Dr Tariq Banuri | Tariq Banuri heads the United Nations Division for Sustainable Development. He was Coordinating Lead Author on Nobel Prize-winning Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change while heading the Future Sustainability Program, Stockholm Environment Institute. In Pakistan, he served as: founding Executive Director, Sustainable Development Policy Institute; member, Central Bank’s Board of Governors; member, Environmental Protection Council, member/secretary, Presidential Steering Committee on Higher Education. He also served as Research Fellow, World Institute for Development Economics Research; Chairperson, Board of Governors, International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development and founding member, the Great Transition Initiative. He received a PhD in Economics from Harvard University. |
| Director, Division for Sustainable Development, United Nations | Prof Nigel Brandon, FREng | Professor Nigel Brandon FREng is Director of the Energy Futures Lab at Imperial College London, Senior Research Fellow to the UK Research Council energy programme and UK Government Office of Science Focal Point in Energy with China. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining, the Energy Institute, and of the City and Guilds of London. His research interests focus on energy systems, and in particular on fuel cell technology. He was awarded the 2007 Silver Medal from the Royal Academy of Engineering for his contribution to engineering leading to commercial exploitation.
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| Director, Energy Futures Lab, Imperial College London | Dr Simon Buckle, CMG | Simon became Policy Director at the Grantham Institute in September 2007. This followed a career of some 20 years in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and the Bank of England. Immediately prior to his appointment, Simon was a senior British diplomat in Paris, responsible for a range of global policy issues, including climate change. This followed spells as Deputy Ambassador in Kabul and Political Counsellor in Iraq. Simon originally worked as a theoretical physicist. He was awarded a CMG in the 2007 New Year’s Honours and is a Fellow of the Institute of Physics.
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| Director, Climate Policy, Grantham Institute, Imperial College London | Secretary Steven Chu | Dr Steven Chu, distinguished scientist and co-winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics (1997), was appointed by President Obama as the 12th Secretary of Energy and sworn into office on January 21, 2009. Dr Chu has devoted his recent scientific career to the search for new solutions to our energy challenges and stopping global climate change – a mission he continues with even greater urgency as Secretary of Energy. He is charged with helping implement President Obama’s ambitious agenda to invest in alternative and renewable energy, end our addiction to foreign oil, address the global climate crisis and create millions of new jobs. Prior to his appointment, Dr Chu was director of DOE’s Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, and professor of Physics and Molecular and Cell Biology at the University of California. He successfully applied the techniques he developed in atomic physics to molecular biology, and since 2004, motivated by his deep interest in climate change, he has recently led the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab in pursuit of new alternative and renewable energies. Previously, he held positions at Stanford University and ATandT Bell Laboratories.
Professor Chu’s research in atomic physics, quantum electronics, polymer and biophysics includes tests of fundamental theories in physics, the development of methods to laser cool and trap atoms, atom interferometry, and the manipulation and study of polymers and biological systems at the single molecule level. While at Stanford, he helped start Bio-X, a multi-disciplinary initiative that brings together the physical and biological sciences with engineering and medicine. Secretary Chu is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Academica Sinica, the Korean Academy of Sciences and Technology and numerous other civic and professional organisations. He received an AB degree in mathematics, a BS degree in physics from the University of Rochester, a PhD in physics from the University of California, Berkeley as well as honorary degrees from 10 universities. |
| Secretary of Energy, US Department of Energy | Mrs Polly Courtice, LVO | Polly Courtice is Director of the University of Cambridge Programme for Sustainability Leadership. She is also Co-Director and Chief Executive of both The Prince of Wales’s Business & the Environment Programme and The Prince of Wales’s Corporate Leaders Group on Climate Change. Polly is a member of the University’s Council for Lifelong Learning and serves on the Board of the Institute for Continuing Education. She is Academic Director of Cambridge University’s Post-Graduate Certificate in Sustainable Business. Polly is a Director of Jupiter Green Investment Trust and chairs Anglian Water’s Advisory Group on Climate Change and Economic Growth. In 2007 she was appointed by Al Gore to run his Climate Project in the UK, helping leaders deepen their understanding of climate change and explore appropriate action. In 2008 Polly was made a Lieutenant of the Victorian Order (LVO) announced in the Queen’s Birthday Honours list.
Her first degree was from the University of Cape Town and she has an MA from the University of Cambridge.
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| Director, University of Cambridge Programme for Sustainability Leadership | Prof Ottmar Edenhofer | Prof Ottmar Edenhofer is Professor of the Economics of Climate Change at the Technical University Berlin and Co-Chair of the Working Group III of the IPCC. He is Deputy Director and Chief Economist at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research and is currently leading Research Domain III, which focuses on the research on the Economics of Atmospheric Stabilisation. Prof Edenhofer studied Economics and Philosophy at the University of Munich and holds a Diploma in Economics from Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München and a BA in Philosophy. He worked as research assistant at the Technical University Darmstadt and wrote his Ph.D. in Economics in 1999. |
| Co-Chair of Working Group III of the IPCC, Deputy Director and Chief Economist of PIK | Prof Richard Ernst | Richard R Ernst was educated as a physical chemist at ETH Zürich and finished his studies with a PhD in Chemistry in 1962. After five years at Varian Associates in Palo Alto, California, he started an academic career at ETH Zürich. He was retired in 1998. He spent his research activities in nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) for which he received the 1991 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. At present he is concerned with the relation between science and society, emphasising the responsibility of academics for finding beneficial avenues for the global future. He is also involved in studies of central Asian art.
