David Garman
Assistant Secretary U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy
Assistant Secretary Garman leads the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) comprised of over 500 federal employees in Washington, D.C. EERE's $1.2 billion technology portfolio is the largest energy research, development, demonstration and deployment portfolio at the Department of Energy. Assistant Secretary Garman was instrumental in the development of the FreedomCAR cooperative automotive research partnership and the President's Hydrogen Fuel Initiative. Prior to joining the Department of Energy, Mr. Garman served in a variety of positions on the staff of two U.S. Senators and two Senate Committees during a career spanning nearly 21 years, including service on the Professional Staff of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence and the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
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Stephen Timms
Minister of State for Energy, e-Commerce and Postal Services
Stephen Timms joined the United Kingdom Department of Trade and Industry in May 2002 as e-Commerce Minister. He is responsible for energy and sustainable development, e-Commerce, communications and information industries, postal services and corporate social responsibility.
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Dr. Hermann Scheer
Hermann Scheer has been a member of the German Bundestag for the Social Democratic Party of Germany since 1980. He is the author of A Solar Manifesto, a groundbreaking book on renewable energy and of The Solar Economy: Renewable Energy for a Sustainable Global Future, which has just been published. Dr. Scheer also serves as General Chairman of the World Council for Renewable Energy (WCRE) and is the president of EUROSOLAR, a non-partisan European renewable energy organization.
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John Mogford
John Mogford is Group Vice President for Gas, Power and Renewables at BP. Mr. Mogford's key responsibilities are in BP's Global Renewables, Alternatives and Natural Gas Liquids business. This includes BP's interests in Solar, Wind and Hydrogen.
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Dr. Refaat A. Abdel-Malek
Currently, Dr. Refaat A. Abdel-Malek is Vice Chairman and a member of the Board of Directors of MWH Global, Inc. Prior to the merger of Harza Engineering Company and Montgomery Watson, Inc., Dr. Abdel-Malek was President and Chief Executive Officer of Harza Engineering Company, an international engineering and environmental consulting firm.
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Wendy Annecke
Prior to working on her own, Ms. Annecke worked at the Energy and Development Research Centre at the University of Cape Town where she was responsible for all projects in the Energy, Poverty and Development program, and for bringing a gender focus to the Centre's work. She has extensive experience in energy research, policy development and planning, from in-depth studies of women's energy use to the role of the Southern African Power Pool in promoting the interests of the poor.
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Richard M. Aynsley
Richard Aynsley is the director of research and development for Delta T Corporation. He has over 30 years experience in research and consulting for commercial and government clients in USA, Australia, New Zealand and Southeast Asia on architectural design, architectural aerodynamics, natural ventilation, tropical architecture, thermal comfort, thermal performance of construction, energy efficiency, architectural lighting and acoustics.
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Dr. Pir Azizi
Dr. Pir Mohammad Azizi is the Deputy Minister of Water Resources and Environment at the Afghanistan Ministry of Irrigation. Dr. Azizi previously served as head of the Department of Soils and Irrigation, Faculty of Agriculture, and Registrar of Graduate Students at Kabul University. He has completed graduate studies leading to an M.S. degree in Soils and Irrigation at the American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon.
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Rakesh Bakshi
Mr. Rakesh Bakshi is Chairman of RRB Consultants and Engineers Pvt. Ltd. (RRB), a forerunner in establishing Wind Power as a major source of power generation in India. RRB is a well consolidated Indian company engaged in the field of new and renewable sources of energy in India, since 1984. He is also Vice President of the Indian Energy Forum and Managing Director of Vestas RRB India Ltd. and Solchrome Systems India Ltd.
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Carol Battershell
Carol Batterhshell has worked for nearly 20 years in the oil and gas industry for BP and Standard Oil of Ohio, primarily in fuels marketing. In her current role as Director, Alternative Fuels she is responsible for BP's strategy for hydrogen and fuel cells and manages the group's portfolio of hydrogen demonstration projects. She has worked in a variety of locations in the US, and in London and Brussels.
