May 15-16, 2013Navi Mumbai, India

Workshopon the search for

game-changing energy technologiesfor the developing world

O

n behalf the Global Climate and Energy Project (GCEP) at Stanford University, I am delighted

to welcome you to this special workshop on game-changing energy technologies for the

developing world.

Today, billions of people lack access to electricity, cooking fuels and other basic energy services that many

of us take for granted. Over the last 10 years, GCEP and its sponsors – ExxonMobil, GE, Schlumberger, Toyota and

DuPont – have invested in fundamental research to develop new energy technologies that will meet the changing

needs of a growing world population in an environmentally sustainable way. We are very pleased that Reliance

Industries and GCEP could come together to sponsor this important workshop.

The seed for this event was planted by Dr. Ajit Sapre during a talk he delivered at the annual GCEP

Research Symposium at Stanford in October 2012. Dr. Sapre offered a new approach to global energy challenges,

inspired by Mahatma Gandhi, which he called “Gandhian engineering of inclusive innovation.” The idea is

that sustainability can be achieved through eradicating poverty by developing innovative, energy-efficient

technologies that are both high quality and affordable. Examples include low-cost portable solar air conditioners

and water filters for people in poor rural areas.

We found Dr. Sapre’s ideas so compelling that we initiated conversations with Reliance Industries, which

eventually culminated in this workshop. Together we developed an informative program designed to engage

every workshop participant. Over the next two days, we will learn more about energy needs in the developing

world so that we can focus our technology-development efforts on areas that will have the biggest impact on

people who are most in need.

I would like to thank all of you for joining us. I know that many of you traveled a long distance to be here.

I look forward to your participation in this landmark workshop.

Sally M. Benson

Director

Global Climate and Energy Project

Stanford University

W

elcome to the workshop on the search for game-changing energy technologies for the developing

world. I hope that the ensemble of leading thinkers and practitioners from industry, academia,

government and NGOs will open up new opportunities for collective action to move us closer to

the goal of providing access to energy, water and food for all.

Despite the enormous strides in global scientific and industrial progress we are still unable to serve the needs

of a major part of the global population that primarily lives in the developing countries. The change in our planet’s

climate poses a heightened threat to meeting the basic needs of energy, water and food for all. The traditional

carbon emitting industrialization and urbanization path, which evolved in the advanced countries over the last

few centuries to grow their economies, is clearly not sustainable. Today, developing economies too are poised for

energy intensive growth with increasing demands for material comfort and consumption from its population. They

provide a fertile ground for implementing novel energy and materials technologies, and innovative infrastructure

development opportunities, e.g. distributed power, bio-fuels etc. There is an imminent need for more, secure and

responsible energy technologies that will take the world on more sustainable trajectory.

Moreover, as we all know, a one size fits all approach in deploying the technology developed for the

developed world may not solve the developing world’s cost and performance requirements. The problems on the

ground in technology adoption are complex. History has shown that energy technologies typically take more than

a decade to get to a critical market penetration even in places where it was first developed. We need innovation

in every aspect of the solution building process: technology development, scale-up, business model and cultural

adaptation. We need to rise to this complex challenge and I urge you to help us develop a plausible road map.

At Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL), sustainable development is a cornerstone of our business strategy, with a

focus on:

› Energy security—We have made significant investments in natural gas (cleanest of fossil fuels), ultra

clean refining to secure energy supplies and we are building transformative initiatives to promote use of

alternative energy.

› Environment—We are committed to identify and act upon environmental risks in our business processes.

› Growth through innovation—Reliance Innovation Council drives our innovation agenda along with

Reliance Technology Group focusing on next-generation technologies for the growing world.

› Product responsibility—Our commitment to our customers is to produce products that meet stringent

international standards.

› Health & safety—We strive to provide a healthy and safe work environment.

› Social institution building—Transforming lives of the underprivileged sections of our society through

rural development, livelihood programs and education.

We welcome your perspective and active participation in this workshop. Thanks for joining us today. We

look forward to your enthusiastic participation to help shape the future.

