LI Tao

Li Tao, the deputy director of CNNC News Center, has been engaged over ten years on China Nuclear Industry Newspaper as a journalist and editor. Her reports awarded the first prize of Good News by China Industrial Newspaper and nominated the best news by the China News Award.

Since 2005, Ms. Li has taking charge of the publicity work of CNNC, which includes the organization and planning of publicity activities, media relationship management, spokesman training for CNNC headquarters and membership companies, building the CNNC’s news release platform and related rules and regulations, etc. Recently, she organized two important publicity activities of CNNC----the cooperation of CNNC and Argentina and Bill Gates’ visiting CNNC. In the meantime, she is also responsible for the monitoring, analysis and coping with public sentiment, fully charges of the operating and maintenance of CNNC’s official website, microblog and wechat platforms. 

 

LOU Yun

Lou Yun is the Senior CSR Manager of China General Nuclear Power Group of China General Nuclear Power Corporation and member of Education and Public Communication Committee in the Eighth Council of China Nuclear Society. He is mainly in charge of CSR management, public communication and dissemination. He holds a master's degree in public administration.

YANG Bo

EDUCATION AND AWARDS
Master of Science in Management Sciences, Southampton University, UK, 1996
Bachelor of Geophysics, East China University of Technology, China  1984

Employment History       January 2010 to present
Director, Technical Service Dept. China Nuclear Energy Association (CNEA)
CNEA is a NGO in the China nuclear energy sector with 400 Members which covers almost main players undertaking nuclear energy in China ranging from governmental organizations, nuclear power groups, utilities, AE companies, design and research institutes, universities to manufacturers etc.  Its main objects are to promote nuclear energy development, and technology innovation, and to enhance the exchange and share the information between its Members

Responsible for planning and organizing trainings and seminars related to nuclear power and providing technical services in the field of nuclear energy, Organize peer reviews for operational and constructional nuclear power plants, lead peer review for approaches to public communications

General Manager for China Operations, MWH(USA),  2003 to 2009
Investment Manager, National Power Beijing Office (UK),1999 to 2003
Responsible for managing and marketing and client relationship for environmental engineering consulting business and power investment management

Deputy Director, State Environment Protection Administration (SEPA), 2008
National Nuclear Safety Administration (NNSA), 1991 to 2007
Working for  international cooperation on nuclear safety and environmental protection

 

TAN Sichao

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Director, Human Resources Office, Harbin Engineering University, 2014- present
Deputy Director, Human Resources Office, Harbin Engineering University, 2012- 2014
Professor, College of Nuclear Science and Technology, Harbin Engineering University,2009- present
Visiting Scholar, Department of Nuclear Engineering, Texas A&M University, 2009-2010
Associate Professor, College of Nuclear Science and Technology, Harbin Engineering University, 2007-2009
Postdoctoral Fellow, Nuclear Science and technology mobiles station, Xi'an Jiaotong University, 2006-2009
Lecturer, College of Nuclear Science and Technology, Harbin Engineering University,2006-2007

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE:

Experimental
 Flow instability of natural circulation under rolling motion
 Flow and heat transfer characteristics under rolling motion 
 Bubble behavior characteristics under rolling motion
 Flow and heat transfer characteristics of rod bundle
 Whole-field temperature and velocity measurements
 Advanced visualization experimental technique

Theoretical
 Non-linear time series analysis on flow instability
 Flow and heat transfer characteristics of pulsating flow
 Safety analysis of marine reactor

RESEARCH INTEREST:
Reactor thermal hydraulic, Natural circulation, Flow instability, Laser Diagnostic Technique , Marine reactor, Unsteady flow, Passive safety system

 

Mary Holland Limbach

Mary Holland (“Mimi”) Limbach is president and managing partner of Potomac Communications Group, a strategic communications firm that serves clients in the nuclear energy and science, engineering, electrical energy and infrastructure industries. She is particularly known for her work in helping organizations weather serious crises, making nuclear energy accessible to the public and applying risk communication principles to nuclear energy communications.

She is president of the Pacific Nuclear Council (PNC) and is chair of the Council’s Communications Working Group. Mimi received the American Nuclear Society’s (ANS) 2013 Distinguished Service Award as well as the ANS Presidential Citation in 2015 for her outstanding contributions in improving communications for the Society and the nuclear energy industry. Earlier this year, she was appointed for a term on the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Civil Nuclear Trade Advisory Committee.

She has served in many leadership roles in both corporate and energy communications. As vice president of corporate communications, she helped Navigant Consulting weather a series of financial crises and top leadership changes as it built its energy business.

Mimi had a 25-year career with Westinghouse Electric Corporation, leading corporate communications as the company transformed itself into today’s CBS media conglomerate. At Westinghouse, she led the media campaign with policy makers and opinion leaders that helped achieve normal trade relations between the U.S. and China for civilian nuclear power and paved the way for Westinghouse to export its nuclear energy plants to China. She defused crises on governance, major litigation, oil spills, radioactive emissions and nuclear materials. Earlier in her career, she led strategic and marketing communications and public relations for Westinghouse’s $5 billion global energy business, which included the company’s nuclear energy business.

LAURA Hermann

EDUCATION AND AWARDS
Master of Science in Communication, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 2002
Honors BA (Magna cum laude) Communication/Anthropology, Loyola University, Chicago, IL 1995
Inductee of Phi Beta Kappa Honor Society

POTOMAC COMMUNICATIONS GROUP, WASHINGTON DC 1/2006 ‐ PRESENT
Partner (hired as Director)

Provide strategic counsel in the energy and technology fields to achieve educational, media, legislative or public policy goals. Produce positioning and messaging tools and conduct relevant training on risk
communication, crisis management and coordination of third party support for public, private and
government organizations. Research, edit and produce briefing documents.

Key clients include American Physical Society, AREVA, Aspen Institute, Channel Technologies Group, Intellectual Ventures, National Academy of Engineering, TerraPower and numerous national laboratories.

AMERICAN NUCLEAR SOCIETY, LAGRANGE PARK, IL 4/2003‐12/2005
Communication Specialist
Prepared technical experts for briefings, interviews and other public speaking opportunities.
Directed external outreach functions: wrote speeches and online content, distributed news releases,
produced audio/video releases, implemented relevant components of the strategic plan.
As staff liaison to Public Policy Committee, managed consensus process to produce and distribute
the association’s official policy statements.

AMERICAN RED CROSS OF GREATER CHICAGO, CHICAGO, IL 1997, 9/1999‐6/2002
Senior Education Manager (hired as Disaster Specialist)
Directed cross‐functional teams of support staff and 40 instructors in eight locations to deliver educational programming through government agency partners throughout northeastern Illinois. Achieved a 90% satisfaction rate among participants. Managed general operating funds and generated additional donor dollars. Created budget and strategic plan for departmental activities.