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| ETH Zürich | Dr Martin Frick | Martin Frick is Deputy CEO/Director of the Global Humanitarian Forum. A German diplomat prior to joining the Forum, Dr Frick served as the Deputy Ambassador in Albania, was the Cabinet Affairs Advisor to the German Foreign Minister and has been the German representative to a Committee of the UNGA and the NGO committee of the UNECOSOC. He also worked on human rights resolutions of the UN Security Council. In 2007, during the German EU presidency, Dr Frick was involved in the building of the UN Human Rights Council and in negotiating resolutions. In October 2007 Dr Frick joined the GHF. |
| Global Humanitarian Forum | Sir Richard Friend, FRS | Sir Richard Friend has been on the Faculty in the Department of Physics, University of Cambridge, since 1980, where he is the Cavendish Professor of Physics. He has pioneered the study of organic polymers as semiconductors, and his research group has demonstrated that these materials can be used in a wide range of semiconductor devices, including light-emitting diodes and transistors. He has been very active in the process of technology transfer of this research to development for products. He co-founded Cambridge Display Technology Ltd in 1994. Light-emitting polymer displays developed by Cambridge Display Technology are now being manufactured under licence and are now used in a number of consumer products. He co-founded Plastic Logic Ltd in 2000 to develop directly-printed polymer transistor circuits, and these are now being developed as flexible active-matrix backplanes for e-paper displays. |
| Cavendish Professor of Physics, University of Cambridge | Lord Anthony Giddens | Anthony Giddens is a member of the House of Lords, a Fellow of King’s College, Cambridge and Emeritus Professor at the London School of Economics. He was Director of the LSE from 1997–2003, and was made a peer in 2004. He was the BBC Reith Lecturer in 1999. According to Google Scholar, he is the most widely cited sociologist in the world. His many books include The Constitution of Society (1984); Beyond Left and Right (1994); The Third Way (1998) and Europe in the Global Age (2006). His most recent major work is The Politics of Climate Change (2009). |
| Member, House of Lords | Mr David Gordon-Macleod | David Gordon-Macleod has Degrees in Geography and Climatology and International Relations. He has been a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society since the mid 1970s. He has spent most of his career in the British Diplomatic Service, with postings in South America, Africa, Europe and Australasia. He has travelled extensively with destinations including the Amazon, New Guinea, West African rainforests, Antarctica, the north of Canada and Siberia. He has led three rainforest expeditions in Papua New Guinea between 2004 and 2007.
He has a passionate long term interest in climatology and climate change, especially the contribution of deforestation of tropical rainforests to it. He is currently working with BBC Film Producer, Steve Greenwood on a rainforest project in Papua New Guinea.
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| Global Project Manager, Foreign & Commonwealth Office | Prof David Gross | David Gross is the Director of the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics at UCSB, and previously Thomas Jones Professor of Mathematical Physics at Princeton University. He has been a central figure in particle physics and string theory; including the discovery of asymptotic freedom and the consequent development of quantum chromodynamics, the theory of the strong nuclear force. He has also made seminal contributions to the theory of superstrings that brings gravity into the quantum framework. His awards include the Sakurai Prize, MacArthur Prize, Dirac Medal, Harvey Prize, the Grande Medaille d’Or and the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2004.
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| Director and Frederick Gluck Professor of Theoretical Physics | Michael Grubb | Michael Grubb is Chief Economist at the UK Carbon Trust, and Chairman of the international research organisation Climate Strategies. He is also a part-time Senior Research Associate at the Faculty of Economics at Cambridge University and a visiting Professor at Imperial College London. He was recently appointed to the UK Climate Change Committee, advising the government on future carbon budgets and reporting to Parliament on their implementation. Michael is author of seven books, fifty journal research articles and numerous other publications. He has held numerous advisory positions with governments, companies and international studies on climate change and energy policy, and has been a Lead Author for several reports of the IPCC on mitigation. He is editor-in-chief of the journal Climate Policy and is on the editorial board of Energy Policy.
