Dr. TERRY BARKER (Director, Cambridge Centre for Climate Change Mitigation)

Terry Barker is the Director of 4CMR and the Leader of the Tyndall Centre's Integrated Modelling programme of research and Chairman of Cambridge Econometrics. He was a Coordinating Lead Author (CLA) in the IPCC Third Assessment Report (2001) and the Fourth Assessment Report (2007) for the chapter on mitigation from a cross-sectoral perspective, covering the macroeconomic costs of mitigation at national, regional and global levels in the short and medium term (to 2030). Research interests are in greenhouse gas mitigation policy, large-scale computable energy-environment-economy and world energy modelling. He has directed and co-ordinated many large projects building and applying large-scale economic models of the UK, the European Union and the global economy. Dr. Barker has edited or authored some 12 books and 100 articles and papers. <top>

 

ROBERT BELL (Operations Director, AEA)

Robert Bell is Operations Director for AEA, a world leading environmental consultancy, which specialises in the area of energy and climate change. Robert has extensive experience of high profile government programmes which encourage the development and adoption of environmental and energy technological advance. These programmes cover the range of R&D, knowledge transfer, best practice, and fiscal intervention. Robert recently addressed the House of Commons Environmental Audit Committee on the role of Climate Change Agreements in bringing forward technology deployment. He also has experience of large assignments for the private sector, for example, directing AEA*s team acting as Independent Environmental Consultant for the £20bn oil and gas Sakhalin II Project.
Having studied Engineering Science at Cambridge University, Robert started his career in nuclear energy and has also worked with the oil and gas industry. Therefore, he has experience of a wide variety of technology development.

Dr. BERNARD J. BULKIN (Venture Partner and Senior Advisor, Vantage Point)

Bernie Bulkin joined VantagePoint upon his retirement as Chief Scientist at BP (British Petroleum) in 2003. He spent 18 years at BP and its predecessor, The Standard Oil Company, holding various positions in technology and business, including Chief Technology Officer and Director of Manufacturing, Supply, and Distribution. As BP's Vice President for Environmental Affairs, Dr. Bulkin developed BP's clean fuels strategy and led BP's strategy and action plan on climate change. He helped to develop BP's thinking about sustainability, what it means in an extractive company, and the organizational demands of sustainability in a large company. He was appointed Chief Scientist of BP in January 2001. Dr. Bulkin is the author of many papers on sustainability, climate change, transport, and the future of technology in the energy industry.

Prior to BP, Bernie was an academic scientist and Professor at City University of New York and Polytechnic Institute for 18 years. Dr. Bulkin has published more than 100 papers and two books, on Raman spectroscopy, polymers, and liquid crystals. He was Honorary Professor at the University of York from 1992-2003, and has been elected as a Fellow of New Hall, University of Cambridge. Dr. Bulkin currently serves on the Board of Governors of Argonne National Laboratory, the UK Government Energy Board, Vice Chair for Energy and Transport of the Sustainable Development Commission, and is a member of the Council of Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Council of the Royal Institution, and Editorial Board of Chemistry World. <top>

NICK BUTLER (Chairman, Centre for Energy Studies, University of Cambridge)

Nick Butler is Chairman of the Centre for Energy Studies at Cambridge University, a multidisciplinary research group focused on international energy security issues. From 2002 to 2006, he was Group Vice President of Strategy and Policy Development at BP working for the Group Chief Executive. The strategic and policy issues covered included BP’s mergers with Amoco and Arco, entry into Russia through the partnership with TNK, and the development of BP’s alternative energy business. Mr. Butler is also a member of the President’s International Advisory Board at Yale, a non-resident scholar at the Carnegie Endowment in Washington DC, a non-executive director of Cambridge Econometrics, a member of the environmental advisory board of Jetnets Europe and rapporteur of the Lehman Brothers Global Climate Council.

