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Managing Director

Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

We started in California and have expanded operations into China, India, Southeast Asia, and East Africa. Since 2004, New Energy Nexus (formerly known as California Clean Energy Fund) has leveraged billions in investment, invested in 100s of clean energy enterprises, and launched industry leading centers for solution collaboration.

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Tug of War: The Impact of Climate Change on Economic Development

Unsustainable

This group of stunning islands was at the forefront of the Tsunami destruction in 2004. A small kingdom in Asia seems to be offering an alternative At a time when citizens are desperately asking their governments to take action, there is one country that is already carbon negative; it is the land of the Thunder Dragon, Bhutan.

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Can a tiger change its stripes? Meet the pulp and paper giant bankrolling a huge Sumatran rainforest reserve

Business Green

APRIL Group - or Asia Pacific Resources International Holdings Ltd, to give it its full name - is a massive manufacturer of wood pulp and fiber, the basis of myriad everyday products from office printing paper and packaging to tea bags and viscose fabrics. It is in many ways a remarkable economic success story.

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Chris Cook?s tour of the oil markets: from Nixon to Trump

Low Impact

I wrote about this in the Asia Times at the time. Subsequently, in 2004, we made a presentation to the central bank in Iran, and we got the contract to do a feasibility study. Do you think the reason they haven’t invaded Iran is because of their closeness to China? I don’t think so. They would have sold the dollar colossally.