Global Energy Assessment (GEA)
Executive Committee Members
Biosketches

Thomas B. Johansson
Professor of Energy Systems Analysis and Professor of the International Institute for Industrial Environmental Economics at the University of Lund, Sweden

Prof. Johansson obtained his Ph.D. in nuclear physics from the Lund Institute of Technology. From 1994 to 2001, he was Director of UNDP´s Energy and Atmosphere Programme and served on the Editorial Board of the World EnergyAssessment (1998-2000).

In 2000, he was jointly awarded the Volvo Environment Prize for the book Energy for Sustainable Development. Prof. Johansson is also the International Co-Chairman of the Working Group on Energy Strategies and Technologies of the China Council on International Cooperation for Environment and Development, Chairman of the Board of the International Energy Initiative, and a Convening Lead Author of the Second Assessment Report of the IPCC.

Anand Patwardhan
Professor in the Shailesh J Mehta School of Management at the Indian Institute of Technology-Bombay

He served as the Head of the School from 2003-2004, and as Executive Director of the Technology Information, Forecasting and Assessment Council (TIFAC), in the Ministry of Science & Technology, Government of India from 2004-2008.

Anand has a BTech (Electrical Engineering) from IIT-Bombay and a MS (Environmental Science & Engineering) and PhD (Engineering and Public Policy), both from Carnegie Mellon University.

Anand works in the broad area of environment ­ climate studies, focusing on the assessment of vulneerability and adaptation to climate change, and on the diffusion and adoption of clean technology. He has been a member of the Scientific and Technical Advisory Panel (STAP) of the Global Environment Facility (GEF); and a coordinating lead author for the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), and for the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment. Anand is co-chair of the Scientific Steering Committee for the Global Carbon Project, and is a member of a core consultative group on climate change for the Indian government.

Nebojsa Nakicenovic
Deputy Director of the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Professor of Energy Economics at the Vienna University of Technology, and Director of the Global Energy Assessment (GEA).

Among other positions, Prof. Nakicenovic is member of the United Nations Secretary General Advisory Group on Energy and Climate Change; Member of the Advisory Council of the German Government on Global Change (WBGU); Member of the Advisory Board of the World Bank Development Report 2010: Climate Change; Member of the International Council for Science (ICSU) Committee on Scientific Planning and Review, and Member of the Global Carbon Project; Member of the Energy Sector Management Assistance Program (ESMAP) Expert Panel on Sustainable Energy Supply, Poverty Reduction and Climate Change; Member of the Panel on Socioeconomic Scenarios for Climate Change Impact and Response Assessments; Member of the Renewable Energy Policy Network for the 21st Century (REN21) Steering Committee; and Chair of the Advisory Board of OMV Future Energy Fund (Austrian oil company).

He is also Editorial Board Member of the following journals: International Journal on Technological Forecasting and Social Change, International Journal on Climate Policy, the International Journal of the Institution of Civil Engineers, and the International Journal of Energy Sector Management.

Prof. Nakicenovic was a Coordinating Lead Author of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the Fourth Assessment Report, 2002 to 2007, Coordinating Lead Author of the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, 2001–2005, Director, Global Energy Perspectives, World Energy Council, 1993 to 1998, Convening Lead Author of the Second Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, 1993 to 1995, Convening Lead Author of the IPCC Special Report on Emissions Scenarios, 1997 to 2000, Lead Author of Third Assessment Report of the IPCC, 1999 to 2001, Convening Lead Author of the World Energy Assessment: Energy and the Challenge of Sustainability, 1999 to 2000, Member of the International Science Panel on Renewable Energies (ISPRE), 2006 to 2008, and Guest Professor at the Technical University of Graz, 1993–2003.

Prof. Nakicenovic holds bachelor's and master's degrees in economics and computer science from Princeton University, New Jersey, USA and the University of Vienna, where he also completed his Ph.D. He also holds Honoris Causa Ph.D. degree in engineering from the Russian Academy of Sciences.

Among Prof. Nakicenovic's research interests are the long-term patterns of technological change, economic development and response to climate change and, in particular, the evolution of energy, mobility, and information and communication technologies.

Luis Gomez-Echeverri joined IIASA in January 2009 as the Associate Director of the Global Energy Assessment. He has worked for the United Nations for over 30 years in a variety of positions, countries and regions, mostly with the UNDP.

