Adam Sieminski

Adam is the Chief Energy Economist for Deutsche Bank, working with the Bank’s global commodities research and trading units.

Drawing on extensive industry, government and academic sources, Mr. Sieminski forecasts energy market trends and writes on a variety of topics involving energy economics, climate change, politics and commodity prices. From 1998 to 2005 he served as the energy strategist for Deutsche Bank’s global oil & gas equity team. Mr. Sieminski was the senior energy analyst for NatWest Securities in the US during 1988-1997, covering the major US international integrated oil companies. He received both his undergraduate degree in Civil Engineering and a masters in Public Administration from Cornell University.

He has been president of the US Association for Energy Economics and the National Association of Petroleum Investment Analysts. He is a member of the US National Petroleum Council, an advisory group to the US Secretary of Energy, and helped author the NPC’s Global Oil and Gas Study: The Hard Truths. He also acts as a senior advisor for the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington and is an advisory board member of the Global Energy and Environment Initiative at Johns Hopkins / SAIS. He is a member of the London, New York and Washington investment professional societies, and holds the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) designation.

Agnes Maria de Aragão da Costa

Agnes Maria de Aragão da Costa is Senior Economist at the Brazilian Ministry of Mines and Energy, and is specialized on economics of the energy and mining sectors. She is engaged in providing policy recommendations and monitoring policy results.

She graduated in Economics at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) and completed her M.Sc. studies in Energy Economics at the University of São Paulo (USP).Her professional experience also includes working at a Brazilian bank with project finance in the energy sector.

She is also currently a PhD student at the Institute of Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning of the Technische Universität Berlin and is researching the evolution of the Brazilian hydropower policy and the integration of environmental and social concerns in this policy.

Alfred Szwarc

A former Environmental Engineering Director at the São Paulo State Environmental Agency (CETESB), he has been a consultant with UNICA since 1998 in the fields of transport fuels, technology and the environment. He is also president of the Sugar and Ethanol Industry’s Environmental Chamber and coordinator of the joint Environmental Committee between UNICA and the Sugarcane Technology Center (CTC). An expert in the fields of automotive fuels and emission controls, he has contributed significantly to the development and use of ethanol as a transport fuel in China, India, Japan, Colombia and Jamaica. He has published extensively, including the book “Biofuels for Transport: Global Potential and Implications for Sustainable Agriculture and Energy in the 21st Century”, of which he is a co-author, published in 2007 by the Worldwatch Institute. Mr. Szwarc is also Director of “ADS technology and sustainable development” a consulting firm specialised in environmental sustainability and biofuels.

He holds a BA in Mechanical Engineering from the Taubaté School of Engineering, Brazil, a Master of Science degree in Environmental Pollution Control from the University of Leeds, U.K., with post-graduate studies in Environmental Management at the University of Southern California, USA.

Amy Myers Jaffe

Amy Myers Jaffe, a Princeton University graduate in Arabic studies, is the Wallace S. Wilson Fellow in Energy Studies and director of the Energy Forum at the Baker Institute, as well as associate director of the Rice Energy Program. Jaffe’s research focuses on oil geopolitics,  strategic energy policy including energy science policy, and energy economics. Jaffe was formerly senior editor and Middle East analyst for Petroleum Intelligence Weekly. She is widely published and served as co-editor of “Energy in the Caspian Region: Present and Future” (Palgrave, 2002) and “Natural Gas and Geopolitics: From 1970 to 2040” (Cambridge University Press, 2006), and as co-author of “Oil, Dollars, Debt, and Crises: The Global Curse of Black Gold” (with Mahmoud A. El-Gamal; Cambridge University Press, 2010). Jaffe also contributed to Foreign Policy’s “21 Solutions to Save the World” (May/June 2007). She served as a member of the reconstruction and economy working group of the Baker/Hamilton Iraq Study Group, as project director for the Baker Institute/Council on Foreign Relations Task Force on Strategic Energy Policy, and as a principal adviser to USAID’s project on “Options for Developing a Long Term Sustainable Iraqi Oil Industry.” She currently serves as a strategic adviser to the American Automobile Association (AAA) of the United States and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Jaffe was among the Key Women in Energy-Americas honorees in the Pathfinders/Trailblazers category (2004), the honoree for Esquire’s annual 100 Best and Brightest in the contribution to society category (2005), Elle magazine’s Women for the Environment (2006), and was named to Who’s Who in America (2008).

