Our Members

Membership of Climate Strategies provides a mechanism for collaboration, outreach and communication to support the work of members. It also offers the opportunity for debate, discussion and engagement with fellow climate and energy policy researchers and policymakers in the climate and energy arena.

Membership of Climate Strategies is offered to funders, project leaders and senior researchers based in universities or research institutes who, through their research have made significant, demonstrable and constructive contributions to climate change and energy policy, generally at an international level. Many have led or otherwise been closely engaged with Climate Strategies research projects. We believe membership of Climate Strategies offers researchers significant benefits and opportunities for supporting research collaboration and outreach. In addition, members can attend the Annual General Meeting, which serves as a key opportunity for:

• presenting, debating and synthesising results from our commissioned research programme and contributing to ideas on the programme; and
• meeting the Board Directors and key stakeholders represented on our International Advisory Council and discussing research with them.  

Member Biographies

Dr Julian Barquin Prof John Barrett Dr Regina Betz Dr Simone Borg Prof Thomas Brewer Maciej Bukowski Christa Clapp Michel Colombier Heleen de Coninck Dr Joanna Depledge Dr Tom Downing

Dr Susanne Droege Jasper Faber Dr Dora Fazekas Prof Michael Grubb Emmanuel Guerin Dr Péter Kaderják Dr Sonja Klinsky Dr Anna Korppoo Richard Lorch Dr Felix Matthes Michael Mehling

Axel Michaelowa Dr Emi Mizuno Arild Moe Dr Benito Müller Dr Karsten Neuhoff Prof Peter Newell Prof Dr Sebastian Oberthür Jon Price Prof Dr Joyashree Roy Prof Ambuj Sagar Prof Stefan Schleicher Graham Sinden

Hans-Jürgen Stehr Prof Thomas Sterner Charlotte Streck Stephen Tindale Andreas Tuerk Prof Diana Urge-Vorsatz Prof Kiriakos Vlahos Neil Walker Murray Ward Peter Wooders Farhana Yamin

Dr Julian Barquin - Regulatory Affairs
Endesa, S.A., Madrid, Spain

Dr. Julian Barquin obtained his Electrical Engineering degree at Comillas University in 1988 and his Physics degree at UNED University in 1994. He finished his Ph. D. degree at Comillas University in 1993 about power systems voltage stability. He joined Comillas University, where he became professor (Profesor Propio). Since July 2012 he is at Regulatory Affairs, Endesa (Enel group).

His research activities have revolved around technical and economic analysis of electrical power systems. He is author or coauthor of 8 books and more of 100 papers in peer-reviewed journals and conferences. He has headed more than 30 research projects and has been participant in many others. He has been visiting scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (USA) and visiting scholar at the University of Cambridge (UK).

 

 

 

John Barrett - Professor of Sustainability Research
University of Leeds, Leeds, UK

John holds a Chair in Ecological Economics at the Sustainability Research Institute (SRI), University of Leeds. His research interests include sustainable consumption and production (SCP) modelling, carbon accounting and exploring the transition to a low carbon pathway. He has an extensive knowledge of the use of Multi-Regional Environmental Input-Output modelling to understand the effectiveness of strategies and policies to deliver a low carbon economy.

My research is predominately funded by the UK Government (Defra) and the UK Energy Research Centre. These key areas of research have involved the building of global trade models to understand the embedded carbon emissions in goods and services and estimating the upstream carbon emissions from emerging energy technologies. The techniques that I developed as part of my research are now used by numerous government departments to understand the consumer emissions of the UK as well as the carbon emissions embedded in products.

John is one of the lead advisors to Defra in relation to the development of PAS2050 and was commissioned by Defra to lead on understanding the carbon footprint of trade. John has been selected as a lead author for the IPCC 5th Assessment for Working Group III. He has appeared regularly on Radio 4 news and discussion programmes, written numerous policy reports on SCP issues for a wide range of audiences.

 

 

Dr Regina Betz - Joint Director - Centre for Energy and Environmental Markets (CEEM)
The University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

Dr. Regina Betz is Joint Director (Economics) at the Centre for Energy and Environmental Markets (CEEM) and a Senior Lecturer at the School of Economics at UNSW. She studied economics in Germany and the UK and obtained her PhD through research analysing the impact of different designs of carbon trading systems on transaction costs. From 1997-2004 she has been a Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Environmental Technology and Environmental Economics at the Fraunhofer (FhG) Institute of Systems and Innovation Research in Karlsruhe, Germany.

Her work focuses on climate change policies and their associated instruments, such as Joint Implementation, the Clean Development Mechanism and particularly emissions trading. Her publications largely relate to the design and implementation of these instruments. From 1998 -2004 she has been a consultant to the German Federal Ministry of Environmental with respect to the Kyoto Mechanisms and Emissions trading (e.g. National Allocation Plan), and has been closely involved with European Union and United Nations negotiations on climate change (UNFCCC).