Mr. Gomez-Echeverri's last full-time position at UNDP was as Deputy Director of the Bureau for Development Policy (BDP), at UNDP New York. Prior to this, he was with the Secretariat of the UNFCCC, where he was the Director of Implementation and responsible for programs supporting the implementation of the Convention particularly on issues of finance and was also the Coordinator of the Subsidiary Body for Implementation (SBI).

In the last fifteen years with the United Nations, Mr. Gomez-Echeverri was responsible for overseeing and advising environment, climate change and developments programs in many parts of the world and in building up the environment, energy and climate change programs at UNDP. He was responsible for setting up the first Environment and Energy Department at the UNDP in the early 90s and became its first director.

Mr. Gomez was the Team Leader of the WEHAB (Water, Energy, Health, Agriculture and Biodiversity) initiative of the UN Secretary-General, Kofi Annan, in preparation for the World Summit on Sustainable Development in 2002. In this capacity, he led a team of some 30 UN Agencies and the World Bank in the preparation of Frameworks for Action in each of the areas and was Convening Lead Author for the Sustainable Agriculture module.

Mr. Gomez holds a master's degree in environmental management and is a doctoral candidate at Yale University; he also holds an M.Sc. in international economic affairs from Georgetown University, Washington, D.C.

Rangan  Banerjee
Professor, Energy Systems Engineering Mechanical Engineering Department, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT) , India

Rangan Banerjee is a Professor of the Department of Energy Science and Engineering and currently the Dean of Research and Development at the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay. He was Associate Dean (R&D) of IIT Bombay from 2003-2006 and Head of the Dept of Energy science and Engineering (2006-2009). He was a member of the Planning Commission’s Integrated Energy Policy (2004-2005) Committee and on the working group for renewable energy and energy efficiency and DSM for the Eleventh Five Year Plan. He has co- authored a book on Planning for Demand Side Management in the Power sector, a book on Energy Cost in the Chemical Industry and a book on Engineering Education in India. He has been involved in industrial projects with organisations like Essar, Indian Chemical Manufacturers Association, KSIDC, HR Johnson, Tata Consulting Engineers, BSES, Sterlite, International Institute of Energy Conservation and sponsored projects with the Department of Science & Technology, UN, MERC, PCRA, MNES, Hewlett Foundation. His areas of interest include energy management, modelling of energy systems, energy planning and policy, hydrogen energy and fuel cells. He has conducted two international training programmes on solar energy and several National programmes on renewable energy and Energy Management.

Sally Benson
Executive Director, Global Climate and Energy Project (GCEP), Stanford University, United States

Sally M. Benson was appointed executive director of the Global Climate and Energy Project at Stanford University in March 2007. An internationally-recognized scientist with extensive management experience, Benson is responsible for guiding the development of GCEP’s diverse research portfolio. A Professor (Research) in the Department of Energy Resources Engineering in the School of Earth Sciences, Benson has been a member of Stanford’s faculty since 2007. Prior to joining GCEP, Benson was a staff scientist in the Earth Sciences Division at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL). In 2004, she completed a four-year term as Deputy Director of Operations at the lab. Benson also served as Division Director for Earth Sciences and Associate Laboratory Director for Energy Sciences at LBNL. Benson graduated from Barnard College at Columbia University in 1977 with a bachelor’s degree in geology. She completed her graduate education in 1988 at the University of California, Berkeley, after receiving master’s and doctoral degrees, both in materials science and mineral engineering. The author or co-author of over 160 scientific publications, Benson is a member of the American Geophysical Union, the Society of Petroleum Engineers, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the American Chemical Society.

Daniel H. Bouille
Vice President, Institute of Energy Economics (IDEE/FB) Foundation Bariloche, Argentina

An economist by training, his academic background includes post-graduate studies in Energy Economics at the University of Cologne in Germany. His professional background presently focuses on research and technical assistance related to climate change issues. Professor Bouille was National Coordinator of the Argentine Report on Greenhouse Gas Mitigation in the Energy Sector. He has served as Coordinator of numerous projects including, "Study on Flexibility Mechanisms within the Context of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Kyoto Protocol;" "Study of the Andean Pact: the Benefits of the Integration on Greenhouse Gas Emissions;" Technical Assistance to the First Mitigation Study for El Salvador; and Energy Study to fix the Argentine Voluntary Commitment. Professor Bouille is also a member of the expert roster of the GEF, and Lead Author of the IPCC Working Group III Third Report.