Ajit Sapre

Group President of Research and Technology

Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL)

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AGENDA DAY ONE

Wednesday, May 15, 2013

IntroductIon Moderator AjIt SApre

10:00 Introductory remarks Ajit Sapre10:10 Inaugural remarks Hital r. Meswani10:20 Meeting Objectives Sally Benson

Keynote address

10:30 emerging paradigm for Accelerated Inclusive Growth with a Sustainable energy Future: More from Less for More

r.A. Mashelkar

sessIon 1 ModeratorNeedS ANd CHALLeNGeS tO prOvIdING eNerGy IN tHe deveLOpING WOrLd AjIt SApre

11:15 Clean energy Access for the three Billion in rural Areas and its Co-benefits for Health, Agriculture and Climate Change

veerabhadran ramanathan

11:50 Break12:05 report on Site visits by Stanford visitors Hrishi Goel, Love Sarin12:15 • renewable energy technologies for the developing World—

Focus on BiomassB.C. jain

• developing a Utility Business to Serve the rural poor Nikhil jaisinghani• Solar energy for the developing World—

Challenges and OpportunityAmitabh verma

1:30 Lunch2:20 perspectives from various energy Application Areas

• emerging Frugal Innovations in energy: Learning New Heuristics from Grassroots and technological youth

Anil Gupta

• Issues in rural energy Innovations Anil rajvanshi• Understanding Cooking Needs and practices Mark thurber

sessIon 2 ModeratorMAppING StANFOrd teCHNOLOGIeS tO tHe deveLOpING WOrLd rICHArd SASSOON

3:20 Overview of GCep portfolio and Approach Sally Benson4:00 Break4:20 GCep technical Area discussion

• Fossil Fuels – Carbon Mitigation and Advanced Combustion• renewables – Solar and electrochemistry• Bioenergy• energy Systems Analysis

Franklin ‘Lynn’ OrrBruce Clemensjennifer Milne

Charles Barnhart5:50 Applying Other Stanford technologies to the developing World Banny Banerjee

richard Sassoon6:20 Adjourn7:30 dinner at Sheraton Four points, Navi Mumbai, vashi dinner speaker: Kirit parikh

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AGENDA DAY TWO

thursday, May 16, 2013

sessIon 3 ModeratorteCHNICAL OppOrtUNIty AreAS peter HANIK

10:00 Industry perspectives• technical Opportunities in energy in the emerging

Markets—A dupont perspective• Opportunities for Innovation in the energy Field in the

developing World—A perspective from reliance Industries• A perspective from Ge on Identifying technical Opportunity• Areas in energy Markets in the developing World

Homi Bhedwar

Ajit Sapre

vinay jammu deepesh Nanda

11:30 Overview of Breakout Sessions pankaj Mehta11:45 Break12:00 Breakout Sessions on the Needs for Breakthrough energy

technologies, Criteria for their Successful Implementation, and Identification of Opportunity Areas in the developing World• renewable energy Anil rajvanshi, jennifer Milne• electricity Grid Sydney Lobo, emilie Hung• Fuels and transportation Swaroop Sarangan, richard Sassoon• Water and Cooking Applications Arjun Bhattacharyya, Mark thurber

1:30 Lunch2:30 review of Breakout Sessions Breakout Session Leaders3:30 Break

sessIon 4 ModeratordISCUSSION SeSSION ON COLLABOrAtIve ApprOACHeS ANd Next StepS peter HANIK

3:45 Moderated discussion Between GCep, GCep Sponsors, reliance, reliance Sponsors, and Indian Academic personnel on Future Collaboration and path Forward

peter Hanik richard Sassoon

concLudInG reMarKs Moderator AjIt SApre

5:00 Summary of Meeting Accomplishments Sally Benson5:15 Concluding remarks Ajit Sapre5:30 Adjourn

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About the workshop

“The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world’s problems.”

Mahatma Gandhi

The Global Climate and Energy Project (GCEP) at Stanford

University and Reliance Industries Limited have joined together to

organize this workshop, which explores the challenges of creating

and applying new energy technologies in the developing world. We  have

assembled leading thinkers and practitioners from industry, academia,

government and NGOs to discuss potential applications of state-of-the-art

energy technologies and possible collaborative approaches and next steps that

could move research forward to find the best technical solutions for supplying

energy to the developing world. Through a variety of formats, including

presentations, breakouts and open discussions, we would like to gain insights

into the issues related to energy supply in the developing world that will allow

us to identify opportunities for organizations such as ours to contribute in this

critical area.

