation projects in the region between 2003 and 2007. The follow up $20 million enhanced cooperation between ADB and UN- HABITAT envisages to catalyze up to $1 billion in investments, with a focus on sanitation.
• The Asia Training and Research Initiative on Urban Management (ATRIUM) with a $1million in-kind contribution from the Government of Singapore for knowledge transfer to key ADB clients support (e.g. PRC, India, Viet Nam, and Pakistan).
• The Asia Infrastructure Project Development Company (AIPD), an innovative joint-venture between ADB and Singapore water companies, to expeditiously prepare public-private-partnership water projects in the PRC worth nearly $1 billion over five years. Dr. Seetharam is a board director in AIPD.

Publications: Over 50 ADB reports, articles, and books (all available online at http://www.adb.org/water)
2007. Asian Water Development Outlook 2007
2007. Benchmarking and databook of Indian Water Utilities
2007. Smarter Sanitation Multimedia package
2006. Urbanization and Sustainability- case studies of good practice
2006. Asia Water Watch 2015
2003. Impact evaluation study on water supply and sanitation projects

Contact: keseetharam@nus.edu.sg; +65 6516 2083
Website : www.lkyspp.nus.edu.sg

His working experience include development of water master plans, water policies and also engineering works covering planning, design, operation and maintenance of drainage, sewerage and water reclamation infrastructures.

He has been involved in the NEWater (high grade reclaimed water) development initiatives since 2001. His roles in the water reclamation initiatives include participating in the NEWater pilot study, the implementation of the NEWater projects and the operation of the NEWater Factories. He has extensive knowledge in the planning, design and operation of large scale high grade water reclamation plants using dual membrane technologies.

He is presently the Director of Water Reclamation (Network) Department, Public Utilities Board.

A day after completing his engineering Nandan walked into the South Mumbai office of Patni Computer Systems. He was interviews by Narayan Murthy who was then heading the software business of the company. Both of them would never have been able to dream that one day they will spearhead what could be one of the world's best outsourcing corporation.

It is said that during his interview Nandan Nilekani was given about 10 questions by Murthy. Nandan got all the 10 correct. Three years later the two along with five other like minded people sat down to set up a software company "Infosys technologies". This decision was the genesis for the Indian software industry.

In 2006, Nilekani was awarded the Padma bhushan and in January 2006, he became the youngest entrepreneurs to join 20 global leaders on the World Economic Forum (WEF) Foundation Board. In the May 2006 issue of TIME Magazine Nandan was regarded as of the 100 most influential people in the world.

In March 2002, Nilekani became the CEO of Infosys

He is also regarded as the co-founder of India's National Association of Software and Service Companies (NASSCOM).

He is married to Rohini (an English-language writer and novelist) and they have two children, a daughter Janhavi and a son Nihar. In May 2006, in a study conducted by Brand-comm a leading Brand Consulting, Advertising and PR firm, Mr. Nilekani emerged as one among the top ten most admired business leaders of India.Presently Mr Nilekani is pushing for better governance in Bangalore

Sanjeev Kumar Lohia therefore has a very strong academic, experiential, and administrative skill base in Transportation Systems, with domain knowledge of public-private partnership models.

Board of Director : Bangalore Metro Rail Corpn. Ltd., Kolkata Metro Rail Corpn. Ltd., Urban Mass Transit Co. Ltd.

Before joining AES, led the power consulting practice of CRISIL as Head – Power Practice and had extensive experience in the reforms, regulations, and restructuring of state utilities pursuant to Electricity Act 2003. Sanjeev has substantial project development experience while leading the commercial, regulatory, and finance team for a 4000 MW project in the state of Orissa.

Sanjeev also worked in the electricity trading markets of Western Europe and provided business solutions to leading energy traders. Handled multiple infrastructure project finance advisory and syndication transactions, and led the team for advising Ministry of Finance, Govt. of India, on counter-guarantees to fast track power projects.

Trained as a mechanical engineer, with PGDM from IIM, Ahmedabad, Sanjeev is currently serving on various high-level committees as an industry expert, including on the Infrastructure Power Committee of AmCham India, FICCI Power Committee, and India Electricity 2008 Advisory Council.

He has taken over as Chief Executive (Power Development) to grow L&T's portfolio in Power Projects. In addition to this he heads the implementation of BOT Road Projects and Project Finance function.