Abeeku Brew-Hammond
Associate Professor, College of Engineering, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Ghana

Abeeku is an Associate Professor in the College of Engineering at Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Kumasi, Ghana; he currently serves as Acting Director of The Energy Centre, KNUST and previously served as Dean of the Faculty of Mechanical and Agricultural Engineering.  From September 2004 to June 2006, Abeeku was based in the UK where he served as Manager of the Global Village Energy Partnership (GVEP) Technical Secretariat.  He previously founded and also served as the Director of KITE, a Ghana-based NGO specializing in energy policy analysis and knowledge management.

Aleh Cherp
Professor, Department of Environmental Sciences and Policy, Central European University, Hungary

Aleh Cherp is Professor, Central European University, Budapest. He is the author of more than 40 journal articles, book chapters, work papers, and conference papers since 1997. Prof. Cherp sits on the Editorial Boards of major international journals including Impact Assessment and Project Appraisal (IAPA) and the EIA Review. He was Guest Editor of the IAPA special issue “Environmental Assessment in Emerging Democracies” (2004). Prof. Cherp has extensive experience with environmental and development work in the international context, including field research, consulting and educational projects in thirteen countries of Central and Eastern Europe and Central Asia (including Tajikistan) for NOVEM, OECD, UNDP, UNICEF, US AID, WHO, the World Bank, GRI and other public and private agencies and organizations.

Suani Coelho
CENBIO-Brazilian Reference Center on Biomass, Brazil

Suani Teixeira Coelho is a professor and thesis advisor at the Energy Graduation Program of University of São Paulo. She was the Deputy Secretary for the Environment of São Paulo State and is Executive Secretary of CENBIO – The Brazilian Reference Centre on Biomass. Dr. Coelho has coordinated technical, economic, environmental and institutional studies on biomass for energy subjects with Brazilian and foreign institutions, including Federal and State Government. She has participated in the development of the Brazilian Energy Initiative, and published several papers and attended national and international conferences. Her research focus is the energy production from biomass. Dr Coelho obtained her master and PhD from University of São Paulo on Mechanisms for the Implementation of Biomass- origin Cogeneration. Suani Coelho is a Professor and thesis advisor at the Energy Graduation Program of University of São Paulo.

Lisa Emberson
Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI) at University of York, United Kingdom

Dr. Emberson has over 15 years experience in the field of air pollution focussing on the effects of tropospheric ozone and climate change on agricultural yields, forest productivity and the functioning of terrestrial semi-natural ecosystems.

Since joining SEI she has developed research in Asia, Africa and Latin America investigating the effects of a range of air pollutants (SO2, NOx, O3, SPM and fluorides) on both agro- and forest ecosystems with a view to investigating the subsequent impacts on social and economic systems.

Arnulf Grübler
Acting Program Leader and Research Scholar, New Technologies Program, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) and Professor, School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, Yale University

Arnulf Grübler is a senior research scholar in the Transitions to New Technologies Program at IIASA. Since 2002 he has also been Professor in the Field of Energy and Technology at the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies at Yale University, New Haven, USA, teaching there every fall semester (September-December). His teaching and research focuses on the long-term history and future of technology and the environment with emphasis on energy, transport, and communication systems.

Prof. Grübler received his master's degree in engineering from the Technical University of Vienna, where he was also awarded his PhD. He completed his Habilitation (venia legendi in systems science of environment and technology) at the Mining University Leoben, Austria. He is also foreign member elect of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences.

Arnulf Grübler has been lead and contributing author for the Second, Third, and Fourth Assessment Reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and is also editor and lead author of the joint IIASA-WEC study on Global Energy Perspectives. He serves on the editorial boards of Technological Forecasting and Social Change and the Journal of Industrial Ecology.

He has published widely being author, coauthor, or editor of nine books, three special journal issues, over 60 peer reviewed articles and book chapters and over 30 additional professional papers in the domains of (modeling of) technological change and diffusion, long wave theory, energy and transport systems, climate change, and resource economics. His latest books include Technological Change and the Environment (co-edited with W. Nordhaus and N. Nakicenovic) published by RFF Press in 2002, and Global Energy Perspectives (coauthored with A. McDonald and N. Nakicenovic) and Technology and Global Change, both published 1998 by Cambridge University Press.

