AUTHORS

Russ Banham is a Pulitzer-nominated financial journalist and best-selling author.

President and CEO, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Engineering

Anna Mayrhofer works in the Electrics & Automation I4.0 Sensor Systems department at Primetals Technologies, Austria GmbH, a part of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) Group. She leads R&D efforts for “audio fingerprinting” technology that can health-check steel plant processes just by listening.

President and CEO of Mitsubishi Power Americas

Director with 10+ years in domestic and international institutional relations, design of advocacy strategies, expert in innovation management, active leader of projects to support business development and internationalization. Marketing and communication director.

Robin Harding is the FT’s Tokyo Bureau Chief. Until 2015, he was based in Washington covering the US Federal Reserve, the Treasury and the IMF.\n\n

Jun Shirota is the General Manager of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Vietnam. He heads the company’s two liaison offices in the country. MHI Group also makes a significant contribution to the local economy through its factories that form part of the global supply chains for diesel engines and aircraft components.\n

Kentaro Watanabe is the Managing Director, Ecolab G.K.

Chinmay Jadhav has significant experience working as a copywriter and content writer for numerous publications and now works as a Content Manager for Formative Content.

Julian Popov is a fellow of the European Climate Foundation and former environment minister of Bulgaria.