He has published books and articles on international issues including a 2006 paper, written with Richard Lambert, on the future of European Universities. Most recently, Mr. Butler was a contributor to “The Key Elements of a Global Deal on Climate Change” edited by Professor Lord Stern and published by the London School of Economics in April 2008. <top>

RICHARD P. BLUNDELL (Senior VP, International Business Development, Th!nk Global)

Richard Blundell has over 20 years of broad, diverse senior executive management and consulting experience in the global, environmental services and technology sectors. He holds a BSc in Geology from the University of Toronto and an MBA from the International Management Institute, Geneva (now IMD, Lausanne). Mr. Blundell has served on several Boards of Directors and serves on the Advisory Boards of the following early stage companies: Suning Srl (Milan), Water Capital Inc. (Toronto), PureSense Environmental Inc. (Oakland, CA) and SNIF Labs (Boston).

He is currently a member of the executive committee and the SVP of International Business Development at Think Global AS. He is responsible for developing global sales & distribution channels and car assembly operations with a focus in Europe and Asia, as well as leading the UK and China operations. Think Global AS is a Norwegian company and the world’s first producer of a fully homologated electric vehicle in commercial volumes. <top>

Prof. FRITZ-DIETER P. DOENITZ (MAN/Solar Millennium)

Fritz-Dieter Doenitz visiting us as a Senior Advisor of MAN / Solar Millennium, and has a long history of applying his academic competences in innovative technologies. A physicist by education, he has published over 90 articles in highly profiled journals and his achievements include patents for glass ceramics in space vehicles, high strength glass for architecture, and a receiver for solar thermal power. He recently won the German Solar Award (2004). 

The following are a few extracts from Professor Doenitz's vita: physicist, researcher; born Koethen, Germany, April 27, 1939. Diploma, University Jena, Germany, 1964; PhD, University Jena, 1968, Dr. habil., University Jena, 1980; Professor, University Bayreuth, Germany, 2007. Assistent, Inst. of Mineralogy University Jena, 1964-68; Senior Asisstent, Inst.of Glass Chemistry, University Jena, 1968-77; Head Labor, Technical University Chemnitz, Germany, 1977-88; Acad. Consultant, Inst. Technical Mineralogy, Technical University Darmstadt, Germany, 1989-90; General Manager Process & Product Development Schott Rohrglas, Mitterteich, Germany, 1991-2004; Consultant, Schott Solar, 2004-2006; Senior Advisor MAN / Solar Millennium, Germany, 2006-present. <top>

Prof. ANN DOWLING (Mechanical Engineering, University of Cambridge)

Ann Dowling is Professor of Mechanical Engineering, at the University of Cambridge with a special interest in ‘clean combustion’ and quiet vehicles. She has held visiting posts at MIT and at Caltech. She is the UK lead of the Silent Aircraft Initiative, a collaboration between researchers at Cambridge and MIT who have released the conceptual design of an ultra-low noise and fuel efficient aircraft. Professor Dowling is a Fellow of the Royal Society, Royal Academy of Engineering of which she was Vice-President (1999-2002) and is a Foreign Associate Member of the US National Academy of Engineering and of the French Academy of Sciences. She serves on a number industry and government advisory committees including the EU Advisory Committee for Aerospace. She was appointed CBE for services to Mechanical Engineering in 2002 and DBE for services to Science in 2007.

Professor Dowling will soon be involved in a new research programme titled ‘Energy Efficient Cities’. The initiative will develop an integrated approach to buildings, transport and decentralised power generation. The goal is of reducing energy demand through specifically designed technologies while recognising the other factors that affect human choices and behaviour within cities. The research will address urban design and planning to integrate low-energy buildings and transport, as well as developing quantifiable systems level models so that trade-offs can be assessed. The initiative will officially commence in September 2008. <top>

Prof. PAUL EKINS (Director, UK Green Fiscal Commission)

Paul Ekins is the director of the UK Green Fiscal Commission and Professor of Energy and Environment Policy at King's College London. He was Head of the Environment Group at the Policy Studies Institute from 2000 until December 2007.

