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Welcome and keynote address Mr Nitin Desai Mr Nitin Desai, a graduate of LSE, taught economics at two UK Universities, worked briefly in the private sector, had a long stint as a government official in India and then joined the UN in 1990. In India he was in the Planning Commission (1973-88) and later in the Ministry of Finance as the Chief Economic Adviser (1988-90). In the UN, where he was Under Secretary General for Economic and Social Affairs, his major work was the organization of a series of global summits, notably the Rio Earth Summit (1992), the Copenhagen Social Development Summit (1995), the Monterrey Finance and Development Summit (2002) and the Johannesburg Sustainable Development Summit (2002). After his retirement he has been involved in a variety of public policy activities nationally and internationally. He is associated with ICRIER and TERI and is an Honorary Fellow of the LSE. He writes a monthly column in the Business Standard. He is presently Co Chair of the UK-India Round Table. Dr Rajendra Pachauri Dr Rajendra K Pachauri assumed his current responsibilities as the Chief Executive of TERI (The Energy and Resources Institute) in 1982, first as Director and, since April 2001, as Director-General. In April 2002, Dr Pachauri was elected the Chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, established by the World Meteorological Organization and the United Nations Environment Programme in 1988 (Re-elected in September 2008). The IPCC along with former Vice President Al Gore was awarded the “Nobel Peace Prize” for the year 2007. He has been active in several international forums dealing with the subject of climate change and its policy dimensions. Dr Pachauri was conferred with the “Padma Vibhushan”, second highest civilian award, for his services in the field of science and engineering in January 2008 by the President of India. To acknowledge his immense contributions to the field of environment, he was awarded the Padma Bhushan by the President of India in January 2001. He was also made “Officier De La Légion D’Honneur” by the Government of France in 2006. He is a member of the Board of Trustees of the India International Centre, and Vice President of the Bangalore International Centre, and he was the President of the India Habitat Centre, New Delhi during the period September 2004 to September 2006. Sir Crispin Tickell Leading international environmentalist and independent environmental advisor to successive British Prime Ministers and foreign governments, Sir Crispin spent most of his life in the Diplomatic Service; as Chef de Cabinet to the President of the European Commission (1977-80), Ambassador to Mexico (1981-83), Permanent Secretary of the Overseas Development Administration (1984-87), and British Permanent Representative to the United Nations (1987-90). A contributor to many publications on worldwide environmental issues, former Chancellor of University of Kent and Warden of Green College Oxford, Sir Crispin is presently Director of the Policy Foresight Programme at the James Martin 21st Century School, Oxford University. Session I Mr Peter Luff Peter Luff is Chairman of the European Movement UK and Director of Action For A Global Climate Community, a political initiative to build enhanced cooperation between the EU and India on the issues of energy security, climate change and sustainable development that can serve as a model for a north-south climate community. Until 2000, he was Director of the Royal Commonwealth Society and, between1987-1995, he was Director of the European Movement (UK), and Deputy Secretary General and Vice President of the International European Movement. Peter Luff was previously Assistant Director of Amnesty International UK and Funding and Marketing Director of the Social Democratic Party. He has written two books: The Simple Guide to Maastricht and A Brilliant Conspiracy: a study of the European federal agenda – and he is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts & Manufacturers and the Royal Geographical Society; a member of the Royal Institute for International Affairs and is on the management boards of the European Multicultural Foundation, The World Federalist Movement – Institute for Global Policy and Responding to Conflict. Back to topMr Raj Chengappa Mr Raj Chengappa is the managing editor of India Today, India's largest circulated newsmagazine. An award winning journalist of 30 years standing, he is one of India's foremost writers on national security affairs as well as issues concerning science, the environment, health and development. He has produced over a hundred cover stories and exclusive reports on these and other subjects for the magazine. He is also concurrently editor of the Indian edition of Scientific American and India Today Aspire, a magazine on careers and education for the young. He is the author of the best-selling book on India's nuclear programme titled: Weapons of Peace: The Secret Story of India's Quest to be a Nuclear Power. The awards he has won include the Prem Bhatia Award for Excellence in Reporting and Political Analysis in 1998, the Statesman Award for Rural Reporting in 1987 and the Karnataka Media Academy award for Excellence in National and International Reporting in 2007. He was a Henry Stimson Fellow for Security Issues in Washington DC in 1995, a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University in 1990-91 and a Harry Britain Fellow partly at Oxford University in 1985. M. Brice Lalonde M. Lalonde is Special Ambassador for Climate Change Negotiations for the French Government. In the early 1970s, M Lalonde created Friends of the Earth in France, which led to him being recognised as one of the foremost activists in France and Europe on environmental issues. He stood in the presidential election in 1981. As French Minister for the Environment from 1988 to 1992, he played a central role in the development of the Basel Convention, the Madrid Treaty on Antarctica, the creation of the Whale Sanctuary, the ban on the Ivory Trade, the management