Technical Advisor to the President of Kahramaa, Head of Strategic Planning, Kahramaa, with 35 years of experiences in the operation, control, planning and strategic planning power systems.

Mr. Saleh Hamad Al-Marri, graduated as a Mechanical Engineer from University of Qatar by end of 2001. Also, he holds Master of Business Administration “MBA” master degree from College of Business Management & Economics - University of Qatar, and has others professional certificates and training such as AVE, PMP, professional manager, . . etc. As Head of Renewable Energy Technologies Section he leads the development and implementation of a comprehensive Kahramaa Strategy for Renewable Energy Projects implementation and strategies and contribute in policies in this regard. He is one of the main people behind Qatar's creative Solar Project idea and initiative to produce 200 MW by 2020.
 
Due to his significant experience, activities and role he has been nominated as Kahramaa official representative in the Arabic Renewable Energy Strategies Team, in the Arab Union of Electricity under Arab’s Electricity Ministers Council, on level of League of Arab States. Nominated as member in IRENA (INTERNATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY AGENCY) Renewable Energy Experts Team, representing Kahramaa and on behalf of the State of Qatar monitoring the trends & leading the analysis of investment opportunities technically and economically in the area of Renewable Energy/Water Production & evaluation of Smart Grid implementation. Moreover, he participates as team member/leader in many events and initiation for many purposes which include negotiations, evaluations of new technologies collaboration, economic opportunities & projects on the level of Qatar's interests.

I am preparing  PHD in urban planning and got a Master Degree in regional urban planning , I a multidisciplinary and multilingual professional - with diverse skills in design, management, coordination, research, and training acquired through sixteen (17) years of experience in architecture ,urban planning and green buildings - willing to work in a challenging environment, and advise creative yet practical solutions.

I have been working in Qatar since almost eight years, and have experienced tight work schedules in a highly ambitious development environment. Besides my strong conceptual and technical abilities, I possess strong interpersonal and communication skills, ability to multi-task, and a strong commitment to deliver good quality service.

Skilled in management, coordination, research, and training acquired through experiences as a team principal, project manager, coordinator, ministry liaison and researcher. 

Technical expertise in the fields of social and physical planning, urban and regional planning, urban design, zoning, building codes, green buildings and architecture.

He worked as a Mechanical Engineer at the Egyptian Atomic Energy Commission from 1960-1964 and from 1970-1974. Dr. Darwish then worked as an Associate Professor, first at El-Mansoura University, Egypt from 1974-1976 and then at King Abdul Aziz University, Saudi Arabia from 1976-1985. He became a Full Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Kuwait University in 1985 until 2009. He worked as a consultant to the Kuwait Foundation for the Advancement of Science from 2009-2011. He has 86 publications in peer reviewed journals.

Amer Aladhadh, PhD has been nominated Vice Chairman of the UNECE Public Private Partnership Team of Specialists and  advises Qatar’s Ministry of Business and Trade. He is well known for his extensive background in both finance and economic institutional development in the Middle East. Dr. Al Adhadh received a fellowship from the Institute of Mathematical Behavioral Sciences 2004. In 2006 was bilingual advisor for all of Iraq’s economic development advising on employment generation, oil refining and property rights protection. He received an Award from the Institute for the Study of Complexity in 2007 for research on company n. In 2009  helped Established a 500 Million Dollar SME Initiative for Qatar.  He is an expert in Financial Economics and consulted major Wall Street hedge funds on portfolio formation, risk management, and quantitative trading across all asset classes using his training in Applied Econometrics. Econometric application to both finance and public policy was a part of his training at the University of California where he studied under Nobel Laureates Clive Granger and Robert Engle and distinguished professors such as Halbert White and Donald Saari. He holds multiple undergraduate and graduate degrees in Mathematics, Statistics, and Economics and is known as an international speaker and an expert in GCC policy and business.

Eng. Abdulla Al-Mehshadi is the Chief Executive Officer of Msheireb Properties, a subsidiary of Qatar Foundation.

Prior to Joining Msheireb Properties, Al-Mehshadi held a number of senior positions including the Managing Director and Technical Affairs Director of the Private Engineering Office (PEO). He also worked as a Consultant to the Ministry of Environment where he advised on waste management and recycling, a concept close to the heart of Msheireb Properties’ commitment to sustainability. 

Abdulla Al-Mehshadi also held key positions at Qatar Fertiliser Company (QAFCO) where he was the Technical Manager of the first Melamine plant project in Qatar during the different phases of engineering, procurement, and construction and commissioning and was later promoted to Maintenance manager 

Al-Mehshadi holds a Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering and a Higher National Diploma in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Huddersfield in the UK.

