Rudi Anschober

Michael Paula

• head of the department of energy and environmental technologies at the Federal Ministry of Transport, Innovation and Technology, Austria
• initiation of the “Austrian Strategieprozess ENERGIE 2050”
• R&D strategies in the field of technological sustainability research

Claudia Kemfert

• head of the department of energy, transport and environment at DIW Berlin
• professor for economics at the Humboldt University in Berlin
• activ at the Energy Modelling Forum (EMF) and the European Climate Forum (ECF)

José Riesgo Villanueva

Christiane Egger

Karin Freier

Krystof Szamalek

• deputy president of the EcoFund Foundation since 2005
• EcoFund Foundation manages funds obtained from the Polish debt-for-environment swap mechanism and intended to support environmental protection projects

• general secretary at ASIT (Solar Thermal Industry Association of Spain)
• from 2000 to 2004 General Secretary of the Solar Thermal in HELIOS, Andalusian Association of Manufacturers and Installers of Solar Energy

• professor at Beijing University of Technology, College of Environmental and Energy Engineering
• chief scientist at the Institute of Electrical Engineering at the Chinese Academy of Science

• head of Built Environment at Sustainable Energy Ireland (SEI)
• worked in different government bodies, industry, academic research and the European Commission
• past chairman of the Energy – Environment Division of the Institution of Engineers of Ireland

• principal research scientist at the Florida Solar Energy Center
• secialist in very low-energy cooling and zero energy homes with renewable energy
• master's Degree in Environmental Science from the University of Montana

• renewable energy adviser at the United Nations Development Programme in Uzbekistan
• certificate in Energy Management: Utilisation and Conservation
• degree in Power Engineering from the Tashkent Technical State University

• expert in energy and environmental legislation, training, project planning and management & education
• master of Administrative Sciences, University of Joensuu
• forestry engineer, Forestry College, Joensuu

• general director and project manager of the Biomasa Association since 1999
• manager of the biomass logistics project in Slovakia
• project leader of the project "biomass market forming"

• managing Director of Sun Master and Xolar
• owner of the Huemer group
• co-founder of Sonnenkraft and Green one Tec

• managing director of Guntamatic Heiztechnik (200 employees, production of 10,000 biomass boilers per year)
• focus in the field of innovative biomass boilers
• speaker at all important biomass conferences in the German-speaking part

• currently at MetallwarengesmbH & CoKG
• former consultant in the field of internationalisation, coaching and management consultancy
• studies at the university of Salzburg

• mechanical engineering, technical equipment and installation
• energy consultant at O.Ö. Energiesparverband
• head of the export department at Windhager Zentralheizung

• managing director of SOLution Solartechnik GmbH with the focus on merchandise management, technics and R & D
• initiator of the first solar cooling project in Upper Austria

Francisco Puente-Salve

• M.Sc. Energy and Fuels Engineer, Polytechnic University Madrid
• 10 years of experience in project management and processes optimisation in consulting firms and power industries
• coordinator of Propellets project, EIE - Europe Intelligent Energy - Programme of the European Commission

• managing director of the Gesamtverband des deutschen Brennstoff- und Mineralölhandels e.V. in Berlinformer position at the ministry for economy
• long term experience in the German heat market

Walter Wirth

• Dipl. Elektroingenieur FH
• member of the general management of AEK Energie AG, responsible for the business fields insulation and automatisation, pellets production and third party financing

• project management, feasibility studies at the “Institut für ZukunftsEnergieSysteme gGmbH, Saarbrücken (e.g. “BioRegio“, “SOLLET”)
• editor and co-author of handbooks (third party financing, materials flow management)

• managing director of Stanzel & Ptak OEG
• managing director of Stirling Power Module GmbH
• member of the supervisory board of oekostrom AG

Bengt-Erik Löfgren

• business executive / Chief executive officer at ÄFAB, since 1984
• responsible for: daily operation and marketing, co-ordination for project work, external and internal education, recruit new staff and consulting assignment, environment and equality, policy questions (issues)

• M.Sc., Ph.D. in the field of combustion, CTU Prague
• professor at CTU in Prague, dep. of fluid mechanic and energetics
• vicerector of CTU in Prague
  Member of ASME, U.S.A., Court Authority in the Field of Power Engineering
• member of Supervision Council of Czech Chamber of Civil Engineer

• master degree in Physics-Biophysics, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
• Ph.D. in Biophysics, University of Roskilde, Denmark
• post-doc position at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Energy Engineering Section, Technical University of Denmark

• managing director of EC Bioenergie GmbH, Heidelberg, forum for biomass projects with CHP, pellets production, third party financing
• managing director of Energiecontracting Heidelberg GmbH, service company in the field of energy supply technology

Thomas Hering

• research fellow at Thüringer Landesanstalt für Landwirtschaft since1998
• projects: researching the emissions of heating systems fueld by corn

Rudi Anschober

• director of the research group „Energy, Transport and Climate Policy“ at the Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy, located in Wuppertal, Germany
• main fields of scientific work: energy efficiency evaluation, analysis, development and testing of policy instruments to promote energy efficiency