Kebin He
Professor, Department of Environment Engineering and Dean of Graduate School, Tsinghua University, China

Since receiving his Ph.D. in environmental engineering in 1990, Prof. He has been conducting research on air pollution control technology and policy, including coal-fired air pollution and vehicular emissions, for over 17 years. Up to now, as a principal investigator, he has finished more than 30 research projects financed by SEPA, Ministry of Science and Technology, NSF of China, US EPA, and other international sponsors, and published more than 130  papers in the academic journals such as AE, JAWMA, JGR, ACP, Energy Policy, Fuel  and the Science of Total Environment, etc.. In addition, Dr. He has been a senior visiting professor in Technical University of Denmark, Leeds University in UK, and Harvard University in USA. Dr. He also serves as the member of International Council for Clean Transportation, the member of the Council for China Energy Research Society, the Senior Member of China Society of Environmental Science, the Member of Pollution Control Working Group in China Council for International Cooperation on Environment and Development, and the Member of the Society of Automotive Engineering in USA.

Mark Jaccard
Professor, School of Resource and Environmental Management, Simon Fraser University, Canada

Mark Jaccard develops and applies models that assess energy and materials sustainability policies. He has been a professor in the School of Resource and Environmental Management at Simon Fraser University since 1986, except for a five year leave of absence from 1992-97 to serve as Chair and CEO of the British Columbia Utilities Commission. He has served on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (recently the special report on renewable energy), the China Council for International Cooperation on Environment and Development (recently as co-chair of a task force on sustainable use of coal) and Canada’s National Roundtable on the Environment and the Economy. In 2006, his book, Sustainable Fossil Fuels, won the Donner Prize for policy. In 2009 he was named a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.

Stephen Karekezi
Director, African Energy Policy Research Network (AFREPREN/FWD), Kenya

With over 20 years experience in the energy sector, Stephen Karekezi is the Director of the AFREPREN/FWD, Energy, Environment and Development Network for Africa. From 1995 to 2002, he was on the Scientific and Technical Advisory Panel (STAP) of the Global Environment Facility (GEF). Established in 1991, the multi-billion dollar GEF focuses on 6 planet-wide concerns: climate change, ozone layer depletion, land degradation, biodiversity, international waters and persistent organic pollutants.

An engineer (BSc, Loughborough University, UK) with postgraduate qualifications in management (MSc, Birmingham University, UK), Mr. Karekezi is the Board of the International Energy Initiative (IEI) and was until recently on the Partner Board of the Global Village Energy Partnership as well as the Board of Trustees for the Center for International Forestry Research.

Credited with over 100 publications and reports on sustainable energy and associated environmental issues, Karekezi received the Development Association Award in 1990 for his work on efficient household energy technologies in Africa. Mr. Karekezi is currently coordinating two major regional initiatives aimed at promoting cogeneration and sustainable energy small and medium scale enterprises in Africa.

Suzana Kahn Ribeiro
Professor, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Suzana Kahn Riberio is professor of transportation engineering at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) in Brazil. She has been a convening lead author of IPCC Working Group III, responsible for the chapter on transport. She has held a number of consultancies with international organizations, including the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) methodology panel and the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD). She holds degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of the State of Rio de Janeiro (1981), master of Program Planning for Energy Coppe (1988) and Ph.D. in Production Engineering from Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (1995).

Eric Larson
Research Faculty as a Senior member of the Energy Systems Analysis Group of the Princeton Environmental Institute (PEI), Princeton University, United States

Prof. Larson is on the Princeton University research faculty as a senior member of the Energy Systems Analysis Group of the Princeton Environmental Institute (PEI).  Since 2004 he is also an affiliated faculty member in the University’s Science, Technology, and Environmental Policy Program of the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.  Since July 2008, he has also been spending some of his time with Climate Central, a non-profit, non-partisan science and media organization created in 2008 to provide clear and objective science-based information to diverse audiences about climate change, mitigation, and adaptation.