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Jos Beurskens
Jos Beurskens heads the Wind Energy Unit of Energy research Centre of the Netherlands (ECN). He was the manager of the Netherlands National Wind Energy Programme from 1981 to 1986. From 1990 to 1999 Mr. Beurskens was head of ECN's renewable energy research programme as it conducted important research into renewable energy applications in the built environment as well as various aspects of wind, solar and biomass energy systems.
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Marilyn A. Brown
Dr. Marilyn A. Brown is the director of Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Program, USA. She is an internationally recognized expert on issues surrounding the commercialization of new energy and environmental technologies and the evaluation of government programs and policies. Prior to coming to Oak Ridge, she was a tenured associate professor in the Department of Geography at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
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Robert C. Brown
Dr. Brown is the Bergles Professor of Thermal Sciences at Iowa State University (ISU). He holds the rank of Professor in the Departments of Mechanical Engineering, Chemical and Biological Engineering, and Agriculture and Biosystems Engineering. Dr. Brown is the director for the Office of Biorenewables Programs at ISU, which recently established the first graduate program in the United States to offer degrees in biorenewable resources.
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Wayne H. Brunetti
Wayne H. Brunetti is chairman and chief executive officer (CEO) of Xcel Energy Inc. Secretary of Energy Spencer Abraham appointed Brunetti to the National Petroleum Council, a key advisory body to the Secretary of Energy, for the 2002-2003 membership term. He is currently first vice-chairman of Edison Electric Institute and serves on its board, executive committee, policy committee on energy services and policy committee on energy supply.
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Federico M. Butera
Federico Butera is professor of Environmental Physics in Buildings at the Politecnico di Milano. Since 1973 he has been involved in many national and international (IEA, European Commission) research activities in the fields of solar heating and cooling of buildings, sustainable architecture and solar cities, as well as in several United Nations and Word Bank RES development projects. In 1998 he was awarded "Pioneer for contributions in Renewable Energy" by WREN.
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Mario Cucinella
Mario Cucinella is Director of MCA. He founded MCA in Paris in 1992 and MCA Integrated Design in Bologna in 1999. Both practices initially had success in international competitions, research and industrial design and has a special interest in climate responsive design and sustainability. Prior to this he worked with the Renzo Piano Building Workshop for five years in Genoa and later in Paris. He is actively involved in education, teaching technology studio at Ferrara University.
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Dr. Robert K. Dixon
Dr. Robert Dixon is a Senior Advisor at the U.S. Department of Energy. From 1999 to 2002 he served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, U.S. Department of Energy. He has more than 20 years of energy and environment experience with three federal agencies, the private sector and academia.
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Michael T. Eckhart
Michael T. Eckhart is President of the American Council On Renewable Energy (ACORE), a member of the Chairmen's Committee of the World Council On Renewable Energy (WCRE), and President of Solar International Management, Inc. He has over 25 years of experience in power generation, high technology, and renewable energy, and is widely recognized for his recent work in the development of innovative financing strategies for solar energy in the U.S., Europe, Japan, India, and Africa.
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Patricia Flanagan
Patricia Flanagan works for the USAID/Washington's Bureau for Economic Growth and Trade (EGAT), and leads up rural energy services activities globally in USAID-assisted countries and is a key person on the Global Village Energy Partnership (GVEP), a U.S. Presidential Signature Initiative. Her combined U.S./field-based experience in sustainable development, community capacity building, economic growth, renewable energy and environmental issues spans two decades.
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Max Fordham
Max Fordham leads one of the UK's leading practices of environmental engineers. The practice is at the forefront of the promotion of sustainability in the construction industry. In 2004 the practice won the UK's most prestigious business award, the Queen's Award for Enterprise, in the category of Sustainable Development. Max Fordham is Visiting Professor in Building & Design at the University of Bath. He is Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, and Honorary Fellow of The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA).
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Dr. Michael Geyer
Dr. Geyer is the director of the Spanish Office of Flabeg Solar International GmbH. In September 2000 he was elected as the new Executive Secretary of the IEA SolarPACES Implementing Agreement, which represents the international Solar Thermal Community of R&D institutions.