Hans Nilsson

• worked with energy issues since 1966
• chairman of the IEA DSM Programme
• former director for the Swedish Energy Efficiency Programme with the responsibility to develop early applications of AIJ as a part of the design of the Kyoto-mechanisms

• principal consultant at AEA Technology
• specialises in market mechanisms and economic policies related to energy, climate change and the environment
• several papers on subsidies and support mechanisms for the European Environment Agency and the UK Government

• staff scientist with the Environmental Energy Technologies Division at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
• research interests include government sector energy management; government buying-power to stimulate the development and introduction of new energy-efficient technologies

• Ingénieur Divisionnaire des Travaux Publics de l’Etat, Climate Change Technical Advisor for United Nations Development Programme-Global Environment, Facility (UNDP-GEF)
• analysis of national, regional, and international energy and climate change mitigation policies
• analysis of energy efficiency policies especially in the built environment

• managing Director of Motiva Oy
• motiva provides expertise and project services to promote more efficient energy use and to accelerate the uptake of renewable energy sources

Branko Noč/Joze Torkar

• vice-mayor of Jesenice and manager of district heating system in company Jeko-In d.o.o., Jesenice, Slovenia
• degree at Faculty of mechanical engineering
• worked as an assistant in cold rolling mill in factory in Jesenice until 1977

Joze Torkar

• managing director of the company El-tec Mulej, d.o.o., Bled (district heating, energy contracting)
• faculty of mechanical engineering in 1997
• awards for innovations in the field of district heating

Diana Ürge-Vorsatz

• Professor and PhD Program Director (Department of Environmental Sciences and Policy of the Central European University), Budapest
• International Policy Fellowship at the Center for Policy Studies
• PhD dissertation in the field of electricity conservation potentials in the USA

• „Bayerisches Landesamt für Umwelt“ (in the field of facility safety and energy efficiency)
• studies of technical environmental protection at the technical university of Berlin, at the Jawaharlal-Nehru-Universität in Neu-Delhi and at the Montanuniversität Leoben

• head of the Environment and Sustainable Development Unit, Union of the Electricity Industry – EURELECTRIC since 1997
• responsible for all aspects of environmental and sustainable development policy and for the Energy Wisdom Programme
• actively involved in the groundbreaking EURELECTRIC greenhouse gas and electricity trading simulations (GETS)

• head of the unit “Transport and Environment” at the Federal Environmental Agency, Berlin
  official in the position of a principal administrator/auxiliary staff until 2005
• development and implementation of the Community strategy to improve fuel efficiency and decrease carbon dioxide(CO₂)emissions from passenger cars

• head of Energy Efficiency in Ofgem
• focus on monitoring the energy suppliers’ work on the Energy Efficiency Commitment since 2001
• previous experience on energy demand scenarios for the UK with an economic forecaster
• has held research posts at the Science Policy Research Unit and the University of Cambridge

• general director of the Agence de l’efficacité énergétique du Québec
• masters in urban and real estate finance as well as in international administration
• general director of finance and real estate services at the Ministère de l’Éducation du Québec until April 2001

• faculty of mechanical engineering with the focus on energy technology
• working experience in an international company in the field of power plant engineering
• managing director at Bremer Energie-Konsens since 2003

• currently working with the Met Office, the Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research and other research and campaigning organisations dedicated to global climate change issues
• first and only person ever to succeed in trekking alone, and without resupply, from Canada to the North Geographic Pole
• the only Briton to have trekked to both Poles without the assistance of aircraft along the way

• professor at the University of Porto, Portugal
• PhD in Mechanical Engineering (HVAC and Indoor Air Quality)
• coordinator of the Portuguese National Plan for Energy Efficiency in Buildings in 2001

• managing director of ISSO: the Dutch Building Services Research
• director of KBI: the Dutch Institute for Quality assurance in the Building services sector
• chair of the CEN project group on EPBD: CEN-BT-WG173
• member of various standard committees, technical advisory groups on national and international level

• diploma in law and a post graduate training on energy & environmental advice
• head of sector International Tasks, O.Ö. Energiesparverband
• member of the Upper Austrian electricity board

• faculty of architecture at the University of Kaiserslautern
• consultant at the Bundesamt für Bauwesen und Raumordnung since 2002
• focuses: energy savings and climate protection in the field of buildings

• Consultant, Danish Management Group (6 years)
• Master of political science, cand.scient.pol
• advised energy consultants on often complicated guidelines of how to carry out the energy labelling

Gunnar Pautzke

• BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgeräte GmbH, Munich
• Head of department for brand portfolio management
• Chairman of the task force „Time-to-go!“ (CECED)

• master degree at the South Bohemian University in Ceske Budejovice
• working at Energy Centre Ceske Budejovice (ECCB) since 1997
• technical director of ECCB since 2002

• university training courses on marketing and sales as well as on education of export traders and international management, Vienna University of Business and Administration
• acoustic Marketing Manager Saint-Gobain Isover Austria
• thermal, acoustic and fire manager Saint-Gobain

