Dr Sanjay C Kuttan

Dr Sanjay C Kuttan

Principal Professional Officer @ Singapore Institute of Technology

About

Accomplished executive leader with over 30 years of experience spanning maritime decarbonisation, energy innovation, sustainability, and industry development. Proven track record in strategy, low carbon technologies, renewable energy (wind, solar, biofuels, energy efficiency) & policy advocacy, with a unique blend of public & private sector expertise. Recognised for driving transformative initiatives, leading cross-sector collaborations, & shaping national and industry standards in Singapore and the region. An opinion maker with leadership skills enhanced through experience from various volunteer works in education, policy, community development & sports. Five distinctive areas of experience 1. Operational improvement • ExxonMobil Asia Pacific – Refinery process eng covering de-asphalting unit optimisation, tank farm management, refinery business analyst • McKinsey & Co - Petroleum Practice Expert (Asia) EM: operational improvement – Petronas, Saudi Aramco, GS-Caltex, and Pertamina covering refining, petrochemical operations 2. Energy transition • Energy Market Authority – Director Ind Dev: Phase 1 EV testbed in Singapore, est Technical Reference TR25 for EV charging infra, RE project on Pulau Ubin, and Smart Grid pilot. • Global Centre for Maritime Decarbonisation – CTO and CSO: ideating, funding & executing projects / studies to lower barriers to adoption of low carbon solutions i.e., ammonia as fuel, biofuels, carbon capture,energy efficiency technologies. 3. Power Generation • ExxonMobil Asia Pacific – APAC Energy Adv: wind power, hydro power, gas engines, land based marine engines • DNV Clean Technology Centre – MD of the Clean Tech Ctr: solar (Philippines/Singapore), wind (Taiwan), power grid (Malaysia, Singapore), projects across Asia Pacific. 4. Innovation • Singapore Maritime Institute – Executive Director: Harbor craft Electrification initiative, advisory board member to 4 ctr of excellence established by SMI. • Energy Res Inst @NTU – Program Dir: Smart Multi Energy System software to integrate, building mgt system, roof top solar/DC grid with thermal-cooling systems operating in Jurong Port, microgrids 5. Singapore policy advocacy • Sustainable Energy Association of Singapore – Council member and Chair of sustainable infrastructure committees: EV, energy storage, FC and H2 wg; co-authored white papers, articles on energy transition e.g., solar, biomass, electric vehicles, carbon tax, circular economy • Member, Chemical Standards Council, SDO (2024–Present) • MTI Pro-Enterprise Panel – 7th yr, panel chaired by Head of Civil Service.

Country

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City

Singapore

Industry

Transportation/Trucking/Railroad

Skill

Consulting, Executive Management, Advocacy, Policy Development, Microgrids, Carbon Capture, Utilisation and Storage (CCUS), Machine Learning Algorithms, Maritime Industry, Standards Development, Lubricants, Solar PV, Wind Energy, Coaching, Electric Vehicles, Charging Systems, Business models, Networking, Maritime decarbonisation, Electrification, Energy

Experience

Singapore Institute of Technology

Principal Professional Officer

Singapore Institute of Technology

LinkedIn
2026-3 - Present · 7 mos
Kai Gaia International Advisory

Founder CEO

Kai Gaia International Advisory

LinkedIn
2025-8 - Present · 1 yr 2 mos

Singapore

An advisory and consultancy providing pragmatic and implementable sustainability and digitalisation solutions to the maritime industry rooted in a strong track record of delivering solutions to the industry and cross functional perspectives.

SkillDrift Inc

Strategic Advisor

SkillDrift Inc

LinkedIn
2025-10 - Present · 1 yr

Singapore

Providing strategic advise for AI tool enhancement and the growth of users for SkillDrift, an AI enabled approach in managing a structured manpower skill transition for both individual's career and corporate resilience in the face of a global workforce transition.