Prof. Larson’s research interests include engineering, economic, and policy-related assessments of advanced clean-energy systems, especially for electric power and transport fuels production from carbonaceous fuels (biomass, coal, natural gas) and for efficient end use of energy.  His work addresses technologies of relevance to developed and developing countries.  He has participated in collaborative research efforts with colleagues across the United States, and around the world. 

For the past several years, as part of a PEI team, has been conducting analyses of technology options for producing liquid fuels from coal and/or biomass with low lifecycle CO2 emissions. The team’s work provided critical inputs to a major study published by the U.S. National Academy of Sciences in 2009: America’s Energy Future: Technology and Transformation.  Larson currently co-leads a collaboration with colleagues at Tsinghua University (Beijing) on low-emission energy strategies and technologies for carbonaceous fuels in China.   He is also involved in analysis of production and conversion systems for modernizing renewable-biomass as an energy source, including advanced gasification-based technologies for power generation and for production of transportation fuels.  These efforts have included assessments of potential biomass electricity supply and use in sugarcane industries, in pulp and paper industries, and in stand-alone electric power generation.

Prof. Larson received a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Minnesota in 1983, the year he began working at Princeton University.

Zheng Li
Professor, Department of Thermal Engineering, Tsinghua University; Director, Tsinghua BP Clean Energy Research and Education Center

Professor Li received his Ph.D. degree from Tsinghua University in 1994. He is now leading his institute working in following four categories: 1)modeling and simulation of coal and gas fired power plants; 2)design, evaluation, improvement of coal gasification based polygeneration system, including CO2 capture; 3)energy strategy and technology roadmap study based on energy system modeling.

Lynn Mytelka
Professiorial Fellow, UNU / Distinguished Research Professor, Carleton University

Professor Mytelka, Director of UNU-INTECH from 2000 to 2004, is currently a Professorial Fellows at its successor organization, UNU-MERIT. Between 1996 and 1999, she was Director of the Division on Investment, Technology and Enterprise Development (DITE) at UNCTAD, Geneva. Prior to this she taught at Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada, where she was a Professor in the Faculty of Management and Public Policy from 1982, and since 2003, a Distinguished Research Professor carrying out collaborative research on Canada’s hydrogen fuel-cell clusters. From 2001 to 2009 she also held an Honorary Professorship and a Chair in Development Economics at the University of Maastricht, The Netherlands.

Professor Mytelka's research covers a broad range of issues in development, science and technology, including innovation systems and policies, technological upgrading in traditional industries, North-South co-operation, biotechnology, strategic partnerships, foreign direct investment and competitiveness. She has undertaken numerous research, capacity building projects and consultancies for governments and international agencies, including the EU, OECD, UNDP, UNCTAD and UNIDO, Her recent publications include (with Grant Boyle),Making Choices About Hydrogen:Transport Issues for Developing Countries, (2008) UNU Press (Tokyo) & IDRC (Canada) and Innovation and Economic Development, (2007) Cheltenham, UK, Edward Elgar.

Shonali Pachauri
Deputy Program Leader of the Population and Climate Change Program and Research Scholar in the Energy Program, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA)

Shonali Pachauri is an energy and environmental economist. She is Deputy Program Leader of the Population and Climate Change Program and Research Scholar in the Energy Program at IIASA, where she has worked since October 2005.

Dr. Shonali Pachauri received her Ph.D. from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETHZ) in 2002, following which she worked as a Post Doc with the Centre for Energy Policy and Economics at ETHZ. She also holds a Master’s degree in Environmental and Resource Economics from University College London.

Her research interests include the analysis of the socio-economics of energy access, use and choice; resource use and access in relationship to lifestyles, poverty and development; energy demand and fuel choice modeling; and the analysis of embodied energy of household consumption in developing countries.

Keywan Riahi
Acting Program Leader, Energy (ENE) Program, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) and Technical University Graz, Austria

Keywan Riahi is currently Acting Program Leader fo the Energy Program and serves as a Senior Research Scholar in both the Energy and the Transitions to New Technologies Programs at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA); and holds in addition also a part-time position as Visiting Professor in the field of Energy Systems Analysis at the Graz University of Technology, Austria.

Prof. Riahi is the author of many scientific journal articles, and has co-authored and guest-edited books and Special Journal Issues in the fields of energy and climate change.