Andreas Hübner

• head of division “energy concepts and consulting” at Gertec GmbH Ingenieurgesellschaft in Essen, Germany, since 1992
• engineering of technical building equipment and consulting in the fields of energy efficiency and RES

• head of Energy Efficiency, Envirolink Northwest, UK
• former manager of the Northwest energy trade association, ISOCON

• founding member and managing director of target GmbH in Hannover, Germany, since 1994
• expert in the field of project planning, especially within the frame of EU programmes, international renewable energy projects, know-how exchange and transfer

• master's degree, Kyoto University, Graduate School of Engineering
• pProfessor in the Department of Regional Studies at Toyo University since 2003
• program Manager, steering committee of the CTI/Industry Joint Seminar Series (IEA/OECD)
• “1997 Stratospheric Ozone Protection Award”, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

• graduated in Physics at Bologna University
• since 1999, director of the Modena Energy Agency

• assistent at the Institut für Wirtschaft und Ökologie, Universität St. Gallen, Schweiz
• research focus on green energy marketing and sustainable consumption
• title of dissertation: Signalling and Added Consumer Value by Brands and Labels

Networks and partnerships

Mats Rydehell

• PhD in Physics
• managing director at KanEnergi Sweden AB since 1997: internalisation issues and assignments as strategic counsellor, amongst others for the European commission, ministry of trade and industry (UK) and larger companies such as ABB, Alstom, SJ

• employee at O.Ö. Energiesparverband / Ökoenergie-Cluster since 2003
• organisation of cluster activities
• projects in the fields of energy efficiency and renewable energy sources

• director, Cornwall Sustainable Energy Partnership (CSEP)
  Communications Director
• Community Energy Plus
• involved in the development and management of major initiatives in Wales, Cornwall and in other parts of the UK

• vice-rector at the “Károly Róbert” College in Gyöngyös, Hungary
• president of the Hungarian Bologna Committee coordinating the so-called “Bologna-reform”
• MSc. degree at the Agricultural University of Gödöllő, Hungary in the field of agricultural mechanization (1973)

Beatriz Yordi Aquirre

• studies at the universities of Düsseldorf, Waterloo and Heidelberg, PhD in physics
• head of renewable energy at Fraunhofer ISI
• responsible for developing optimum promotional strategies for renewable energy and modelling energy systems with renewable sources in the European Union

Exemplary regional strategies

• Economy and Employment Regional Minister and Deputy Vicepresident of Junta de Castilla y León
• Graduated in law at the Valladolid University
• Legal adviser in the Parliamentary Popular Group in the Regional Parliament
  President of the Popular Party in Valladolid since 1992

• spent over 30 years in Welsh local government
• from processing applications for the development of land and buildings to wider sustainable development issues
• seconded part-time to the Welsh Assembly Government to assist with the promotion of RES until September 2005

• professor head of Department of Energy and Systems and Environment in Riga Technical University
• participated in different energy and environmental programmes in Europe: ELI (Efficient Lighting Initiative), EC OPET networking, Greening Industry, early stage energy technology (EMINENT) programme

• associate professor of Energy Economics at the Energy Economics Group, Institute of Power Systems and Energy Economics at Vienna University of Technology
• lectures on Energy Economics, Regulation and Competition in Energy markets, and Energy Modeling

• director of CEEETA, (research centre in the fields of energy, transport and environment)
• president of the board of SIIF Portugal (French Holding Company in the field of Renewables)member of the board of EDF Energies Nouvelles
• member of the Environment Council of EDP (portuguese electrical utility)
  member of the board of SICAV NovaEnergia 2010

• senior partner in the law firm Kuhbier
• Master of Laws (First State Examen) in 1982
• second state examination in legal studies - "Volljurist" and admitted to the Bar in 1988
• regular legal advice and General Counsellor to Firstsolar PV Manufacturer Phoenix, Arizona

• researcher in the Cluster- Non-Military Threats, Energy and Economic Security, (Energy Cluster) of the Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses, New Delhi, India
• research on Asia’s energy security, China’s Energy Security Strategy and Regional Energy Cooperation

• senior consultant at W/E consultants on rational use of energy in new and restructuring buildings and in spatial planning for both municipalities and housing associations and on sustainable energy
• diploma of Eindhoven University of Technology, Faculty of Applied Physics and Czech Technical University, Prague, Faculty of Nuclear Physics

• faculty of mechanical engineering at the University of Hannover, final thesis at the University of Sidney
• managing director of Solar Heat & Power Europe GmbH
• project manager of the 600 MW offshore wind parc project in Adlergrund

• studies of Chemical Technology on the University of Twente
• Biofuel Procurement Manager within Essent (Essent developed its own certification program, the Green Gold Label)
• responsible for sourcing biofuels for co-firing on powerplants (gas- as well as coal-fired)

• head of Committee C ‘Regional policies’ of the Assembly of European Regions, Strasbourg (F)
• MA Contemporary European Political Culture (Euromasters) at the University of Bath (GB), Berlin and Prag
• press attaché at the French General Consulate in Hamburg (D) until 2001