Edmar Luiz Fagundes de Almeida, Prof. Dr.

Prof. Edmar has a Doctor degree in Applied  Economics by the  Institute of Energy Policy and Economics of the Grenoble  University, France (1999).  He works as professor of the  Institute of Economics of the Federal University of Rio de  Janeiro, and is member of the Energy Economics Research  Group of this institute. Prof. Edmar teaches in undergraduate  and graduate (including MBA) courses regarding the energy  sector.  He has also been active in academic and professional  research concerning the evolution of the oil, gas and electricity industries in  Brazil and internationally. Since 1993, prof. Edmar is teaching and researching in energy economics with special interest for: industrial organization and the dynamic of the energy Industries, regulation and energy policy, and technological innovation and its impacts for the energy markets.

Einar Hope

Current Affiliation: Professor of Energy Economics, Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration (NHH), Bergen

Education: PhD in Economics, NHH

Former Affiliations: Associate Professor, NHH, 1967-75. Research Director and President of three research institutions affiliated with the NHH, 1975-95 (Institute of Industrial Research, Center of Applied Research, and the Foundation for Research in Economics and Business Administration, respectively). Adjunct Professor, NHH, 1987-99. Director General of the Norwegian Competition Authority 1995-99. Full Professor in Energy Economics, NHH, 1999-. Visiting Scholar, Cambridge University, 1971-72

IAEE Activities: Member of Council and Vice President for Conferences, 2004-07. Appointed Member of Council, 2008. General Chair of European Regional Conferences held in Bergen in 2000 and 2005. Member of Program Committees of several IAEE Conferences. Chair of Election Committee, IAEE Norway

Other: Chairman of the Board of Energy Forum and Chair of Organizing and Program Committees of the annual Energy-Climate-Technology (ECT) Conference, Bergen. Member of Program Committee of the Workgroup for Infrastructure Policy, TU-Berlin. Head of several Norwegian governmental committees on industrial policy etc. Member of Board of Central Bureau of Statistics and Christian Michelsen Research Institute. Member of the Royal Norwegian Academy of Technological Sciences. Knighted 2007 by the King of Norway for his“services to society and mankind”.

Georg Erdmann, Prof. Dr.

Prof Dr. Georg Erdmann is Professor for Energy Systems at the Berlin University of Technology since 1995. Before, he was Assistant Professor at the Center for Economic Research, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zürich, and Delegate at the Paul Scherer Institute, Villigen. He is trained in Mathematics and Economics, and received his Ph.D. in Economics at the University of Münster / Germany, in 1981. His research fields cover energy economics including price forecasting, investment strategies, risk management and innovations. He has also research experience in the field of evolutionary economics. He is author of several books and scientific articles. His last book publication is an energy economics textbook (Energieökonomik – Theorie und Anwendungen, with Prof. Dr. Peter Zweifel; which will be soon be available also in English. He is founder of the company Prognoseforum GmbH which is quite successful in economic forecasting and energy consulting. Among many other mandates he chairs the Gesellschaft für Energiewissenschaft und Energiepolitik, German affiliate of the International Association for Energy Economics (IAEE) and he is President of the IAEE in 2009.

Herm Franssen

Herman Franssen is a senior associate with the CSIS Energy and National Security Program. He is also president of International Energy Associates, a consulting company that provides economic analysis, conducts political risk assessments, and assists companies in establishing relationships with national oil companies and governments in the Middle East. He is also a senior associate with the PEL Group in London, with GDP Associates in New York, as well as with MEC and the Centre for Global Energy Studies in London. He is also an adjunct scholar with the Middle East Institute in Washington, D.C. Prior to establishing International Energy Associates in 1996, Dr. Franssen was the senior economic adviser to the minister of petroleum and minerals in Oman from 1985 to 1996. While there, he assisted with the formation of the group of Independent Petroleum Exporting Countries (IPEC) in 1986 and acted as principal liaison of the Omani Ministry of Petroleum with OPEC and the consuming countries. Earlier, Dr. Franssen was chief economist of the International Energy Agency (IEA) in Paris (1980-1985) and helped produce its first World Energy Outlook in 1983. Before joining the IEA, he was director of the Office of International Market Analysis at the U.S. Department of Energy. Dr. Franssen was born in the Netherlands and educated in the Netherlands and the United States. He received a B.A. from Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota, and an M.A., M.A.L.D., and Ph.D. from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy in Medford, Massachusetts.