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S P E A K E R S

Sally M . BenSonBenson is director of the Global Climate

Energy Project (GCEP) and acting director of

the Precourt Institute for Energy at Stanford

University. She is also a professor (research)

of energy resources engineering in Stanford’s

School of Earth Sciences. Benson is a member

of the American Geophysical Union, Society

of Petroleum Engineers, American Association

for the Advancement of Science and the

American Association of Petroleum Geologists.

In 2012 she received the Greenman Award at

the International Conference on Greenhouse

Gas Technologies. A groundwater hydrologist

and reservoir engineer, Benson has conducted

research to address a broad range of issues

related to energy and the environment. For the

past 10 years, she has studied how to reduce

greenhouse gas emissions by capturing CO2

from power plants and pumping it into deep

underground formations for permanent

sequestration as a means of climate change

mitigation. Her research interests also include

technologies and energy systems for a low-carbon

future, groundwater quality and remediation, the

biogeochemistry of selenium, and geotechnical

instrumentation for subsurface characterization

and monitoring. Benson was a convening lead

author of the 2012 Global Energy Assessment

and a coordinating lead author on the 2005

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

(IPCC) special report on CO2 capture and storage.

Benson received a BA in geology from Barnard

College at Columbia University, and an MS and

PhD in materials science and mineral engineering

from the University of California-Berkeley.

RaGhunaTh ananT MaShelkaRMashelkar is president of Global Research

Alliance, a network of publicly funded R&D

institutes from Asia-Pacific, Europe and the

United States. A leading advocate for innovation

and balanced intellectual property rights, he

chairs the National Innovation Foundation,

Reliance Innovation Council and other

foundations. Mashelkar led a successful challenge

to U.S. patents on Basmati rice and on the use

of turmeric for wound healing, landmark

cases on the protection of India’s traditional

knowledge base. While at the World Intellectual

Property Organization, he led an effort led to

change the International Patent Classification

System giving traditional knowledge its

rightful place. Mashelkar was director of the

Council of Scientific and Industrial Research,

and was president of the Indian National

Science Academy and of the Institution of

Chemical Engineers (U.K.). In recognition

of his contribution to nation building,

the president of India awarded him with

Padmashri and Padmabhushan, two of the

highest civilian honors. Mashelkar was only

the third Indian engineer elected as a fellow of

the Royal Society (London) in the 20th century.

He was also elected to the National Academy

of Science (U.S.) and the Royal Academy of

Engineering (U.K.). Mashelkar is on the board

of directors of Reliance Industries Ltd., Tata

Motors Ltd. and other companies, and is on

the scientific advisory board of Microsoft.

He received a bachelor’s degree and PhD in

chemical engineering from the University of

Mumbai (Bombay).

hiTal R. MeSwaniMeswani is the executive director and member

of the board of Reliance Industries Ltd. He is

responsible for the refining and marketing

business, as well as for corporate functions,

including safety, research and technology,

manufacturing and projects. Meswani has been

involved in almost all of the recent mega-

initiatives of the Reliance group and has helped

the company become a significant player in

the petrochemicals arena. He was instrumental

in establishing the world-class petrochemicals

complex at Hazira, integrating fibres,

intermediates, olefins, polyolefins and other

products. He also led the execution of the world’s

largest refining complex at Jamnagar. Completed

in less than 36 months, Jamnagar is regarded as

one of the most profitable and modern refining

complexes in the world, setting a benchmark for

future refineries. In 2012, Meswani was awarded

an honorary fellowship from the Institution of

Chemical Engineers (IChemE) in recognition of

his contribution to the process industries. He is

also a recipient of the Indo-American Society’s

Young Achiever Award and the D. Robert

Yarnall Award from the Engineering Alumni

Society of the University of Pennsylvania. In

2003, he became a member of the university’s

engineering board of overseers. Meswani

received two degrees from the University of

Pennsylvania: BS in chemical engineering and BS

in economics from The Wharton School. He also

graduated from the university’s Jerome Fisher

Program in Management and Technology.