Mechanical Engineering Degree from Purdue University (USA) and Master’s in Technology Management from Saint Thomas University (USA). Current position - Business Development Manager for GTAT Polysilicon division covering Europe, Middle East and India. Over 13 years’ experience in global Business Development  of technology and equipment in the Solar and Cryogenic space.

Chairman of Monsson Group and fifteen years of renewable sector experience. Broad international business experience from finance and industry. Transaction experience from around the world including complex deal structures. 

Former Head of Mergers and Acquisitions at one of the largest German banks. Worked in London, New York, Germany and Latin America, including many years in corporate finance at a UK merchant bank and at Daimler-Benz headquarters. 

University teaching experience from England and Germany in Finance, Entrepreneurship and International Business. Speaker at finance and renewable energy conferences.

Norwegian national with Engineering and Business Degrees from England and the US. Fluent in numerous languages. Currently based in Henley-on-Thames, UK.

With more than 33 years of entrepreneurial success, Kerry Adler has built a venerable career as a widely recognized business leader. Considered a true visionary and trailblazer in the renewable energy industry, Kerry is a proponent of solar energy’s global growth potential.

As one of the first entrepreneurs in North America to advocate for a viable renewable energy industry, Kerry founded SkyPower in 2003. SkyPower has since grown into SkyPower Global, the world's largest utility-scale solar developer.

Under Kerry’s leadership, SkyPower’s presence has reached 60+ countries, helping communities meet their needs for investment in clean energy solutions. With over 25,000 MW of solar projects in various stages of development, SkyPower is a global industry leader. 

A trusted and sought after industry advisor, Kerry was instrumental in the formation of the Green Energy Act and Feed-in Tariff (FIT) Program.

• Engineer, The Bucharest Polytechnic Institute-Faculty of Electronics and Telecommunications
• Scientific Researcher III at The Nuclear Research Institute Mioveni, research works, designing and equipment executiojn for the Cernavoda Nuclear-Electric Station
• Author of licence of invention and innovations
• Technical expertise and cinsultancy in renewable energies area
• Since 2011 Executive Manager at Altius Fotovoltaic SRL.

Dr. Haitham Abu-Rub holds two PhDs, one in electrical engineering and another in humanities. Since 2006, Dr. Abu-Rub has been associated with Texas A&M University, where he was promoted to professor. His main research interests are energy conversion systems, including renewable and electromechanical.
Dr. Abu-Rub is the recipient of many prestigious international awards, such as the American Fulbright Scholarship, the German Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship, the German DAAD Scholarship, and the British Royal Society Scholarship. Dr. Abu-Rub has published more than 200 journal and conference papers, and has earned and supervised many research projects. Currently he is leading many potential projects on photovoltaic and hybrid renewable power generation systems with different types of converters and on electric drives. He is co-author of three books, two of which are with Wiley. He is also an author and co-author of few book chapters. Dr. Abu-Rub is an active IEEE senior member and is an editor in many IEEE journals.

Carlos St. James has over 25 years experience in energy and energy finance, from nuclear power plants in the U.S. to biodiesel plants in Argentina. He is Managing Director of Santiago & Sinclair, LLC, an advisory firm focused on energy in emerging markets. Also founder and first President of the Argentine Renewable Energies Chamber (CADER), current board member and first President of the Latin American & Caribbean Council on Renewable Energy (LAC-CORE).  He recently founded and chairs the Middle East-Americas Energy Council (MEAMEC) as a way to facilitate energy investments between these two regions and to attract technological transference into the Gulf countries.

A published author, he obtained his masters degree in international relations from the Fletcher School at Tufts University.

Brad works at Qatar Petroleum in the New Energy Department in the Directorate of Planning & Policy.  His business focus is to deliver renewable energy power systems for QP production and operation facilities.  His strategic market and policy focus is to support the Ministry of Energy and Industry with strategic market and policy projects that seek to increase the use and acceptance of renewable energy. 
Prior to joining QP, Brad worked for 6 years as Director of Wind and Solar Analytics at NextEra Energy, where he managed core functions responsible for resource analytics and front-end design engineering.  In this role, he served as owner’s engineer for over 30 projects and provided engineering due diligence and operational assessments in the field for M&A transactions.  Prior career experience includes real-time generation management and fuel trading for 13,000 MW of capacity owned by NV Nuon, a Dutch multi-utility.  He also has natural gas trading and asset management experience with Enron Capital & Trade.