João Manoel Losada Moreira

João Manoel Losada Moreira has his B.Sc in Physics by the University of Brasilia, and his Ph.D. in Nuclear Engineering by University of Michigan, USA. He worked for more than 20 years in several activities related with the design of the Nuclear Reactor for Nuclear Propulsion, and was the project manager for the fabrication of the fuel elements for the prototype of Nuclear Reactor for Submarines, conducted by the Technological Center of the Navy, in Sao Paulo Before these activities he worked at Instituto de Pesquisas Energeticas e Nucleares(IPEN), where he was Head of the Reactor Physics Division, and Professor in the Post Graduate School of IPEN-University of Sao Paulo(USP). Also he was the technical coordinator of the neutronic design and for the experimental program for the Core of the Reactor for Nuclear Propulsion. João worked in others areas of the Nuclear Engineering, such as Environmental and Nuclear License together with the Brazilian Regulator Organization (Brazilian Atomic Energy Commision-CNEN) for several projects. Presently he is Full Professor of the” Universidade Federal do ABC-UFABC”, acting in Research, undergraduate, and post graduate courses in the area of Energy.

Jose Rubens Maiorino

Jose Rubens Maiorino has his BSc in Physics by the University of Campinas (1973), MSc in Nuclear Engineering by the “Escola Potitecnica” of University of Sao Paulo – USP(1976), and his Ph.D in Nuclear Engineering, North Carolina State University, in Raleigh, USA (1980). He worked in the Instituto de Pesquisas Energeticas e Nucleares-IPEN  from 1974 up to 2009, when he retired. During his work at IPEN he was a Researcher in Reactor Physics, Head of the Division of Reactor Physics, Director of the Reactor Department and of the Special Projects. He worked also in the project of the Brazilian Navy to develop the Nuclear Propulsion and was the Project Manager of the Zero Power Reactor IPEN-MB-01. Presently he still keeps a link with IPEN as Professor Colaborator and advisor in the post graduate course in Nuclear Technology of IPEN-USP. He was a Professor in this course since 1980 where he lectured several post graduate courses in Nuclear Engineering, and was the advisor of several thesis of MSc and Ph,D(20). As researcher at IPEN he published a hundred of publication in journal, proceedings, and others. Also he had a strong link with the International Atomic Energy Agency, being an expert, lecturer, Regional Coordinator of a Regional Project in Latin America on Spent Fuel Management and the Brazilian Reprsentative in the Technical Working Group in Fast Reactors(TWG-FR). Presently he still is the Chief Scientific Investigator in a International Research Coordinated Project on Accelerator Driven Systems(ADS). During 2009, after he retired from IPEN he was Professor of Engineering in Universidade Paulista(UNIP), lecturing under graduate courses in Thermodynamics, Fluid Mechanics, and Physics. Recently he was approved to be a Professor of Nuclear Engineering in the University of ABC(UFABC), and will assume this position in 2010.

Joseph M. Dukert, Ph.D.

Dr. Joseph M. Dukert is a long-time independent energy analyst whose knowledge and experience go beyond oil, natural gas, and coal-based electricity to include nuclear power and various forms of renewable energy, as well as energy efficiency. He has helped to develop numerous critical U.S. government documents and reports dealing with energy and the environment, including the national energy policies published under a succession of U.S. Presidents from both parties.

His latest book, Energy, is part of Greenwood Publishers’ series of Guides to Business and Economics. It deals with the problems of trying to reconcile the policy goals of adequacy, affordability, reliability, environmental acceptability, and time-deadlines in an increasingly interdependent world where new technologies and new challenges (such as the threat of global climate change) are forcing the adoption of new industrial and geopolitical paradigms.

Dr. Dukert is a Senior Associate with the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington. Throughout 2008 he served as President of the U.S. Association for Energy Economics and a member of IAEE’s Council.

Besides being the author of numerous books and monographs, he wrote the chapter on North America in the 2007 CSIS book, Energy Cooperation in the Western Hemisphere: Benefits and Impediments. Dr. Dukert has lectured at a number of universities in the U.S., Canada, and Mexico, as well as at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and the Foreign Service Institute of the U.S. State Department. He holds a Bachelor’s degree from the University of Notre Dame (magna cum laude); and M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in international relations from Johns Hopkins’ School of Advanced International Studies.