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| Chief Economist, the Carbon Trust | Prof Mohamed Hassan | Mohamed H A Hassan is Executive Director of TWAS – the Academy of Sciences for the Developing World and President of the African Academy of Sciences (AAS). Born in Sudan in 1947, holds a PhD in Plasma Physics (University of Oxford, UK, 1974). Former dean, School of Mathematical Sciences, University of Khartoum, he received the order of scientific merit of Brazil. Fellow of TWAS, AAS, Islamic Academy of, he is member of the Academies in Colombia, Belgium and Pakistan. Hassan’s research areas include theoretical plasma physics, physics of wind erosion and sand transport. |
| Executive Director, Academy of Sciences for the Developing World and President, African Academy of Sciences | Prof Sir Brian Hoskins | Sir Brian Hoskins is a Royal Society Research Professor at the University of Reading. In January 2008 he became the first Director of the Grantham Institute for Climate Change at Imperial College London. He is currently a member of the UK Committee on Climate Change. He was knighted in 2007 for his services to the environment. He is a member of the scientific academies of the UK, USA and China, and has played significant roles in international weather and climate research and in the Nobel Prize winning international climate change assessments. |
| Director, Grantham Institute for Climate Change | Sir John Houghton | John Houghton is a former Professor of Atmospheric Physics, University of Oxford (1976–83), Director General, UK Meteorological Office (1983–91), Chair or Co-Chair, Scientific Assessment Working Group Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (1988–2002), Chair UK Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution (1992–98). He is currently President of the John Ray Initiative (a charity concerned with environmental sustainability) and a Trustee of the Shell Foundation. His many awards include the Japan Prize (2006), International Meteorological Organization Prize (1998) and gold medals from the Royal Meteorological Society and the Royal Astronomical Society. His books include ‘Global Warming: the Complete Briefing’ (4th edition 2009). |
| President, John Ray Initiative | Tony Juniper | Tony Juniper is a well known environmental campaigner and commentator. He began his career as an ornithologist, working with Birdlife International. From 1990 he worked at Friends of the Earth and has was the organisation’s executive director from 2003–2008. He was also the Vice Chair of Friends of the Earth International from 2000–2008. Tony Juniper now works in a variety of roles. He is a Special Advisor to the Prince of Wales’s Rainforest Project and a Senior Associate with the Cambridge Programme for Sustainability Leadership. He speaks and writes on environmental issues and sits on several advisory panels. Tony is the author of several books, including ‘How Many Light Bulbs Does It Take To Change A Planet?’. |
| Senior Associate, CPSL and Special Advisor, PRP | Lise Kingo | Lise Kingo joined Novo Nordisk’s Enzyme Promotion in 1988 and over the years worked to build up the company’s Triple Bottom Line approach. In 1999, Ms Kingo was appointed vice president, Stakeholder Relations. She was appointed executive vice president, Corporate Relations, in March 2002. Ms Kingo serves as chair of the board of Steno Diabetes Center A/S, Denmark. She is also professor at the Medical Faculty, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Ms Kingo has a BA in Religions and a BA in Ancient Greek Art from the University of Aarhus, Denmark, from 1986, a BComm in Marketing Economics from the Copenhagen Business School, Denmark, from 1991, and a MSc in Responsibility and Business Practice from the University of Bath, UK, from 2000. Ms Kingo is a Danish national, born on 3 August 1961.
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| Executive Vice President, Novo Nordisk AS | Dr Walter Kohn | Walter Kohn received his PhD in nuclear physics from Harvard University. He has been a faculty member at Harvard, Carnegie Mellon University, and the University of California at San Diego and at Santa Barbara. He was the founding director Institute of Theoretical Physics in Santa Barbara, California. In recent years he served as a member of the DOE's Advisory Committee on Basic Energy Sciences. His awards include the Niels Bohr/Unesco Gold Medal, the National Medal of Science and the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1998. In 2005 he made a documentary on solar power entitled ‘The Power of the Sun’. |
| Research Professor of Physics and Chemistry | Dr Jules Kortenhorst | Dr Jules Kortenhorst is the CEO of the European Climate Foundation, the largest philanthropic organisation in Europe focused on influencing government policy to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Before joining the ECF, he served as a member of the Dutch parliament for the Christian Democratic Party. Earlier, Kortenhorst was the CEO for International Operations of ClientLogic Corporation, an outsourced Customer Relationship Management company. Earlier in his career, Kortenhorst worked for eight years for the Royal Dutch/Shell Group in several roles and countries. Kortenhorst holds masters degrees from Harvard Business School and in economics from Erasmus University. |
| Chief Executive Officer, European Climate Foundation | Dr Martin Kremer | Martin Kremer is a career diplomat with the German Foreign Ministry, having served, among other postings, in Geneva, New York and Moscow. Between 1998 and 2006 he worked on the ministry’s Planning Staff where he was involved in consideration of European, economic and environmental issues. Martin is currently posted to London. As head of Science and Political Counsellor his responsibilities include climate and energy security as well as counter terrorism. Martin is a lawyer by training and received a Master in Comperative Law from the University of Miami/Fl. His interests beyond work include politics, film and opera. |
| First Counsellor, Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany | Sir Harold Kroto | 1958–64 BSc and PhD, Sheffield University; 1967–2004 Sussex University; 2004– Professor of Chemistry at Florida State University; 1996 Knighthood; 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry; President, Royal Society of Chemistry 2001–2003; Copley Medal and Faraday lecturer of The Royal Society; Chairman of the Vega Science Trust, producer of 200 TV and internet science programmes. Key activities: research in nanotechnology and science educational outreach. |
