Amory Lovins

Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI) Colorado, USA
Physicist, Chairman and Chief Scientist of RMI, has led global innovation for over three decades at the nexus of energy, resources, environment development and security. Educated at Harvard, USA and Magdalen and Merton Colleges, Oxford , UK. Has received ten honorary doctorates, published 29 books, advises governments and major firms worldwide on advanced energy and resource efficiency.

An influential American voice for a “soft energy path”. His works include Winning the Oil Endgame, factor Four with Hunter Lovins and Ernst Ulrich von Weizacker. Co-founded Rocky Mountain Institute in Colorado 1982. He has received a great number of awards and prizes among these World technology Award, The Right Livelyhood Award ( “Alternative Nobel”), the Nissan, Mitchell, Heinz and Lindbergh award, Mac Arthur Fellowship, Time Hero for the Planet award.
Car magazine ranked him the twenty-second most powerful person in the global automotive industry. Newsweek has praised him as “one of the Western world’s most influential energy thinkers”. The Wall Street Journal named him one of thirty-nine people worldwide “most likely to change the course of business in the 90s”.

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Hermann Scheer

World Council Renewable Energy (WCRE) Bonn, Germany
Dr. Founder and General Chairman of the WCRE. President of the International Parliamentary Forum on Renewable Energies, Member of the German Parliament, Bundestag, Author. Initiator of the German “feed in tariff “ for PV (solar electricity), later copied in Japan and California. Winner of the Alternative Nobel Prize 1999. In 2002 Time Magazine recognized him as one of five “Heroes for the Green century”.

Dr. Scheer studied Economy, Social Science and public Law at the universities of Heidelberg and Berlin. He is a renewable energy pioneer. He has received numerous awards, including the World Solar Prize, the World Prize for Bio Energy, the World Wind Energy Award.
Scheer’s most successful policy innovations have been accomplished:

• The fully implemented 100.000 PV (solar electricity) roof program, the world’s first mass implementation program.
• The German Renewable Energy Act (“feed in tariff” etc) with 16.000 MW installed decentralized renewable energy capacity below 5MW per installation including 14.000 MW wind energy capacity, 40% of total world wind power installations. The Act has provided the major boost for the renewable energy technology industries sector, generating more than 150.000 new jobs and triggering annual renewable energy growth rates of 30 percent. Based on these exemplary results Brazil and China have recently adopted this policy as concept, adapting it to their own requirements.
• Full tax exemption for all biofuels, affording a lower price level for renewable fuels when compared to fossil fuels.

His previous books include “The Solar Economy” (2002). His latest book “Energy Autonomy” (2007) deals with the economic, social and technological case for renewable energy. Die Zeit described it as “The most important political book of the year”. Founder and President of EUROSOLAR.
 

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Peter Head

ARUP, London, UK
Civil and Structural Engineer OBE FREng FRSA – Director of ARUP. Time Magazine “Hero of the Environment” October 2008. Leads ARUP’s Planning and Integrated Urbanism team. He was appointed in 2002 by the Mayor of London as an independent Commissioner on the London Sustainable Development Commission and leads the planning and development sub-group of the Commission. Project director for the planning and development of the Dongtan CO2 neutral Eco-city for 500 000 people on Chongming Island in Shanghai, and the Wanzhuang Eco-City in LangFang near Beijing.

Peter is a champion for developing global practice that demonstrates that the way we invest public and private money in the built environment could be made very much more effective, if the public and private sector adopted sustainable development principles. He is a civil and structural engineer whose core competence is within advanced composite technology and sustainable development in cities. He has won many awards for his work including the Award of Merit of IABSE, the Royal Academy of Engineering’s Silver Medal and the Prince Philip Award for Polymers in the Service of Mankind.

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Chelsea Sexton

Los Angeles, California. Marketing expert and advocate of clean efficient transportation. Famous from the film “Who killed the Electric car ?”. Chelsea Sexton is an unlikely car geek; both her work on the General Motors EV1 electric vehicle program and her passion were featured in the 2006 film, “Who Killed the Electric Car?” by Sony Pictures Classics. She continues to drive the implementation of clean transportation and energy, leading the creation of the Automotive X PRIZE in 2005, and Plug In America, a leading advocacy group for plug-in vehicles. Not a fan of sitting still, Chelsea currently runs the Lightning Rod Foundation, is a Senior Advisor to Vantage Point Venture Partners, and is a Consulting Producer on Chris Paine’s next film, “Revenge of the Electric Car”.

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Stefan Behling

Foster and partners, Architect, London, UK.
Professor Dipl.-Ing Arch. Senior Partner, specialist in ecology, sustainability and energy conservation. Worked on a number of sustainable projects at Foster and partners including the new parliament at the Reichstag in Berlin. Recent projects include the City Hall by the Tower bridge London, McLaren in Surrey and a sustainable master plan for the Green Mountain region of Libya and designs for four plots within the six million square meter sustainable Masdar Initiative in Abu Dhabi including a CO2 neutral new town of 50 000 people. Construction start 2009.

