Speaker

Tatsuo MASUDA

Visiting Professor - Nagoya University of Commerce & Business (NUCB)

Tatsuo Masuda is visiting professor at the Graduate School of Nagoya University of
Commerce and Business. He is a board member of SOC Corporation in Tokyo,
and the advisory board chairman of FairCout Capital in London. He was
professor at the Tokyo Institute of Technology and visiting professor to
Paris-University Dauphine.

He was Vice President of Japan National Oil Corporation (JNOC) from 2002 till
2005 after heading the Asia Pacific Energy Research Center (APERC). From
1996 to 2001, he served in Paris as IEA Director responsible for two core areas
(oil market and oil security) and supervised the production of the IEA Monthly Oil
Market Report.

He started his carrier as diplomat, then joined the Ministry of Economy, Trade
and Industry, where he was involved with energy policy making. He regularly
participant in the annual meetings of the World Economic Forum in Davos, and
still contributes to its activity as a member of the Global Agenda Council on New
Energy Architecture.