| Professor, Florida State University | Prof Klaus Lackner | Klaus S Lackner is Ewing-Worzel Professor of Geophysics in the Department of Earth and Environmental Engineering, and Director of the Lenfest Center for Sustainable Energy of the Earth Institute at Columbia University. PhD: University of Heidelberg; postdoctoral positions: California Institute of Technology and the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center; Lackner was at Los Alamos National Laboratory 1983–2001. Research topics focus on carbon management, specifically the capture of carbon dioxide. Lackner is a member of GRT, a company that hopes to develop a commercially viable device to capture CO2 from the air, with the intent of mitigating the effects of climate change. |
| Ewing-Worzel Professor of Geophysics, Earth Institute at Columbia University | Prof Yuan Tseh Lee | Born in Taiwan in 1936, Yuan T Lee received his early education in Taiwan and Doctorate from UC Berkeley. He went to Harvard as a post-doctoral fellow in 1967. He had faculty appointments at University of Chicago and UC Berkeley. He was University Professor and Principal Investigator at the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, UC Berkeley, before he became President of Academia Sinica (1994–2006). He has received the 1986 Nobel Prize in Chemistry and Doctor Honoris Causa from 35 universities. In 2008 he was elected to be the next President of the International Council for Science (ICSU). |
| President Emeritus and Distinguished Research Fellow | Prof Wolfgang Lucht  | Wolfgang Lucht is the Alexander von Humboldt Chair in Sustainability Science at Humboldt University Berlin and Chair of the Department of Climate Impacts and Vulnerability at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research. Trained as a physicist, he has been a researcher in earth observation, global biogeochemical biosphere and land use modelling, and in earth system analysis. His interests are in biosphere–anthroposphere interactions and sustainability. Keywords of his current research are global and regional impact model integration, material flows, socioeconomic metabolism, bioenergy scenarios, biome shifts, global land use patterns and societal self-engineering in the anthropocene. |
| Chair, PIK Research Domain II: Climate Impacts and Vulnerabilities, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research | Prof Wangari Maathai | Wangari Muta Maathai was born in Nyeri, Kenya, in 1940, the daughter of farmers in the highlands of Mount Kenya. The first woman in East and Central Africa to earn a doctoral degree, she subsequently became an associate Professor in Veterinary Anatomy in 1977 at the University of Nairobi. In the same year, she founded the Green Belt Movement, a grassroots environmental organisation which has assisted women and their families in planting more than 40 million trees across Kenya to protect the environment and promote sustainable livelihoods.
Since this time, Wangari Maathai has campaigned tirelessly for democracy, human rights and environmental conservation. She played a key role in the campaign to cancel debt in Africa and has fought for the protection of public forests. In 2004, Wangari Maathai was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, recognising that for peace there needs to be sustainable and equitable distribution of resources. She is the Goodwill Ambassador to the Congo Forest Basin and a member of the Nobel Women’s Initiative. |
| Founder, Green Belt Movement, Kenya Office | Prof David MacKay | David MacKay is a Professor in the Department of Physics at Cambridge University. He obtained his PhD in Computation and Neural Systems at the California Institute of Technology. His research interests include reliable computation with unreliable hardware, and communication systems for the disabled. He’s written a textbook on ‘Information Theory, Inference, and Learning Algorithms’ (2003, Cambridge), and a free book on ‘Sustainable Energy - without the hot air’. (www.withouthotair.com)
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| Professor of Natural Philosophy, University of Cambridge | Prof Yadvinder Malhi | Professor Yadvinder Malhi’s work focuses on how climate change affects tropical rainforests, and on how protection of tropical forests can assist in adaptation to climate change, and in mitigation of climate change. His recent publications have presented a systematic evaluation of the threat that climate change poses to the Amazon rainforest. He has worked for 15 years in many forests across Amazonia, and more recently in Africa and Asia. He is Director of the newly formed Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests, which takes an interdisciplinary approach to investigate the key challenges to tropical forests in the 21st century. |
| Professor of Ecosystem Science, University of Oxford | Prof Eric Maskin | Eric Maskin is an economic theorist best known for his work on the theory of mechanism design. For laying the foundations of this field he shared the 2007 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics. He has also made contributions to game theory, social choice theory, voting theory, monetary theory, contract theory, and the economics of intellectual property, among other areas. He is currently Albert O Hirschman Professor of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton. |
| Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton | Prof James McCarthy | Prof James J McCarthy is Chair of the American Association of the Advancement of Science and Alexander Agassiz Professor of Biological Oceanography at Harvard University. He teaches courses on ocean and climate science and oversees Harvard’s programme in Environmental Science and Public Policy. His research interests relate to marine plankton, biogeochemical cycles and climate. He has served on many national and international groups charged with planning and implementing studies of global change. He was co-chair of Working Group II for the Third Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Assessment (2001) and lead author of the Arctic Climate Impact Assessment (2004). |
