International Advisory Panel

Paul Dougas

Mr Paul Dougas is Chair of the Board of the Global CCS Institute and a member of the IAP. Mr Dougas has more than 40 years’ experience in sustainability, financial, social and environmental consulting, and strategy development in the Australian, European, South American and Asian engineering and environmental sectors. 

He is Chairman-elect of Norman Disney and Young and non-executive Director of Mount Gibson Iron, Beacon Foundation, and Epworth Healthcare. He is also Principal of Consulting Advisory Services and a Professorial Fellow in Leadership and Management within the Engineering School of The University of Melbourne. Mr Dougas was previously CEO and Managing Director of Sinclair Knight Merz, where he served in senior roles for more than 30 years. 

Mr Dougas’ education includes a Masters in Engineering Science from The University of NSW and he studied business at Harvard University. He is an Honorary Fellow of Engineers Australia, Fellow of the Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, and Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.

Claude Mandil

Mr Claude Mandil is the former Executive Director of the International Energy Agency. Born in Lyon, France in 1942, Mr Mandil is a graduate of France’s Ecole Polytechnique and Ecole des Mines.

From 1967 until 1974, he worked as a state engineer for the Lorraine and Brittany regions. He then served as a senior officer in the Delegation for Area Planning (DATAR) from 1974 until 1977 and from 1978 until 1981, as Indepartmental and Regional Director of the National Agency for the Encouragement of Research (ANVAR) for the Pays-de-la-Loire region, in Nantes. 

In 1981, Mr Mandil became Technical Advisor in the French Prime Minister’s cabinet, where he was responsible for industry, energy and research until 1982. He was then named Chief Executive Officer of the Institute for Industrial Development (IDI), an investment bank and held the post from 1984 to 1988. He oversaw the privatisation of the bank in 1987, including the transfer of 40 percent of the capital to the bank’s employees. He subsequently became Director General of the Bureau of Mines and Geology (BGRM) and held the post from 1988 to 1990.

From 1990 to 1998 Mr Mandil served as Director General for Energy and Raw Materials at the Ministry of Industry, Post and Telecommunications. In this post, he was instrumental in the adhesion of France to the IEA in 1991. He became France’s first representative on the IEA’s Governing Board, and served as Chairman thereof from 1997 to 1998.

From 1991 to 1998, he also represented France at the Nuclear Safety Working Group of the G7 and served as President of this group in 1996. He was named Managing Director of Gaz de France in October 1998, and then Chairman and CEO of the Institut Français du Pétrole in April 2000. 

Professor Dr Zeng Rongshu

Professor Dr Zeng studied at the Department of Geology, Nanjing University from 1962 to 1968, with additional study at the Department of Earth Sciences, Manchester University, United Kingdom where he completed his Ph.D. Degree from 1980-1984.

From 1987-1999 Professor Dr Zeng was the Deputy Director of Institute of Geology, Chinese Academy of Sciences and has 19 years experience in environmental geology and geochemistry. 

Has been involved in four projects supported by the Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST) China, the European Union and the Australian Government for CO₂-Enhanced Oil Recovery and Carbon Capture and Storage. They are: (1) "CO₂-EOR and geological storage underground in China" (Chinese National Basic Research Program, 2006-2011); (2) "Cooperation Action within CCS China – EU" (COACH, 2006-2009) (3) "European Capacity for Geological Storage of Carbon Dioxide" (EU GeoCapacity, 200-2008); and (4) "China Australia Geological Storage of Carbon Dioxide" (CAGS,2009-2011). 

He is responsible for the study of geological characterization of reservoirs, caprock and saline aquifers in Jilin oilfield, Songliao Basin, Huabei oilfield, Jizhong Depression and Shengli oilfield in Jiyang Depression in China to investigate potential storage capacity of CO₂ underground. 

Dr Leena Srivastava

Dr Leena Srivastava is the Vice Chancellor of the Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) University and the Hony. Executive Director (Operations) at TERI, New Delhi.

She serves on the Executive Committee of Sustainable Energy for All, Energy Advisory Board of the World Economic Forum; Scientific Advisory Panel of the Climate and Clean Air Coalition to reduce Short-Lived Climate Pollutants; International Advisory Board of the Helmholtz Programme Technology, Innovation and Society, the Holmholtz Alliance Future Infrastructures for Meeting Energy Demands – Towards Sustainability and Social Compatibility Initiative; and the Expert Committee on Auto Fuels, Government of India.

Dr Srivastava is a Non-Executive Director on the Boards of Torrent Pharmaceuticals Ltd., Bharti Infratel Ltd., Shree Cement Ltd. Board of Directors, Meridian Institute, USA and the World Environment Centre, USA. She is also a Member of the International Advisory Committee, The Coca Cola Company; Foresight Advisory Council of Suez Environment; Council of Advisors for Fraunhofer India; Sustainable Development Advisory Board, Caterpillar Inc. USA; Senior Advisory Group, Cement Sustainability Initiative, World Business Council for Sustainable Development; and the Governing Board of the Stockholm Resilience Centre.

She also serves on the research advisory boards of the Institute of Global Environmental Strategies, Japan; the Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Germany; and the Alfred Deakin Research Institute, Australia.

In 2008, she was awarded the Knight of the Order of Academic Palms. She has also received a Certificate of Recognition for her contribution to the work of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and in 2012 was the first recipient of Richard von Weizsacker Fellowship of the Robert Bosch Stiftung.

She was a member of the Expert Committee to formulate India’s Energy Policy, Planning Commission and National Security Advisory Board, sits on various international journal Editorial Boards and has a number of publications to her credit.

Lord Nicholas Stern

Lord Nicholas Stern is a renowned academic and former World Bank Chief Economist, as Special Adviser to the Chairman on Economic Development and Climate Change. Lord Stern has had a distinguished academic career at the universities of Oxford, Warwick and the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), where he is currently IG Patel Professor of Economics and Government. From 2003-2007, Lord Stern was Head of the Government Economic Service and Adviser to the UK Government on the Economics of Climate Change and Development, reporting to the Prime Minister and to the Chancellor.

During this time, he was appointed to conduct a review of the economics of climate change, which led to the publication of the influential and widely publicised Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change. From 2004-2005, he directed the writing of the Report of the Commission for Africa.