of the Rio Climate Convention, the world NGO meeting before Rio, the EF and European Union Environmental Policy (water, waste, nature protection, nitrates, catalytic converters). At a national level, M Lalonde was responsible for setting up the French Agency for the Environment and Energy Efficiency (the ADEME), among others. He was advisor to the French Government, to the OECD and the GEF. Ambassador Chandrashekhar Dasgupta Ambassador Dasgupta served in the Indian Foreign Service from May 1962 to August 2000. During his diplomatic career he held several important posts, including Ambassador to the EU, Belgium and Luxembourg (1996-2000); Ambassador to China (1993-1996); Additional Secretary, Ministry of External Affairs (1989-1993); and Ambassador & Deputy Permanent Representative at the United Nations, New York (1986-1989). Ambassador Dasgupta’s interests include international affairs, modern history and global environmental issues. He is a member of the EU-India Round Table. He is a life-member of the Institute of Defence Studies & Analyses and the United Services Institute. Ambassador Dasgupta is a Distinguished Fellow at TERI, where he is engaged on research on Climate Change and other global environmental issues. He is the author of War and Diplomacy in Kashmir 1947-48. Ms Rosario Bento-Pais Ms Bento-Pais is Deputy Head of the Climate Change Unit, Directorate-General, Environment of the European Commission. Ms Bento Pais has a Degree in International Relations (Licenciatura), Universidade do Minho, Portugal, (1994) and a Masters Degree in Community Law, European Institute of Public Administration, Maastricht, (1998). After a Robert Schuman Scholarship in the European Parliament, she served in the Portuguese Ministry of Foreign Affairs (1996-2002). Ms Bento-Pais held a NATO Research Fellowship and was Counsellor and Assistant to the Deputy Permanent Representative at the Portuguese Permanent Representation to the EU. She was Seconded National Expert, European Commission, Directorate General for the Environment, and then Administrator, Directorate General for the Environment, Department of International Armaments and Trade: legal and institutional affairs, international negotiations, (2002 – 2004). Back to topDinner speeches Dr. Ajay Mathur Dr Mathur is Director General of the Bureau of Energy Efficiency, and a member of the Prime Minister's Council on Climate Change. As Director General of BEE, Dr. Mathur coordinates the national energy efficiency programme. Prior to joining BEE, Dr. Mathur has worked on energy research, financing, and implementation. He has headed the World Bank's Climate Change Team in Washington, DC; and the Energy Engineering Division of TERI in New Delhi; and has also been President of Suzlon Energy Limited. Dr Mathur received his Bachelor's degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Roorkee, and PhD from the University of Illinois. He received the Outstanding Alumni Award of the University of Illinois in 2002. Dr. Mathur is the co-author of three books, and lead author of several reports of the IPCC, the joint winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007. Mr Tom Spencer Tom Spencer is Executive Director of the European Centre for Public Affairs and Visiting Professor of Public Affairs at Brunel University, Uxbridge. Mr Spencer was a Member of the European Parliament for Derbyshire from 1979 to 1984 and for Surrey from 1989 – 1999. He was Chairman of the Conservatives in the European Parliament (the British Section of the European People's Party Group) 1994-97 and Chairman of the EP-Czech Joint Parliamentary Committee for the same period. He was also founding Executive Director of the European Centre for Public Affairs from 1987 to 1989. As a committed environmentalist he was, from 1995-99, President of GLOBE International (Global Legislators Organisation for a Balanced Environment) and Chairman of Counterpart Europe (2000 - 2002). He is Vice Chairman to the Institute for Environmental Security in the Hague and Director, Action for a Global Climate Community. Session II
Dr. Kirit S. Parikh is a Member of the Planning Commission, Government of India, in charge of Energy, Water and Perspective Planning. With a Doctor of Science in Civil Engineering and a Master's Degree in Economics from MIT, USA and an M Tech from IIT (Kharagpur), he has been a Professor of Economics since 1967. Dr Parikh is a Member of the Energy Coordination Committee and the Committee on Infrastructure Chaired by the Prime Minister as well as a Member of the Economic Advisory Council (EAC) of five Prime Ministers of India. Dr Parikh is the Chairman of the Indian National Committee, NMO Committee, for IIASA. From 1980 to 1986 he led IIASA’s Food and Agricultural Program (FAP) involving more than 100 researchers which explored policies to end hunger in the world. Mr Ajit Gupta Mr. Gupta retired as Adviser in the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy, Government of India in September 2008. In his association of three decades and more with the renewable energy sector, Mr Gupta played a key role in development and deployment of renewables including solar, wind, biomass and small hydro. Also in the domain of policy, regulatory, legislative aspects and institutional development, he started, and was responsible for development of programmes on grid power generation; remote village electrification; and urban, industrial and commercial applications of renewables. He joined the Government in the Department of Science & Technology in 1973. Mr Robert Whitfield Robert Whitfield is an Associate of Action for a Global Climate Community, Vice President of Global Seawater Inc and a Trustee of the One World Trust. As a Cambridge Economics Graduate, chartered accountant and Insead MBA, he has worked at senior levels in international business for 25 years, much of this time with Airbus as Director of Business Development in the UK and Senior Vice President Finance of Airbus Industrie in Toulouse. Since 2000, he has been working in Sustainable Development and has a Masters in Environmental Policy. With