| Professor, Harvard University | Dr Malte Meinhausen | Malte Meinshausen holds a PhD in Climate Science and Policy and a Diploma in Environmental Sciences from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Switzerland. In 2000, he got a MSc in Environmental Change and Management from the University of Oxford. Before joining the PIK in September 2006, he was a Post-Doc at the National Centre for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado. He has been contributing author to various chapters in Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC AR4). Currently, he is leading the PRIMAP (Potsdam Real-time Integrated Model for probabilistic Assessment of emission Path) research group. |
| Senior Researcher, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research | Prof Dr Dirk Messner | Dirk Messner, Director of the German Development Institute in Bonn (www.die-gdi.de); Prof for polictical sciences/ University of Duisburg-Essen, Vice-Chair of the German Advisory Council on Global Change; Member of the China Council for International Cooperation on Environment and Development. Areas of specialisation: globalisation and global governance; climate change, development and security; international development Popicy. Recent publications: (with Raphael Kaplinsky), ‘The Impact of Asian Drivers of Global Change Change on the Developing World, Special Issue, World Development’, Vol. 36, No. 2, 2008; (with John Schellnhuber et al.): ‘Climate Change as a Security Risk’, London 2008, Earthscan. |
| Director, German Development Institute | Dr Bert Metz | Dr Bert Metz led the Netherlands delegation to the negotiations on the Kyoto Protocol. Thereafter he led the climate change and global sustainability group at the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency and was elected co-chairman of the Working Group on Climate Change Mitigation of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change for the Third Assessment Report. In 2002 he was re-elected in for the 4th Assessment Report cycle. He currently is a Fellow with the European Climate Foundation and a leading member of the ClimateWorks Foundation Catalyst project team, providing analysis and a discussion platform for the ongoing international climate change negotiations. |
| Fellow, European Climate Foundation | Prof Dr Meyer-Krahmer  | 20 December 1949: born in Heidelberg, married, 2 daughters;
1968–1975 Studies of Mathematics, Economics and Political Science in Heidelberg, Bonn, Frankfurt; 1978: Dr. rer. pol. at Frankfurt University; 1982: period of research at Yale University, USA; 1986–1990: Head of the Industry and Technology Department at the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW); 1989: habilitation (professorial qualification) at Stuttgart University; 1990–2005: Head of the Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research (ISI); since 1995: Professor of Economics with focus on Innovation Economics at Louis Pasteur University, Strasbourg, France;
since February 2005: State Secretary at the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research. |
| State Secretary, Federal Ministry of Education and Research, Germany | Prof James Mirrlees | Sir James Mirrlees born, 1936, and raised in Scotland, degrees in mathematics at Edinburgh University and Cambridge, PhD (Cambridge) in economics, on the theory of planning under uncertainty. 1963–68: Lecturer in Economics in Cambridge, and Fellow of Trinity College. 1968–95: Edgeworth Professor of Economics in Oxford, Fellow of Nuffield College. 1995–2003: Professor of Political Economy in Cambridge. Now Distinguished Professor-at-Large in the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Nobel Prize in 1996, for work on incentives, particularly on income taxation. Foreign Member, US National Academy of Sciences; Fellow, Econometric Society; Fellow, British Academy; Fellow, Royal Society of Edinburgh. |
| Professor-at-Large, Chinese University of Hong Kong | Andrew Mitchell | Andrew W Mitchell is a leading authority on tropical forests and climate change. He has extensive field experience in Asia, Africa and Latin America, combined with a 35-year career spanning science, journalism, and climate policy. In 2001, he founded the Global Canopy Programme (GCP), an international network linking 38 leading scientific institutions in 19 countries, engaged in research investigating the impact of climate change on biodiversity and ecosystem services from forest canopies. He is a Research Associate at the Zoology Department, University of Oxford, a Director of Canopy Capital and is a Special Advisor to the Prince’s Rainforests Project. |
| Founder & Director, Global Canopy Programme | Prof Mario Molina | Mario J Molina is a Professor at the University of California, San Diego, and President of the Mario Molina Center in Mexico. In the 1970’s he drew attention to the threat to the ozone layer from industrial chlorofluorocarbon (CFC) gases that were being used as propellants in spray cans, refrigerants, solvents, etc. More recently, he has been involved with the chemistry of air pollution, and with the science and policy of climate change. Professor Molina was born in Mexico City, Mexico. He has received numerous awards for his scientific work including the 1995 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
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| President, Mario Molina Center for Strategic Studies in Energy and the Environment, Mexico City | Prof Dr Nebojsa Nakicenovic | Nebojsa Nakicenovic is Deputy Director at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Professor of Energy Economics at the Vienna University of Technology, Director of Global Energy Assessment (GEA), Advisor of the World Bank Development Report 2010: Climate Change, Member of the Advisory Council of the German Government on Global Change (WBGU), Chairman of the Advisory Board of ‘Future Energy Fund’ of OMV. He has been Coordinating and Convening Lead Author in a number of reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (MEA), World Energy Assessment (WEA), and principal investigator in various research projects. |