Professor Ekins' academic work focuses on the conditions and policies for achieving an environmentally sustainable economy, with a special focus on climate and energy policy, and scenario projections and modelling of the energy system; on innovation and industrial ecology, leading to increased resource productivity; on different methods of sustainability assessment; and on the role of environmental policy instruments, with a special focus on economic instruments such as environmental taxes. <top>

LEO JOHNSON (Co-Founder, Sustainable Finance Limited)

Leo Johnson is a Co-Founder of Sustainable Finance Limited, specialising in environmental and social risk management for the financial sector. On behalf of the International Finance Corporation, Mr. Johnson pioneered the Competitive Environmental Advantage Workshop program, an intensive three-day workshop for senior managers of financial institutions. He has advised and delivered capacity-building workshops to private financial institutions across Africa, Asia, Latin America and Europe. Recent capacity-building assignments include ABN AMRO, FleetBoston, OPIC, Capital International Partners, the Brazilian Bankers' Federation, Friends of the Earth, the Lebanese Bankers' Association, and, on behalf of IFC, the group of banks adopting the Equator Principles.

Leo Johnson has an MBA from INSEAD. He holds a MSc in Resource and Environmental Economics from the University of London, and a BA from Oxford University. He is also the author of IFC's best practice publication: "Beyond risk: sustainability and the emerging markets financial sector". Mr. Johnson's areas of specialisation include, Capital punishment: the risk of single and multiple non-performing loans; Brand suicide-reputational risk for the financial sector; Manufacturing dissent: the links between project finance and conflict; Performance not conformance: designing systems for banks and funds that deliver operational value. <top>

ROSS LOVEGROVE (World-renowned Industrial Designer)

Ross Lovegrove is a designer and visionary whose work is considered to be at the very apex of stimulating a profound change in the physicality of our three dimensional World. Inspired by the logic and beauty of nature his designs possess a trinity between technology, materials science and intelligent organic form, creating what many industrial leaders see as the new aesthetic expression for the 21st Century. There is always embedded a deeply human and resourceful approach in his designs, which project an optimism, and innovative vitality in everything he touches from cameras to cars to trains, aviation and architecture.

Winner of numerous International awards his work has been extensively published and exhibited internationally including in The Museum of Modern Art New York; The Axis Centre Tokyo; The Pompidou Centre Paris, The Design Museum London. Mr. Lovegrove was awarded the World Technology Prize by Time Magazine and CNN in November 2005 and recently awarded the Conde Nast Vogue Traveller Ecology Prize for his 'SOLAR TREE' street lighting for MAK in Vienna.

Ross Lovegrove has lectured extensively around the World including TED in Monterey California, Design Indaba, Cape Town, The Spiral Building in Tokyo and The UIA World Architects Congress in Istanbul. He has worked with some of the most progressive and renowned companies including Apple Computers, SONY, Airbus Industries, JAL, Japan Airlines, Yamagiwa Corporation, Issey Miyake, Swarovski Crystal, KNOLL ,VitrA , Artemide, Herman Miller , Motorola, Moroso , Biomega , Tag Heuer and LVMH. <top>

Prof. DAVID MACKAY (Professor of Natural Philosophy, Department of Physics, University of Cambridge)

David MacKay studied Natural Sciences at Trinity College, Cambridge then obtained his PhD in Computation and Neural Systems at the California Institute of Technology. He is now a Professor in the Department of Physics at Cambridge University. His research interests include machine learning, reliable computation and communication with unreliable hardware, and the creation of information-efficient human-computer interfaces. Professor MacKay is writing a free book on 'Sustainable Energy - Without the Hot Air'. <top>

Prof. MICHAEL MAINELLI (Director, Z/Yen, co-author, The London Accord)