Stakeholder Forum for Our Common Future, he was a joint coordinator of the Implementation Conference process around the Johannesburg summit in 2002. A coordinator of the UK aviation industry's first sustainability strategy Sustainable Aviation, he is on the Executive Committee of Greener by Design and a director of Carbon Offsets Ltd. Back to topDr. V. Ramanathan Dr. V. Ramanathan is the Distinguished Professor of Atmospheric and Climate Sciences at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California at San Diego. In the mid 1970s Dr Ramanathan discovered the greenhouse effect of CFCs and numerous other manmade trace gases. He correctly forecast in 1980, along with R. Madden, that the global warming due to carbon dioxide would be detectable by the year 2000. Dr. Ramanathan currently chairs the UNEP-sponsored ABC Project with science team members from the USA, Europe, India, China, Japan, Korea and other Asian countries. He has been elected to the American Philosophical Society, the US National Academy of Sciences, the Pontifical Academy of Sciences by Pope John Paul II, the Academia Europea, the Third World Academy of Sciences and most recently to the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. He chairs the National Academy of Sciences panel that provides strategic advice to the US Climate Change Science Program (CCSP), a $2 billion/year inter-agency research program. He is part of the Nobel Peace prize (2007) winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change since its inception, and for the 2007 report served as one of the lead editors in IPCC-AR4 (2007), WG-I. [A more complete resume and bibliography can be seen at: http://www-ramanathan.ucsd.edu/.] Air Marshal AK Singh Air Marshal AK Singh (Ret) was Air Officer Commander in Chief of an Operational Command Indian Air Force (equivalent to Secretary, Government of India). Air Marshall Singh held various Command and Staff appointments in a long and illustrious career with the Indian Air Force. The key appointments held by the Air Officer have been Air Officer Commanding In Chief, Honorary ADC to the President of India (2006 – 2007), Director General Inspections and Safety (2002), President – Services Sports Control Board (2002 – 2003). In 2005 Air Marshal Singh also received the Mahatma Gandhi Service Award. He is also a member of the Clinton Global Initiative, New York, USA and on the UN Panel of Experts on Ozone Depleting Substances. Professor Sugata Hazra Professor Sugata Hazra is the Director of the school of Oceanographic studies, Jadavpur University and member of the State Coastal Zone Management Authority, West Bengal. He is the recipient of a corporate award from ONGC and has been recognized by the Asiatic society for his contribution in the field of Economic Geology. Dr. Hazra teaches Petroleum Geology and Oceanography at Post Graduate levels in the University. Dividing his time between teaching and research, he is actively involved in various research projects funded by government & non governmental organizations. He has been involved in the preliminary assessment of vulnerability of Sundarban in the perspective of climate change for the MoEF, Govt. of India as a part of the National communication to UNFCC. His special area of research has been the Sundarban Delta of West Bengal. Session III Professor Viriato Soromenho-Marques Professor Soromenho-Marques teaches Political Philosophy and Philosophy of History at the University of Lisbon, where he is Full Professor and was the Executive Chair of the Department (1999-2002). Since 1978 Professor Soromenho-Marques has been engaged in the civic environmental movement in Portugal and Europe. He was Chairman of the national NGO Quercus (1992-1995), and representative of the Portuguese environmental NGOs in the Economic and Social Council (1992-1996). In May 1998 he was elected member of the newly created National Council on Environment and Sustainable Development. He served as Vice-Chair of the European Environment and Sustainable Development Advisory Councils (EEAC) network during three two-year terms (2001-2006). In the first semester of 2004 he was invited by the Portuguese Prime-Minister to be one of the six authors of the Portuguese National Strategy for Sustainable Development. In 1997 he received from the Presidency of the Portuguese Republic the degree of «Grande Oficial da Ordem do Mérito Civil» and in 2006 the degree of «Grande Oficial da Ordem do Infante Dom Henrique». In November 2006 he was invited by the Gulbenkian Foundation to become the scientific coordinator of the Gulbenkian Environment Program. Mr Anil Patni Anil Patni works as Head of Communications and External Affairs for Tata BP Solar, India’s pioneer and market leader in the solar energy industry. He is a media and communications professional with 20 years of work experience in leading newspapers (Rajasthan Patrika, The Times of India) and foreign diplomatic missions in New Delhi (British High Commission, USIS/ American Embassy and the Delegation of the European Commission in India). His last job at the EC Delegation as Media Adviser enabled him to play a bridge-building role between the EU Institutions in Brussels and the Indian media. At Tata BP his role is to promote public awareness of solar energy and help popularize it all over the country and beyond. Anil went to school at Mayo College Ajmer on a Government of India Scholarship. He has done an MBA from FMS, Delhi University. Back to topMr Titus Alexander The Honourable Suresh Prabhu The Honourable Suresh Prabhu is a four-time Member of the 14th Lok Sabha of India, where he represents the Rajapur constituency of Maharashtra - one of the largest states of India. He was Industry Minister in the Government of India in his first term and subsequently, Minister of Environment and Forests, Government of India and Minister of Fertilizers & Chemicals. He has also been Union Minister of Power, Heavy Industry & Public Enterprise and Chairman of Task Force for Interlinking of Rivers with a status and rank of Union Cabinet Minister. He was elected a member of the