Carlos Henrique de Brito Cruz

Carlos Henrique de Brito Cruz was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in 1956. He graduated in Electrical Engineering from Instituto Tecnológico da Aeronáutica (ITA) in 1978, received the MSc degree in Physics in 1980 and a DSc degree in Physics in 1983, both from the Physics Institute “Gleb Wataghin” at the State University at Campinas (Unicamp). During 1981 Brito Cruz was a researcher at the Quantum Optics Laboratory, at the University of Rome. In 1982 Brito Cruz was appointed a professor at the Physics Institute at Unicamp. During 1986 and 1987 Brito Cruz worked as a resident visitor at AT&T Bell Laboratories in Holmdel, NJ. In 1990 he was a visitor at Bell Labs, Murray Hil, NJ.

Brito Cruz has been the Vice-President of the Brazilian Physics Society (SBF) and has served as Editor of the Revista Brasileira de Física Aplicada e Instrumentação. He served as a member of the International Advisory Committee of the Optical Society of America (OSA) and has been the Director of the Physics Institute at Unicamp for two terms. He has been the Dean of Research at the State University at Campinas (Unicamp) and from 1996 till 2002 he has served as the President of the Foundation for the Support of Research in the State of São Paulo, Fapesp. From April 2002 to April 2005 he has been the Rector of The State University of Campinas, Unicamp. Since April, 2005 he is the Scientific Director of Fapesp. Brito Cruz is a member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences.

Edmar Luiz Fagundes de Almeida

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”.

Eirik S. Amundsen

Full professor of economics at the University of Bergen, Norway and the University of Copenhagen, Denmark (part time). He is also a member of the Chairmanship of the Danish Economic Councils, an independent “thinktank” and advisory body established by law to advice governmental and other decision makers on economic and environmental matters. He has served as Nordic Research Professor affiliated with The Nordic Energy Research Programme, and he is a former Research Director and a Scientific Adviser to the Foundation for Research in Economics and Business Administration (SNF).  He has his university degrees and exams from the University of Bergen, the University of Copenhagen and Stanford University. He is Dr.ès.sc.écon. avec distinction (dr. d’Etat) with a Prize-awarded thesis from the University of Paris, Panthéon-Assas. He also holds a Diploma from ENSPM, Institut Français du Pétrole. Furthermore, he has been a leader and participant of numerous national and EU research council projects as well as of research projects for private and public companies. He has contributed a variety of articles in theoretical and applied economic journals related to energy-, natural resource-, environmental-, urban-, and public economics. In the last many years he has been focusing on problems related to electricity markets and environmental economic instruments. As a Chairman of the Danish Economic Council he is also occupied by general economic policy.

Emmanuel Omoniyi Falobi

Emmanuel Omoniyi Falobi is Manager Planning (Economics & Decisions Support) Department of the National Petroleum Investment Management Services (NAPMS), NNPC since 2007.  He has 29 years of Oil and Gas industry experience, having received training through the Joint Venture Partners in Nigeria, USA, France, Italy, The Hague and London.  He started his career as a well-site Geologist with Ashland (now Addax) Oil Company in 1981.  He has since then progressed professionally. Between 1988 -1990, he served as a member of the team that initiated the first Strategic Planning Workshop in NNPC, project code named, “CRC”, (an acronym for Commercialization, Reorganization & Capitalization) with Arthur Andersen & Co Consulting.  He later served as the Technical Assistant, first to the General Manager Operations, NAPIMS and, thereafter, to the Group General Manager NAPIMS from 1990 – 1995.

Between 1996 and 1999, Mr. Falobi returned to mainstream operations and was Head of Section, Production Sharing Contracts (PSC) Department.  In 2002, he moved to the Nigerian Petroleum Development Company (NPDC), the upstream arm of NNPC as Deputy Manager, Planning & Budget Monitoring Department.  From May 2004 – April 2007, he was appointed NNPC Team Lead for the NNPC Transformation Project, code named, “Project PACE” for the NNPC, Benin Zone in conjunction with the Accenture Consultants.  In May 2007, he was appointed Manager Commercials, HYSON (the arm of NNPC responsible for the sale of excess crude oil).  He was later deployed as Manager Planning (Economics & Decisions Support) NAPIMS, where he has responsibility for Project economic evaluation and Risk Analysis of all Multinational Oil Companies operating in Nigeria – a position he occupies to date.  He has participated in many Joint Venture-based developmental projects in NNPC such as the Mobil Oso Condensate/QIT Upgrade Project, Mobil Edop Gas Injection Project, to mention just a few.

