Prof. Dr. Nasir El Bassam is a Director of the International Research Centre for Renewable Energy (IFEED), Sievershausen, Germany. He has BSc, MSc, and a PhD in Chemistry, from the University of Bonn, Germany 1967. The centre has established 2 Branches: 1. Indian IFEED: Manav Institute of Technology, Hisar. India 2. USA-IFEED: Columbus, Ohio USA Responsibilites: Overall coordination of the IFEED activities in the field of research, education, training, transfers of technologies and co-operation with national and international organizations. Integration and application of renewable energy resources available in various regions for electricity, water and food supply. Development of renewable energy management strategies. Implementing of Solar Desert Oases. Integration and application of all renewable energy resources available in various regions for electricity, water and food supply and development of renewable energy management strategies. Promoting the development of Concentrated Solar Thermal Power (CSP) in cooperation with German Aerospace Centre (DLR), and German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature and Nuclear Safety, Berlin: He served in several committees and has been board member WCTE. He is EU adviser & Chairman of working group SREN, FAO. Prof El Bassam, is a recipient of WREN Pioneer award and a award in science and technology for a Sustainable Rural Development of Energy and Water Supply from Chinese Science Academy. He published and contributed papers in several books and journals. His presentation is on: Fast growing crops for biomass and biogas production

Development of renewable energy management strategies. Implementing of Solar Desert Oases. Integration and application of all renewable energy resources available in various regions for electricity, water and food supply and development of renewable energy management strategies.

David Koranyi is the director of the Energy Diplomacy Initiative at the Atlantic Council. He has been a nonresident fellow at the Johns Hopkins University SAIS Centre for Transatlantic Relations since 2010. Mr. Koranyi speaks and publishes on the geopolitics of energy, and Hungarian, European, and US foreign and energy policy. Mr. Koranyi served as undersecretary of state and chief foreign policy and national security advisor to the Prime Minister of the Republic of Hungary, Gordon Bajnai (2009-2010). He worked in the European Parliament as chief foreign policy adviser and head of cabinet of a Hungarian MEP (2004-2009). Previously he was a political adviser at the Hungarian National Assembly and a junior researcher at GKI Economic Research Institute, in Budapest, Hungary. Mr. Koranyi is a member of the European Council on Foreign Relations, the Pacific Council, the Hungarian Europe Society, and a Concordia Advisor. He was a recipient of the French Foreign Ministry's Personalities of the Future Fellowship (2012) and of the German Marshall Fund's Marshall Memorial Fellowship (2010), an Aspen Institute Socrates Fellow (2011), and a member of the Hungarian NATO Strategic Concept Special Advisory Group (2009). Mr. Koranyi obtained his master's degree in international relations and economics, with a major in foreign affairs from Budapest Corvinus University.

Energy & Environment, European Energy Security, Transatlantic and Eurasian Energy Security, US Energy Policy

Prof. Dr. Ramchandra Bhandari has been working as a professor for Renewable Energy Systems at ITT, TH Köln (University of Applied Sciences) in Cologne, Germany since March 2013. Since May 2014, he is serving as a vice director for Cologne Institute for Renewable Energy at the TH Köln. Dr. Bhandari, born in 1979 in Nepal, obtained his Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from Tribhuvan University, Nepal in 2002 and he further received his Master’s degree in Renewable Energy Management from ITT, Germany. Dr. Bhandari wrote his dissertation at the University of Kassel in the field of renewable energy in 2010. Since then he worked at the Centre for Renewable Energy of the University of Freiburg and Institute for Energy and Climate Research of the Research Centre Jülich before he came to TH Köln in 2013. He already holds a decade long experiences in renewable energy sector and has published articles in peer-reviewed journals. He is also a reviewer in a few renowned journals such as Applied Energy, Progress in Photovoltaics, etc. He led the development of MOOC module in the field of energy and agriculture in cooperation with GIZ and USAID under the umbrella project Powering Agriculture (May 2015-Sept. 2016). Prof. Bhandari currently leads different research projects (e.g. Higher Education Cooperation Project with Pan African University– PAUWES, Water and Energy Security for Africa - WESA-ITT, Partnerships for Sustainable Solutions in Sub Sahara Africa - RARSUS from ITT, TH Köln side.

His research interests are sustainable renewable energy transition (technology, economics, policy), rural electrification and environmental life cycle assessment.

