International: China: Current Status of Unconventional Development and Policy

Zhou Xiaolai is the President and Founder of Energy China Forum (ECF) and also of SZ Energy Intelligence Co. Ms. Zhou is also the General Director of the Shanghai United Institute for Unconventional Resources. She established ECF to be a leading China Energy think tank and research and consulting institution with strong support from both china national energy companies and China Government energy regulatory agencies. ECF has close to 700 members cross Asia, Europe and U.S.; organized and hosted 4 Asia Energy Summits and the Unconventional Resources Technology and Equipment Exhibition with over 500 attendees from 15 different countries. Ms. Zhou is from a scholastic family rooted in Southern China and has a bachelor’s degree of Computer Science from Northwestern Polytechnic University in Xi’an Shaanxi, China.

Presenting in English on behalf of Ms. Zhou will be Joan Lu, the Vice President of ECF. Ms. Lu has 19 years of global energy finance experience, working with international energy players across four continents. She has supported U.S.-based energy companies with mulit-billion dollar yearly global sales and has worked to create partnerships for U.S. companies through ECF. Ms. Lu is a native of China and has a BA in Accountancy and Information Systems from the University of Texas, and she is a U.S. CPA.