Sanjayan Velautham

Sanjayan Velautham

Dr Sanjayan Velautham

Executive Director
ASEAN Centre for Energy

Sanjayan Velautham was appointed as the Executive Director of the ASEAN Centre for Energy (ACE) in January 2015 reporting directly to the Governing Council consisting of Leaders of the Senior Offices on Energy from the ASEAN Member States. Sanjayan Velautham has more than 25 years’ experience in the industry, academia and research institutes. A registered professional engineer (P.Eng.), with a doctoral degree in Engineering and involved in the energy industry for about 15 years and 10 years of research/teaching experience at Kyushu University, Japan and University Technology Malaysia.

Before taking the assignment as Executive Director, he had worked in Singapore initially with Agency of Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) as a Deputy Director and then with General Electric as Country Manager for the Power Generation Services business. He had started his career with Tenaga Nasional Bhd. in Malaysia within the Power Generations Division. He had also served as the National Project Manager for the BioGen Project for United Nation Development Programme (UNDP – Malaysia).