| Deputy Director, IIASA and University Professor of Energy Economics, TU Vienna | Prof Douglas Osheroff | Douglas Osheroff discovered superfluidity in liquid 3He while a graduate student at Cornell University in the fall of 1971. In 1996 he shared the Nobel Prize in Physics for this discovery with his professors David M Lee and Robert C Richardson. After spending fifteen years doing research at AT&T Bell laboratories, Osheroff moved to Stanford University, where he has twice been Chair of the Physics Department. Osheroff was one of the first twenty-one MacArthur Prize Fellows, and has won many other awards for his research work studying the properties of matter near absolute zero. |
| Professor of Physics, Stanford University | Dr Michael Otto | Michael Otto, born in 1943, was Chairman of the executive Board and CEO of the Otto Group between 1981 and 2007. The company is the largest mail order group in the world. Michael Otto is Chairman of the Board of Trustees of WWF Germany and of the Michael Otto Foundation for Environmental Protection, Hamburg. He has received numerous awards including Manager of the Year 1986 and 2001, Environment Manager of the Year 1991, German Environment Award 1997, Business Ethics Award 2001, Sustainable Leadership Award 2002. |
| Chairman of the Supervisory Board, Otto Group, Hamburg | Dr Rajendra Pachauri | Dr Rajendra Kumar Pachauri is the Chair of the Nobel Peace Prize-winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the scientific intergovernmental body that provides decision-makers and the public with an objective source of information about climate change. He is also Director General of TERI (The Energy and Resources Institute), an independent
research organisation providing knowledge on energy, environment, forestry, biotechnology, and the conservation of natural resources. Dr Pachauri is a prominent researcher on environmental subjects, recognised internationally for his efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about manmade climate change and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change. He is active in several international forums dealing with the subject of climate change and its policy dimensions. He was recently awarded the second-highest civilian award in India, the
‘Padma Vibhushan’ and received the ‘Officier De La Légion D’Honneur’ from the Government of France in 2006. |
| Chairman, IPCC; Director-General, TERI | Dr Mike Peirce | Mike Peirce is Deputy Director at the University of Cambridge Programme for Sustainability Leadership (CPSL). He is responsible for the direction of a number of CPSL’s programmes for senior leaders including the St. James’s Palace Nobel Laureate Symposium and the World Bank Sustainable Development Leadership Programme. Prior to CPSL, Mike Peirce was the Chief Operating Officer at the not-for-profit, AccountAbility, where he led the development of the leading international framework for social accountability, AA1000. |
| Deputy Director, University of Cambridge Programme for Sustainability Leadership; Project Director, St. James’s Palace Nobel Laureate Symposium | Prof Edmund Phelps | Edmund Phelps was born in 1933 in Chicago and received his BA from Amherst in 1955 and his PhD from Yale in 1958. After appointments at Yale and Penn he joined Columbia in 1971. He founded the Center on Capitalism and Society in 2001. He won the 2006 Nobel Prize in Economics. This year he was named Chevalier of the Legion of Honor and received the Premio Pico della Mirandola and the Kiel Global Economy Prize. A Phelps Chair was made in his honor at the Universidad de Buenos Aires. In 2001 he was honoured with a Festschrift conference and volume.
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| McVickar Professor of Political Economy, Columbia University | Prof John Polanyi, FRS | Professor the Hon. John Charles Polanyi, PC, FRS, was educated at Manchester University, England, and Princeton University, USA, and is presently a faculty member in the Department of Chemistry, University of Toronto. His research is on molecular motions in chemical reactions. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1986. He has served on the Prime Minister of Canada's Advisory Board on Science and Technology, as Advisor to the Institute for Molecular Sciences, Japan, and the Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics, Germany. He was founding Chairman of the Canadian Pugwash Group and has written extensively on science policy, the control of armaments, and peacekeeping. |
| University of Toronto | Jonathon Porritt, CBE | Jonathon, Co-Founder of Forum for the Future, is an eminent writer, broadcaster and commentator on sustainable development. Established in 1996, Forum for the Future is now the UK’s leading sustainable development charity, with 70 staff and over 100 partner organisations, including some of the world’s leading companies. Jonathon was appointed by the Prime Minister as Chairman of the UK Sustainable Development Commission in July 2000. This is the Government’s principal source of independent advice across the whole sustainable development agenda. In addition, he has been a member of the Board of the South West Regional Development Agency since December 1999, and is Co-Director of The Prince of Wales’s Business and the Environment Programme. In 2005 he became a Non-Executive Director of Wessex Water and a Trustee of the Ashden Awards for Sustainable Energy. He was formerly Director of Friends of the Earth (1984–90); co-chair of the Green Party (1980–83) of which he is still a member; chairman of UNED-UK (1993–96); chairman of Sustainability South West, the South West Round Table for Sustainable Development (1999–2001); and a Trustee of WWF UK (1991–2005). His latest book, ‘Capitalism As If The World Matters’ (Earthscan), was published in November 2005. Jonathon received a CBE in January 2000 for services to environmental protection. |
| Chairman of UK Sustainable Development Commission | Prof Chris Rapley, CBE | Professor Chris Rapley CBE is Director of the Science Museum and Professor of Climate Science at University College London. He was previously Director of the British Antarctic Survey, and Executive Director of the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP) at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm. He was one of the architects of the International Polar Year 2007–2008. He is a Fellow of St Edmund’s College, Cambridge, a Fellow of University College London, and an Honorary Professor at the University of East Anglia.