He has been a senior advisor to the North American Commission for Environmental Cooperation and a consultant to the International Energy Agency. Since the early 1990s, he has focused especially on cooperation among Canada, the United States, and Mexico in energy and environmental matters.

Luiz Augusto Horta Nogueira

Education: Mech.Eng (UNESP, 1978), MSc (UNICAMP, 1982), PhD (UNICAMP, 1987)

Former Affiliations: Visiting Scientist in FAO-Rome (1997 to 1998), Technical Director of Brazilian Agency of Oil, Natural Gas and Biofuels (1998 to 2004), Consultant of United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (2009).

Current Affiliations: Consultant of governmental and private companies in bioenergy and energy efficiency issues, Author of six books and several papers in Applied Thermodynamics, Bioenergy and Energy Efficiency, Currently Full Professor of Energy Systems at Natural Resources Institute, Federal University of Itajubá, Minas Gerais, Brasil

Marcos Sawaya Jank – President and CEO, UNICA

President and CEO of UNICA since June 2007, former President and Founder of the Brazilian Institute for International Trade Negotiations (ICONE), Dr. Jank is also Associate Professor at the School of Economics and Business, University of São Paulo (FEA-USP), B.Sc. in Agronomy by ESALQ-USP, M.Sc. in Agricultural Policies in Montpellier (France) and Ph.D by FEA-USP. He worked as Special Counselor to the Minister of Development, Industry and Trade of Brazil, as Special Expert in Trade at the Integration, Trade, and Hemispheric Issues Division of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) in Washington-DC, and as Visiting Professor at Georgetown University and University of Missouri-Columbia. Consultant and coordinator of projects at the World Bank, IDB, OECD, FAO, UNDP, the Hewlett Foundation, the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC), the German Marshall Fund of the United States, the UK International Cooperation Department (DFID), and other international organizations, Prof. Jank published over 200 works and presented about 500 lectures in events in the country and abroad. Dr. Jank has over 20 years of experience in topics related to the sugar-ethanol industry, and is fluent in Portuguese, English, French, and Spanish.

Michel Robe

Michel Robe is an Associate Professor of Finance at American University’s Kogod School of Business (AU). He was detailed from AU to the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) as a Senior Economist in 2006, 2008 and 2009. He has written numerous articles on the importance of trader identity for asset pricing (”who trades what, when, and does it matter?”), insider trading, financial regulation, security design, international financial flows, and macroeconomic volatility and cross-borders risk sharing. His work has appeared in the Journal of Financial Economics, the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, the International Economic Review, as well as in other academic journals and in books. His ongoing work deals with the evolution of commodity- and financial-futures markets, the organization of derivatives markets and their microstructure, and the impact of exchange demutualization on investor protection. Professor Robe previously taught at the University of Miami and McGill University. He received his Ph.D. in Financial Economics from Carnegie Mellon University.

Mine K. Yücel – Vice President and Senior Economist (Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas)

Mine Yücel is Vice President and Senior Economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas. She has been with the Bank since 1989.  She is the Director of Publications for the research department and also heads the Bank’s Micro/Regional/Energy group.  Yucel analyzes the regional economy and energy markets on an ongoing basis and has published numerous articles on energy and regional growth.

Yücel is past president of the United States Association of Energy Economics (USAEE) and president-elect of the International Association of Energy Economics (IAEE). She has served on the executive boards of the USAEE, the IAEE, Executive Women of Dallas, Dallas Area Business Economists, the Dallas Chapter of Women in Technology International, Inc. and  on the Greater Dallas Chamber’s Board of Economists. In 2006, she was chosen as one of the recipients of the ‘Key Women in Energy – Global’ award.  She received the USAEE Senior Fellow Award in 2007 and the Energy Journal Best Paper Award in 2009.

Before joining the Bank she was an assistant professor of Economics at Louisiana State University. She has a B.S. and M.S. in mathematics from Bogazici University in Istanbul, Turkey and a Ph.D. in economics from Rice University in Houston, Texas.

Othon Luiz Pinheiro da Silva

OTHON LUIZ PINHEIRO DA SILVA is Mechanical and Navy Engineer by the “ Escola Politecnica” of University of Sao Paulo(EPUSP),and Nuclear Engineer (MIT). He achieved the highest position in the Brazilian Navy (Admiral) before his retirement from the Navy. He was responsible by the program for the development of the national fuel cycle technology and nuclear propulsion for submarines conducted by the Brazilian Navy. This program is internationally recognized and respected by the high level of the technological achievements. He is responsible by the project for the development of the uranium enrichment by ultracentrifuge, which now days is being transferred to the Brazilian Nuclear Industry (INB), for the commercial purposes, and to feed the Brazilians Nuclear Power Plants. Since October, 2005 he is the President Director of ELETROBRÁS TERMONUCLEAR S.A. – ELETRONUCLEAR.

