Keynote Speakers

Yi Jiang

1977 graduated from the building engineering department, TsinghuaUniv., Beijing. After two years work at a Chinese nuclear base, heentered Tsinghua Univ. as a master and then PhD degree student in the department of thermal energy. He obtained PhD degree in thermal physics in 1985. From 1985 he is a faculty member of Tsinghua University. He had worked at Building Research Establishment of the UK for one year from 1988 as an attached research worker. He has involved a number of international collaboration projects such as IEA ECBCS (Energy conservation in Building and Community System) Annex 21, Annex 25, and Annex 34 etc. He is currently the vote member of the ECBCS exec. Committee, co-chair of the Annex 53，operation agency of the Annex 59.

He is a professor of Tsinghua Universityand the head of the Building energy research centre, academician of ChineseAcademyof Engineer. He is the member of the China energy consultant committee under the State council, the member of the China climate change consultant committee. His major research field is building energy efficiency. He is the chief editor of Chinese building energy efficiency annual report. He has obtained four national science awards for control of district heating system, liquid desiccant air-process, in-directive evaporation cooling and building energy simulation (DeST) respectively.

Mr. Evgenij Gasho

Graduated from Moscow power engineering institute, Russia and obtained PhD of Industrial thermal energetiks. He is associate professor of MEI (Modern Instruments of Environmental Safety in the Russian Federation) and expert of the Russian Government Analytical Centre. Published Over 260 publications in Russian and English, including textbooks, international research reports, Russian Standards (GOST R) in Energy Efficiency field etc.

Key qualifications:

● Development and implementation of national and international projects in energy efficiency monitoring, regional energy saving programmes, promotion of Best Available Techniques (BAT) in industry and energy generation.

● Technical, financial and environmental due diligence for energy supply infrastructure and energy efficiency investments.

● Economic life cycle models for power and heat supply infrastructure projects.

● Broad experience in working with the Ministry for Energetics, Natural Resources, Rosprirodnadzor and Rostechnadzor (especially at the regional level), regional governments (Moscow and Moscow region, Lipetsk, Voronezh, Belgorod, Bashkortostan, Murmansk, Arhangeljsk, Vorkuta, Kareliya).

● Broad experience in collaborating with industrial companies and associations (Metallurgical plant, Mosenergo, TGKs) and NGOs.