Michael Mainelli FCCA FSI leads Z/Yen, the City of London's leading think tank, since co-founding it in 1994. Z/Yen promotes societal advance through better finance and technology. Educated at Harvard, Trinity College Dublin and the London School of Economics & Political Science, he worked in the 1970's as a scientist in aerospace and created and delivered the then largest computer cartography and environmental mapping project, Geodat, by 1984. He became a leading accountancy firm partner in the 1980's and served on the board of Europe's largest R&D organisation in the 1990's. Professor Mainelli is Professor of Commerce at Gresham College, non-executive Director of the United Kingdom Accreditation Service, a London Waterways Commissioner and a Trustee of the International Fund for Animal Welfare and Ocean Alliance. <top>

DUNCAN MCLAREN (Chief Executive, Friends of the Earth, Scotland, Director, Changeworks)

An experienced environmental researcher, campaigner and communicator, Duncan McLaren has spent most of his career within the Friends of the Earth International federation of environmental campaign groups. He now focuses on climate and energy policy, while managing Friends of the Earth Scotland, a small membership organisation with around 5,000 supporters.

Friends of the Earth Scotland helped establish Changeworks (previously Lothian and Edinburgh Environmental Partnership) in collaboration with the City of Edinburgh Council and Edinburgh University. Mr. McLaren's role is as a member of the Board, supporting the Chief Executive in the delivery of Changeworks' mission. <top>

DEREK W. McLEISH (President and CEO, Carbon Sciences Inc.)

Mr. McLeish has been fortunate to have worked at global powerhouses Gillette (10 years), Proctor and Gamble, Activision, Atari and Panavision; however his greatest joy accrues to building innovative companies in new markets. He has been CEO of Monogram, a pioneer in online banking; Nucleus, an early entry into SQL engines; Xatrix, 3D virtualization and Velocity, a leader in multi-player worlds. Mr. Mcleish has served on several Boards of Directors with successful exits for its investors.

Mr. McLeish was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, holds a class “A” license for over 200mph on the Bonneville Salt Flats and over 40 land speed racing records in cars and motorcycles he engineered and built. Carbons Sciences Inc. (CABN.OB) is transforming CO2 into high value products and a passion he is pursuing for his grandchildren’s grandchildren. <top>

ANGUS NORMAN (Managing Director Sustainable Solutions, EDF Energy)

Angus Norman currently leads a new business unit developing de-centralised energy projects with the aim of providing sustainable, affordable, viable heating, cooling and power to communities, whilst at the same time significantly reducing CO2 levels.  This included the formation of the London ESCO with the London Climate Change Agency.  Previously Mr. Norman was the Managing Director of EDF Energy’s Main Power Generation Business building the company’s fleet of coal, gas and renewable power plants between 2001 and 2005. <top>

Dr. JOACHIM REIß (QCells)

Established in 1999, Q-Cells is the world's largest manufacturer of photovoltaic modules (i.e. solar cells). Its core business is the development, production and marketing of high-performance mono- and multi-crystalline photovoltaic cells.

"[Q-Cells] overtook Sharp of Japan last year and announced big jumps in sales (up 59%) and profits (up 69%) on March 27th." (Economist, 2008) - Renewable Energy - German Lessons. <top>

FABIEN ROQUES (Associate Director, European Gas and Power, Cambridge Energy Research Associates)

Fabien Roques is Associate Director for European Gas and Power at Cambridge Energy Research Associates. Prior to this he was Senior Energy Economist in the Economic Analysis Division of the International Energy Agency (IEA). Fabien had been working on the energy supply and demand projections of the World Energy Outlook (WEO) since 2005. WEO 2007 concentrated on China and India energy prospects and their impact on global energy markets and world economy.
Fabien previously worked in the Energy and Environment unit or the UK Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology, and was a researcher with the Cambridge Electricity Policy Research Group and the Cambridge-MIT Electricity Project. Fabien has been involved in a range of consulting studies including Shell, Ernst&Young, NICAB, E&E Ltd., and is a regular contributor to professional and academic journals on energy and environment issues. Fabien holds a PhD in Energy Economics from the University of Cambridge and an MSc. in Engineering from Ecole Centrale Lyon.

