Oung Kit Loong

Oung Kit Loong is an energy and resource efficiency practitioner, consultant, trainer, and author on the subject of energy and resource efficiency, operational excellence, and triple bottom line.

With more than 24 years of experience, he has a unique ability to understand technical and managerial challenges, work with different stakeholders, manage multi-disciplinary projects, identify opportunities for improvements, and troubleshoot performance deficits.

He consults extensively with businesses, both commercial and industrial companies across five continents, with a focus on energy and resource efficiency; environmental management, health and safety, operational excellence, triple bottom line, and reporting and communicating complex and technical subjects into a clear, meaningful, and simple-to-understand business case. Recent engagements focused on public sectors, life science, manufacturing, professional sports, media, and luxury retail.

Notable engagements include (1) designing regulations in the UK (energy and climate change regulations); Sharjah, UAE (mandatory Health and Safety awareness), and Singapore (waste regulation); drafting guidebooks on integrated management systems (ISO), energy efficiency (UNEP), and ISO 50001 (ISO/UNIDO) and promoting of good governance in energy, environment, and health safety in India, Zambia, UAE, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Oman, Nigeria, Uganda, Namibia, USA, Canada, and Mexico.

He is the author of People, Planet, Profits: Environmentally and Socially Sustainable Business Strategies (BEP, 2022), Energy Management in Business: The Manager’s Guide to Maximising and Sustaining Energy Reduction (Gower, 2013), and co-author of Best Practices and Case Studies for Industrial Energy Efficiency Improvement (UNEP, 2016), and the technical review of ISO 50001: Energy management systems – A practical guide for SMEs (ISO, 2015)

He holds a MSc (Eng) in environmental and energy engineering and BEng in chemical and process engineering with fuel technology from the University of Sheffield, and a General Management Programme certificate from Judge Business School, the University of Cambridge.