What’s Ahead for Solar Energy in Southeast Asia

The growth of solar electrical generation in the developed world — Europe, the U.S., Japan, and, to an extent, Australia — has been phenomenal. But in less-developed nations, and particularly Southeast Asia where electrical grids are not as mature and there is enormous unmet demand, solar growth potential is even greater. For many years, solar […]

The Economics Around Lithium-Ion Battery Recycling Are Strong and Growing

The market around the recycling of lithium-ion batteries is huge and growing, mostly thanks to electric vehicles. Surely, a lot of other lithium-ion batteries get recycled, including from phones and power tools, but the majority comes from EVs. In 2019, it was estimated that the recycling market was worth $1.5 billion. The projected amount of […]

Inside Australian Waste Management

Three trends mark the current state of the Australian waste management industry: growing interest in waste-to-energy, the need to counter commoditization, and new ways of coping with the challenge of food and garden organics. Waste Management: Waste-to-Energy Waste-to-energy is prevalent in Western Europe due to the European Community’s ban on organic waste going into landfills […]

Industrial Automation: Where the Growth Is

If it seems that robots are taking over industrial production, it’s because they are. Annual installations of industrial robots more than tripled from 2010 through 2019, with more than 380,000 robots now in use in factories around the world. Leading in the implementation of robots per 10,000 manufacturing workers are Singapore, South Korea, and Japan, […]

The Electric Vehicles Race: Tesla vs. Legacy Car Companies

Tesla has been on a hot streak. Reacting to the company’s latest earnings, CEO Elon Musk said, “We’ve seen a real shift in customer perception of electric vehicles, and our demand is the best we’ve ever seen.” But with this acceptance of EVs comes increased competition. Almost every major automaker has announced its entry into […]

The Bioplastics Industry: Where It Is and Where It’s Going

Even though it is likely to remain a niche, the bioplastics industry should see significant growth over the next five years. That’s due largely to two reasons. The first is environmental. Bioplastics typically have two environmental benefits: a very low carbon footprint compared with traditional plastics, and most are biodegradable or compostable. Biodegradable/compostable plastics are […]

Inside the Texas Power Crisis

The recent cold-weather snap that paralyzed Texas focused nationwide attention on Texas Interconnection, the state’s electrical grid. The network supplies electricity to more than 25 million Texas customers and represents 90% of the state’s electric load. It is operated by the Electric Reliability Council of Texas, or ERCOT. To understand what happened in Texas and […]

Rolls-Royce’s Aerospace Troubles Reveal a Weakening Business Model

Among the industries badly affected by the grounding of flights are the ones that manufacture the frames and engines of the airplanes themselves. Rolls-Royce, the more than 100-year-old firm with a market cap of $8 billion, has seen its civil aerospace business decline significantly in the past year. Recently, it announced its cash outflow in […]

Survey: How Is the Global Market Preparing for Hydrogen Deployment?

As the world transitions to cleaner energy, hydrogen is considered the next primary fuel of the twenty-first century. Hydrogen fuel cells produce energy, minimal heat, and water from natural gas reforming, electrolysis, solar-driven, and biological processes. It is a clean energy that can be transported, stored, and delivered for use in many applications. But how […]

There Are Few Bright Spots for Europe’s Construction Industry

The European construction industry before the pandemic was in its seventh year of recovery. That might sound like a strong, long-lasting recovery, but average growth from 2014-19 was only slightly above 2% per year, which is rather low in a period of economic upswing, especially after the severe financial crisis that ended in 2009. As […]

Waste Management in the Time of COVID-19

The waste management space isn’t easily interrupted, even by global phenomena such as the COVID-19 pandemic, according to Adrian Peace, former Senior Vice President of Emerging Business Operations for Republic Services. In the following Q&A, he discusses current challenges to the industry, as well as what to expect from it in the coming decade. Following […]

Speaker Biographies

Hilary Malone PhD, has over 25 years of experience in global drug development, regulatory &government affairs, manufacturing and commercialization within the biopharma industry. Hilary hassignificant board level and executive committee experience including large scale organizationalrestructuring/transformation/integration, major M&A, biotech start-up, capital raising, investorrelations and pre-IPO.​

Hilary is currently CEO of Stylus Medicine, a private genetic medicine biotech company. Previously sheserved as CEO of a Series-A neuroscience company. Prior to these roles, Hilary served as COO & EVP atValo Health Inc., Chief Regulatory Officer & SVP at Sanofi Inc., and Chief Regulatory Officer & SVP atPfizer and Wyeth. Previous experience also includes senior regulatory and drug development roles atReata Pharmaceuticals Inc., AstraZeneca plc and GlaxoSmithKline plc.​

Hilary also serves on the Board of Directors of Hansa Biopharma and Adthera Bio. Hilary holds a PhD inMolecular Neuropharmacology and a BSc in Physiology.