Dr. Hong Wang joined PNNL in February 2016 as a Laboratory Fellow. He is based in the Controls team within the Electricity Infrastructure and Buildings Division of the Energy and Environment Directorate. Prior to joining PNNL, he was a full (chair) professor in process control at the University of Manchester in the U.K. Dr. Wang 's research interests are in advanced modelling and control for complex industrial processes, and fault diagnosis and tolerant control. He originated the research on stochastic distribution control where the main purpose of control input design is to make the shape of the output probability density functions to follow a targeted function. This area alone has found a wide spectrum of potential applications in modelling, data-mining, signal processing, optimization and distributed control systems design. Dr. Wang is the lead author of five books and has published over 300 papers in international journals and conferences. He is a member of three International Federation of Automatic Control Technical Committees and associate editor for IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, and seven other international journals. He has been the associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, and has served as IPC member and conference chairman for many international conferences. Dr. Wang has also received several best paper awards from International Conferences including the best paper awards at Int. Conf. Control 2006, the Jasbar Memorial Prize for his outstanding contribution in the Science and Technology Development for paper industries in 2006, best theory paper award at World Congress on Intelligent Control and Automation in 2014 and one of the five finalists for the best application paper prize at 2014 IFAC World Congress. Dr. Wang holds a Ph.D. degree from Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST) in P R China.

Dr. Wang 's research interests are in advanced modelling and control for complex industrial processes, and fault diagnosis and tolerant control. He originated the research on stochastic distribution control where the main purpose of control input design is to make the shape of the output probability density functions to follow a targeted function. This area alone has found a wide spectrum of potential applications in modelling, data-mining, signal processing, optimization and distributed control systems design.

Wenping Cao (M’05-SM’11) received the B.Eng in electrical engineering from Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing, China, in 1991, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical machines and drives from the University of Nottingham, Nottingham, U.K., in 2004. He is currently a Chair Professor of Electrical Power Engineering with Aston University, Birmingham, U.K., and also a Marie Curie Fellow with Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, U.S.A. His research interests include fault analysis and condition monitoring of electric machines and power electronics. Prof. Cao was the recipient of the Best Paper Award at the 2013 International Symposium on Linear Drives for Industry Applications (LDIA), the Innovator of the Year Award from Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, U.K., in 2013, and the Dragon’s Den Competition Award from Queen’s University Belfast in 2014. He serves as an Associate Editor for IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INDUSTRY APPLICATIONS, IEEE Industry Applications Magazine and IET Power Electronics; he is also the Chief Editor for three Special Issues and one book, an Editor for Electric Power Components and Systems Journal as well as nine other International Journals. Prof. Cao is a Member of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) and a Fellow of Higher Education Academy (HEA).

His research interests include fault analysis and condition monitoring of electric machines and power electronics.

Bing Wang received a doctor degree in engineering from Tsinghua University and completed a visiting research from Technological University of Munich as a Humboldt Fellow. He is the vice deputy director of School of Aerospace Engineering Tsinghua University. He has published more than 40 papers in reputed journals and has been serving as an editorial board member of Journal of Engineering. His research interests are included fundamentals of turbulent combustion and multiphase flows, combustion instabilities and new conception propulsion, combined cycle power (RDBCC, RBCC, TBCC), Scramjet, green-propellant LRE and engine cooling and dry gas sealing technologies.

Fundamentals of turbulent combustion and multiphase flows, combustion instabilities and new conception propulsion, combined cycle power (RDBCC, RBCC, TBCC), Scramjet, green-propellant LRE and engine cooling and dry gas sealing technologies

Professor Harry Hoster received a degree in physics from Bonn University in 1996, he was awarded a fellowship by the German "Fonds der Chemischen Industrie" for full-time doctoral study on anode materials for methanol fuel cells. Having acquired his postdoctoral teaching qualification (venia legendi/habilitation) in physical chemistry in 2010, he assumed the position of Associate Professor at the Institute of Technical Electrochemistry at TUM (Munich). In 2011 he became Scientific Director of TUM CREATE in Singapore. TUM CREATE is a collaborative and interdisciplinary research programme on electric vehicle technology. Within TUM CREATE, he also became Principal Investigator of the research project "Electrochemistry and New Materials". In 2013, he was awarded a position as Visiting Professor at the Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. In 2015, he became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry.

Harry Hoster explores the physical and chemical properties of surfaces and solids. His goal is rational design: improving electrode materials for fuel cells and batteries. His special interest: boiling it all down to single atoms and molecules, i.e., understanding the microscopic fundamentals behind the macroscopic performance of electrochemical cells.

Professor Z.Y. (Joe) Dong is Head of School of Electrical and Information Engineering, the University of Sydney, and a contractor with Ausgrid and EPRI, USA. He is now a member of the ARC College of Experts. Prior to joining the University of Sydney in 2013, he was Ausgrid Chair and Director of Ausgrid Centre of Excellence for Intelligent Electricity Networks (CIEN) at the University of Newcastle, Australia. He has also worked for Hong Kong Polytechnic University and as system planning manager with Transend Networks, Australia. Professor Dong's research interest includes power system planning and stability, smart grid, load modeling, renewable energy, electricity market, and computational methods. He is an editor of IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON SMART GRID, IEEE PES LETTERS, IET RENEWABLE POWER GENERATION, and Journal of Modern Power Systems and Clean Energy. He is an international Advisor for the lead Chinese journal of Automation of Electric Power Systems. He also serves as guest editor for International Journal of Systems Science.