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D. Yogi Goswami
Dr. D. Yogi Goswami is the president of the International Solar Energy Society (ISES), a member of the Board of Governors of the ASME International, as well as a Fellow of the ASME International, and the American Solar Energy Society. D. Goswami is a professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and Director of the Solar Energy and Energy Conversion Laboratory at the University of Florida and is internationally known for his research in fundamental and applied areas of renewable energy.
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Martin A. Green
Martin Green is a Scientia Professor at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia and Executive Research Director of the University's Centre of Excellence for Advanced Silicon Photovoltaics and Photonics. He is also Research Director of Sydney-based CSG Solar Pty. Ltd.
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Jeremy Harris
Mayor Jeremy Harris is in his eleventh year as the mayor of the City and County of Honolulu. Mayor Harris began his professional career as an instructor in oceanography at Kauai Community College, after earning undergraduate degrees in biology at the University of Hawaii, and a master's degree in population and environmental biology at the University of California at Irvine. Mayor Harris has guided America's twelfth largest city through one of the most challenging periods in its history. Confronted by declining real property tax revenues and a stagnant visitor industry when he assumed office in 1994, he increased the efficiency of city government by streamlining operations and upgrading services. Today, Honolulu is a cleaner, safer, more sustainable city than any time in the four decades since Hawaii became a state.
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Martin I. Hoffert
Martin Hoffert is Professor Physics and former Chair of the Department of Applied Science at New York University. His research in alternate energy conversion includes wind tunnel and full-scale experiments on innovative wind turbines, PV generation of hydrogen and wireless power transmission applied to solar satellites. At present, his research focus is on energy technologies that could stabilize climate change from the fossil fuel green house — including space solar power.
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Rainer Hinrichs-Rahlwes
From 1994 to 1998, Mr. Hinrichs-Rahlwes was Head of Division for Bundesrat and Bundestag Issues at the Lower-Saxony State Chancellery. Since November 1998, he has served as Director-General of Central Functions — Administration, Financing Instruments, Research and Coordination, Climate Protection and Renewable Energies — at the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety. He was co-Chair of the International Steering Committee for the preparation of Renewables 2004.
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Dominique Lallement
Dominique Lallement has worked for the World Bank for over 25 years. Currently, she is the Energy Adviser in the Energy and Water Department and Manager of the Energy Sector Management Assistance Program (ESMAP), which advises on bank energy strategy, in particular on energy-poverty nexus, institutional and capacity building, and multi-sectorial policy and implementation issues. She is also the coordinator of the Technical Secretariat of the Global Village Energy Partnership (GVEP).
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Fred Morse
Dr. Morse served as Executive Director of the White House Assessment of Solar Energy as a National Energy Resource in the 1960s. Since then, he has become an international leader in promoting the development and use of renewable energy technologies. In his work at the US DOE he played a significant role in defining and managing major solar energy R&D and commercialization programs. Dr. Morse is currently working with the California Municipal Utilities to aggregate their demand for solar thermal power (CSP), to implement the 1000 MW CSP Initiative in the southwestern US.
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Gerry Morvell
Gerry Morvell is the head of the energy futures branch of the Australian Greenhouse Office. He is responsible for management of policy and program advice to Federal Ministers on energy related climate change response measures. These include development of renewable energy and low emission technologies, the Mandatory Renewable Energy Target (MRET), solar cities and carbon capture and storage. He joined the AGO after working at the United Nations Headquarters as the business focal point and head of communications in the Secretariat for the Johannesburg World Summit on Sustainable Development. Prior to that he held executive positions in the federal Environment Department where he was responsible for environmental impact assessment, coastal and marine policies and climate change science and impacts.
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Gilbert Parent
Gilbert Parent is Ambassador for the Environment for Canada. He was first elected to the House of Commons in 1974, was elected Speaker of the House of Commons on January 17, 1994, and re-elected to the position on September 22, 1997. Mr. Parent was appointed Ambassador for the Environment on December 20, 2000. As Ambassador he attends and speaks at national and international conferences on the environment and sustainable development and renewable energies.
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Wiktor Raldow
Dr. Wiktor Raldow graduated 1972 in chemical engineering at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm. He obtained his PhD at the same school and worked as a post-graduate fellow at the University of Houston in Houston, Texas. Dr. Raldow published more than thirty articles and co-authored two books (in Swedish), one on energy storage and the other on a long term vision of the energy system. He joined the European Commission in 1997. Since 2002, he is the head of the unit for New and Renewable Energy Sources.