Dr. Thomas Lönngren is Director at his own company PharmaExec Consulting AB. He is the Chairman of the Board of directors at Egetis Therapeutics AB, Sweden. Dr Lönngren also serves as board member at Compass Pathways PLC, London UK and NDA Group, Sweden. He acts as advisor to the following companies and organizations: NDA group, Sweden, Sweden, Artis Venture, San Francisco, US, Fujimoto Japan, Skin2Neuron Pty Ltd, Sydney, Australia, US, Special advisor to the Centre for Innovation in Regulatory Science (CIRS), London UK. From 2001 until2011, Mr.Lönngren served as the Executive Director of the European Medical Agency. He was previously Deputy General Director of the Swedish Medical Product Agency until 2000. He has a degree in pharmacy and MSc in Social and Regulatory Pharmacy from Uppsala University. He is also an Honorary Member of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain, Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in Great Britain, Honorary Doctorate from the University of Uppsala, Honorary Doctorate from University of Bath, UK.

Speaker Biographies

Marie-Anne Aymerich

Marie-Anne has built a portfolio of senior advisory and non-executive roles, following a successful international career in the FMCG and Luxury sectors. She is a non-executive director of Haleon, a FTSE100 company listed in 2022 after the demerger from GSK. She is also chairwoman of Haleon Environment and Societal Sustainability committee. She is the executive director of the Pierre Fabre Group where she also sits on the Strategic Committee, and she is a Board Member of The Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields, one of the world’s most prestigious chamber orchestras. She is also an angel investor and focuses her time and investments on start-ups with the strongest purpose and impact.

Marie-Anne is also a regular lecturer at HEC Paris on purposeful leadership, and she has created a serious game called “Planet Purpose” to upskill people on sustainability and purpose. Throughout her 35year executive career she delivered a strong track-record of business performance and growth in brands and portfolio in both developed and emerging economies.

As a senior leader with Unilever, she led a number of different personal care categories across France, Spain and the USA – including managing the Dove brand worldwide and culminating in leading Unilever’s global Oral Care division. She also worked for LVMH as Brand General Manager of Dior Perfumes and Cosmetics worldwide. Marie-Anne was also Vice-President of Imagine for Margo – Children with Cancer for ten years, a charity she helped found in 2011 with the goal of eradicating children’s cancer. The charity is the #1 charity focused on child cancer in France and has fundraised more than €14m since its creation. Marie-Anne is a graduate from HEC Paris. She is married and has two children aged 29 and 26.

Patrick Jephson

Patrick Jephson is a consultant, journalist, broadcaster and New York Times bestselling author, based in Washington D.C. He is a published authority on corporate and personal branding and crisis communications, addressing conferences worldwide as well as events at the U.S. State Department, the American University and the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism.

With more than twenty-five years’ experience in the government, luxury and family office sectors, Patrick’s portfolio has included globally admired brands as well as national agencies and NGOs. He has also worked on reputation and legacy briefs with European, Middle Eastern and Asian families, including royalty. He now writes, presents, and advises on factual and drama TV programs, appearing on every major American and many international networks. He was recently an expert consultant to the award-winning Netflix series The Crown and provided live commentary on the Coronation of King Charles.

Patrick owes much of his practical communications and protocol experience to Princess Diana, who chose him to be her equerry and only private secretary/chief of staff. He served the Princess for eight years, responsible for all aspects of her public life, global humanitarian initiatives, and private organization. Having worked for an internationally high-profile woman (and as the father of two professionally successful daughters) he feels a special affinity for cross-cultural, gender and perception issues.

Patrick was born and raised in Ireland and holds a master’s degree in political science from Cambridge University. As an officer in the British Royal Navy, he served all over the world before being selected for royal duty. He is a citizen of the U.K., U.S.A., Ireland, and Canada.