 

 

Dr Simone Borg - Resident Academic, Faculty of Laws, Head of the Environmental Law and Resources Law Dept
University of Malta, Msida, Malta

Dr Simone Borg read law at the University of Malta where she graduated with a doctorate degree in laws (LL.D.) in 1991 and a Magister Juris degree in International law in 1994. In 2009, she obtained her Ph.D. at the International Maritime Law Institute on the conservation of marine natural resources.  She is the ambassador for Malta on climate change issues. Dr Borg worked for the public sector from 1991 to 2004 first as a First Secretary with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and then Head of the Legal and Multilateral Affairs Section within the Ministry of the Environment. During this time she was mainly responsible for negotiating Malta’s position in International Environmental Multilateral Agreements, including the negotiations to the Climate Change Convention  and the Kyoto Protocol, the Barcelona Convention on the Protection of the Mediterranean Sea and its Protocols, the drafting of legislation and legal policy making in environmental and energy law.  She coordinated the transposition of the environmental and energy acquis communautaire during Malta’s negotiations to become an EU member State. She also participated as a freelance legal expert on environmental law in various projects with the European Union and the United Nations. Dr Simone Borg served for two years as the first Chairperson to Malta’s Occupational Health and Safety Authority. She has chaired the Committee for Environmental Awards for Maltese Industry in its last two sessions.  Presently, she is the Head of Department of the Environmental law and Resources law within the Faculty of Laws at the University of Malta, where she is a resident full time academic. She is also a visiting lecturer at the Catholic University of Leuven, the IMO’s International Maritime Law Institute and the University of Auckland in New Zealand. She has published many articles and papers including articles on the role of Small Island States in International law. She has written two Monographs on Malta’s Environmental Law. She is a Co Chair of the Forum of Legal Experts on Climate Change Adaptation. She was the legal adviser to the Malta Policy Group of Experts on Mitigation and Adaptation to Climate Change. She is also Malta’s representative to the EU Group of Experts on Adaptation to Climate Change.
Research Interests
Environmental law and policy; energy and climate change law and policy; sustainable development and natural resource management law and policy; international law international maritime law and international relations. 

 

 

Prof Thomas Brewer - Senior Fellow
International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development (ICTSD), Geneva, Switzerland

Thomas Brewer's research focuses on the intersections of climate change issues with international trade, technology transfer and investment issues. His publications include numerous articles in the refereed journals. Climate Policy and Energy Policy, as well as chapters in books published by the Brookings Institution, Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press and other leading publishers. He is the editor and author of the introduction to a symposium on the intersection of international trade issues and climate trade issues in the refereed journal The World Economy. He is completing a book on the political economy of US government, business and public responses to climate change issues. He is a Lead Author for the Fifth Assessment Review of the Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Working Group III, and a member of the Panel of Experts for the Environmental Assessment of the North American Free Trade Agreement. He also a Schöller Foundation Research Fellow at Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg in Germany, and a periodic Visiting Business Fellow at Oxford University’s Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment. He is an Associate Fellow of the Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS) in Brussels, and an emeritus faculty member of Georgetown University in Washington, DC.

 

Maciej Bukowski
Bio to follow shortly

 

 

Christa Clapp - Associate Director in Advisory Services
Thomson Reuters, Point Carbon, Oslo, Norway

Christa Clapp recently started as an Associate Director in Advisory Services at Thomson Reuters, Point Carbon. Prior to this, she was an Economist / Policy Analyst in the Environment Directorate of the OECD. She analyses a range of mitigation topics for national policymakers, including low-emission development strategies, emission baselines, mitigation potential and costs, competitiveness, and tracking climate change finance. She also conducts research on negotiation-specific topics for the Climate Change Expert Group (CCXG) on the UNFCCC. Christa previously worked for the US Environmental Protection Agency where she analysed climate change policy proposals for Congress, earning a National Honor Award Gold Medal for Exceptional Service. She served as a Contributing Author to the IPCC 4^th Assessment Report on Mitigation. Christa holds a Masters in International Relations and International Economics from SAIS at Johns Hopkins University. 

Christa’s recent OECD projects:
Tracking Climate Finance
Low-Emission Development Strategies

 

Michel Colombier - Director
IDDRI, Paris, France

Michel is an agricultural engineer and doctor of economics. Specialist in energy and climate issues, former member of the GEF and FGEF scientific panels. After the CEEETA (University of Lisbon), he joined ADEME, then directed ICE. He helped to set up IDDRI (The Institute for Sustainable Development and International Relations) in 2001.

 

 

 

Heleen de Coninck - Associate Professor
Radboud University, The Netherlands

.Heleen de Coninck is associate professor in innovation studies and sustainability at the Institute for Science, Innovation and Society (ISIS) at Radboud University Nijmegen's Faculty of Science. Before joining the university, she worked for over 10 years on international energy and climate policy at the Energy research Centre of the Netherlands (ECN), the largest energy research institute in the country.

As a researcher, Heleen's main focus of work is international climate policy and technology. Since her joining ECN in December 2001, she worked on international climate policy, rural electrification, the Clean Development Mechanism, CO2 capture and storage, capacity building in developing countries and policy interactions. From 2002-2005, she was part of the Technical Support Unit of the IPCC Working Group III, where she coordinated the Special Report on Carbon dioxide Capture and Storage. Since 2008, she managed a group of eight researchers focussing on international climate policy, energy and development, and technology transfer and acted as programme manager for ECN Policy Studies. 

Heleen graduated in Chemistry and in Environmental Science, specialisation climate change and atmospheric chemistry, from the University of Nijmegen. After her studies, she worked as atmospheric chemistry researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry in Mainz, Germany. In 2009, Heleen finished a PhD, which she conducted alongside her work at ECN, on technology in the international climate regime at the VU University Amsterdam in collaboration with Princeton University in the United States.

  

Dr Joanna Depledge - Affiliated Lecturer, Dept. of Politics and International Studies
University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK

Joanna Depledge is an affiliated lecturer at POLIS. Between 2003 and 2009, she was Sutasoma Research Fellow at Lucy Cavendish College. Her main research interest lies in international climate change politics, and the international climate change negotiations. She also works on global negotiation processes more generally, notably on the ozone depletion and international whaling regimes.