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Charles Barnhart

Barnhart is a postdoctoral scholar

at Stanford University’s Global

Climate and Energy Project

(GCEP), where he performs

energy systems analysis. His

research focuses on identifying

technology attributes that can

reduce energy and materials use, as well as lower financial costs. In a

2013 study published in the journal Energy & Environmental Science,

he presented a novel way to calculate the material and energetic cost

of building large-scale batteries and other storage technologies for the

electrical grid. In 2010, prior to joining GCEP, Barnhart was a national

postdoctoral fellow at NASA. He holds a PhD in planetary geophysics

from the University of California-Santa Cruz, a BS in physics and a BS

in astronomy from the University of Washington.

Banny Banerjee

Banerjee is an associate professor

(teaching) of mechanical

engineering at Stanford

University’s d.school and the

Stanford Design Program. He

is the founder of the Stanford

ChangeLabs, a network of

innovation experts, behavioral scientists and technology strategists

working towards new paradigms for scaled interventions to global

challenges, such as climate change, water and energy. In India,

Banerjee worked in a variety of fields, including architecture, adobe

housing for the rural poor and low embodied energy building systems.

From 1998-2007, he was a senior designer/strategist at the U.S.

firm IDEO. He received a bachelor of architecture degree from the

University of Bombay, MS in architecture from Washington State

University, and two MS degrees from Stanford in product design and

mechanical engineering.

homi Bhedwar

Bhedwar is director of the

DuPont Knowledge Center in

Hyderabad. He has responsibility

for operating the center, and for

developing science and technology

for India and the Association of

Southeast Asian Nations. In 1977,

Bhedwar joined DuPont in the U.S. as a research engineer and has

since held a number of technical and leadership roles in engineering,

electronics, fluoroproducts, and central research and development.

His previous responsibilities included establishing and implementing

growth programs in semiconductor fabrication materials, electronic

packaging, display materials, nanomaterials and photovoltaics. In

2006, he transferred to India with the responsibility of constructing,

operating and growing the Knowledge Center. Bhedwar received

a bachelor of technology degree from the Indian Institute of

Technology-Bombay, a master’s in materials engineering from

Cornell University, and a PhD in materials science and engineering

from Carnegie-Mellon University.

arjun BhattaCharyya Bhattacharyya is the technology

leader for GE Water & Process

Technologies at GE Global

Research in Bangalore. He leads

global technology teams on

the development of advanced

technologies and process solutions

for tough-to-treat waters, such as industrial wastewater and zero-

liquid discharge systems. His team focuses on chemical, membrane,

systems and optimization technologies aimed at providing water

treatment, water reuse and efficient process system solutions.

The team has developed numerous products in areas such as oil-

water separation, green chemistries for wastewater coagulation

treatment, and systems for treating acid mine drainage and water

from oil fields. Prior to joining GE, Bhattacharyya worked at Tata

Consultancy Services in the areas of advanced process control and

systems monitoring. He received a master’s degree in chemical

engineering from Indian Institute of Technology-Kharagpur

and a PhD in mechanical engineering from the University of

Massachusetts-Amherst.

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Peter hanik

Hanik is president of platform

research at Reliance Industries

responsible for leading the

company’s technology efforts in

refining and petrochemicals. He

has more than 45 years of executive

management and technology

experience, and is a registered professional engineer. Prior to joining

Reliance, Hanik was president of Pretium Innovation, LLC; president

and CEO of Millennium Petrochemicals; director of applied research

and technical service at Quantum Chemical; and senior systems

engineer at Northern Petrochemical. He is a former board member and

petrochemical committee chairman of the National Petrochemical and

Refiners Association, and a former member of the American Institute

of Chemical Engineers industrial advisory board. Hanik received a BS

in chemical engineering from the Illinois Institute of Technology and

an MBA from the University of Chicago.