Mr. Falobi received a B. Sc. (Hons) degree in Geology from the famous University of Ibadan, Nigeria (1980), and a Post Graduate Diploma in Petroleum Engineering from the same Institution. He also holds an MBA (Finance & Accounting) and M. Sc. (Economics) from the University of Lagos, Nigeria.  He is an active and founding member of the Nigerian Chapter of the IAEE, the Nigerian Association for Energy Economics (NAEE).

Ferenc L. Toth

Ferenc L. Toth is a senior energy economist with the Planning and Economic Section in the Department of Nuclear Energy at the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in Vienna, Austria. Dr Toth received his M.Sc. (1978) and PhD (1982) in economics from the Budapest University of Economics and a second doctorate (1994) in economics from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. He is associate professor at the Corvinus University in Budapest, Hungary. Over the past 25 years, Dr. Toth worked as senior scientist and project leader on development, energy, and environment studies at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) in Laxenburg, Austria and at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) in Potsdam, Germany. His current projects at IAEA are also in the domain of energy-economic-environmental analysis and include: energy economics and energy policy analysis at national to global scales; global prospects for nuclear energy in the 21st century; Indicators for Sustainable Energy Development; development-energy-environment linkages; climate change mitigation, adaptation and policy issues; energy security; strategies for sustainable energy development; the prospects for energy technologies in the post-Kyoto climate agreement. Dr Toth was Coordinating Lead Author and Lead Author of several chapters in the Third (2001) and Fourth (2007) Assessment Reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

Fereidoon Sioshansi

Fereidoon Sioshansi is President of Menlo Energy Economics, a consulting firm based in San Francisco, California serving the energy sector. Dr. Sioshansi’s professional experience includes working at Southern California Edison Company (SCE), the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI), National Economic Research Associates (NERA), and most recently, Global Energy Decisions (GED), now called Ventyx.
His most recent edited books include Electricity Market Reform: An International Perspective, Competitive Electricity Markets: Design, Implementation, Performance, and Electricity Generation in a Carbon Constrained World were published by Elsevier in 2006, 2008 and 2009, respectively. Smart Living with a Low Ecological Footprint is forthcoming in 2010.
He is the editor and publisher of EEnergy Informer and is on the Editorial Advisory Board of The Electricity Journal where he writes the Electricity Currents section. He serves on the editorial board of Utilities Policy.
He has degrees in Engineering and Economics, including an MS and Ph.D. in Economics from Purdue University.

Georg Erdmann

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.

Helder Queiroz Pinto Jr.

Dr. Helder Pinto Jr, is an economist and has a Master of Sciences degree in Energy Planning (COPPE/Federal University odf Rio de Janeiro). He did his PhD in Energy Economics at Université de Pierre Mendes France, Grenoble, France, 1993. Since 1994, he has been a professor and a research economist with the Energy Economics Group, Institute of Economics, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Between 1998 and 2000, he was also an advisor to the President of National Petroleum Agency (ANP).
He was a Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Oxford (January-October 2001) and Visiting Professor at Université de Paris XI (February-March 2004) and January-February (2009). He was Research Director at Institute of Economics between 2002 and 2003. Between 2003-2006 he was the editor of Revista de Economia Contemporânea published by the Institute of Economics.
He is the Program Committee Chair of 33rd IAEE International Conference

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.

Hugo Altomonte

- Actual Position: Senior Economist. Officer in Charge Natural Resources and Infraestructure Division. United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean.

- Expert on Energy Policies and Natural Resources management for Sustainable Development. Working on reforms and regulation.

- Holds a PHD in Energy Economics form University of Grenoble France.

- Former Professor and Vice-president of  Bariloche Foundation., Argentina.

- Has participated in several Post Graduate Courses on Economy and Energy Planning, in Canada, Africa an Latin American

- Has several publications and has participated in numerous international congresses and seminars.

- Has been the Principal Technical Advisor of the OLADE-UNDP Cooperation Project.

Ivan Sandrea

Ivan Sandrea is Vice President of Strategy for International Exploration & Production (E&P) in Statoil. Past positions include principal oil supply and industry analyst for the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), vice president of oil and gas Research for Merrill Lynch in London and exploration geologist for British Petroleum International in Venezuela, Norway, and Egypt. Mr Sandrea is the author of several publications, regularly collaborates with various international institutions in oil and gas research, and has represented OPEC in the UN in efforts to reclassify global oil and gas resources. Mr Sandrea is a board member of the Energy MBA program at Wirtschaftsuniversität in Vienna. He holds a BS in geology from Baylor University, an MS in petroleum geology, and an MBA from Edinburgh University. Mr Sandrea was born in Venezuela.