Joanna teaches and supervises on climate change for several courses at Cambridge, including on the Mphil in Fundamentals of International Environmental Law (Land Economy), and the MSt in International Relations (POLIS/Institute for Continuing Education). She is also a regular contributor to the journal Environmental Policy and Law on the climate change, ozone and International Whaling Commission (IWC) negotiations.

Joanna is a former staff member of the UN Climate Change Secretariat (1996-1998) and, up to 2002, continued to work for the Secretariat as a consultant, providing support to the negotiations and preparing public information products. She has also worked as a writer for the Earth Negotiations Bulletin, reporting on climate change, ozone and biodiversity meetings.

She holds a PhD from University College London, an MSc (with distinction) in Development Studies from the London School of Economics and Political Science, and a BSc (first class) in Geography from Cambridge University.

Please visit the University of Cambridge website for a list of Joanna's publications.

  

 Dr Tom Downing - President and Chief Executive Officer
Global Climate Adaptation Partnership, Oxford, UK

Dr Thomas E. Downing is President of the Global Climate Adaptation Partnership (GCAP) and Director of GCAP (UK). He received his PhD in Geography from Clark University. Over his career he has held a number of influential positions, including Advisor to the United Nations Environment Programme and recently the Munich Re Foundation Chair for social vulnerability. In his 30 years of experience working in the field of adaptation and vulnerability he has led numerous projects, his most recent being the EC ClimateCost project.

Before establishing GCAP, he was the Director of the Stockholm Environmental Institute’s Oxford office, where he managed a $2 million revenue base. Tom is an internationally recognised thought leader in adaptation and has published over 100 papers, books, reports and book reviews, including the Atlas of Climate Change (with Kirstin Dow). He is currently directing a project on an adaptation mainstreaming for the African Development Bank and has previously worked with the World Bank and Inter American Development Bank. Some of his most recent projects include working for the African Development Bank in Tunisia from 2010 to Present as the Project Director, the KfW Germany in India from 2010 to 2011 as the Project Lead, the Department for International Development in Tanzania in 2010 as the Project Director, the European Commission in Europe from 2008 to Present as the Project Co-ordinator, the United Nations Environment Programme in Africa from 2008 to 2010 as the Principal Investigator and the European Commission/Defra from 2006 to 2009 as the Lead, Technical Assistance.

 

 

Dr Susanne Droege - Head of Research Division
Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP Berlin), Berlin, Germany

Susanne Droege is Head of the Global Issues Division at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP) in Berlin. She studied economics in Berlin, Warwick (UK), and Kiel (Germany). She was a research assistant at the Leipzig Graduate School of Management (1996-1999) and at the German Institute for Economic Research (1999-2006). She joined the SWP in 2006.

Susanne Droege has specialised in energy, climate and international economics and has a long-standing work experience on trade and environment. Recent research focuses on the EU’s unilateral approach to emissions trading, and international climate negotiations. Ms Droege is a project leader in the Climate Strategies network since 2008 working on carbon leakage and competitiveness effects from carbon pricing.

Climate Strategies’ research projects and publications by Susanne Droege:
International Industry Competitiveness, Carbon Leakage, and Approaches to Carbon Pricing
Tackling Leakage in a world of unequal carbon prices

 

Jasper Faber - Manager Economics

CE Delft, Delft, The Netherlands

Bio to follow shortly.

 

 

Dr Dora Fazekas 

Dr. Dora Fazekas is the former Research Manager of Climate Strategies. She coordinated and managed the CS research portfolio since 2009, after finishing her PhD in Environmental Economics focusing on carbon market implications of the new EU member states. She spent her Fulbright scholarship at the Earth Institute at Columbia University in New York contributing to the development of a methodology to evaluate carbon and energy sustainability options in carbon footprint and labelling assessment which could serve as an industry standard.

Prior to starting her PhD she was a Counsellor at the Hungarian Ministry for Environment in the Energy and Climate Change Unit, and was heavily involved in the implementation of the EU ETS in her native Hungary.  

 

 

Prof Michael Grubb - Senior Adviser, Sustainable Energy Policy
Ofgem, London, UK

Professor Michael Grubb is the former Chair of the Board of Climate Strategies and now sits on the board. His academic positions are as Senior Research Associate at the Faculty of Economics in Cambridge University (half time), and Editor-in-Chief of the journal Climate Policy. He also joined Ofgem in April 2011 as Senior Adviser on sustainable energy policy.

He was formerly Chief Economist at the Carbon Trust, the £100m/yr body established to spearhead the UK’s transition to a low carbon economy, from which he stood down in Oct 2009 to write a book The Carbon Connection.  In 2008 he was appointed to the UK Climate Change Committee, established under the UK Climate Change Act to advise the government on future carbon budgets and to report to Parliament on their implementation. 

Before joining the Carbon Trust, Michael was head of Energy and Environment at Chatham House, and then Professor of Climate Change and Energy Policy at Imperial College London, where he remains a Visiting Professor.  He has been a Lead Author for several reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) addressing the economic, technological and social aspects of limiting greenhouse gas emissions. He has also been a Council Member of the International Association for Energy Economics, and of the British Institute of Energy Economics. Professor Grubb has been sole or principal author of seven books and around fifty journal research articles, plus numerous smaller contributions in the professional and wider media, on technological and economic dimensions of energy policy and climate change at domestic, European and global levels. 

