Gaz Bisht is an energy executive who serves on the board of a UK-listed company. After graduating from the Indian Institutes of Technology (ISM) Dhanbad and IIT Delhi, he emigrated to Australia in the early ’90s, and later spent several years in Asia—in Jakarta, Indonesia in the mid-1990s and in Beijing, China, in the mid-2000s, witnessing firsthand the working styles of these governments and the role they played in the extraordinary growth of these countries. He resides on Sydney's North Shore with his wife and their cat, Billy