World Bank parliamentary network and nominated as the Chairman of the South Asia Water conference. Mr Prabhu is on the Board of Globe International. Ms Ritu Kumar Ritu Kumar is based in London as the Director of TERI-Europe, the European affiliate of The Energy and Resources Institute. She also acts as a Senior Advisor to the emerging markets private equity firm, Actis on environment, social and governance issues. She has over 15 years experience working with industry on environment and social issues. Ms Kumar has worked with the United Nations Industrial Development Organisation based out of Vienna, where she assisted developing country industry and governments on environmental policy, cleaner production and social improvements. With TERI-Europe she has worked on a number of climate change and corporate responsibility initiatives including an assessment of the potential role for socially responsible investments in India. Her work with Actis involves screening investments according to Actis' environmental, social, health, and safety criteria, and assisting portfolio companies in enhancing their environmental and social performance. Ritu has a BA and MA in economics from Delhi University, and an MSC in economics from the London School of Economics. She has specialised in Environmental Economics from Harvard School of International Studies and is a qualified social auditor. Back to top
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****************************** Participants: Mr. Fergus Auld Mr. Fergus Auld has been the First Secretary for Climate Change and Energy at the British High Commission in New Delhi since March 2008, leading on the international climate negotiations and international energy issues. From June 2008 - January 2009 he was also acting Head of the Joint British High Commission-Department for International Development Climate Change and Energy Unit in New Delhi. This unit leads the British Government's collaboration with the Government of India and Indian business and civil society on climate change, energy security and sustainable development issues. Before coming to New Delhi, Mr. Auld headed the climate change team in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) in London, running the FCO's global network of climate change attaches. He has also worked on nuclear non-proliferation in the FCO, and was posted to the British Embassy in Bangkok, Thailand, as Press Spokesman and Second Secretary Political in the years 2001-5
Dr. Jürgen Bischoff Dr. Jürgen Bischoff is the Director of Advisory Services in Environmental Management (ASEM), the Indo-German Environment Programme jointly implemented by the Ministry for Environment and Forests (MoEF) and the German Agency for Technical Cooperation (GTZ). With a focus on several bilateral projects, the programme focuses on sustainable development, resource management and environmental protection in urban and industrial areas. Prior to this appointment, until 2002 he was Director of the Asian and before that, Pacific Centre for Transfer of Technology (APCTT) of the United Nations. In addition, Dr. Bischoff has held responsible positions with private sector companies in both Europe and South America and has served as advisor to several companies and government institutions. He has also taught at universities in Europe and South America. Mr. Reinhard Bütikofer Mr. Reinhard Hans Bütikofer is a German politician for the Alliance 90/The Greens party. Bütikofer studied philosophy, sinology and history in Heidelberg. From the 1980s onwards, he became active in Heidelberg municipal politics for the Green-Alternative List. In 1988, he was elected in the Landtag (state parliament) of Baden-Württemberg. He was Member of the Landtag until 1996. In 1997 Mr. Bütikofer became co-chairman of the Baden-Württembergian Green party and two years later was elected secretary general of the federal party. In 2002 he became co-chairman of the federal party together with Claudia Roth. On 3 March 2008 he announced not to stand again as a party chairman and to run for European Parliament in 2009.
Mr. Jens Burgtorf Since March 2008, Mr. Jens Burgtorf has been Director of the Indo-German Energy Programme (IGEN) based in New Delhi. IGEN, embedded in Bureau of Energy Efficiency of the Indian Ministry of Power, is implementing "A CDM Capacity Building Programme" in partnership with the Designated National Authority as part of the Indian Ministry of Environment and Forests. The programme is funded by the German Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development through IGEN / GTZ (German Technical Cooperation) as a facility that can help reduce transaction cost in early market development processes. Before joining IGEN, Mr. Burgtorf worked as a freelance energy consultant and has vast experience in the field of strategy, project and organizational development and management. From 2005 to 2008, he served as member of the extended Presidency of Geothermische Vereinigung – Bundesverband Geothermie e.V. in Berlin. Prior to that, he held the post of Head of Department Asset Management Energy Production and Waste-to-Energy at Stadtwerke München – SWM Services Gmbh, a public utility provider in Munich (2004 to 2007). Mr. Burgtorf holds a diploma (MSc) in Energy and Process Engineering from the Technical University of Berlin. Back to top
Mr. Amit Chugh Mr. Amit Chugh is Co-founder & CEO of Cosmos Ignite Innovations. Cosmos Ignite’s vision is "Innovating to Empower" and Mr. Chugh is passionate about trying to effect change in a sustainable manner through innovation in products, markets and business model, to help "Removal of darkness" from millions of village homes forced to use dangerous, polluting & expensive-to-use kerosene oil for light. Mr. Chugh is an MBA and Economics graduate, having studied at Bombay University, Manipal University and Oxford University, and his work experience includes Consumer Marketing & Distribution, Product Development and General Management. He has been profiled in Time magazine under its innovators section and is currently based in New Delhi, India.