Emmanuel Guerin - Climate Program Director
The Institute for Sustainable Development and International Relations (IDDRI), Paris, France

Bio to follow shortly

 

 

Dr Péter Kaderjék - Director
Regional Centre for Energy Policy Research - Budapest, Hungary  

Peter Kaderják (1963) is the director of the Regional Centre for Energy Policy Research (REKK), and the course director of the Energy Economics postgraduate program of Corvinus University of Budapest.

He was President of the Hungarian Energy Office; Associate Professor in the Microeconomics Department at Budapest University of Economics; and former Chairman of the Energy Regulators Regional Association (ERRA). Dr. Kaderják was previously Chief of the Minister’s Cabinet and Secretary of the Economic Committee of the Hungarian Government.

From 1998-1999, he served as a Member of the Board of Directors of the State Privatization and Asset Holding Company. Prior to that, he was Senior Environmental Policy Advisor and member of the Policy Advisory Working Group with the Harvard Institute for International Development in Budapest. He served as coordinator for the Phare-ACE Project, Environmental Implications of Economic Transition in Hungary.

Dr. Kaderják began his career in economics as a Lecturer in the Department of Business Economics at Budapest University of Economics in 1987. He has participated in training workshops in the United States and Austria. From 1989-1990, he was a Visiting Research Assistant of economic psychology at Erasmus University. He has been a Member of the European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (EAERE) since 1993.

Climate Strategies’ research projects and publications by Péter Kaderják:
Decarbonisation of the Power Sector

  

Dr Sonja Klinsky - Researcher, Dept. of Land Economy
University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK

Dr.Sonja Klinsky is a researcher in the Cambridge Centre for Climate Change Mitigation Research at the University of Cambridge.  Her research explores how sustainability policies have been designed and understood both by diverse stakeholders.

She is currently involved in two major research trajectories.  First, she is conducting ongoing work that analyses how climate change policy has been developed and perceived in both domestic and international arenas.  Currently this work focuses on the development of cap and trade mechanisms and on debates about justice and equity at multiple levels.  This work is particularly interested in the role and perception of economic modelling in policy decision-making, and the ways in which arguments about justice are embedded in climate change policy dilemmas.

Her second major research area explores methodologies for exploring public opinion about complex sustainability policy issues. This has included work on public understandings of “pro-environmental” behaviour, and of climate change policy in both Canada and Costa Rica. Previous work investigated the power of information and representation to shift public discourses of sustainability.

Sonja holds a PhD from the Institute of Resources, Environment and Sustainability at the University of British Columbia, an MA in geography from McGill University, and an Hon BSc in environmental science and international development from the University of Toronto.

 

 

Dr Anna Korppoo is a Senior Research Fellow at the Fridtjof Nansen Institute (FNI) in Oslo. She holds an MSc on Environmental Policy from the University of Tampere, Finland, and a PhD on Energy Policy from Imperial College London on energy efficiency in Russian pulp and paper industry.

Anna has been involved in a number of Climate Strategies and other think tank projects on Russian and Eastern European climate policy as well as the Kyoto mechanisms and the surplus AAUs since 2000, and followed the UNFCCC negotiation process for a decade.

She has previously (2008-2011) worked for the Finnish Institute of International Affairs (FIIA), both as a Senior Researcher and a Programme Director. Anna has focused on publishing mainly policy-advice oriented briefing papers and studies in the series of FIIA, Climate Strategies, FNI and Chatham House.

Her current research project funded by NORKLIMA of the Norwegian Research Council focuses on Russia’s energy policies which drive Russia’s future emission trends, especially those linked to energy efficiency, as well as Russia’s role and policies in the international climate negotiations.

Recent research activities:
FIIA publications under the EU beyond 20% project
Approaching the AAU Issue with a strategic compliance reserve and optimized trading
Joint Implementation projects
A Russian Green Investment Scheme - securing environmental benefits from international emissions trading

 

 

Richard Lorch - Editor, Climate Policy Journal
The Grantham Institute for Climate Change, Imperial College, London, UK

Bio to follow shortly

 

 

Dr Felix Matthes - Researcher Coordinator - Energy and Climate Policy
Öko-Institut, Freiburg, Germany

Bio to follow shortly

 

 

Michael Mehling - President
Ecologic Institute, Washington DC, USA

Michael Mehling joined Ecologic Institute in 2004, and was appointed President of Ecologic Institute, Washington DC in April 2008. He is also an Adjunct Professor at Georgetown University, and a manager of the Konrad-von-Moltke Fund in Washington DC. During his work with Ecologic Institute, Michael has coordinated a range of research and advisory projects for government agencies as well as educational and civil society institutions in North America, Europe and the developing world. Michael has authored over one hundred publications on environmental law and policy. Recent books include the co-edited volumes Bridging the Divide in Global Climate Policy: Strategies for Enhanced Participation and Integration (2009), Improving the Clean Development Mechanism: Options and Challenges Post-2012 (2011), and Climate Change and the Law (2012). He is also founding editor of the quarterly Carbon & Climate Law Review, the first academic journal dedicated to climate regulation and the carbon market. Michael is an attorney registered with the Bars of Berlin and the District of Columbia.  He is a German and American citizen and has lived extended periods of time in the United States, Germany, Chile, and Finland.

