APOC 2022 Speakers

Dr Julian Conway McGill is the Head of South East Asia at LMC International. He is in charge of LMC's research in South East Asia.

He and his team are based in Kuala Lumpur. Their work aims to help clients better understand the economics of crops, agricultural commodities and their value chains. The majority of their work focuses on palm oil and the lauric oils as well as their downstream products.

Dr McGill holds an M.A. (Honours) in Economics from the University of Edinburgh and completed his PhD (DPhil) at the University of Oxford.

Dr. Yaowateera Achawangkul has graduated in Ph.D. (Systems Engineering) from Mie University, Japan. He is now working as a Mechanical Engineer: Senior Professional Level of Division of Energy Research, Department of Alternative Energy Development and Efficiency (DEDE). His responsibilities are corresponding to renewable energy research and development, especially biomass and bioenergy. In addition, He is also nominated to be a representative of the international committees, for example, ASEAN Renewable Energy Sub-Sector Network, UNESCAP Energy Expert Working Group, etc.

Volker Wehber is with Evonik - a specialty chemical company headquartered in Germany respectively its predecessor companies for 23 years.
Mostly in Marketing, Sales or Business Development Functions and during his career located in Europe, South-East Asia and South America. For 7 years now Wehber is responsible for Evonik’s Biogas business. A technology development to separate gases via membrane technology in order to produce renewable energy and alternative fuel coming from organic waste sources like wastewater, POME, Landfill or energy crops.
Evonik’s patented SEPURAN® Green membrane technology is offered by a selected group of OEM partners who design and offer turnkey Biogas upgrading plants and act as respective system integrator. The technology reflects the current industry standard and has been applied in over 800 global installations since the market introduction in 2011.

Patoo Tongjul is an expert in developing government policies to Agro-Industry and Food Processing in Thailand.

With over 20 years of experience at the Office of Industrial Economics, Ms.Patoo has knowledge on Agro-Industry and Food Processing policies. In her role, she is responsible for recommending industrial development policies, guidelines and measures for the Agro-Industry and Food Processing industry. She was involved in Oleochemical industry Policy especially Palm base. Oleochemical industry will balance productivity and creates added value for the palm. Moreover It will become a renewable energy in the future.

Joined Clariant as Sales Account Manger Indonesia, responsible for project development and sales for Indonesia, Malaysia & Singapore area. Previous as Key Account Manager at an European Company, especially in Palm Oil Plantation Sales Background more than 12 years in many sectors, one of them in palm oil plantation, Bachelor Degree in Industrial Engineering and Right now, on Process Master Degree at Bandung Institute of Technology, Indonesia.

M.BA in Business Adminitration from the Atma Jaya Catholic University of Indonesia

Manfred Baumgartner is working in the field of BioDiesel Technology and Waste based feedstocks since 1994. He has a Master's degree in Chemical Process Engineering at the Graz University of Technology, Austria. Beside working as a lead engineer he was leading BDI’s R&D and was also engaged in standardization of BioDiesel. From 2003 to 2018 he was the technical executive responsible for all of BDI’s engineering, construction and commissioning of BioDiesel plants worldwide. Since 2018 he is active at BDI as Sales Manager for special technical applications and for RetroFit projects. As he is responsible for the Technology of BioDiesel he was involved in research of new technologies and has a wide knowledge of different technologies for BioFuels.

Kanokwan Saswattecha Project Manager of Sustainable and Climate-friendly Palm Oil Production and Procurement" in Thailand

Kanokwan Saswattecha has joined The Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) and worked for the project on "Sustainable and Climate-friendly Palm Oil Production and Procurement" in Thailand or briefly called "SCPOPP". The project closely works with key palm oil players and facilitate them to mainstream sustainable and climate-friendly palm oil production in the country, in particular building oil palm smallholder’s capacity on sustainable farming practices and meeting the RSPO standards. Kanokwan has working experience in the Thailand palm oil industry over 10 years. She received her PhD degree in Environmental Systems Analysis at the Wageningen University in the Netherlands. Since then, she has published several scientific papers and articles related to sustainable palm oil production in Thailand.