Mr. Dennis Clare Mr. Dennis Clare is a Law Fellow at IGSD focusing on climate change mitigation. He has a background in both domestic and international climate change policy and is responsible for research and advocacy on the subject. Previously, he reported on industry and climate change for the major 2008 PBS FRONTLINE documentary, Heat, for which he covered US climate policy and the UNFCCC Conference in Bali, Indonesia. Mr. Clare has written about climate for several publications and has participated in numerous domestic and international conferences on climate change issues, including the economic modeling of climate change, international emissions trading, air pollution and climate change, and the future of renewable energy. Mr. Clare holds a J.D. from Yale Law School and a B.A. from Princeton University.
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Mr. Robert Donkers Mr. Robert H. Donkers is Minister Counsellor for Environment at the Delegation of the European Commission to India, Bhutan and Nepal. Previously he was Environment Counsellor at the Delegation of the European Commission in Washington DC from October 2003 until September 2007. From April 1999 until October 2003, he served as Deputy Head and Head of the Chemicals Unit in the Directorate General Environment in Brussels, where his responsibilities included the coordination of the development of a new EU chemicals policy and legislative framework (aka REACH). He was also the chief EU negotiator on the 2001 Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs). Before joining the Commission in 1990, Mr. Donkers held several positions in the Dutch administration including Deputy Director for International Environmental Affairs in the Environment Ministry and EU Environment Counsellor for the Kingdom of the Netherlands, in Brussels. He holds a master’s degree in environmental economics and a master’s degree in public and international law from the Erasmus University in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Back to topProfessor Cesar Dopazo Professor Cesar Dopazo has been Professor of Fluid Mechanics at the Centro Politecnico Superior in Zaragoza University (ZU) since 1981. From 2002-2004, he was General Director of CIEMAT (Spanish National Laboratory on Energy and Environmental Research), Ministry of Science and Technology and is also a former Executive Council member of ENUSA (Spanish Public Company for Nuclear Fuel Manufacturing). In 2006, Professor Dopazo was made a Fellow of ASME (American Society of Mechanical Engineers). He is also a Member of the Royal Academy of Engineering of Spain, a Member of the International Combustion Institute, the American Physical Society and EUROMECH. In addition to being a Member of the Advisory Group on Energy and Climate Change to EC President, JM Barroso, Professor Dopazo has also resided on Advisory Councils on "High Level Group on Hydrogen" (2003), on the Advisory Council, "European Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Technology Platform" (HFP) (2004-present), and on the "Advisory Group on Energy". Professor Dopazo has a PhD in Mechanical Engineering from the State University of New York and a PhD in Aeronautical Enfineering from Madrid Polytechnic University. Ms. Jennifer Frankel-Reed Ms. Jennifer Frankel-Reed is a climate change advisor with GTZ (German Technical Cooperation) based in New Delhi. She has worked on the vulnerability and adaptation dimensions of climate change since 2002. Her previous professional experiences include working with the Global Environment Facility (GEF) analysing bilateral development agencies’ climate change adaptation programmes, methods, and projects, research that generated the first estimate of anticipatory ODA financing for climate change adaptation. Most recently, Ms. Frankel-Reed worked in the New York headquarters with the Environment and Energy Group of the United Nations Development Programme, developing a monitoring and evaluation framework for climate change adaptation projects under the GEF-managed adaptation funds, creating guidance for incorporating unique climate change considerations into development cooperation projects, and designing the Adaptation Learning Mechanism platform for knowledge sharing. Ms. Frankel-Reed holds a Bachelor of Science in Environmental Science from Willamette University, USA, and earned her Masters degree in Environmental Management from Yale University’s School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, USA. Dr. Prodipto Ghosh Mr. Sven Hansen Mr. Jeff Huntington Mr. Jeff Huntington has been working at the European Environment Agency since 2000, and is currently Head of programme for Air and Climate Change, including greenhouse gas, air and industrial emissions, air quality and noise, and energy and transport. Prior to this Mr. Huntington was Head of Section Environmental concerns in physical (land use) planning and EU coordination at the Danish Environment Protection Agency from 1979 to 1988; Environment Adviser for Scandinavian Airlines System; Environment Counsellor on climate change, industrial emissions, water and biodiversity at the Danish Permanent Representation to the EU; Member of Cabinet Environment at the European Commission from 1996 to 1999. Ms. Aditi Kapoor Ms. Aditi Chadha Kapoor is a well-known journalist, development consultant and communications professional. She currently works with Oxfam in India as Advocacy and Media Manager and was previously its South Asia Media and Advocacy Coordinator, responsible for policy and media advocacy across the region. Ms. Kapoor’s current policy and media advocacy focus is on climate change and on Millennium Development Goals. Winner of the 1998 LEAD Fellowship, her research focused on rural women and natural resource management, linking environment, development and gender issues. Correspondent with The Times of India for over a decade and winner of the 1992 Statesman Award for Rural Reporting, Ms. Kapoor has specialized in media, gender, environment and development. She has worked as a consultant with several government departments, United Nations agencies and NGOs to research, evaluate and document issues, processes and policies related to poverty and community development. Ms. Kapoor is a founder trustee of Alternative Futures, a development research and communications group based