Reinhard Haas, PhD (Associate professor)

Energy Economics Group, Institute of Power Systems and Energy Economics, Vienna University of Technology

Reinhard Haas is associate professor of Energy Economics at Vienna University of Technology in Austria. He is teaching Energy Economics, Regulation and Competition in Energy markets, and Energy Modeling

His current research focus is on (i) evaluation and modelling of dissemination strategies for renewables; (ii) modelling paths towards sustainable energy systems; (iii) liberalisation vs regulation of energy markets; (iv) energy policy strategies. He works in these fields since more than 15 years and has published various papers in reviewed international journals. Moreover, he has coordinated and coordinates projects for Austrian institutions as well as the European Commission and the International Energy Agency (“World Energy Outlook”).

Richard Bradley

Dr. Bradley is Head of the Energy Efficiency and Environment Division at the International Energy Agency in Paris. The division analyses energy efficiency and climate change policy.

Prior to the IEA, he served a number of positions in the US DOE including Special Assistant to the Secretary for Environment and Senior Advisor for Global Change in the Office of Policy and International Affairs. As such, he served as the senior departmental negotiator for international environmental agreements. He has participated in the negotiation of the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change and its Kyoto Protocol, Nitrogen Oxides Protocol to the Long Range Transboundary Air Pollution Convention, the Montreal Protocol on Ozone Depleting Substances, and Agenda 21 of the U.N. Conference on Environment and Development.

Dr. Bradley received his Ph.D. in natural resource economics from the University of California, Riverside.

Roberto Rodrigues

Roberto Rodrigues, former Brazilian Minister of Agriculture from January 2003 to June 2006, Co-chairman of the Internacional Biofuels Commission (IBC), Coordinator of the Getulio Vargas Foundation Agribusiness Center (GV Agro) and President of the Superior Council of Agribusiness of São Paulo’s Federation of Industries (FIESP), is an agricultural producer and an agricultural engineer by training, following in the steps of his father and grandfather. His sons have continued the family tradition. He is also a Professor (currently on leave), holding the Chair of Rural Economics at the São Paulo State University in Jaboticabal.

A strong supporter of the cooperative movement, Minister Rodrigues chaired the Brazilian Cooperatives Organization, the World Committee on Agricultural Cooperatives and the International Cooperative Alliance. He has traveled the word in that capacity, visiting – as he likes to point out – 80 countries while performing his duties.

A well-known agribusiness leader, Roberto Rodrigues served as President of the prestigious Brazilian Rural Society and the Brazilian Agribusiness Association. He is also a member of the Board of dozens of Brazilian producer’s associations. In that capacity, Minister Rodrigues represented the Brazilian agribusiness sector in several an advisory committees established by the Government, such as the National Agricultural Policy Council, the National Monetary Council, and the National Foreign Trade Council. He also chaired the National Agribusiness Forum.

Walt Patterson

Walt Patterson is Associate Fellow in the Energy,  Environment and Development Programme at  Chatham House in London, UK, and a Visiting Fellow  of the Sussex Energy Group at the University of  Sussex. A postgraduate nuclear physicist, he has  been actively involved in energy and environmental  issues since the late 1960s.
Keeping The Lights On: Towards Sustainable Electricity (Chatham House/Earthscan 2007, paperback 2009) is his thirteenth book. He has also published hundreds of papers, articles and reviews, on topics including nuclear power, coal technology, renewable energy, energy systems, energy policy and electricity. He has been specialist advisor to two Select Committees of the House of Commons, an expert witness at many official hearings, a frequent broadcaster and advisor to media, and speaker or chair in conferences around the world. He has been awarded the Melchett Medal of the Energy Institute. The Scientific American 50 named him ‘energy policy leader’ for his advocacy of decentralized electricity. His current project for CH and the Sussex Energy Group is called ‘Managing Energy: for climate and security’.
Walt Patterson On Energy, <www.waltpatterson.org>, is an online archive of his writing since 1970. It averages over 400 hits a day, with visits from more than 100 countries.