BruCe Clemens

Clemens is the Walter B. Reinhold

Professor in the School of

Engineering at Stanford University

and a professor of photon science

at Stanford’s SLAC National

Accelerator. His research interests

include the synthesis, structure

and properties of thin film and nanostructured materials. In 2012, he

taught a Stanford online course on renewable technologies. Prior to

joining the Stanford faculty in 1989, Clemens was a scientist at the

General Motors and Hughes Research laboratories, and a visiting

professor at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). He holds

two patents and serves as advisor and consultant for a variety of

companies. Clemens received an ASM Silver Medal for Research and a

Distinguished Achievement Medal from the Colorado School of Mines

(CSM). He received a BS in engineering-physics from CSM, and an MS

and PhD in applied physics from Caltech.

anil GuPta

Gupta is a professor at the

Centre for Management in

Agriculture at the Indian Institute

of Management-Ahmedabad

and executive vice chair of the

National Innovation Foundation,

which is dedicated to making India

a global leader in sustainable technologies. To ensure recognition,

respect and reward for grassroots innovators, Gupta founded the

Honey Bee Network, the Society for Research and Initiatives for

Sustainable Technologies and Institutions (SRISTI), and the Grassroots

Innovation Augmentation Network (GIAN). A member of several

government and corporate bodies, he is a fellow of the World

Academy of Art and Science and recipient of the Padma Shri National

Award for distinguished achievements in the field of management

education, and the Science-in p-Society Award from the Indian Science

Congress Association. Gupta received a BSc in agriculture from

Haryana Agricultural University and a PhD in management from

Kurukshetra University.

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WorkshopB.C. jain

Jain is the chairman of Ankur

Scientific Energy Technologies

Pvt. Ltd., which focuses on

renewable biomass gasification

technologies. He serves on

several committees and national

panels dealing with energy

and development. He is also chairman of Mahavir International/

Mahavir Foundation Trust, which provides financial and other

support to economically disadvantaged students. Jain has more than

35 years of experience developing products and systems based on

renewable sources of energy, as well energy conservation, planning

and management. He was instrumental in developing an automotive

engine capable of accepting a wide range of liquid fuels, including

alcohols and petroleum products. In 1977, Jain joined the solar

company Jyoti Limited and was general manager of Jyoti’s energy

division from 1981-86. He received a BE from the Birla Institute of

Technology and Science (BITS)-Pilani; three mechanical engineering

degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT): MS,

ME and DSc; and an MS from MIT’s Sloan School of Management.Vinay jammu Jammu is the technology leader

for Aero Thermal and Mechanical

Systems-Asia at GE Global

Research in Bangalore. He and

his team focus on developing

next-generation technologies

in aerodynamics, combustion,

novel cycles, heat transfer and dynamics with applications to

GE products, such as wind turbines, gas and steam turbines, and

diesel and gas engines. In 1997, he joined GE Global Research in

New York as a diagnostics engineer focused on developing novel

failure- and life-prediction technologies for power generation and

transportation equipment. In 2002, he relocated to India to lead a

team of 20 researchers in the area of condition-based maintenance

and prognostics. Jammu is a certified master black belt and holds 34

patents applications. He received two New Technology Innovator

Awards from NASA Glenn Research Center and numerous GE

awards, including the Best New Product and the Product Innovation

awards. Jammu received two degrees in mechanical engineering:

BE from Osmania University and PhD from the University of

Massachusetts-Amherst.

emilie hunG

Hung is an energy assessment

analyst with Stanford University’s

Global Climate and Energy Project

(GCEP). Prior to joining GCEP,

she was an energy engineer with

Emcor Energy Services in San

Francisco, evaluating energy

systems and providing services for demand-side energy management.

She also worked at LCG Consulting as an energy analyst, testing

propriety software for the electric grid and supporting LCG’s energy

consulting services. She has worked with a broad range of institutions,

including utilities, hospitals and municipalities. Hung is a registered

professional engineer in the state of California and has served on

the board of directors for GRID Alternatives. She received a masters

degree in civil and environmental engineering from MIT, and a BS in

biological and environmental engineering from Cornell University.

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nikhil jaisinGhani

Jaisinghani is an entrepreneur who

co-founded Value Development

Initiatives (VDI), a Nigeria-focused

energy infrastructure company,

and Mera Gao Power, an Indian

company that builds and operates

micro-grids in North India. He

is primarily responsible for technology and financing at Mera Gao

Power. Prior to founding VDI, Jaisinghani was a project development

officer at the U.S. Agency for International Development, a data

analyst at the World Bank Institute and a teacher at the Kodaikanal

International School in India. He received a BA in physics from the

University of Virginia and an MA in international relations from the

Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies.

sydney loBo

Lobo is head of clean technology

projects at Tata Power Company

Limited. He and his team evaluate

technologies in energy generation

in the renewable spectrum,

distributed generation systems and

other clean technologies that could

be developed for the Indian power scenario. Lobo previously worked

at Tata Consultancy Services-Pune on projects in environmental

engineering and sciences, and at Kirloskar Consultants Limited.