in New Delhi. She has been a member of the LEAD-India Board (earlier Nations Steering Committee) and currently sits on the Board of World Resources Institute, Washington D.C.. Dr. Nitya Khemka Dr. Nitya Mohan Khemka is Director at the Nand and Jeet Khemka Foundation and the Nabha Foundation. Prior to this, she worked with the UNDP (India Country Office) and ILO (Geneva, Switzerland) and taught classes in economics and development theory at Cambridge and Bangalore University. Her research interests span the areas of development policy and climate change, notably topics such as well being, gender inequality, human development, decentralization of governance and issues surrounding justice, adaptation and mitigation strategies for climate change. Dr. Khemka holds a PhD. and an M.Phil. in Development Studies from the University of Cambridge, an M.A. in Economics and a B.Sc. in Mathematics from Bangalore University, India. Mr. Michael Köberlein Mr. Michael Köberlein is director of the Heinrich Böll Foundation, India Office based in Delhi. Before this role, Mr. Köberlein represented the University of Heidelberg in India and was in charge of the branch office of the South Asian Institute in Delhi. He holds a Ph.D. in Geography from the University of Heidelberg and has worked for several years as a scholar in the field of development studies. In 2004 he was employed by GTZ in the conference secretariat for the Renewables 2004 conference in Bonn Germany and as a freelancer in the field of energy policies. Back to topDr. Arun Kumar Dr. Arun Kumar is the President of Development Alternatives and has wide experience in the areas of Technology Design, Systems Engineering, Business Development, Organisation of Research and General Management. Since 1989 he has been responsible for innovation and development of technology systems required for large-scale creation of sustainable livelihoods. He has been responsible for development and commercialisation of sustainable technology packages in the areas of Low Cost Construction, Decentralised Energy Production, Cleaner Production Technologies, Biomass Utilisation and Paper Recycling, technology packages which are now being used in almost every state of India and have had considerable success in other developing countries as well. Dr. Kumar has prepared and implemented several projects for large-scale dissemination of cleaner technologies required under various International Protocols, including measures to reduce ozone depleting substances and the emission of greenhouse gases. He successfully negotiated the first community development CDM project with the World Bank for commercialising the Vertical Shaft Brick Kiln Technology which will provide carbon benefits to small and medium enterprises. In addition, Dr. Kumar represents Development Alternatives on Expert Groups in the Department of Science and Technology. Prior to joining Development Alternatives, Dr. Kumar had been an engineer and senior manager in the corporate sector for 15 years and had held high-level positions with the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Establishment, Harwell, UK and the Bhabha Atomic Energy Center, Bombay. Mr. Johan Lilliestam Mr. Johan Lilliestam has worked at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research in the research domain Transdisciplinary Concepts and Methods since 2007. His current research focus is on issues of European and external electricity market issues, especially large-scale imports of renewable electricity from North Africa to the EU. Mr. Lilliestam's research experience is mainly focused on European energy and climate policy, especially on issues of international electricity trade and renewable electricity. He holds a Master of Science degree in environmental sciences and physics from Göteborg University, Sweden, and a Master of Arts in environmental management from the Freie Universität Berlin, Germany.
Ms. Malini Mehra Ms. Malini Mehra is the founder & CEO of the Centre for Social Markets, an India and UK-based non-profit organization promoting entrepreneurship, corporate and civic leadership on sustainable development and human rights. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society for Arts, Commerce and Manufactures (RSA), the Remarque Foundation, and the British-American Project and has served on numerous non-profit and international advisory boards. At present these include major multinational companies such as Unilever, BHP Billiton and Fortis. From 2003-4, Ms. Mehra served as an Advisor to UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan as a member of his High Level Panel of Eminent Persons on UN-Civil Society Relations chaired by President Cardoso of Brazil. She also served as a writer & advisor on the United Nations’ influential Human Development Reports on Democracy (2002) and Human Rights (2000) respectively. From 2005-2006, Ms. Mehra was on secondment as a civil servant to the UK government’s Department for the Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (Defra) where she led for the government on its international sustainable development partnerships. An Indian citizen, Ms. Mehra has lived and worked in America, Europe and Asia. She speaks six global languages, is married with three children, and presently splits her time between the UK and India. Professor Jyoti Parikh Professor Jyoti K Parikh serves as Executive Director of Integrated Research and Action for Development (IRADE). She was a Senior Professor at the Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research (IGIDR) and has also worked at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) for nearly thirty years on energy and environment problems of developing countries. She has served as energy consultant to the World Bank, the U.S. Department of Energy, European Economic Community, Brussels and UN agencies such as UNIDO, FAO, UNU, and UNESCO, Environment Consultant to UNDP and the World Bank. She also served as a visiting professor at the Institute of Advanced Studies (IAS) of UNU in the area of ecorestructuring for sustainable development in 1995-96 and was the Acting Director of IGIDR for 1997-98. Professor Parikh obtained her M.Sc. from University of California, Berkeley, in 1964 and Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics from University of Maryland, College Park in 1967. Back to top