He has also developed a vision for sustainable living and the wider use of renewable energy in the UK with the Department of Trade and Industry. At Foster and partners he leads research and development of new sustainable designs and the use of new materials and methods in construction, establishing a materials resource centre which is available practice-wide.

He recently became Group Leader at Foster and partners, taking responsibility for an international portfolio of education, commercial, residential and cultural projects, which include sustainable master plans.

Since 1995 he has been a professor at the University of Stuttgart, Germany, holding the Chair for Building Construction, Technology and Design. He has led several research projects in this field, some of which were funded by the European Commission. A number of his books including “Sol Power”, discussing the use of solar energy in architecture that he wrote together with his wife, Sofia, and “Glass, Structure and Technology” have been published.

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Børge Brende

World Economic Forum Geneva, Switzerland
Managing Director World Economic Forum, famous for the annual Davos- conference, heading Regional teams, Governments and Constituents. Chairman of the UN Commission on Sustainable Development 2003-2004. International Vice-Chairman of the China Council, for the International Cooperation on Environment and Development.

Educated from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology.
Held the government posts of Norwegian Cabinet minister of the Environment, 2001 to 2004, and Cabinet minister of Trade and Industry, 2004 to 2005. Member of the Norwegian parliament for more then 10 years. Served as Chairman of the UN Commission on Sustainable Development 2003-2004.
His political career began with his participation in the Norwegian Young Conservatives, becoming Political Secretary to the chairman in 1985. From 1986 to 1987, he was Political Adviser to the Conservative Party Chairman and parliamentary group. In 1994 he was elected deputy Chairman of the Norwegian Conservative party. Member of the Norwegian parliament, from 1997 to 2007. He served as member of the Standing Committee on Finance and Economic Affairs and deputy Chairman of the Standing Committee on Energy and the Environment.

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Margot Wallström

Swedish Margot Wallström was appointed Vice President of the European Commission in charge of Institutional Relations and Communication in August 2004. President Barroso created this post in order to improve the way the EC communicate 'Europe' to citizens. From 1999 till 2004, Wallström served as Environment Commissioner in the Prodi Commission.
Before dedicating herself to the European Union, she spent most of her professional life being active in Swedish politics. From 1979 till 1985, she was Member of the Swedish Parliament. In 1988, Wallström became Minister of Civil Affairs responsible for Consumer, Women and Youth matters and held this post for four years. In 1994, she was appointed Minister of Culture for two years and then Minister of Social Affairs for another two years.
Margot Wallström is also responsible for the European Commission's relations with the other European institutions (the European Parliament, the Council, the European Ombudsman, the Court of Justice, the Court of Auditors, the Committee of the Regions and the European Economic and Social Committee).
In addition, she holds the new role of strengthening the Commission's relations with national parliaments and through them communicating EC’s message to the citizens in the Member States.
The Commission's department under her political responsibility is the Directorate General Communication (DG Comm), whose mission it is to:
Inform the media and citizens of the activities of the Commission and to communicate the objectives and goals of its policies and actions.
Inform the Commission of the evolution of opinion in the Member States.

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Colin Campbell

Founder of the Association for the Study of Peak Oil, ASPO. Geologist educated at Wadham College, Oxford. PhD 1957 Has worked with the major oil multinationals like BP, Texaco, Amoco, Fina.
In 1995, he co-authored a definitive study by a consultancy, based on details of some 24 000 oilfields, which drew attention to the issue of Peak Oil, the results being published in Scientific American, sparking debate.
Author of a great number of books on peak oil and depletion. Among those : “The coming Oil crisis”, “The Essence of Oil and Gas Depletion” and “Oil Crisis”.
His work attracts much media interest. Governments too begin to face up to the Peak Oil issue. He has given presentations to the House of Commons in London, the Irish Senate, and the European Union, and was also consulted by the National Petroleum Council in Washington.

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Professor Jørgen Randers

Oslo, Norway Author of ”The Limits to Growth” (1972) and ”Limits to Growth – The 30 Year update” (2004). Chaired the Commission on Low Greenhouse Gas Emissions who reported in 2006 to the Norwegian cabinet on how Norway can cut is climate gas emissions by two thirds by 2050.

President 1981 – 1989 of the Norwegian School of Management, Oslo, Norway. Professor of policy analysis at the Norwegian School of Management, where he now teaches scenario analysis and corporate responsibility. He lectures internationally on sustainable development and climate, within and outside corporations.
He also sits on the “sustainability councils” of British Telecom in the UK and The Dow Chemical Company in the US.
Deputy Director General of WWF International (World Wide Fund for Nature) in Switzerland 1994 – 99. Jørgen Randers now holds the chair in Climate Strategy at The Norwegian School of Management BI.

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