He was also general manager-corporate environment at Reliance

Industries Limited, serving as an in-house expert on environmental

issues and providing technical assistance at various manufacturing

locations. Lobo joined Tata Power in December 2008 as head of

sustainability. In this role, he spearheaded various aspects of corporate

sustainability in terms of cultural lifestyle changes and addressing the

challenge of climate change. Lobo received a BE in civil engineering

from Mumbai University and an MS in environmental health

engineering in from the University of Kansas.

Pankaj mehta

Mehta is vice president for

research and technology

at Reliance Industries. He

has 30 years of experience

in the specialty polymers,

petrochemicals, industrial

biotechnology and mobile

(cellular) industries, with business and technical roles in research,

business development, marketing, mergers & acquisitions and

projects. He has negotiated joint venture/technology licenses for

a global petrochemical project and was instrumental in setting

the direction for Reliance Life Sciences’ industrial biotechnology

endeavours. He has also guided the rollout of a mobile network

for towns and villages throughout India. Prior to joining Reliance,

Mehta worked at DuPont USA for about 15 years. He received a

bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering from the Institute of

Chemical Technology-Mumbai (formerly UDCT) and a masters

degree in chemical engineering from the University of Delaware.

jennifer milne

Milne is an energy assessment

analyst with the Global Climate

and Energy Project (GCEP) at

Stanford University. She is part

of a team that oversees technical

aspects of the proposal-review

process and helps guide GCEP’s

portfolio development through workshops and research. In this

role, Milne contributes assessment reports and book chapters to

the energy research community. She is also a member of the energy

education advisory board of the National Geographic Society. Prior to

joining GCEP in 2007, Milne was a postdoctoral scholar in Stanford’s

Department of Biology and at the Carnegie Institution’s Department

of Plant Biology. Her research focused on the biosynthesis of plant

cell walls with the goal of enhancing biomass for biofuels production.

Milne received a BS in biochemistry from the University of Stirling

and a PhD in biology from the University of York.

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Workshopkirit s. Parikh

Parikh is chairman of the Expert

Group for Low Carbon Strategy

for Inclusive Growth at the

Planning Commission of India

and a former member of the

commission. He is also chairman

of Integrated Research and Action

for Development in New Delhi. Parikh has authored and edited 27

books on development planning and policy. He was a member of the

Economic Advisory Council of five prime ministers of India and is

widely recognized as the architect of India’s Integrated Energy Policy

Committee. From 1960-80, he was a professor of economics (and

sometimes head) of the Indian Statistical Institute. From 1980-86, he

was the food and agricultural program leader at the International

Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA). From 1986-2000, he

was founding director of the Indira Gandhi Institute of Development

Research in Mumbai. Parikh is a fellow of the National Academy of

Sciences, India, and an honorary life member of the International

Association of Agricultural Economists. In 2009, he was honored with

Padma Bhushan by the president of India. In 2007, he was named the

most distinguished and illustrious alumni of the decade from India

by MIT, and received the Distinguished Alumnus Award from the

Indian Institute of Technology. Parikh received a master’s degree in

economics and a DSc in civil engineering from MIT.

franklin ‘lynn’ orr

Orr is the Keleen and Carlton Beal

Chair of Petroleum Engineering

at Stanford University. He has

been a member of the Stanford

faculty since 1985. In 2009, Orr

was named the founding director

of Stanford’s Precourt Institute for

Energy. He was the founding director of Stanford’s Global Climate and

Energy Project from 2002 to 2008, and the Chester Naramore Dean

of Stanford’s School of Earth Sciences from 1994 to 2002. He is also

a senior fellow at the Precourt Institute and at the Stanford Woods

Institute for the Environment. Orr’s research focuses on how complex

fluid mixtures flow in porous rocks in the Earth’s crust; the design of

gas injection processes for enhanced oil recovery; and CO2 storage in

subsurface formations. Orr is a member of the National Academy of

Engineering and serves as vice chair of the board of directors of the

Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute. He also chairs the science

advisory committee at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation,

and was a foundation board member from 1999-2008. Orr received

two degrees in chemical engineering: BSc at Stanford and PhD at the

University of Minnesota.