 

 

Axel Michaelowa - Researcher
University of Zürich, Switzerland

Axel Michaelowa is researcher on international climate policy at the University of Zürich and senior founding partner of the consultancy Perspectives. Axel has been working on international climate policy for the last 16 years. Before moving to Zurich in 2006, he was head of the research group "International climate policy" at the Hamburg Institute of International Economics. Axel is a member of the CDM Executive Board's Registration and Issuance Team and has contributed to the development of five approved CDM baseline methodologies. He is a lead author in both the 5th and 4th Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change; and has published over 100 articles, studies and book contributions on the Kyoto Mechanisms. In over 20 developing countries, Axel has engaged in CDM institution building.

Axel is also a Climate Strategies Board member. 

 

 

Dr Emi Mizuno - Senior Researcher
Japan Renewable Energy Foundation, Tokyo, Japan

Dr. Mizuno is currently a senior researcher at the Japan Renewable Energy Foundation (JREF), which was established to advance renewables in Japan at the wake of the massive earthquake, Tsunami and the Fukushima Nuclear Accident in 2011.

Dr. Mizuno specializes in clean energy technology policy, holding a PhD degree in Technology and Public Policy from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.  She is particularly interested in analysis and development of effective public policy, international collaborations and public-private partnerships to advance clean energy technology development-diffusion dynamics and build national / business competitiveness based on it. 

While she was a doctoral candidate at MIT, Dr. Mizuno was also a Research Fellow at the Energy Technology Innovation Policy group at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University.  At MIT and Harvard, she finalized her doctoral research regarding Danish and German wind energy technology development and their technology transfer experiences to India.  

After taking the PhD degree in 2007, she joined the Energy Technology Policy Division at the International Energy Agency in Paris, where Dr. Mizuno was the main author of Research, Development and Demonstration Chapter of Energy Technology Perspectives 2008.  From February 2009 to December 2010, she worked as research associate at the Judge Business School in University of Cambridge.  Prior to joining the JREF in August 2011, she completed a project for the Australian Department of Climate Change and Energy Efficiency as a project manager at the Climate Strategies.  

Dr. Mizuno is a Japanese national, holding a bachelor of Engineering in Environmental Planning from Kobe University in Japan and a master of Landscape Architecture in Urban Development from University of California at Berkeley.  Prior to attending MIT, she worked as urban designer and planner in the United States, involving various US Federal government projects (the FBI Laboratory relocation, the United States Embassies in Kenya, Tanzania, Croatia and Seoul, and the United States Mint Headquarters, etc.) and private development projects (the National Air and Space Museum Dulles Center for the Smithsonian Institute, Raleigh-Durham Research Triangle Park Master Plan, and Chevy Chase Metro Station Area Redevelopment, etc.).  Such urban developments along with energy policy analysis and international development study experiences give her unique perspectives to consider energy system as a part of sustainable economic, social and physical development.    

 

 

 Arild Moe - Deputy Director / Senior Research Fellow

Fridtjof Nansen Institute - Oslo, Norway

Arild Moe (b. 1955) is Cand. Polit. from the University of Oslo with political science, Russian language and public law. He is Deputy director and Senior research fellow at the Fridtjof Nansen Institute, Norway. FNI is an independent foundation engaged in research on international environmental, energy and resource management politics. The main academic discipline represented is political science, but FNI researchers also hold degrees in law, economics, history, social anthropology and biology. The institute has a long experience in studying international climate policy. For an overview of FNI research see www.fni.no.

Arild Moe is author and co-author of several books and articles on the Russian energy sector. He has worked extensively on Russian climate politics as well and was one of the authors of the original Climate Strategies report developing the Green Investment Scheme. More recently he directed a CS project on Joint Implementation in Russia and is now involved in research on the basis for Russian positions in the international negotiations.

 

 

Dr Benito Müller - Director (Energy & Environment)
Oxford Institute for Energy Studies, Oxford, UK

Dr Müller is currently Director (Energy & Environment) at the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies (OIES), which he joined in February 1996, Managing Director of Oxford Climate Policy (a not-for-profit company aimed at capacity building for developing country climate change negotiators), and Director of the European Capacity Building Initiative (ecbi), an international initiative for sustained capacity building in support of international climate change negotiations. Dr Müller is a Supernumerary Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford and a member of the Philosophy Faculty of Oxford University. He is Senior Research Associate of Queen Elizabeth House the University’s International Development Centre, and an Associate of its Smith School for Enterprise and Environment. Dr Müller received his doctorate (D.Phil.) in Philosophy from the University of Oxford specialising in Philosophy of Language and of Science and was formerly a Research Fellow at Wolfson College and a Lecturer in Logic at the Queen's College, Oxford. He has a Diploma in Mathematics from the Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule (ETH) in Zürich, Switzerland.

Climate Strategies’ research projects and publications by Benito Müller:
The Clean Development Mechanism in the post-2012 Climate Change Regime

For a list of publications see www.OxfordClimatePolicy.org

 

 

Dr Karsten Neuhoff - Research Director
DIW Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Karsten Neuhoff is a Research Director at DIW Berlin (German Institute for Economics Research). He studied in Freiburg and Granada and graduated in 1999 with a Masters in Physics from the University of Heidelberg (Germany), and in 2000 with a Master in Economics from The London School of Economics (UK). He received a PhD from the Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge, in 2003 on the topic of market power in networks, supervised by Professor David Newbery.

From 2003 to 2009 he was senior researcher at the Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge, and visiting researcher at MIT, leading projects on the future of the power system, renewable integration and technology policy. With the research network Climate Strategies he coordinated European and international projects on the implementation of the European Emissions Trading Scheme and North-South Climate Cooperation. He has published 71 articles in academic journals and reviewed working papers, was member of the Auctioning Working Group and Renewables Review Panel of UK the government and presented at several occasions to committees and working groups of the European Parliament and European Commission. He is the former Director of the Berlin office of the global network Climate Policy Initiative.