Jean-Michel Glachant

Jean-Michel Glachant took his Master’s degree and PhD in economics at University La Sorbonne. His PhD has been awarded and published by the Presses de La Sorbonne.He has been assistant professor and then professor in economics at La Sorbonne and University Paris Sud. At La Sorbonne, he has been deputy-director then director of the research centre for “Analytical Theory of Organizations and Markets”, member of the Board of the Department for Economics and of the Hiring Committee, and Delegate for Economics, Management and Mathematical Research at the Scientific Council. He left La Sorbonne for University Paris Sud in Fall 2000 where he took the head of the Department of Economics and founded a new research team “Groupe Réseaux Jean Monnet”. In 2005 he founded a European master “Erasmus Mundus” named EMIN (Economics and Management of Network Industries). Since 2008, he is Director of the Florence School of Regulation and of the “Loyola de Palacio Programme in European Energy Policy” at the European University Institute in Florence (Italy).

Jean-Michel Glachant was advisor of DG TREN, DG COMP and DG RESEARCH at the European Commission and of the French Energy Regulatory Commission (CRE). He is or was coordinator or scientific advisor of several European research projects (SESSA, CESSA, Reliance, EU-DEEP, RefGov, TradeWind, Secure). He is research partner of the CEEPR at the MIT –USA-, of the EPRG at Cambridge University, of EEI at the University of Leuven

He is member of the Faculty of the European School for New Institutional Economics (ESNIE) and has been member of the board of the International Society for New Institutional Economics (ISNIE; 4 Nobel Prize winners being members). He is member of the editorial board of the “Journal of Network Industries and Competition”, “Annals for Public and Cooperative economics”, “Revue d’Economie Industrielle”.
Jean-Michel Glachant main research interests are the building of a common European energy policy (security of supply, energy technology policy, and climate change policy) and the achievement of the European energy internal market (design, regulation and competition policy).

Jerson Kelman

Jerson Kelman was born in Rio de Janeiro in 1948. He is married, has a daughter, a son and four grandchildren. He graduated as Civil Engineer (1971) and M.Sc. on Hydraulics (1973), both from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), and got his Ph.D. (1976) on Hydrology and Water Resources from Colorado State University.

On March 2010 became the CEO of Light S/A, a 105-year-old utility company, which supplies energy to 4 million customers over 31 municipalities in Rio de Janeiro State.

He is professor of water resources at COPPE – the engineering graduate school of UFRJ – since 1976 and as such has advised many M.Sc. and D.Sc. candidates. Simultaneously with his duties at COPPE, he was a senior researcher of the Research Center of Electric Energy CEPEL from 1976 to 1991 and the technical director of the State of Rio de Janeiro authority on rivers and lakes – SERLA from 1991 to 1996. In the period 1996-99 he acted as a consultant working mostly for the World Bank in the Brazilian Semiarid region. Since 2006 he is board member of the Brazilian Sustainable Development Foundation (FBDS). He was resident at the Bellagio Center of the Rockefeller Foundation in February 2009.

He contributed to shape the current Brazilian Water Resources Law and to implementing the institutional capability to enforce it. He was the President of the Brazilian Water Resources Association from 1987-89 and the first President of the Brazilian National Water Agency-ANA since its implementation in 2000. He left ANA in 2005 to become the General-Director of the National Regulatory Agency for the Power Sector – ANEEL (mandate ended in January 2009).

In the period 2003-05, he was simultaneously a board member of the Brazilian National Council of Energy (CNPE), the Brazilian Environment Council (CONAMA), the Brazilian Water Resources Council (CNRH) and of the UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education in Delft, Netherlands. Also he was the Chairman of the commission created by the President of Brazil to evaluate the causes of electric energy rationing which lasted several months along 2001.
He is a fellow of two Brazilian merit organizations: the Order of Rio Branco and the Order of Scientific Merit. He was the first recipient of the King Hassan II Great World Water Prize, in 2003, by choice of the World Water Council.

He is author of “Floods and hydropower plants” and another book about his experience as regulator (first of the water sector and latter of the power sector) named “Regulator Challenges”. He published over 100 articles in technical journals and edited several journals such as the Brazilian Journal on Water Resources, Water International, Stochastic Hydrology and Hydraulics, and Justice & Citizenship. He also published many articles in the press.

