On the 18 September 2025, Chris Howe gave the 5th Tan Sri Leo Moggie Lecture at UNITEN, Malaysia's Premier Energy University, on algae and bioenergy. This prestigious Lecture is named in honour of Tan Sri Leo Moggie, a distinguished former politician and Chairman of TNB, the national energy company.
Chris talked about the evolution and ecological importance of algae (which are responsible for about half of planetary carbon dioxide fixation), the challenges of using algae for making fuel molecules, and the work in his lab on using algae for direct electricity production.
Pictured left to right are: Prof Dato Halimah Zaman of UNITEN, Prof Chris Howe, Tan Sri Leo Moggie, and Prof Khairul Salleh Mohammed Sahari, the Vice Chancellor of UNITEN.