Since 1998 he has served as a Lead Author to various Assessment Reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), including the IPCC's Third and Fourth Assessment Reports, the IPCC's Special Report on Emissions Scenarios (SRES), and the Special Report on CO2 Capture and Storage (SRCCS).

Prof. Riahi is member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Energy Economics, and serves on the Executive Committee of the Global Energy Assessment (GEA) and the Executive Committee of the Integrated Assessment Modeling Consortium (IAMC). His work within international modeling comparison projects, such as the Stanford-based Energy Modeling Forum (EMF), focuses on the spatial and temporal characteristics of technology diffusion and the path-dependent development of the energy system under alternative policy configurations.

Prof. Riahi’s main research interests are the long-term patterns of technological change and economic development and, in particular, the evolution of the energy system. His present research focuses on energy-related sources of global change, and on future development and response strategies for mitigating adverse environmental impacts, such as global warming and acidification. This also includes research in the area of technology assessment of advanced energy systems with particular focus on the hydrogen energy infrastructure and carbon capture and sequestration technologies.

Johan Rockström
Executive Director, Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI) and the Stockholm Resilience Centre, and Professor, Stockholm University

Johan Rockström is the Executive Director of the Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI) and the Stockholm Resilience Centre. He is a Professor in Natural Resource Management at Stockholm University and a guest Professor at the Beijing Normal University. He is a leading international scientist on global water resources and sustainable development, with more than 15 years experience of research on agriculture, water resources and ecosystems and integrated water resource management in tropical regions, with more than 50 peer reviewed scientific articles and several books in fields of global environmental change, resilience and sustainability, agricultural water management, watershed hydrology, global water resources and food production, and eco-hydrology. He has served as advisor to several international organizations, governments and the European Union on sustainability and development, and is a frequented key-note speaker to several international research, policy and development arenas on sustainable development, global environmental change, and resilience thinking. He serves on several international committees and boards, including the scientific advisory board of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact research, the scientific overview committee of ICSU, the executive board of the Resilience Alliance, and the board of WaterAid Sweden.

Hans-Holger Rogner
Section Head, Planning and Economic Studies Section (PESS), Department of Nuclear Energy, International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)

Dr. Rogner received a Master of Science degree in industrial engineering and a PhD in energy economics and applied systems analysis from the University of Karlsruhe, Germany. His early research at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) in Laxenburg, Austria concentrated on technology change and energy system modeling.

From 1990-1997 he directed the System Analysis Group at the Institute for Integrated Energy Systems, University of Victoria, in Canada, concentrating on integrated resource planning and hydrogen energy systems. In 1997 Hans-Holger joined the IAEA as Section Head, Planning and Economic Studies Section. His current work focuses on the contributions to sustainable energy development of different energy supply and demand options, capacity building in energy-environment planning in developing countries, and nuclear knowledge management, including the role of the IAEA’s International Nuclear Information System (INIS).

He has contributed to two parliamentary inquiry commissions of the German Bundestag on atmospheric protection, served several times as a lead author or convening lead author for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, represented the IAEA in activities of the United Nation Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), collaborated on major global energy analyses including “Global Energy Perspectives”, a joint study by IIASA and the World Energy Council (WEC), and the “World Energy Assessment” prepared by the United Nations Development Programme, the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs and WEC.

Joyashree Roy
Professor, Jadavpur University, India

Joyashree Roy is Professor of Economics, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India. Prof. Roy’s broad area of research is Resource and Environmental Economics. She has made major contributions in the field of energy demand modeling, including application ranging from non renewables to renewable resources and from urban to rural problems. Her work is oriented towards the industry sector and econometric model building and statistical analysis, especially for deriving policy implications for developing countries with special reference to the Indian economy. Prof. Roy employs databases ranging from primary data from field survey to secondary data and macro data such as input-output tables have been used at various stages. Her current focus of research is on Economic and Social Dimensions of Climate Change and on water resource management.

Ralph Sims
Professor of Sustainable Energy and Director, Centre for Energy Research, Massey University, New Zealand

Ralph Sims began his career in Sustainable Energy as an agricultural engineer at Massey University, New Zealand in 1971 making and testing biodiesel. He was recently Senior Analyst at the IEA (International Energy Agency), Paris for 4 years, during which time he worked on a wide range of reports including the 550 and 450 ppm Policy Scenarios of the IEA World Energy Outlook 2008; Renewable Energy Heating and Cooling 2007; From 1st to 2nd Generation Biofuels 2008; Cities Towns and Renewable Energy – YIMFY- Yes In My Front Yard 2009. He has now returned to his position at Massey University as Professor of Sustainable Energy, and Director, Centre for Energy Research.

