Speakers @ Davos 2019
Christopher Trott
Foster + Partners, LondonChris is Head of Sustainability at Foster + Partners. His role allows him to combine his qualifications in Civil Engineering and Environmental Services with his passion of bringing sustainability to design through highly integrated multidisciplinary collaboration. Chris is a yachtsman which allows him to combine his love of technology, and the natural environment with experiencing new local cultures. He is an active Christian and has a particular interest in how all faith communities can work together to benefit mankind and our natural environment.
Work on Amaravati:
Government Buildings Amaravati, India
Lead sustainability Partner for the legislative assembly, high court and secretariat buildings within the government complex. These are being designed along a Paris Agreement compliance route and to GRIHA 5-star standard.
Government Complex Amaravati, India
Lead sustainability Partner for a 550 Ha government quarter for the new state capital of Andhra Pradesh one planet Eco-footprint approach. The master plan includes an integrated dynamic modelling approach to energy, mobility, water, waste and materials reduction and societal issues using a visualisation interface to the architectural 3D drawings.
Chris Luebkeman
Arup LtdDr. Chris Luebkeman joined Arup from MIT in 1999 to co-lead the Research + Development group, a collection of 50 of the smartest individuals in the company. His specialties include foresight and the future, public speaking, corporate research, helping businesses, groups of people or individuals to stop to think constructively about what the new normal will be as the context of constant change around us.
Stephen Cairns
ETH ZurichStephen Cairns is the Director of the Future Cities Laboratory (FCL) in Singapore, Professor in Architecture at ETH Zurich, and Principal Investigator of the Urban-Rural Systems research team at FCL. He is an architect, writer and teacher whose work concerns the interaction of buildings, cities and society. The geographical focus of much of this work Asian megacities such as Jakarta, Dhaka, Kolkata, Chengdu and Shanghai. His writing tackles theoretical aspects of urbanisation from an Asian perspective. His design work focusses on projects such as the "Tropical Town", a test bed for decentralized technologies to seed integrated development models for urbanizing Asia.
Brooks Entwistle
Uber TechnologiesBrooks serves as Chief Business Officer International for Uber, responsible for business development and the firm’s relationships across Asia Pacific, EMEA and Latin America. He joined Uber in early 2017 and prior to his current role, was the Regional General Manager for Asia Pacific. Previously, he was the CEO of Everstone Capital, a
premier India and Southeast Asia focused private equity and real estate investment firm.
Prior to joining Everstone in 2014, Brooks was a Partner at Goldman Sachs where he spent 22 years in various capacities, including 15 years based in Asia.
Most recently, he was Chairman of Goldman Sachs South East Asia as well as CEO of Goldman Sachs Singapore. Prior to this, he spent 5 years in Mumbai as CEO and Founder of Goldman Sachs India where he was responsible for leading and building the firm across all divisions. He also served as the Founder & Co-Head of Goldman Sachs Asia’s High Technology Group. Earlier in his career, Brooks served as a District Electoral Supervisor with the United Nations Transitional Authority in Cambodia (UNTAC).
Brooks holds a bachelor’s degree from Dartmouth College and a master’s degree in Business Administration from Harvard Business School. He is currently a Board member of The Asia Foundation, The Aspen Institute, EmancipAction, Telluride Mountainfilm and Young Life. An avid mountaineer and big mountain skier, Brooks is the oldest American to summit and ski an 8000 meter peak, Cho Oyu in Tibet in 2016. He also summited Everest from the North Side in Tibet in 2017 in a guided climb record 27 days.
Arun M. Kumar
KPMG in IndiaArun M. Kumar, Chairman and CEO, KPMG in India is an accomplished global executive with experience spanning multiple sectors from high technology to Government and many geographies from Silicon Valley to India.
Most recently, Kumar served as the Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Global Markets and Director General of the U.S. and Foreign Commercial Service in the Obama Administration. He led the trade and investment promotion efforts for the U.S. Government and served as the International Trade Administration's lead official advocating for better market access for U.S. exporters. He travelled to thirty countries around the world, engaging with senior Government and business leaders.
Before his tenure in public service, Kumar was a Partner and member of the Board of Directors at KPMG, LLP. He led the firm's West Coast Management Consulting practice serving major global clients as well as emerging Silicon Valley ventures while creating thought leadership to advance business practices in financial management. He led a number of landmark complex transformation engagements for global clients involving shared services/outsourcing, offshoring, business intelligence and analytics, core process improvements and organizational transformation. He also founded and led KPMG's US-India practice.
Previously, Kumar was a Silicon Valley entrepreneur, founding CEO and CFO of three technology ventures. Over the years, he has been a mentor and advisor to a number of new ventures in Silicon Valley and India.
Kumar has been a member of advisory councils at Stanford University and the University of California, Santa Cruz. An early Charter Member of TiE Silicon Valley, he also served on its Board, apart from being on the Board of Directors of the U.S. India Business Council.
Kumar has authored a book of poetry, "Plain Truths" (2010), and co-edited a book,"Kerala's Economy: Crouching Tiger, Sacred Cows" (2007).
Kumar received his Master's degree in Management from the Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Bachelor's degree in Physics from the University of Kerala, India. He started his career in India as a member of TAS, the central management cadre of the Tata Group.
Ajay Jain
Govt of Andhra PradeshMr. Ajay Jain is a serving officer of the Indian Administrative Service and is currently the Principal Secretary, Energy, Infrastructure & Investment, Govt of Andhra Pradesh. He is also a Member of the Board of Directors of the Infrastructure Corporation of Andhra Pradesh. He holds B.E. (Electrical Engineering) Degree from IIT Kanpur