power system planning and stability, smart grid, load modeling, renewable energy, electricity market, and computational methods

Prof. L. Q. Wang received his PhD from University of Alberta (Canada) in 1995 and is a full professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, the University of Hong Kong. He is also the Qianren Scholar (Zhejiang) and serves as the director and the chief scientist for the Laboratory for Nanofluids and Thermal Engineering, Zhejiang Institute of Research and Innovation (HKU-ZIRI), the University of Hong Kong. He has many years of university experience in thermal & power engineering, energy & environment, transport phenomena, materials, nanotechnology, biotechnology, and applied mathematics in Canada, China/Hong Kong, Singapore and the USA. Prof. Wang has secured over 70 projects funded by diverse funding agencies and industries including the Research Grants Council of Hong Kong, the National Science Foundation of China and the Ministry of Science and Technology of China, and has published 10 books/monographs and over 340 book chapters and technical articles, many of which have been widely used by researchers all over the world. He is on the list of the top 1% most cited scholars. He has also filed 22 patent applications and led a team in developing a state-of-the-art thermal control system for the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS) on the International Space Station. The AMS project is headed by Professor Samuel C. C. Ting (Nobel laureate in Physics, MIT, USA) and is to search for antimatter, dark matter and spectra of cosmic rays. Prof. Wang was visiting professor of Harvard University (2008) and Duke University (2003). He has presented over 35 invited plenary/keynote lectures at international conferences, and serves/served as the editor-in-chief for the Advances in Transport Phenomena, the editor for the Scientific Reports, the associate editor for the Current Nanoscience, the guest editor for the Journal of Heat Transfer, the Nanoscale Research Letters and the Advances in Mechanical Engineering, and serves on the editorial boards of 19 international journals

Thermal & Power engineering, energy & environment, Transport phenomena, Materials, Nanotechnology, Biotechnology and Applied Mathematics

Igor Kuzle born in 1967. Elementary and high school in Pozega. He graduated in 1991, master's degree in 1997 and his doctorate in 2002 at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing in Zagreb. For the success of the fourth year of undergraduate studies received a university writing "Josip Loncar". He has participated in a number of university authorities. After graduating, he was employed in 1992 at the Department of Power, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing in Zagreb. At present, the scientific and teaching title of associate professor, and scientific advisor was elected in 2012. The register of scientists entered under the registration number 206,894th Igor Kuzle is engaged in research in the field of regulation, dynamics, modeling and maintenance elements of the power system and problems related to the implementation and organization of the electricity market. From subject areas published a university textbook (electricity market, Graphis, Zagreb, 2009), more internal university scripts and two high school textbooks. He has published several articles in prestigious international journals, and has published a total of more than 200 works including works made for businesses. A member of the editorial board of 12 international scientific journals of which is an Associate Editor (Eng. Associate editor) in 3 magazines. He participated in the organization and operation of a large number of international conferences and workshops where he held several invited lectures and presentations of conference papers. He was Chairman of the Conference or the IEEE EUROCON 2013 Zagreb, 01-04.7.2013. and IEEE 2014 Energycon Cavtat, 13-16.05.2014., and was or is president of the local organizing committee of the conference: European Energy Market 2011, Zagreb, 25.-27.05.2011. and PAC World 2014, Zagreb, 24-26.06.2014.

Igor Kuzle is engaged in research in the field of regulation, dynamics, modeling and maintenance elements of the power system and problems related to the implementation and organization of the electricity market.

M. M. Eissa was born in Helwan, Cairo, Egypt, on May 17, 1963. He received the B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in electrical engineering from Helwan University, Cairo, in 1986 and 1992, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree from the Research Institute for Measurements and Computing Techniques. Hungarian Academy of Science Budapest, Hungary, in 1997 (PhD Study is cooperated with Duisburg University-Institute of Electrical Engineering-GERMANY). Currently, he is a Professor with Helwan University. In 1999, he was invited to be a Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada. He was a chair Prof. at King Abdul-Aziz University-KSA for sponsored project "Demand Side Management and Energy Efficiency" from Saudi Electricity Company during period 2008-2010. From 2012, he is the PI for a large scale project "SMART GRID FREQUENCY MONITORING NETWORK (FNET) ARCHITECTURE AND APPLICATIONS-220kV/500kV" NTRA-Egypt (www.helwan-ntra.com)-2012, END-USER Egyptian Electricity Company.

His research interests include topics related to Digital Protection, Smart Grids, Wireless application on power system, Wide area Protection, Demand Side Management, Energy Efficiency, Control Schemes for Renewable Energy Resources using Harmony Search Algorithms, Power Quality and Automation system, Smart Grid based on GIS.