FILIPE SANTOS (Finance Director, Martifer Solar)

Finance Director of Martifer Solar, SA since 2007. From 1994 to 2006 Assistant and Associate Professor of the Portuguese Catholic University. About his Academic Background, he achieved his Master in Economics in the Economic Faculty at The University of Coimbra in 2000 and his PHD in the Economic and Related Studies Department at the University of York in 2006.

CLARE SHUTTLEWORTH (AIEMA Associate Director, White Young Green)

Clare has managed and contributed to many sustainability and environmental projects throughout the UK. She is a BREEAM, Code for Sustainable Homes Assessor and CEEQUAL assessor. She is particularly experienced in providing strategic sustainability assessments and project sustainable design advice services, undertaking life cycle impact assessments, and developing strategies to mitigate and manage sustainability impacts associated with the construction and operation of development schemes. Clare also has considerable experiencing of managing sustainability appraisal assessments to complement a wide range of local authority strategies.
Clare played a key role in the development of a pioneering carbon footprinting methodology and tool to assist Tesco Plc to benchmark and enhance the performance of their new store programme.Further project experience includes working with the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew to assist them to develop a sustainability strategy and to address sustainable procurement, waste and energy issues.

GAVIN STARKS(BSc MMus FRSA, founder AMEE)

Gavin is the founder of AMEE, the neutral aggregation platform used by Defra, Google, Morgan Stanley, The Energy Saving Trust and hundreds of other organisations to measure and monitor carbon footprints.
Gavin holds a BSc in Astronomy – working in Radio Astrophysics at the Jodrell Bank Radio Observatory, is a Fellow of The Royal Society of Arts and contributes to Nesta/PAL workshops. He has over 15 years internet development experience.

Prof. ROBERT WATSON (Chief Scientific Adviser, DEFRA)

Robert Watson has been the Chief Scientific Adviser for the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) since September 2007. He is ultimately responsible for the broad range of science that falls under Defra's remit. His main role is to provide ministers with the best possible scientific advice and build on existing measures to ensure that science and technology are used to inform policy. He also supports the UK Government’s scientific work on minimising the effects of climate change and improving sustainability by promoting consistency across Defra and working together with other Government departments.

He was previously at the World Bank where he was the Chief Scientist and Senior Advisor for Sustainable Development. Professor Watson has also held senior positions at NASA and, more recently, at the White House, where he was responsible for ensuring that science underpinned policy making. <top>

ROMAN WEBBER (Partner, Energy, Infrastructure and Utilities Tax, Deloitte)

Roman Webber is a partner in Deloitte’s Energy, Infrastructure and Utilities tax group in London. He leads the firms renewable energy and environmental taxes teams and works with a number of companies in the energy sector including renewable energy, oil & gas and power companies. Mr. Webber started his career at Andersen in 1993 moving to Deloitte in 2002. He spent a year on secondment at Shell from 2004 to 2005, and returned to Deloitte becoming partner in 2006. He has advised on a range of transactions, listings, and projects leading teams in the UK and across the globe. Mr. Webber studied Politics, Economics and Philosophy at Keble College, Oxford. <top>

Dr. HARRY ZERVOS (Technology Analyst, IDTechEx)

Harry Zervos received his degree in physics from the University of Athens, Greece, and went on to study materials science at Cranfield University, where he received his PhD. His research focused on the precision engineering and nanotechnology field, with experience in international projects merging industrial and academic sponsorship. He is currently involved with in-depth analysis of the technologies and markets of printed electronics (with a specific interest in thin film solar and displays & lighting technologies) and their potential for growth. Thin film photovoltaics currently represent approximately 5% of the solar market, which is predicted to grow even further due to the promise for lower cost production of energy. Dr. Zervos will discuss an overview of technologies, division by territory and opportunities for thin film technologies as well as forecasts for the next 10 years. Issues and challenges, drivers and obstacles will also be presented and discussed. <top>