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| Director, Science Museum | Baron Rees of Ludlow, OM, PRS | Martin Rees is Professor of Cosmology and Astrophysics and Master of Trinity College at the University of Cambridge. He holds the honorary title of Astronomer Royal and also Visiting Professor at Imperial College London and at Leicester University. After studying at the University of Cambridge, he held post-doctoral positions in the UK and the USA, before becoming a professor at Sussex University. In 1973, he became a Fellow of King’s College and Plumian Professor of Astronomy and Experimental Philosophy at Cambridge (continuing in the latter post until 1991) and served for 10 years as director of Cambridge’s Institute of Astronomy. From 1992 to 2003 he was a Royal Society Research Professor. He is a foreign associate of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and is an honorary member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the Pontifical Academy, and several other foreign academies. His awards include the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society, the Balzan International Prize and the Einstein Award of the World Cultural Council. He was appointed to the House of Lords in 2005 and was elected to serve as President of the Royal Society from November 2005. |
| Professor of Cosmology and Astrophysics, University of Cambridge | Prof Burton Richter | Paul Pigott Professor Emeritus in the Physical Sciences; former director, SLAC National Accelerator Center; member, National Academy of Sciences; Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences and American Association for the Advancement of Science; former President, American Physical Society; and Past-President, International Union of Pure and Applied Physics. Richter received the Nobel Prize in Physics and the E.O. Lawrence Medal (1976). Richter chairs the Nuclear Energy Advisory Committee subcommittee (U.S. DOE) and chaired the 2008 American Physical Society’s Energy Efficiency study. He is a member of Commissaire a l’Energie Atomique (CEA) Visiting Group and JASON Group; former board member, AREVA. |
| Senior Fellow, Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Stanford University | Prof Johan Rockström | Johan Rockström, PhD, Professor in Natural Resources Management, is Executive Director of the Stockholm Environment and the Stockholm Resilience Centre. His key qualifications are integrated research on natural resource management, systems analysis on water-land-climate inter-relations, systems research on resilience and ecosystem services, sustainable livelihoods research in vulnerable developing countries, environmental management and environmental policy making. His research includes water resource management, global water resource analysis, hydrological modelling, farmer-driven research methodologies, watershed management, soil and water management, risk management, extension approaches to land management, and design of small-scale irrigation.
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| Executive Director, Stockholm Environment Institute and Stockholm Resilience Centre | Prof F Sherwood Rowland | Professor F Sherwood Rowland is a Research Professor of Chemistry at the University of California Irvine. He was a co-recipient of the 1995 Nobel Prize in Chemistry (with Paul Crutzen and Mario Molina), “for their work on atmospheric chemistry, particularly concerning the formation and decompostion of ozone.” The official press release from the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences states that, “the three researchers have contributed to our salvation from a global environmental problem that could have catastrophic consequences”. He has also received the Japan Prize in Environmental Science and Technology, the Tyler World Prize and numberious other prizes and awards.
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| Professor of Chemistry, University of California | Prof Carlo Rubbia | Carlo Rubbia graduated in Physics at Scuola Normale of Pisa and Columbia University (USA). Since 1961 he has been working at CERN. From 1977 he was Higgins Professor of Physics at Harvard University, until in 1989 he was appointed Director General of CERN. Rubbia shared the Nobel Prize in Physics with Simon van der Meer in 1984 for the discovery of the field particles W and Z, communicators of weak interaction. Rubbia is presently working on novel methods and concepts for safe nuclear energy production using natural thorium and concentrating solar power at high temperatures, in collaboration with industry. |
| Senior Scientist and Special Advisor, CERN, European Center for Particle Physics | Prof Simon Schama | Simon Schama is University Professor of Art History and History at Columbia University in New York and, since 1990, the writer and presenter of more than thirty documentaries on art and history for the BBC. Among these are the award-winning fifteen-part ‘A History of Britain’, ‘Rough Crossings’ and the Emmy-winning eight-part ‘Power of Art’, first broadcast in 2006. Other of his programmes include ‘Murder at Harvard’ based on his novella ‘Dead Certainties: Unwarranted Speculation’, a five part series based on ‘Landscape and Memory’, and a film on Tolstoy’s ‘War and Peace’. |
| Professor of History & Art History, Columbia University | Prof Tom Schelling | Thomas C Schelling, PhD Harvard, Economics, served in the Marshall Plan 1948–53 in Europe and Washington, was on the faculty at Yale 1953–58, Harvard 1958–90, and the University of Maryland 1990–2005. His interest in climate change began in 1980 when he chaired a committee of the National Academy of Sciences on it, continued as a member of the Carbon Dioxide Assessment Committee of that Academy in 1981–83. His presidential address to the American Economic Association in 1991 was on climate change. A few of his publications on that subject are in his latest (2006) book, ‘Strategies of Commitment’. |
| Distinguished University Professor Emeritus, University of Maryland, Department of Economics and School of Public Policy | Prof Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, CBE | Hans Joachim Schellnhuber has been Director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research since 1992 and is Chair of the German Advisory Council on Global Change. He advises the President of the European Commission. He taught theoretical physics as a Professor at the Universities of Potsdam and East Anglia (UK) and was appointed Research Director of the Tyndall Centre. He is a member of the Max Planck Society, the German National Academy, the US National Academy of Sciences, and the International Research Society Sigma Xi and of the IPCC. He has authored or co-authored more than 200 articles and about forty books.