Climate Strategies’ research projects and publications by Dr Karsten Neuhoff:
Carbon Pricing for Low Carbon Investment
Differentiation and Dynamics of Competitiveness Impacts
EU Emissions Trading Scheme
International Support for Domestic Action
International Support for Domestic Climate Policies
Border Adjustments

 

 

Prof Peter Newell - Department of International Relations, School of Global Studies
University of Sussex, Brighton, UK

Prof Peter Newell is Professor of International Relations at the University of Sussex. He is co-editor of the European Journal of International Relations, associate editor of the journal Global Environmental Politics and sits on the editorial board of Global Environmental Change, the Journal of Environment and Development and the Journal of Peasant Studies. His publications include the books: Climate for Change: Non State Actors and the Global Politics of the Greenhouse;  The Effectiveness of EU Environmental Policy; Development and the Challenge of Globalization; The Business of Global Environmental Governance; Rights, Resources and the Politics of Accountability; Climate Capitalism and Governing Climate Change; Globalization and the Environment: Capitalism, Ecology and Power. He has also published more than 40 journal articles and 40 book chapters as well produced a number of commissioned studies, working papers and policy briefs.

He has worked on issues of environment and development, especially climate change, for over 18 years and conducted research and policy work for the governments of the UK, Sweden and Finland as well as international organizations such as the United Nations Development Programme, the Global Environment Facility and the Inter-American Development Bank. He has been called upon to give presentations and evidence to the UK parliament on a number of occasions and to provide training to commonwealth parliamentarians. He also worked extensively with and for NGOs including Friends of the Earth, Climate Network Europe, the International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development, Practical Action, Transparency International, Care and the International Council on Human Rights Policy. He is a trustee of the One World Trust and chairs the group’s Independent Advisory Panel. In addition, he was worked closely with a range of businesses on issues of climate change and Corporate Social Responsibility both as lobbyist and provider of training and advisory services.

In 2008 he was awarded an ESRC Climate Change Leadership Fellow to work on The Governance of Clean Development. Prior to this he held posts as Professor of Development Studies at the University of East Anglia; James Martin Fellow at the Oxford University Centre for the Environment; Principal Fellow in the Centre for the Study of Globalization and Regionalization, University of Warwick; Fellow at the Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex; associate researcher at FLACSO Argentina and researcher and lobbyist for Climate Network Europe in Brussels.

 

 

Prof Dr Sebastian Oberthür
Institute for European Studies, Brussels, Belgium

Since the end of 2005, Sebastian Oberthür is a member of the Compliance Committee of the Kyoto Protocol to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change. Since 2000, he has furthermore acted as a special policy advisor on international climate policy to the German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Protection and Nuclear Safety. Since 1996, he has also been an appointed member and representative of the International Council of Environmental Law (ICEL). From 2005 to 2007, Sebastian Oberthür served as a member of the Scientific Steering Committee of the Institutional Dimensions of Global Environmental Change (IDGEC) project of the International Human Dimensions Programme (IHDP).

Sebastian Oberthür is the Academic Director of the IES. Trained as a political scientist with a strong background in international law, he focuses on issues of international and European environmental governance, with an emphasis on institutional issues and perspectives. His current research interest extends in particular to the horizontal and vertical integration of international institutions and policies relevant to the environment, including the interplay between environmental agreements/institutions and other policies (e.g. trade, transport).

 

 

Jon Price - Chair of Executive Committee, Climate Strategies

Chief Executive, Centre for Low Carbon Futures, York, UK

Jon Price was appointed as Chief Executive of the multi-disciplinary Centre for Low Carbon Futures in 2009, and is joined on the Board by the Vice Chancellors of the five member research intensive UK universities.  Focusing on enabling greater international impact of University led research in food, energy and water security, the Centre develops science and technology innovations supporting low carbon and resource efficient economies in Asia, EU and Latin America, supported by evidence based research.

Jon has initiated a number of major technology projects, from CCS demonstrators to improved breeding of crops, energy storage and water management, and has commissioned over 50 reports covering a broad spectrum of science, engineering and policy. He has chaired a number of events at Earth Summit and UNFCCC negotiations and as an expert advisor to international governments and MDB's in EU, ASIA and LAC.

With a previous career in financial services, Jon is also the Chair of the Leeds Sustainability Institute focusing on building forensics and optimising energy performance, member of the  Steering Group of a Doctoral Training Centre at the University of Leeds,  a Commissioner for Future Cities, and an external reviewer for a number of organisations.

Jon initially developed Climate Strategies from 2007 - 2009 as a board director, rejoining after a few years as non executive Chair from March 2013 to support the revival of organisation, together with new board members.

Jon is based at the University of York, UK and at the University of Birmingham, UK.

 

 

 Prof Dr Joyashree Roy - Professor and Head Department of Economics Coordinator
Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India

Dr Joyashree Roy is currently the Professor of Economics at Jadavpur University, Kolkata in India. She initiated and also coordinates the Global Change Programme at Jadavpur University which focuses on selected aspects of Climate Change research and beyond . She  Directs the Ryoichi Sasakawa Young  Leaders Fellowship Fund (SYLFF) project on “Tradition, Social Change, and Sustainable Development: A Holistic Approach” at  the same university. She was a Ford Foundation Post Doctoral Fellow in Environmental Economics at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, California , USA.