Frank Wouters possesses over 24 years of international experience in the field of renewable energy. He has held several senior management positions in leading organizations and institutions in the fields of renewable energy and sustainability. From 2009 to 2012 he served as the Director of Masdar Clean Energy, a developer and operator of renewable power generation projects, where he was responsible for projects representing enterprise value of more than $3bn in Asia, Africa and Europe, among which were the 100MW Shams CSP plant in Abu Dhabi and the 630MW London Array offshore wind farm. In September 2012 he was appointed Deputy Director-General of IRENA, a position he held for two years. Frank Wouters holds a Master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands.

Mr. Salim Abbassi is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Qatar Solar Energy – a solar PV manufacturer based in Doha-Qatar which was founded in 2005 and inaugurated in June 2014. Mr. Abbassi is also an expert in Crisis Management. He is well respected among the solar PV technology providers and have assembled around him a Class A technology providers from Switzerland, The Netherland, Germany, and the USA. Mr. Abbassi is also the Founder of AlJazari Research & Development Institute which conducts research in the various elements of the PV value chain, and energy efficiency. The institute was founded in 2010 and has established strong ties with leading international research institutes in the field of renewable energy and energy efficiency.

Salah is an award winning Energy & Sustainability specialist with 25 years of international experience in delivering prestigious projects in different sectors of  the construction industry.

Salah holds the position of Corporate Sustainability Director at QPM and has held senior positions in several leading architectural and engineering firms in the States and Middle-East. 

Salah supported a variety of local and regional initiatives promoting sustainability at the infrastructure and built environment. He had contributed in benchmarking and developing sustainability strategies and performance indexes for various assessments simultaneously.

Salah is an active speaker at summits and conferences on subjects related to Scalable Outdoor Solar Cooling Solutions, District Cooling, Energy Efficiency and IEQ. He is also the author of co-author of several papers on high performance buildings.

Imtiaz Mahtab has over 18 years of executive leadership roles internationally in the management of businesses in industrial gas, energy and high technology sectors. He is currently on the advisory board of various Renewable Energy and High Technology startups in the MENA region including KSA, and has been actively involved in the ecosystem development of the related sectors together with various stakeholders (Regulators, Investors, University, R&D, OEMs, EPC...). Imtiaz is a graduate of Harvard Business School, and has a bachelor degree in Chemical Engineering from University of Texas, Austin in USA. He is currently based in Dubai.

Professor Eicke R. Weber is the Director of the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE and professor of physics/solar energy at the Department of Mathematics and Physics and the Department of Engineering respectively at the University of Freiburg, Germany. Fraunhofer ISE is the largest solar energy research institute in Europe and is renowned worldwide for its research in the field of renewable energy and energy efficiency.

As researcher in the field of material science, Prof. Weber analyzed lattice defects in silicon and III-V semiconductors. In recent years, he is especially interested in producing high-quality solar cells from upgraded metallurgical silicon, or umg-Si, without the use of chlorine-based chemicals.

In 1976, Prof. Weber received his doctorate in physics from the University of Cologne, Germany. After research positions in North America and Sweden, he received his habilitation from the University of Cologne in 1983. In the same year, he took a position as professor at the University of California, Berkeley, in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering. In 2004, he was named Chairman of the interdisciplinary Nanoscale Science and Engineering Graduate Group. During his time at UC Berkeley, he spent a sabbatical semester as visiting professor at the Tokohu University in Sendai as well as at the Kyoto University in Japan.

Prof. Weber was elected Founding President of the Berkeley Chapter of the Alexander von Humboldt Association of America (AvHAA) and acted from 2001-2003 as president. In 1994 he received the Alexander von Humboldt Prize and in 2006 the Award of Merit (Bundesverdienstkreuz am Bande) of the German President. He is a fellow of the American Physical Society and Founding President of both the German Scholars Organization (GSO) and the German Energy Storage Association (BVES), Berlin.

In July 2008, Weber was appointed Director of the SEMI International Board of Directors. The Electrochemical Society ECS, San Francisco honored Weber with the Electronics and Photonics Division Award in June 2009. In October 2009, he was elected Honorary Member of the Ioffe Physical-Technical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg. Since April 2010, Prof. Weber is a member of acatech – the German Academy of Science and Engineering, Berlin.

He was appointed Managing Director of the Centre for Renewable Energy at the University of Freiburg in May 2013. In June 2013, Prof. Weber was honored with the SolarWorld Einstein Award. In January 2014, he received the Zayed Future Energy Prize, endowed with 1.5 million US dollars, from the Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi on behalf of Fraunhofer ISE.