Singapore Maritime Institute (SMI)

Technical Advisory Panel (Probono)

Singapore Maritime Institute (SMI)

LinkedIn
2026-1 - Present · 9 mos
Ministry of Defence of Singapore

Member of 2nd External Advisory Panel for Environmental Sustainability

Ministry of Defence of Singapore

LinkedIn
2025-4 - Present · 1 yr 6 mos

Singapore

This appointment is to the 2nd External Advisory Panel for Environment and Sustainability. It is an advisory role not an employment position.

Global Centre for Maritime Decarbonisation (GCMD)

Senior Advisor (Probono)

Global Centre for Maritime Decarbonisation (GCMD)

LinkedIn
2025-8 - Present · 1 yr 2 mos

Singapore

Supporting Team GCMD to fulfil their mission to decarbonising the maritime industry by shaping standards, piloting solutions, financing pilot project and fostering collaboration across multiple initiatives that include enabling ammonia as a marine fuel, establishing an assurance framework for drop in green fuels, unlocking the carbon value chain and scaling the adoption of energy efficiency technologies.

Global Centre for Maritime Decarbonisation (GCMD)

Chief Strategy Officer

Global Centre for Maritime Decarbonisation (GCMD)

LinkedIn
2024-5 - 2025-8 · 1 yr 4 mos

Singapore

Global Centre for Maritime Decarbonisation (GCMD)

Chief Technology Officer

Global Centre for Maritime Decarbonisation (GCMD)

LinkedIn
2021-9 - 2024-4 · 2 yrs 8 mos

Singapore

To help the maritime industry eliminate GHG emissions by shaping standards, deploying solutions, financing projects, and fostering collaboration across sectors. Lead the team to ideate, curate, secure funding, and execute 13 pilots and 12 studies, 2 global surveys, and co-authored and reviewed seminal reports for the industry

RINA

Advisor (Probono) - Open Innovation Hub

RINA

LinkedIn
2025-11 - Present · 11 mos

Singapore

Propel and Power Limited

Expert Advisor (Probono)

Propel and Power Limited

LinkedIn
2025-10 - Present · 1 yr

Singapore

Providing strategic thought leadership to enhance the deployment of the technology through established networks and scale the business through partners.

The Captain's Table

Advisor (Probono)

The Captain's Table

LinkedIn
2025-7 - Present · 1 yr 3 mos

Singapore

Supporting Captain’s Table effort to establish and grow an innovation platform focused on collaboration amongst the industry players to accelerate solutions to our industry’s most pressing challenges through technology.

Destiny Energy Pte Ltd

Advisor (Probono)

Destiny Energy Pte Ltd

LinkedIn
2023-11 - Present · 2 yrs 11 mos

Singapore

Destiny Energy is a Singapore headquartered global developer and investor in full green hydrogen and eFuels value chain projects. The projects that Destiny Energy is developing integrate renewable electricity from solar and wind with battery storage solutions and downstream production of green hydrogen, green methanol and eSAF. Destiny Energy has positioned itself as the green hydrogen and green methanol production company in its focus countries that includes Estonia, wider Baltic and Nordic regions, Middle East, India and South East Asia. Destiny Energy is making good progress in its development of solar + green hydrogen, eMethanol project in Estonia. This is one of the many projects that Destiny Energy has in its global pipeline in Estonia, Middle East, India and SE Asia. Destiny Energy brings more than four decades of energy domain experience in greenfield project development, investment and operations management. The basic premise of Destiny Energy’s project development is to be technology agnostic and use the best-fit-for-purpose technology and solutions architecture for the specific project.

Education

National University of Singapore

National University of Singapore

LinkedIn

Pharmacology

1988 - 1992 · 4 yrs
INSEAD

INSEAD

LinkedIn

Business Administration and Management, General

2013 - 2013
INSEAD

INSEAD

LinkedIn

Business Administration and Management, General

2001 - 2001
National University of Singapore

National University of Singapore

LinkedIn

Biochemistry

1987 - 1988 · 1 yr
National University of Singapore

National University of Singapore

LinkedIn

Microbiology and Biochemistry

1984 - 1987 · 3 yrs

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