For the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) he was a lead author for the IPCC 3rd
Assessment Report-Mitigation covering agriculture and renewable energy; co-ordinating lead author (CLA) for the IPCC 4th Assessment report for the “Energy Supply” chapter; is currently CLA for the “Integration” chapter of the IPCC Special Report on Renewable Energy, due for publication early 2011; and has just been appointed as CLA for the “Transport” chapter in the 5th Assessment report to commence in 2011. He is also a Fellow of the Institute of Professional Engineers, the UK Institute of Agricultural Engineers and a Companion of the Royal Society of New Zealand.

Robert N. Schock
Director of Studies, World Energy Council (WEC), United States

Robert Schock is Director of Studies for the World Energy Council (WEC) in London and a consultant to industry, laboratories and governments worldwide. For WEC he is responsible for global studies for the World Energy Congress in 2007 (Energy Policy Scenarios, Energy and Climate Change, Survey of Energy Resources) and the next Congress in Montreal in 2010, including the new Energy and Climate Policy Assessment. He is also a Senior Fellow in the Center for Global Security Research (CGSR) and was a Coordinating Lead Author (Energy Sources) for the 4th Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

He has been involved extensively in assisting the US Department of Energy with energy technology R&D strategy development. He joined Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in 1968 as senior scientist, then group leader (high pressure physics), section leader, division leader (earth sciences), department head, and associate director (energy). In these roles he initiated and led programs in advanced energy technologies including alternative magnetic-fusion energy concepts, hydrogen fuels, geothermal, in-situ coal gasification, oil shale retorting, high-level nuclear waste disposition, environmental restoration and waste management, as well as energy policy analysis. He has testified before the US Congress on pending legislation and is the author of over 100 scientific papers and technical reports. He has served on the editorial boards of five scientific journals and technical books, in addition to the advisory boards of the Gas Technology Institute and the University of California’s Energy Institute and Institute for Transportation Studies.

Kirk Smith
Professor of Environmental Health Sciences, University of California, United States

Kirk R. Smith is Professor of Global Environmental Health at the University of California, Berkeley. He is also founder and coordinator of the campus-wide Masters Program in Global Health and Environment. Previously, he was founder and head of the Energy Program of the East-West Center in Honolulu, where he still holds appointment as Adjunct Senior Fellow in Environment and Health after moving to Berkeley in 1995. He is also a Visiting Senior Scientist at the Woods Hole Research Center. His research work focuses on environmental and health issues related to energy in developing countries, particularly those related to health-damaging and climate-changing air pollution, and includes ongoing field projects in India, China, Nepal, Mexico, and Guatemala. He serves on a number of national and international scientific advisory and editorial boards and has published over 250 scientific articles and 7 books. He holds bachelors, masters, and doctoral degrees from UC Berkeley and, in 1997, was elected member of the US National Academy of Sciences, one of the highest honors awarded to US scientists by their peers.

Wim C. Turkenburg
Scientific Director, Copernicus Institute for Sustainable Development and Innovation, Utrecht University, Netherlands

Wim C. Turkenburg is Professor and head of department of Science, Technology and Society at the Utrecht University, and he is scientific director of the Copernicus Institute for Sustainable Development and Innovation of Utrecht University. Also he is a member of the board of the Energy Research Centre of the Netherlands. In addition he is a member of the Executive Committee of the Global Energy Assessment, vice-chairman of the Dutch research programme on CO2 Capture, Transport and Storage, member of the Netherlands Platform Communication on Climate Change, and member of the editorial board of the scientific journal Energy for Sustainable Development. From 1997 to 2004, he was a member of the Council on Housing, Physical Planning, and Environment (VROM-raad) of the Netherlands. Also he was scientific director of the Utrecht Centre for Energy Research UCE), and a member of the General Energy Council (AER) of the Netherlands.