She has been one of the two Coordinating Lead Authors of the Chapter 7 of the Inter-Governmental Panel on  Climate Change - IPCC’s AR4, WGIII, “Climate Change 2007: Mitigation of Climate Change”. IPCC is the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize Winner. She is in IPCC Fifth assessment cycle as well. She has been involved in preparation of Stern Review Report, Global Energy Assessment and many other national and global efforts. She is in Steering committee of LOICZ. In her independent research capacity she has authored books and written over sixty articles in peer reviewed leading professional journals and books.

Current research interests are: Economics of Climate Change, modeling energy demand, economy-wide modeling exercises for deriving policy implications, water quality demand modeling, water pricing, urban infrastructure development policy issues, sustainable indicator estimation, natural resource accounting, valuing environmental services, and developmental and environmental issues relevant for informal sectors, Coastal Ecosystem service evaluation.

She is interested in multidisciplinary approaches to understanding development issues. She has widely traveled to almost every continent for her extensive research collaborations and capacity building efforts in the field of Resource, energy, environment and the climate change. 

Climate Strategies’ research projects and publications by Joyashree Roy:
Sectoral Approaches

 

 

Prof Ambuj Sagar - Professor of Policy Studies
Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi, India

Ambuj Sagar is the Vipula and Mahesh Chaturvedi Professor of Policy Studies at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Delhi.  Ambuj's interests lie in science & technology policy, environmental policy, and development policy, with a particular focus on the interactions between technology and society.  While his current research focuses mainly on energy innovation and climate policy, he also studies, more broadly, various facets of technology innovation, environmental policy and politics, and engineering education and research.

Ambuj did his undergraduate studies in Mechanical Engineering at IIT Delhi.  He subsequently received an M.S. in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Michigan and an M.S. and a Ph.D. in Polymer Science and an M.S. in Technology and Policy from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.  He was a Senior Research Associate at the John F. Kennedy School of Government and Assistant Dean for Strategic Planning at the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Harvard University before joining IIT Delhi in 2008.

Prof Stefan Schleicher - Professor of Economics
Wegener Center, Graz, Austria

Stefan Schleicher is Professor of Economics at the Wegener Center on Climate and Global Change at the University of Graz, Austria. He serves as a consultant to the Austrian Institute of Economic Research in Vienna.

He obtained his academic degrees from the University of Technology in Graz and the University of Vienna. He held academic positions at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Vienna, the University of Bonn, the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia and Stanford University.

His research focuses on economic modeling and economic policy issues with special emphasis on sustainable structures in the context of energy and climate.

Recent research activities:
-  Beyond-20 – Evaluation of more ambitious EU energy and climate targets for 2020
-  EnergyTransition – The transition to low energy structures for 2012, 2020 und 2050
-  NREAP-AT – National Renewables Energies Action Plan for Austria
-  TranSust.Scan – FP-7 EU project for the transition to sustainable economic structures
-  EU Emissions Trading Scheme – The evidence since 2005 and the agenda after 2012

 

Graham Sinden
Bio to follow shortly

 

Hans-Jürgen Stehr
Climate Strategies, Cambridge, UK

Danish Hans Jürgen Stehr has had a long career within public administration and management of environmental, climate change and energy issues.

Most recently (2008 to 2010) he served as director of the secretariat for the independent Danish Commission on Climate Change Policy  which was asked by the Government to elaborate recommendations about how to make Denmark fully independent of fossil fuel.  The Commission published it's final report in the Autumn of 2010. The recommendations of the Commission can be found on http://www.ens.dk/en-US/policy/danish-climate-and-energy-policy/danishclimatecommission/greenenergy/Sider/Forside.aspx.

 Hans-Jürgen served two terms as chair and one term as vice-chair of the Executive Board of the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) under the Kyoto Protocol, of which he was a member from the beginning in 2001 until 2008. In that capacity he played a major role in making the CDM operational. 

Hans Jürgen holds a Master's degree in Law from the University of Copenhagen and he has been teaching constitutional law as an assistant professor. Currently he acts as an independent advisor.

 

 

Prof Thomas Sterner - Professor of Environmental Economics
University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden

Thomas Sterner´s main research interests lie in the design of policy instruments. He has studied a number of different applications ranging from energy and climate, through natural resource management such as fisheries to issues relating to industrial and transport pollution.

As professor of environmental economics in Gothenburg, Thomas Sterner has during the last 18 years built up a unit for environmental economics with three  professors, a dozen PhDs and about two dozen graduate students. The unit gives a unique PhD program in environmental economics, funded by Sida, a master program and runs a large number of other research and teaching activities.

Thomas Sterner teaches PhD and undergraduate courses in environmental and resource economics. He is also teaching in Environmental Policy Instruments at Chalmers.

To view Thomas's full profile, please click here.

 

Charlotte Streck - Director, Climate Focus, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Charlotte Streck, Ph. D., Doctor Juris (Humboldt University, Berlin), MSc (Regensburg / Freiburg im Breisgau), is Director of Climate Focus, an international climate change law and policy consulting firm with offices in Amsterdam, Bangkok, Bogota, Lisbon and Washington DC. She is former Senior Legal Counsel with the World Bank and has been advising governments, the private sector and non-governmental organizations on climate change throughout her career. Dr Streck is an internationally renowned expert on the climate aspects of forestry and agriculture, climate finance and carbon trading. She is a former lead counsel for climate change with the Center for International Sustainable Development Law with McGill University, an adjunct lecturer at Potsdam University, an associated editor of the Climate Policy journal, and a board member of the Austin-based Rainforest Partnership. Dr Streck is a proliferate writer and serves on the editorial boards of several academic publications. More information.