In his capacity as Head – Project Finance he arranged over Rs. 55 billion (US$ 1.4 billion) for various infrastructure projects with innovative structures and instruments. One of the BOT Road projects won the prestigious Euromoney Project Finance Deal of the Year Award in 2006.

Earlier during 2002-05 he has had short stints with SREI Infrastructure as Head – Structured Finance and Director SREI Venture Capital Ltd and with Feedback Ventures as President – Core Infrastructure he supervised financial advisory and fund management for the Feedback First Urban Infrastructure Fund.

Until 2002 he headed ICICI's Project Finance & Advisory Services in Transportation & Urban Infrastructure. As head of Project Finance his role required him to develop business and manage an asset portfolio of around Rs.20 billion (US$ 500 million) of projects in ports, roads & bridges and municipal sectors. As head of the Transport & Urban Infrastructure Group of Advisory Services Division, he was involved in project development and structuring for private participation (BOT, BOOT, JVs, etc.), assistance in managing competitive bidding process involving privatization and strategic advice on private participation in infrastructure. He was on the boards of ICICI-KINFRA Ltd. (I-KIN) a 76%-24% JV of ICICI with Kinfra Ltd, an undertaking of the Government of Kerala and Tamilnadu Urban Infrastructure Financial Services Ltd. (TNUIFSL), the asset management company for managing the Tamilnadu Urban Development Fund (TNUDF).

Before ICICI, he worked with A.F. Ferguson & Co. for 4 years managing large consulting assignments in the area of Corporate Strategy, Organisation Structure and Managerial Job Evaluation.

Prior to his doctoral studies at IIM, Ahmedabad he had worked for 4 years with industry (Voltas Ltd. And Mico Ltd.) and academics VJTI (as lecturer).

Specialization in logistics and supply chain management, and infrastructure and transportation systems. Research, consultancy, case studies and publications focus includes railways, ports and shipping, air and road sector, service organizations and issues in logistics and supply chain management. Taught at Northwestern University and Tulane University, USA. Visiting faculty at universities in USA, Canada, Yugoslavia, Tanzania, UAE, Singapore and several institutions in India. Published 29 papers in refereed journals, 37 papers in books and conference proceedings, and written 120 registered case studies (of which 69 have been published in books and conference proceedings). Consulted for over 100 organizations in the area of logistics and supply chain management, and infrastructure development.

Developed over 20 new courses for the Doctoral, Post Graduate, and Executive Programmes. Piloted the design, development and delivery of the one year Post Graduate Programme in Management for Executives (PGPX) as the founder Chairperson.

Co-author/ editor of four books: "Supply Chain Management: Cases and Concepts" (2008), "Logistics and Supply Chain Management: Cases and Concepts" (2000), "Infrastructure Development and Financing: Towards a Public-Private Partnership" (1999), and "Shipping Management: Cases and Concepts" (1998). President of Operational Research Society of India (1999-2000). Chairperson, Task Force to Design the Management Curriculum for the Indian Maritime University. Member of Task Force on Infrastructure Development and Mega Projects, Commission on Center-State Relations; Committee to examine Financial Crisis of Domestic Airlines; Inter-Ministerial Group for the Restructuring of Airports Authority of India; Coastal Area Development Board, Government of Gujarat; Project Advisory Board, RITES; Committee on Railway Restructuring; Board of Directors: Alcock Ashdown (Gujarat), Bhavnagar; Arshiya International, Mumbai; Konkan Railway Corporation, Mumbai; Take Solutions, Chennai; India Infrastructure Finance Company, Delhi; and Sequel Logistics, Ahmedabad.

MBIL is the world's 2nd largest optical storage media manufacturer with sales exceeding $450mil. The MBPV venture is MBIL's major diversification initiative in the Photovoltaic (PV) domain with presence in Crystalline Si,Thin Films, High and Low concentration technologies.

MBPV's investments in technology are amongst the largest in the PV industry in Asia Pacific. Strategic global acquisitions and support from a world-class Technology Centre are cornerstones in enabling the company attain its goal of delivering Giga-Watt output by 2011.

Technology absorption, Execution play and World Class Resources are key success factors in realizing MBPV's vision. $350mil capex is under commissioning in the current year.