He is author or co-author of many articles and publications on renewable energy, energy system analysis, energy technology assessment, energy policies, and climate change. He has served on numerous national and international boards and working groups, including the board of the Netherlands' Physical Society (NNV), the Dutch division of the International Solar Energy Society, the working group on renewable energy of the World Energy Council, the working group on energy supply mitigation options of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, and the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources for Development of the United Nations (UN-CENRD). He also served on the Editorial Board of the World Energy Assessment (1998-2004) and was Convening Lead Author of the WEA chapter on Renewable Energy Technologies.

Diana Ürge-Vorsatz
Professor and Director, Center for Climate Change and Sustainable Energy Policy, Department of Environmental Sciences and Policy, Central European University, Hungary

Diana Ürge-Vorsatz is Director of the Center for Climate Change and Sustainable Energy Policy (3CSEP) at Central European University (CEU) in Budapest, Hungary, and Professor at CEU’s Department of Environmental Sciences and Policy. She conducted her Ph.D. studies at the University of California (Berkeley and Los Angeles), and has been a Fulbright Scholar.

After 4 years of dissertation writing and research at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in the USA, Diana Ürge-Vorsatz returned to Europe and has been devoting her research and teaching activities to the promotion of sustainable energy policy for the Central and Eastern European region. She has worked on and directed several international research projects for organisations including the European Commission, the European Parliament, the Global Environment Facility, United Nations Environment Programme, the World Energy Council, the International Energy Agency, the European Climate Foundation, Climate Strategies and the World Bank. She has been regularly advising the Hungarian government as well on environmental, climate change and energy issues.

Dr. Ürge-Vorsatz has authored and co-authored over 80 publications, and has been serving on several advisory and governing bodies of organisations including the Advisory Board of European Climate Foundation, UK Energy Research Centre, REEEP (the Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Partnership), the Hungarian Energy Efficiency Cofinancing Program (HEECP), the European Council for an Energy Efficient Economy (ECEEE), and the Collaborative Appliance Labelling and Standards Programme (CLASP), among others. She acted as a Coordinating Lead Author for the Fourth Assessment Report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) for the chapter “Climate Change Mitigation in Buildings”, served on the United Nations Special Expert Group on Climate Change, and is a member of the United Nations Foundation’s expert group on energy efficiency advising the German G8+5 process. She is an Associate Editor for the journal “Energy Efficiency”. Currently, she serves as Lead Author for the IPCC’s Special Report on Renewable Energy Sources.

Dr. Ürge-Vorsatz has been acknowledged for her contribution to the work of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change that shared the Nobel Peace Prize of 2007. She has received the Hungarian Republic’s Presidential Award “Medium Cross” in March 2008, and has been distinguished with the Role Model Award of Pannon Példakép Foundation as one of Hungary’s role models in March 2009.

Frank von Hippel
Professor of Public and International Affairs, Program on Science and Global Security, Princeton University and Co-chair International Panel on Fissile Materials

Prof. von Hippel has a PhD in nuclear physics (1962). In the 1980s, as chairman of the Federation of American Scientists, he partnered with Evgenyi Velikhov in advising Mikhail Gorbachev on the technical basis for steps to end the nuclear arms race. In 1994-5, he served as Assistant Director for National Security in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. Prof. von Hippel and his colleagues have worked on fissile material policy issues for the past 30 years, including contributions to: ending the U.S. program to foster the commercialization of plutonium breeder reactors, convincing President Gorbachev to embrace the idea of a Fissile Material Production Cutoff Treaty, launching the U.S.-Russian cooperative nuclear materials protection, control and accounting program, and broadening efforts to eliminate the use of high-enriched uranium in civilian reactors worldwide.

Kurt E. Yeager
President Emeritus, Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) and Executive Director, Galvin Electricity Initiative

Kurt E. Yeager retired as President and Chief Executive Officer of the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) in September 2004.  Since retiring from EPRI, Mr. Yeager is serving as Executive Director of the non-profit Galvin Electricity Initiative that is focused on transforming the reliability and value of U.S. electricity service. Mr. Yeager is a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and has served on several National Academy of Engineering Committees and the Energy Research Advisory Board to the Secretary of Energy. Mr. Yeager has authored over 200 technical papers and publications on energy and environmental topics. Most recently, he co-authored with Bob Galvin the 2008 McGraw-Hill published book entitled, “Perfect Power”.

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