deePesh nanda

Nanda leads GE’s Thermal Power

Generation & Services and

Distributed Power efforts in India,

Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. He is

responsible for GE’s interests in

Bangladesh and at the National

Thermal Power Corporation,

India’s largest power-generating company. Nanda specializes in

managing key markets and accounts for clients in various industries,

including power, oil and gas, chemicals and metals. His work focuses

on sales of gas turbines, steam turbines and gas engines, as well as

aeroderivative-based power-generating solutions. Nanda has 18

years of experience in the energy industry with companies such as

Flowserve and Tyco, where he held positions in general management,

sales and operations across India, including vice president of Tyco’s

flow control business. He received a bachelor’s degree in mechanical

and production engineering from Annamalai University (India), and

an MBA from the Open University Business School (UK).

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VeeraBhadran ramanathan Ramanathan is a distinguished

professor of atmospheric and

climate sciences at the Scripps

Institution of Oceanography,

University of California-San

Diego. He also chairs Project

Surya, which attempts to eliminate

climate-warming pollutants from traditional biomass cookstoves.

Ramanathan was part of an international team that discovered

atmospheric brown clouds (ABCs). He demonstrated that ABCs

produce large-scale dimming, decrease monsoon rainfall and rice

harvest in India, and play a dominant role in the melting of the

Himalayan glaciers. His team also developed unmanned aerial vehicles

to measure black carbon in soot over South Asia and to track pollution

from Beijing during the 2008 Olympics. His awards include the Tyler

Prize, the Volvo Prize and the Rossby Medal. Ramanathan received

a BE from Annamalai University, MSc from the Indian Institute of

Science and a PhD in planetary atmospheres from the State University

of New York–Stony Brook.

anil rajVanshi

Rajvanshi is director of the

Nimbkar Agricultural Research

Institute (NARI) in Phaltan,

Maharashtra, where he has

devoted 30 years to applying

science and technology to solve

problems faced by rural people

in the areas of energy, water, pollution and income generation. He

has served on several national and state government committees in

India, and is the principal author of the national policy on energy

self-sufficient Talukas (administrative blocks of 90-100 contiguous

villages). Rajvanshi holds seven patents and is recipient of several

awards, including the Jamnalal Bajaj Award for the use of science

and technology in rural development, and the Energy Globe Award

for developing the electric cycle rickshaw. He is also involved in

studies of human consciousness and the interaction of spirituality

and technology. Rajvanshi received three degrees in mechanical

engineering: BTech and MTech from the Indian Institute of

Technology-Kanpur, and a PhD from the University of Florida where

he taught for two years.

ajit saPre

Sapre is group president of

research and technology at

Reliance Industries. He has more

than 30 years of experience

in the petroleum refining

and petrochemicals business,

technology development and R&D

management, including technical and managerial assignments in

research, engineering, business, manufacturing units and corporate

planning. Sapre has strong management and technical background in

refining, chemical reaction engineering, optimization technologies,

computer-integrated manufacturing, intellectual asset management,

and petrochemicals process and catalyst development. He has

experience in upstream, downstream (refining, petrochemicals,

polyester, lubes) and renewable energy sectors. In addition to

publishing more than 100 technical papers, Sapre co-edited the book,

Chemical Reactions in Complex Mixtures: The Mobil Workshop.

He also holds more than 25 U.S. patents. Sapre received a bachelor’s

degree in chemical engineering from the Institute of Chemical

Technology-Mumbai, an MBA from Cornell University and a PhD

in chemistry from the University of Delaware.

swarooP saranGan

Sarangan is vice president of

the frontier research group of

Reliance Industries’s research and

technology wing. He has more than

30 years of experience in renewable

energy, pharmaceuticals, edible

oil, hydro-metallurgy and the

petrochemicals industry. He has extensive background in vegetable

oil refining, hydrometallurgical extraction of metals, chemical

reaction engineering, strategic energy planning and intellectual

asset management. Prior to joining Reliance Industries in 2007, he

was general manager of Rubamin Pharmaceuticals from 2001-2005.