Professor Malgorzata Pilawska Professor Malgorzata Pilawska is Assistant Professor at the Cracow University of Technology (CUT) and Visiting Professor and member of the research team of Prof. G. Yue, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. She is also a member of the interdepartmental research group, led by Profs. E.M. Bulewicz, now S. Kandefer (FBC Laboratory), at CUT and of another team gathering scientists from four biggest Krakow Universities "Center of The Advances Technologies – Accent, Malopolska". Professor Pilawska has a Ph.D., Combustion of Gaseous Fuels in a Fluidised Bed, Thermal Engineering, March 1997 and M.Sc., SO2 capture form FBC, Environmental Engineering, both degrees from Cracow University of Technology, Kraków, Poland. As well as being a member of the Advisory Group on Energy and Climate Change to EC President, JM Barroso, since 1999 Professor Pilawska has also been a Member of the Combustion Section of the Polish Academy of Science of Thermodynamics and Combustion Committee and, since 2002, a Member of the Polish Committee of the Combustion Institute. Mr. V. Raghuraman Currently Principal Adviser & Chief Coordinator – Energy, Environment & Natural Resources of the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) Energy Program, Mr. V Raghuraman is an internationally recognized specialist in energy management, energy efficiency, energy policy, regulatory and technology issues as well as Member of the Study Group on Nuclear Energy - An Indian Perspective (2000) of Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE) and convener of the CII – USIIBC Working Group on Civil Nuclear Cooperation. Mr. Raghuraman is a Chemical Engineer by qualification and worked as a Consultant, Trainer and Researcher in National Productivity Council (NPC), where he rose up to Deputy Director General. Subsequently he served the Associated Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Assocham) as Secretary General. He was also the Chairman of the World Energy Efficiency Association. He served as Chairman of South Asian Regional Energy Co-operation (SAREC). Mr. Raghuraman is also on Board of Directors of Suzlon Energy Limited and Orissa Sponge Iron & Steel Ltd.
Professor Lavanya Rajamani Professor Lavanya Rajamani is a Legal Research Fellow with the CISDL, Associate Professor at the Centre for Policy Research in New Delhi. She was University Lecturer in Environmental Law, and Fellow & Director of Studies in Law at Queens' College, Cambridge, and earlier Junior Research Fellow at Worcester College, Oxford. She conducts research in international environmental law, in particular in the areas of international climate change law and policy, trade and environment, non-state actors in international environmental governance, and the industrial-developing country dynamic in the creation and implementation of international environmental law. She has worked as a consultant to UN Framework Convention on Climate Change Secretariat, the Alliance of Small Island States, the UNDP, the World Bank, and the International Institute of Sustainable Development. She is also a free-lance Project Director at the Global Environment & Trade Study, Yale Center for Environmental Law and Policy. Mr. Mark Runacres After twenty-five years in the British diplomatic service, latterly as Deputy British High Commissioner in India (2002-06), Mr. Runacres is living in India and engaged in the corporate and civil society sectors. Mr. Runacres is a promoter and Director of Sheffield Haworth (India), a JV in financial services executive search with one of the world’s biggest firms in this field. He is also a promoter and Chairman of Chase-India, an Indo-British JV in the public affairs and communications space and Director of Creative EcoWorks, a non-profit start-up focused on creating sustainable development solutions. Mr. Runacres is a Special Adviser to the Confederation of British Industry who are opening an office in Delhi, and Co-ordinator of the British Business Group in the National Capital Region. He is a Non-Executive Director for: MindTree Ltd; G4S Corporate Services (India) Pvt. Ltd; Elara Capital (India) Pvt Ltd; VERpool Ltd and on the Advisory Boards of Avian Media Pvt Ltd and Xyanni Pvt Ltd. Mr. Runacres is an Honorary Senior Fellow at The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI), India rep for Action for a Global Climate Community, and a Director of the Business and Community Foundation, in which role he is active in the field of Corporate Social Responsibility. Back to topMr. K. Madhava Sarma Mr. K. Madhava Sarma was formerly the Executive Secretary for the Secretariat for the Vienna Convention for the Protection of the Ozone Layer and the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete Ozone Layer from 1991 to 2000 at UNEP. Prior to UNEP, Mr. Sarma served for 29 years as an officer of the Indian Administrative Service (IAS), in various positions ranging from head of district administration to Additional Secretary at the Ministry of Environment and Forests. He represented India in the negotiations leading up to the amendment of the Montreal Protocol in 1990, participated in the World Climate Conference of 1989 and was a member of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Presently, he serves as a member of the Montreal Protocol’s Technology and Economic Assessment Panel and continues to write articles on environmental issues, including climate change. Mr. Ashutosh Shastri Mr. Ashutosh Shastri is the founder of EnerStrat Consulting- a London based strategy-policy-technology advisory firm focused on Energy-Climate Change and Clean Technology markets. Prior to founding EnerStrat Consulting in 2003, he was a specialist consultant in the global energy practice of McKinsey and Company based in London and in that capacity has assisted clients all over the world. Mr. Shastri takes a keen interest in the geo-politics of energy and carbon markets and is a member of Chatham House, The Energy Institute and the Institute of Directors in London. He frequently writes and contributes to conferences on topics related to energy strategy-security, market design and climate change, energy-carbon pricing and related market development issues. He speaks passable German and is fluent in two other Indian languages (Hindi and Marathi).