Dr Elsarrag is a Director – Research and Development- at the Gulf Organisation for Research & Development. He has more than 20 years of experience in higher education and the building industry, gained through his work in the Middle East and Europe. In addition to his work as a consultant, he continues to be active in scientific research in buildings and energy. He has delivered lectures and published papers in reputed institutions and journals. He has specialist expertise in sustainable development, energy efficiency, energy modelling and building services. He is the managing editor of the International Journal of the Sustainable Built Environment, sponsored by GORD and published by Elsevier.

Mr Kelly is currently Legal Counsel for the State of Qatar’s New Port Project.  He has acted for renewable energy project developers globally, as well as originating and negotiating a variety of greenhouse gas emission reduction projects in China, Vietnam and Mexico under the Kyoto Protocol’s Clean Development Mechanism.   My Kelly is currently completing his PhD with the law faculty of the University of East Finland.

PNL, based in Los Angeles, California, has been providing engineering and project management services to the oil and gas business sector since 1997. The company’s environmental services are focused on remediating major oil fields and landfill sites.

PNL is presently working on some very high profile and sensitive projects, such as Pacific Gas and Electric’s (PG&E) infamous chromium-6 groundwater plume publicized in the movie “Erin Brockovich.” 

In the PV solar power business arena, PNL’s wholly owned subsidiary, PV Navigator, LLC (PVN) is developing MW-scale PV developments on environmentally impacted sites, such as closed landfills. PVN has utility-scale PV projects in development in California and New Jersey, USA. The company’s business specialty is in the conceptualization, planning, design, permitting and interconnect of PV projects on land tracts, which otherwise may have limited future use, because of their environmental conditions. Dr. Webster’s presentation at the Doha Summit will discuss the applicability of such a land/solar power planning approach for Qatar.

Ian was born in Scotland and holds a doctorate in chemical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He worked for a major oil company for almost twenty years before founding Project Navigator, Ltd. in 1997.

Dr. Alex Amato has over 30 years’ experience in the construction industry.  He has worked in both the private and public sectors in the UK, SE Asia and now in the Middle East.  

His work covers a wide range of design, construction product development and research experience; in architectural practice, academe and in both the constructional steel and concrete sectors where he worked on the development of new steel and concrete systems. 

Since 1992, his research has focused on the application of Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) to assess quantitatively the environmental impact of buildings, construction systems, and products.  

He has also taught architectural design, construction technology, and sustainable construction in the departments of Architecture and Real Estate and Construction, at the University of Hong Kong and also wider afield in China.  

In Qatar he has spent the first three years providing sustainable consultancy within Davis Langdon but has recently became Head of Sustainability at the Qatar Green Building Council where there is an expanding research and education programme.  In particular the development of the first Passivhaus in the GCC Region, which now has a burgeoning research agenda, and research with Texas A&M University funded through the National Priorities Research Programme of the Qatar National Research Fund.  

He is also a GSAS Certified Green Professional.

Cynthia Skelhorn is a Post-Doctoral Researcher with Qatar Green Building Council (QGBC). She recently completed her PhD through University of Manchester, UK, investigating the changes in building energy consumption that can be achieved through urban greening initiatives.  Changes were estimated using a combination of field studies, urban microclimate modelling and building energy modelling.  Overall research interests include GIS analysis and modelling of urban areas, developing methods to incorporate urban greenspace into building energy models, and fine scale analysis of the microclimate interactions between greenspace and the built environment.  

Her recent work with QGBC has been primarily working on the QNRF-funded project “Developing a Standard for High Performance Buildings in Qatar.”  As the Qatar Passivhaus is one of the buildings included in this study, she has been working with Dr. Alex Amato (Head of Sustainability, QGBC) to finalise the metering and monitoring equipment and programme, which will provide the study with data for the residential building sector.

Omran Al-Kuwari is the co-founder of GreenGulf and it’s CEO.  He is an energy professional with over fifteen years experience in the energy industry.  

In 2011, he was a finalist for the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award, and awarded “Middle East Clean Tech CEO of the Year” in 2012’s New Economy.  He was also recognized in 2014 by the Middle East Solar Association and PricewaterhouseCoopers as a "Solar Pioneer" during the World Future Energy Summit in Abu Dhabi.

Omran is also Executive Director of the Bin Omran Group, who owns 50% of Bin Omran Trading & Contracting, one of the leading infrastructure players in Qatar.