

Andre Winarto
Director
Attavale Consulting
Western Australia
Andre Winarto is a Director at Attavale Consulting, an independent energy strategy consulting firm. Until very recently, he was Program Director at the Perth USAsia Centre, WA's leading foreign policy think tank, where he led the program on the geopolitics of critical minerals and the energy transition. He focused on how trade wars, supply chain weaponisation, and AI-driven power demand are reshaping global energy supply chains, with particular focus on the implications for Australia's energy security, Indo-Pacific partnerships, critical minerals and grid modernisation. Andre engaged senior government officials, diplomats, and industry leaders through the Centre's series of geopolitical roundtable events.
Prior to joining the Centre, Andre served as Global Knowledge Leader on Ernst & Young's Executive Leadership Team for Energy & Resources. He led a team of 60 analysts across nine countries delivering energy transition research for governments, energy companies, and utilities. His eight-year tenure culminated in EY being recognised as the publisher of top-ranked Energy & Resources global thought leadership in a 2024 survey of over 3,000 verified professional services clients. Andre also brings operational experience from Western Power, where he served as Group Manager Distribution, leading 2,000 staff and contractors with a $600 million annual budget managing Australia's largest isolated electricity network.
Andre holds an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management and a Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering from the University of New South Wales, with executive education from Harvard Business School. He is also a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Energy.
Speaker agenda and/or resources
The Triple Convergence - How Geopolitics and AI Are Rewiring the Energy Transition
Andre will examine the intersection of the three transformative forces reshaping global markets: the shift away from the rules-based order to transactional relationships, the race for artificial intelligence supremacy, and the AI-energy nexus.Drawing on recent developments from President Trump's "Liberation Day" tariffs to China's rare earth export controls and the boom in generative AI, the presentation explores how energy security has become the priority but is being implemented differently on a region-by-region basis. His narrative shows that globally integrated supply chains now face the risk of systematic weaponisation that is highly intertwined, such as gas leverage, rare earth restrictions, semiconductor export controls, and tariffs. As global data centre electricity demand surges 165% by 2030, electricity infrastructure bottlenecks are rapidly emerging globally. WA possesses strategic advantages that will position it well to capture significant value in the new energy-intensive geopolitical world.
Panel Session: Power Shifts: Geopolitics in the Age of Energy Transition
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