Data Centre World Asia 2024

Rutuja Tendolkar is a Partner at ERM based in the Singapore office, with over 15 years of experience in capital project delivery (across resettlement advisory, gender, human rights, and impact assessment) and transaction advisory (ESG and sustainable finance).  As the Social Performance Lead for ERM’s Asia region, Rutuja oversees the programmatic integration of social performance and human rights across our foundational services, beyond compliance, as a part of integrated due diligence and to help navigate the interplay across nature, climate and livelihoods. She has interpreted IFC, AIIB, World Bank, ADB, NDB, BII, JBIC, EBRD, UNGPs and DFC environmental and social safeguards requirements for clients and projects across South Asia; Africa; South-east Asia; Middle east; and CIS countries.

Seena Dabral is an Associate Partner in ERM with over 17 years of environmental consulting experience supporting organisations across Asia to advance on their sustainability performance and climate strategy. Seena is based in Singapore, leads the tech sector for Southeast Asia , and have successfully led teams on several due diligence, site assessment and environmental impact assessment studies for various development projects in Asia. Seena also supports corporates in the region on climate change risk advisory, ESG strategy and transition to a low carbon economy for their businesses.

Jon Meier is ERM's Regional Commercial Director for Asia and Managing Partner for Asset Retirement Services.  Mr. Meier has been an environmental consultant for over 30 years, the last 22 years based in Japan.  He is focused on providing integrated solutions to safely manage industrial asset conversion and repurposing or retirement of assets depending on client business drivers.  With the fast pace emerging client needs in Asia for additional cloud-based capacity, technology service providers are frenetically seeking to construct Data Centers across the region but are facing challenges in the availability of land assets that meet their strategic development requirements: access to power, water, fibre and geography.  Data Center developers are increasingly looking to pivot away from preferred low-risk green field sites and are increasingly purchasing and then converting industrial assets for future Data Center construction.  Jon has worked on industrial asset conversion and repurposing of manufacturing facilities throughout Asia including Japan, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Mainland China, Macao, South Korea, Brunei, Singapore, Thailand, Malaysia, India, and Indonesia. In the past 3 years Mr. Meier has converted 5 industrial assets in Asia specifically for Data Centers.   

Steve is a Senior Partner for ERM in Asia Pacific (based in Bangkok) and has over 30- years experience in Project Management, Waste Engineering and Environmental, Health and Safety (EHS) management in Europe and Asia.  He is a Chartered Waste Manager with the United Kingdom’s Institute of Wastes Management.  Mr Duckworth has Project Directed or Managed the delivery of ERM’s EHS/Sustainability services including Site Due-diligence in key sectors including Technology (Data Centres, Real Estate, Logistic Warehouses, Submarine Cables), Power (Onshore and Offshore Wind, Solar, Hydro and Conventional Thermal Plants), Real Estate (Commercial Buildings, Hotels, Logistic Warehouses, Retail Malls, Leisure Parks).  He has led numerous projects for Data Center developments including ERA (Environmental Regulatory Assessment), Site Due-diligence, City-Assessments, and Permitting Support for technology companies in multiple countries including Thailand, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Malaysia and Vietnam.