 

Stephen Tindale - Associate Fellow
Centre for European Reform, London, UK

Stephen Tindale is an associate fellow at the Centre for European Reform, working mainly on energy and climate policy but also on the EU budget.

He also runs the website Climate Answers, which tries to present information on climate issues in an accessible way, and to identify what should be supported rather than simply what should be opposed, as most NGOs do.

He is co-author, with Prashant Vaze, of the book "Repowering commmunties: Small scale solutions to large scale problems" (Earthscan, June 2011), about the role that local government, co-operatives and community organisations play on energy supply and energy efficiency in Europe and North America.

Previous roles have included: Head of Communications and Public Affairs for RWE npower renewables; Executive Director of Greenpeace UK and Chairman of the Greenpeace European Unit; adviser to Environment Minister Michael Meacher; founder of IPPR Environment Group; adviser to Shadow Environment Secretary Chris Smith, diplomat at UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office.

 

 

Andreas Tuerk - Senior Researcher
Joanneum Research / Wegener Center for Climate and Global Change, University of Graz, Graz, Austria

Andreas Tuerk studied chemistry and environmental science at the University of Graz. He continued with a postgraduate economic study at the Danube University in Krems (academic degree MBA). Since 2006, he has worked at the institute of energy research at Joanneum Research.

His research areas are national and international climate policy and the Kyoto project mechanisms.

Andreas' main responsibilities include research within different projects related to Climate Policy, Emissions Trading and the Kyoto project mechanisms and consultancy of companies in these research fields.

Details of his publications can be found here.
 

 

Prof Diana Urge-Vorsatz - Professor, Department of Environmental Sciences and Policy
Central European University (CEU), Budapest, Hungary

Bio to follow shortly

 

 Prof Kiriakos Vlahos - Associate Professor of DecisionSciences
Athens Laboratory of Business Administration (ALBA), Athens, Greece

Kiriakos Vlahos is an Associate Professor of Decision Science at the Athens Laboratory of Business Administration (ALBA) and a member of the Board of the Greek Regulatory Authority for Energy.  Previously, he has held positions as a Senior Consultant at Caminus Energy, Assistant Professor at London Business School and Energy Economist at Goldman Sachs. He has held visiting professor appointments at Copenhagen Business School, Athens University of Economics and Business, China-Europe International Business School and Reykjavik University. 

He has been working for more than 25 years in the area of energy and environmental planning and has served as a consultant to a large number of energy companies.  His research work has evolved around the study of the energy sector and its interactions with the economy and the environment.  He has been a frequent presenter in international conferences of Management Science and invited speaker to short executive courses on electricity planning.  

 He has published in both academic and professional journals, was a guest editor of special issues of the Journal of Forecasting, International Transactions of Operational Research, Energy Policy and Energy Economics and a joint editor of a volume on Decision Science.

 

 

 Neil Walker - Head of Energy and Environment Policy
Irish Business and Employers Confederation, Dublin, Ireland

Neil Walker is Head of Energy and Environment Policy within the Irish Business and Employers Confederation (IBEC). He has more than 25 years of senior management, consulting and research experience across a range of industries and regulatory bodies. Neil holds Masters Degrees in chemical engineering and business studies as well a PhD in environmental economics. His doctoral thesis was concerned with the impact of EU climate policy on energy intensive industries. He continues to have a strong professional and personal interest in developing cost-effective policies for greenhouse gas abatement.

 

 

 

 

Murray Ward - Consultant
Global Climate Change Consultancy, Wellington, New Zealand

From 1996 to 2002 Murray led the New Zealand Ministry for the Environment’s climate change team where he managed the development of domestic climate change policy and was a leading senior negotiator in NZ delegations to international climate change meetings.

He is considered to be one of the key architects of the Kyoto Protocol framework. Murray founded Global Climate Change Consultancy (GtripleC) in 2003 to provide high-level strategic counsel to a range of international public and private sector clients. GtripleC’s focus is on the policy architecture of an enlarged and global climate change regime post-2012 – in particular as it relates to carbon markets, climate finance, LULUCF and REDDplus – and practical ‘on the ground’ capacity building that leads to investment and implementation at scale, not just more talk.

Climate Strategies’ research projects and publications by Murray Ward: Analytic Support to Target Based Negotiations.

 

 

Peter Wooders - Senior Economist, Climate Change, Energy and Trade
International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD), Geneva, Switzerland

Peter Wooders is IISD's Senior Economist for Climate Change, Energy and Trade. Based in Geneva, he has 20 years’ experience across the energy sector, with a particular specialization in electricity generation. Peter’s skills include the ability to analyze complex problems: he has developed a range of computer models including a suite of carbon market simulations covering both the EU and Kyoto systems.

Peter currently contributes to various IISD’s programmes, including Trade & Climate Change, notably Border Carbon Adjustment and the GHG impacts of possible Environmental Goods & Services agreements; Global Subsidies Initiative (fossil fuels and bio-fuels); Post-2012 Architecture of GHG Agreements; Carbon Markets and Climate Change Adaptation.

Initially trained as an engineer, Peter first worked in technology research with British Gas. He then spent 15 years as an Energy & Environment consultant, working on issues from energy efficiency in Hungary to the cost-benefit analysis of clean air policies in Egypt to the economics of nuclear waste disposition in the UK. His clients have included the World Bank, EBRD, various European Commission departments and a wide range of private sector companies.

Climate Strategies’ research projects and publications by Peter Wooders:
Sectoral Approaches