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| Director, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research | Prof Wole Soyinka | Wole Soyinka, born in 1934, is a Playwright, Poet, Novelist, and Essayist. Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1986, Wole Soyinka has authored more than thirty works in the medium of plays, novels, poetry and essays, many of which have received wide translation. He is active on both artistic
and Human Rights organisations such as the International Theatre Institute, UNESCO Goodwill Ambassadors etc. A Yoruba born in Western Nigeria and educated in Ibadan, and Leeds, England, he continues to lecture extensively. He is currently Emeritus Fellow of the Black Mountain Institute, University of Nevada, Overseas Fellow of the Du Bois Institute, Harvard University, President’s Professor of Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, and Professor Emeritus, Comparative Literature of the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-ife, Nigeria. |
| Emeritus Fellow, Black Mountian Institute, University of Nevada, Las Vegas | Prof Jack Steinberger | Born in Germany; emigrated to US at 13; BS in chemistry at University of Chicago, 1942; PhD in physics at University of Chicago with Fermi in 1948; Inst. for Adv. Study, Princeton, 1948–49; Assistant, University of California, Berkeley, 1949–50; Professor, Columbia University, 1950–68; Senior Scientist, CERN, 1968–88; Visiting Professor, Pisa, 1968– . |
| CERN, European Center for Particle Physics | Lord Nicholas Stern | Lord Stern is IG Patel Professor of Economics and Government at London School of Economics and Political Science, where he is also head of the India Observatory and Chairman of the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment. He held previous posts at universities in the UK and abroad, as well as at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development and the World Bank. Lord Stern was Head of the UK Government Economic Service 2003–7, and produced the landmark Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change. His most recent book is ‘A Blueprint for a Safer Planet’. |
| IG Patel Professor of Economics and Government, London School of Economics & Political Science | Dame Barbara Stocking | Barbara Stocking joined Oxfam GB as Chief Executive in May 2001. Since January 2008 she has been Chair of the Standing Committee for Humanitarian Response (SCHR), an alliance for voluntary action of nine major international humanitarian organisations. Barbara is a member of the UN Inter Agency Standing Committee for Humanitarian Action (IASC), and of the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) High Level External Committee on Millennium Development Goals. Barbara is a member of the high-level Foundation Board of the Global Humanitarian Forum (GHF), personally invited by its Founder and President Kofi Annan, the former UN Secretary General. Barbara takes over as Vice President of the Global Humanitarian Forum in 2010, and is a member of the Bureau of the Forum. In 2007, Barbara was a member of the BBC’s impartiality panel on business coverage, led by Sir Alan Budd. Previously a member of the top management team of the National Health Service, in her eight years with the NHS, Barbara worked as regional director and then as Director of the NHS Modernisation Agency. Barbara has a Masters degree in physiology, and has broad experience of healthcare
systems, policy and practice, including periods at the National Academy of Sciences in the USA and with the World Health Organisation in West Africa. Barbara is married and has two sons. She was awarded a DBE in the 2008 Queen’s Birthday Honours List.
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| Chief Executive, Oxfam GB | Prof Robert Watson, CMG | Professor Watson’s career has evolved from research scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory: California Institute of Technology, to a US Federal Government programme manager/director at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), to a scientific/policy advisor in the US Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), White House, to a scientific advisor, manager and chief scientist at the World Bank, to a Chair of Environmental Sciences at the University of East Anglia, the Director for Strategic Direction for the Tyndall centre, and Chief Scientific Advisor to the UK Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. In parallel to his formal positions he has chaired, co-chaired or directed international scientific, technical and economic assessments of stratospheric ozone depletion, biodiversity/ecosystems (the GBA and MA), climate change (IPCC) and agricultural science and technology (IAASTD). Professor Watson’s areas of expertise include managing and coordinating national and international environmental programmes, research programmes and assessments; establishing science and environmental policies – specifically advising governments and civil society on the policy implications of scientific information and policy options for action; and communicating scientific, technical and economic information to policymakers. During the last twenty years he has received numerous national and international awards recognising his contributions to science and the science-policy interface, including in 2003 – Honorary ‘Companion of the Order of St. Michael and St. George’ from the United Kingdom. |
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