First 80 MW plant has already started production with revenues forecasted to exceed $350mil this fiscal year. Currently world's first Gen8.5 Thin Film plant is under trial runs providing MBPV a clear lead position in the fastest growing product segment in the industry. A 500MW Thin Film site has been announced to be executed in Chennai.

Board member -Solaria Corporation (Fremont,CA), Stion Corporation (Menlo Park, CA), Sol Focus( Europe)and SolarvalueDD(Slovenia)

Professional Experience
2000-2004 : Delphi Corp - Country Manager India & Thailand
Responsible for a footprint covering 6 manufacturing sites and a Technical Center

1999-2000 : Delphi Thailand & Vice President ASEAN - Managing Director
Established green-field site operations and spearheaded business development activities for the entire ASEAN Region.

1997-2000: Plant Manager-Delphi Corporation, Bangalore, India
Took charge of an plant facing financial crisis and led the turn around.

1995-1997: GM Overseas Corporation (GMOC): Saginaw, MI. Subsequently spun-off as Delphi Corporation, India - General Manager (MVPS, Steering Systems)
Role included strategy formulation, development and execution of the venture sales plan

1982-1994: Worked across Indo German and US joint ventures in India

Recognition/Awards:
Delphi Chairman's Global Performance Recognition Award for consecutive years ('02 & '03).

Academic Qualifications
1982: Masters in Business Administration (Symbiosis, Pune India)
1980: Bachelors in Mechanical Engineering (P.E.C, Chandigarh India)

Additional Professional Training:
University of Michigan Business School Executive Development Program "Leadership in action" and program on "Finance for Non-Finance Executives"

Thunderbird Business Leadership Program oriented towards providing cross-cultural appreciation and the resultant synergies to practicing managers.

Lean college at Ann Arbor, MI (2002) and Manufacturing academy (2003) Delphi headquarters Troy (MI)

I&CIM (Innovation and Continuous Improvement Methodology) : 6 sigma Green Belt certified

During her long career, Sudha Mahalingam has worked for several leading think-tanks and research institutes as well as in mainstream business journalism. Her areas of interest encompass the geopolitical, economic, environmental and regulatory dimensions of all forms of energy including oil, gas, electricity including nuclear, hydro and coal as well as midstream and downstream activities like refining, petrochemicals, fertilizers etc. She has published numerous articles in Indian and international journals and writes regularly in the opinion columns of newspapers. She also speaks regularly on energy issues in national and international conferences.

• B.E Electrical from IIT Mumbai/ BITS Pilani
• MBA from IIM Ahmedabad

Since completing my engineering and business management studies in 1974, I have worked in some 30 countries worldwide in the field of infrastructure, capital markets and industrial enterprises across a variety of sectors. My, worldwide experience covers private and public sector industrial/ financial institutions, multilateral and bilateral agencies, governments and their agencies and non-governmental organizations.

I started my career in the Tata Administrative Services and worked in a number of Tata Group Companies at various levels. I was head of International Projects and a Board Member at Tata Enterprises Overseas prior to joining International Finance Corporation, Washington - the private sector arm of the World Bank Group in 1984.

As Chief Investment Officer at the International Finance Corporation (IFC) my portfolio included Power, Hydrocarbons, Energy Efficiency, Renewables and Climate Change initiatives. I have also worked on projects in the Road, Port and Mass Transit sectors in a number of developing countries. My industrial experience in IFC and Tatas spans automotive, steel, aluminum, cement, fertilizer, chemical, pharmaceutical, textile, hospitality, and fabrication sectors. I have also been engaged in structuring and managing funds, mobilizing capital and developing capital market instruments for lenders and borrowers.

In my current assignment with the Government of India, I coordinate the plans and policies of six Ministries that include the five energy ministries (Power, Oil, Petroleum & Gas, Coal, Atomic Energy, Non-Conventional & Renewable Energy) and the Climate Change component of the Ministry of Environment. I service the Prime Minister's Energy Coordination Committee and wrote the Integrated Energy Policy of India in 2006.

As the core Indian Negotiator I have led the country's negotiations at the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), the CSD dialogue at the UN, the preparatory and follow up meetings of the G-8 dialogue, the E-7 Group and the bilateral Energy/ Climate Forums with the US, EU, UK and Japan. I helped craft India's National Action Plan on Climate.

I have taught graduate courses and lectured extensively at academic institutions, think tanks and NGOs around the globe.