Sarangan received an BE in mechanical engineering from Birla

Institute of Technology and Science (BITS)-Pilani, and an MS in

simultaneous heat and mass transfer from the Indian Institute of

Technology (IIT)-Madras.

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riChard sassoon

Sassoon was appointed managing

director of Stanford University’s

Global Climate and Energy Project

(GCEP) in 2003 and is a member of

the American Chemical Society.

Prior to joining GCEP, he was

senior scientist and assistant vice

president at Science Applications International Corporation, where

he led systems integration efforts for nanotechnology applications.

For many years, he was a contractor to the U.S. Department of

Energy supporting the strategic planning and management of DOE’s

environmental programs, and its hydrogen and renewable energy

activities. Sassoon spent more than a decade conducting research

into photochemical solar energy conversion and storage systems,

performing computer modeling of the catalytic processes involved

in hydrogen production, and investigating technologies for the

cleanup of nuclear waste. Sasson received a BSc in chemistry from

Leeds University and a PhD in physical chemistry from the Hebrew

University of Jerusalem. He conducted postdoctoral activities at the

University of Notre Dame.

mark thurBer

Thurber is the associate

director for research at Stanford

University’s Program on Energy

and Sustainable Development

(PESD). His research has focused on

the role of state-owned enterprises

in key global energy markets. He

is an editor of the book, Oil and Governance: State-owned Enterprises

and the World Energy Supply. Thurber also directs research on how

energy services can be delivered more effectively to low-income

populations, improving health, development and environmental

outcomes. He recently has studied how design, demographic and

distribution factors affect the adoption and use of improved biomass

stoves in India. His current research looks at the spread of solar

photovoltaic technology for household use. Thurber received a BSE

in mechanical and aerospace engineering from Princeton University,

with a certificate from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and

International Affairs. He received a PhD from Stanford in mechanical

engineering (thermosciences).

loVe sarin

Sarin works with the group

president of research and

technology at Reliance Industries

to identify breakthrough areas

with growth potential for

the company. His focus is on

translating new technologies to the

commercialization path and creating value by promoting sustainable

solutions. Prior to joining Reliance, Sarin led an early stage technology

development effort - supported by the U.S. National Collegiate

Inventors and Innovators Alliance, the National Science Foundation

and the State of Rhode Island - aimed at reducing mercury emissions.

He received a BTech from the Indian Institute of Technology-

Bombay and a PhD from Brown University. Sarin was also a fellow

at the Startup Leadership Program at The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE)

in Boston.

GCeP/Reliance workshop Dinner

May 15, 2013, 7:30 p.m.Sheraton Four Points hotel

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Reliance industries limited (Ril) is india’s largest private sector company on all major financial

parameters with a turnover of inR 371,119 crore (uS$ 68.4 billion), cash profit of inR 30,505 crore

(uS$ 5.6 billion) and net profit of inR 21,003 crore (uS$ 3.9 billion) as of March 31, 2013. Ril is the

first private sector company from india to feature in Fortune’s Global 500 list of ‘world’s largest

Corporations’ and ‘world’s Top 100 companies’, ranking 99th in terms of revenues and 130th in

terms of profits in 2012. Ril ranks 68th in the Financial Times’ FT Global 500 list of the world’s

largest companies. Ril is ranked amongst the ‘50 Most innovative Companies - 2010’ in the world

in a survey conducted by the uS financial publication Business week in collaboration with the

Boston Consulting Group (BCG). in 2010, BCG also ranked Ril as the second highest ‘Sustainable

Value Creators’ for creating the most shareholder value over the decade in the world.

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222, nariman Point, Mumbai 400 021. india

The Global Climate and energy Project is a groundbreaking university-industry partnership that

supports fundamental research on sustainable, efficient technologies that significantly reduce

greenhouse gas emissions and are cost effective when deployed at scale. GCeP was established

in 2002 with the support of corporate sponsors exxonMobil, Ge, Schlumberger and Toyota. DuPont

became a sponsoring partner in 2011.

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