For Immediate Release: July 30, 2009
DBEDT News Release 09-21

HONOLULU—The Asia Pacific Clean Energy Summit and Expo, scheduled for Aug. 31-Sept.3, 2009, at the Sheraton Waikiki Resort, Honolulu, Hawai‘i, is pleased to announce the latest in its growing list of featured international experts and policymakers on energy and climate change:

• Kim J Huntley, Director, Defense Energy Support Center (DESC), Fort Belvoir, Virginia. DESC is responsible for providing the Department of Defense and other government agencies with comprehensive energy solutions and ensuring continuous energy support to America's military worldwide.
• Huey-Ching Yeh, Director General, Taiwan Bureau of Energy. The Bureau actively promotes the liberalization and privatization of energy-related enterprises as well as the promotion of international energy cooperation.
• Dr. Nam-Pyo Suh, President, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST). KAIST is South Korea's leading science and technology institution. Established in 1971 as the nation's first graduate school specializing in science and engineering education and research, KAIST is internationally ranked as one of the world's best engineering and design schools. Dr. Suh is also a Professor Emeritus of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
• Dr. Malcolm Wilson, Director, Office of Energy and Environment, University of Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada, and team member of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) that jointly won the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize with former Vice-President Al Gore.
• Michael Shellenberger, long-time environmental strategist and co-author of Break Through: From the Death of Environmentalism to the Politics of Possibility, which argues for a positive, "post-environmental" politics that abandons the environmentalist focus on nature protection for a new focus on creating a new economy. Time Magazine named Shellenberger one of its 32 "Heroes of the Environment 2008," calling Break Through "prescient" for its prediction that climate policy should focus not on making fossil fuels expensive through regulation but rather on making clean energy cheap.
• Governor Linda Lingle. In January 2008, Governor Lingle's Administration entered into a long-term partnership with the U.S. Department of Energy to form the Hawai'i Clean Energy Initiative, the goal of which is to have 70 percent of Hawai‘i's energy needs come from clean sources by 2030.
• Congressman Neil Abercrombie, member of the U.S. House of Representatives since 1990, and Chairman of the Subcommittee on Air and Land Forces of the Committee on Armed Services.

They join other previously confirmed speakers, including Dr. George Ka‘iliwai III, Director for the Resources and Assessment Directorate at Headquarters, U.S. Pacific Command (USPACOM); and William Parks, Deputy Assistant Secretary, U.S. Department of Energy.

The Asia Pacific Clean Energy Summit and Expo is being organized by the State of Hawai‘i's Department of Business, Economic Development & Tourism, in cooperation with the Defense Energy Support Center and the U.S. Pacific Command.

The Summit will provide a forum for government, defense department officials, industry professionals, customers and facilitators in the U.S. and Asia-Pacific region on public policy, emerging technologies and opportunities, energy efficiency and security issues that transcend national borders.

For more information, please visit www.asiapacificcleanenergy.com.

For more information, contact:
Dave Young, DBEDT Communications
Phone: (808) 587-1212
Email: dyoung@dbedt.hawaii.gov