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Judy Siegel
ESG President Judy Siegel brings over 25 years in the commercialization of renewable energy technologies in over 60 countries worldwide. She has extensive experience in developing and implementing renewable energy projects in Latin America, Asia and Africa. Ms. Siegel has served as President of the US Export Council for Renewable Energy, Deputy Director of the World Bank Asia Alternative Energy Program (ASTAE), and Managing Director of the Winrock International Clean Energy Group.
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Thorsteinn I. Sigfusson
Professor Sigfusson is a unique academic/innovator/entrepreneur in Iceland who has been characterized as the main "switcher" in bringing university knowledge into industry with the resulting dozen high tech companies. At the moment Prof. Sigfusson is cochair of the IPHE, International Partnership for the Hydrogen Economy, Implementation and Liaison Committee, established by 15 nations in Washington DC in November 2003.
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Ralph Sims
Ralph Sims is director of the Centre for Energy Research, at Massey University, New Zealand. He has just been appointed as the coordinating Lead Author for the "Energy Supply" chapter of the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report and was a Lead Author covering renewable energy and also agriculture in the Third. He is the New Zealand delegate on the IEA Renewable Energy Working Party and received a ministerial appointment to the board of the New Zealand Energy Efficiency and Conservation Authority.
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Dan Shugar
Dan Shugar is PowerLight's president and serves on the board of directors. Prior to joining PowerLight, Mr. Shugar was vice president of the New World Corporation Wireless Division, as well as vice president of Development for Advanced Photovoltaic Systems. Prior to the PV industry, Mr. Shugar worked for the Pacific Gas & Electric Company, where he managed PG&E's Solar Projects research group after several years of transmission planning and substation operations.
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Pamela B. Strobel
Pamela B. Strobel is executive vice president and chief administrative officer of Exelon Corporation. She is responsible for Exelon's shared services group, Exelon Communications, and Exelon Enterprises. She also serves as chair of the Exelon Strategy and Policy Committee. Ms. Strobel most recently served as chairman and CEO, Exelon Energy Delivery, the holding company for Exelon Corporation's energy delivery businesses, PECO Energy in Philadelphia and ComEd in Chicago.
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Jefferson Tester
Dr. Tester is the H.P. Meissner Professor of Chemical Engineering and former Director of MIT's Energy Laboratory. He serves as the chair of the National Advisory Council of the National Renewable Energy Laboratory and as co-chair of the Governor's Advisory Committee for the Massachusetts Renewal Energy Trust. Professor Tester has co-authored more than 170 scientific papers and 8 books on various topics related to energy extraction and conversion and environmental issues.
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Roberto Vigotti
Mr. Vigotti joined ENEL -- the Italian National Power Board, Research and Development Division -- in 1974, working in R&D for high voltage transmission. From 1988 he has been involved in the creation and coordination of scientific and demonstration programs in the field of new renewable energies. In 2002, he was re-elected chairman of the Renewable Energy Working Party at the International Energy Agency. He is currently chairman of the Renewables and Distributed Generation Working Group at Eurelectric, the association of European electric utilities, and is vice president of the Italian section o the International Solar Energy Society.
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Rebecca W. Watson
Rebecca W. Watson is the Assistant Secretary for Land and Minerals Management at the U.S. Department of the Interior. She provides policy, priorities and oversight to the Bureau of Land Management, Minerals Management Service, and Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement.
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Steven E. Zwolinski
With over 20 years of service with the General Electric Company (GE), Steve was appointed President and CEO of GE Wind Energy, GE's newly acquired wind energy segment, in May 2002. During his career with the company, Steve has held leadership positions at GE Corporate R&D, GE-Medical Systems, GE-Aerospace, and GE Power Systems (GEPS), including General Manager of Inspection and Repair Services, President and CEO of GE Energy Parts, and more recently, General Manager, GE Global Hydro. He recently served on the Board of Directors for Inroads-Atlanta, and currently resides in Atlanta, GA.
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