Ms. Barbara Unmüßig Ms. Barbara Unmüßig has been co-president of the Heinrich Böll Foundation since May 2002. She is responsible for the development of programmes and strategies in Latin America, Africa, Asia and the Middle East. The primary focus of her work is on globalization and international climate policies; national and international gender policies as well as promotion of democracy and conflict prevention. In 1990 she co-founded the organisation "World Economy, Ecology & Development" (WEED) and has since then been president of the organisation. From 1991-1992 she was co-ordinator of the German environment and development organisations in the UNCED-process. In 1993 she co-founded the German NGO-Forum Environment and Development and became its spokeswoman till March 2002. In 2000 she was founding member of the "German Institute for Human Rights" (DIMR.). For more than twenty years Ms. Unmüßig has been an expert in international environment and North-South-policies. Her special focus has been on the activities of the Bretton Woods Institutions, on international debt issues, as well as on the German foreign trade, development aid She has published numerous articles in newspapers and political periodicals on issues like trade and finance, international ecological policies and north-south relations.
Mr. Sanjay Upadhyay Mr. Sanjay Upadhyay, founder and managing partner of the India’s first environmental law firm, has been practicing environmental law since 1993. Mr. Upadhyay is India Visiting Fellow at the Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California, Berkeley and a legal intern to the Earth Justice Legal Defense Fund, San Francisco. Starting his professional career at WWF- India’s Centre for Environmental Law, Mr. Upadhyay has served as an environmental law expert to many well known international, multilateral, national and state institutions. He advises and holds key policy positions in national as well as state governments and the recent appointments include being the drafting Committee Member of Government of India for two key legislations, the Wildlife Protection Act and the Forest Rights Act and Rules. Most recently Mr. Upadhyay has been commissioned to draft the Renewable Energy Law for India. Mr. Upadhyay has been Minister of State for the Commission on Environmental Policies in Sikkim. He is currently Member of the State Environment Impact Assessment Authority of Arunachal Pradesh. Mr. Upadhyay is also a member of IUCN –CEL and in 2001 was awarded the Global Fellowship at the Nicholas School of Environment at Duke University.
Mr. Douglas Varchol Mr. George C. Varughese Mr. George Varughese is President Of Enterprise Development with Development Alternatives and is responsible, amongst other projects, for the building up a trans-disciplinary group capable of addressing issues related to environment and sustainable development. Mr. Varguhese is a Member of the Commission on Environment Strategy and Planning, IUCN, Member of the International Association for Impact Assessment and National Commission for Rural Labour, Govt. of India as well as on the Steering Committee for Global Water Partnership, the Advisory Committee for UNEP, InfoTerra and the Executive Committee Asia Pacific Council for Sustainable Development. Mr. Varughese has a Bachelors degree in Civil Engineering from Regional Engineering College, Rourkela and a Masters Degree with distinction in Urban and Regional Planning from the School of Planning and Architecture in New Delhi.
Mr. Sanjay Vashist Mr. Sanjay Vashist works as a freelance adviser for the Climate Change Programme of Heinrich Böll Foundation in India. Before that Mr. Vashist worked with Climate Action Network and TERI as Climate Change expert. His expertise is in following Post 2012 discussions in the context of a developing countries’ perspective. He has also worked as International Coordinator for Climate Action Network International (CANI) in Bonn, coordinating the activities of ENGOs network and acting as a focal point for ENGOs constituency of observers under UNFCCC. Prior to pursuing a career in climate change science and action, Mr. Vashist worked as Natural Resource Scientist among rural communities of Central India, implementing community based projects objectives towards strengthening sustainable livelihoods. Academically he is a ‘Forester’ with a Post Graduate degree in Forestry from India. He completed his Master in Agro Forestry from Gujarat Agriculture University and Graduation in Forestry from Konkan Krishi Vidhyapeeth, Maharastra. He has 10 years of experience in Natural Resource Management, Implementation of Adaptation in key sectors and in following International Climate Change discussions on various platforms for a future climate change regime.
Mr. Durwood Zaelke Mr. Durwood Zaelke is the President and founder of the Institute for Governance & Sustainable Development (IGSD) in Washington, DC and Geneva; Director of the Secretariat for the International Network for Environmental Compliance & Enforcement (INECE) in Washington, DC and Geneva; and the co-Director and co-founder (with Dr. Oran Young and Matthew Stilwell) of the Program on Governance for Sustainable Development at the Bren School of Environmental Science & Management, University of California, Santa Barbara. Mr. Zaelke is currently directing IGSD's efforts to promote fast-action climate mitigation strategies including: reducing black carbon, expanding the use of biochar, increasing urban albedo, and continuing to strengthen the Montreal Protocol ozone treaty to protect climate. Mr. Zaelke and his former IGSD colleague, Scott Stone, received both a U.S. EPA Ozone Protection Award and a U.S. EPA Climate Protection Award in 2008 for their contribution to the successful effort to maximize the climate benefits of the Montreal Protocol. Back to top Back to the Delhi Seminar page Go to the High-Level India-EU Dialogue page
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