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.

John E. Parsons

John E. Parsons is a Senior Lecturer at MIT’s Sloan School of Management and the Executive Director of the MIT Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research and Executive Director of the Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change.
He is a financial economist, specializing in corporate finance, valuation and risk management. He has applied financial tools to an array of problems in energy and environmental economics. He teaches the elective MBA course on Advanced Corporate Risk Management.
He holds a BA in Economics from Princeton University and a PhD in Economics from Northwestern University. He first joined MIT as an Assistant Professor of Finance in 1984. He has also taught at CUNY and Columbia Business School. Before returning to MIT he was a Vice-President in the Finance Practice at the consulting firm CRA where for 10 years he worked with major companies and government agencies on a wide variety of risk management and valuation matters. His research includes publications on theoretical and applied hedging and risk management problems, financing energy investments, as well as a range of other energy and environmental policy issues.

José Antonio Scaramucci

José Antonio Scaramucci received a Ph.D. degree in engineering-economic systems (currently management science and engineering) from Stanford University in 1982. He graduated in mechanical engineering from the State University of São Paulo (Unesp) and got a M.Sc. in system analysis and applications from the Brazilian Institute for Space Research (INPE). He retired as a professor in Applied Mathematics at University f Campinas (Unicamp) and now he is a senior research fellow at the Unicamp’s Interdisciplinary Center for Energy Planning. Since 2008 he has been working at Brazil’s National Institute for Metrology, Standardization and Industrial Quality (Inmetro) as the chair for strategic studies in the Directorship of Innovation and Technology (Ditec). From 2008 to early 2010 he was the president for the Brazilian Association for Energy Studies, the Brazilian IAEE affiliate. He was a member of IAEE’s council. From July 2007 to January 2008 he was a visiting research fellow at Centre of Policy Studies (CoPS) of Monash University (Australia). His recent publications lie mostly in the area of economics of biofuels.

José 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

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.

Kenneth B. Medlock III

James A. Baker III and Susan G. Baker Fellow in Energy and Resource Economics, James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy
Adjunct Professor and Lecturer, Department of Economics
Rice University

Kenneth B. Medlock III is currently the James A. Baker III and Susan G. Baker Fellow in Energy and Resource Economics at the James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy and Adjunct Professor and Lecturer in the Department of Economics at Rice University. Medlock received his Ph.D. in economics from Rice University in 2000. From May 2000 to May 2001, he held the M.D. Anderson Fellowship at the Baker Institute. Afterward, he held the position of Corporate Consultant at El Paso Energy Corporation where he was responsible for analysis of North American natural gas, petroleum, and power markets.

Currently, Medlock is the leader of the Baker Institute Energy Forum’s natural gas program, and is a principal in the development of the Rice World Natural Gas Trade Model, which is aimed at assessing the future of international natural gas trade. Medlock also teaches introductory and advanced courses in Energy Economics and serves on graduate student dissertation committees in the Energy Field for the Department of Economics.

Medlock’s research covers a diversity of topics in energy economics, including domestic and international natural gas markets, gasoline markets, energy commodity price relationships, transportation, modeling national oil company behavior, choice in electricity generation capacity, economic development and energy demand, forecasting energy demand, and energy use and the environment. Medlock’s work has been published in numerous academic journals, book chapters, and industry periodicals, as well as various Baker Institute Energy Forum studies. Medlock is an active member of the IAEE, and in 2001 he won (joint with Ron Soligo) the International Association of Energy Economics (IAEE) Award for Best Paper of the Year in the Energy Journal. Medlock regularly speaks at domestic and international academic and professional conferences, and is widely quoted in the press on various energy issues.

Medlock has served as an advisor to the Department of Energy in its energy modeling efforts, and is a regular contributor to Stanford University’s Energy Modeling Forum. Medlock also was the lead modeler of the Modeling Subgroup of the 2003 National Petroleum Council (NPC) study of long-term natural gas markets in North America, and was a contributing author to the California Energy Commission’s and Western Interstate Energy Board’s Western Natural Gas Assessment in 2005. He also contributed to the LNG chapter and Peak Oil deliberations of the 2007 NPC study, Facing the Hard Truths.

Lee Schipper

Lee Schipper is Project Scientist with Global Metropolitan Studies at UC Berkeley and an affiliate of the Energy and Resources Group at UC. He is also Senior Research Engineer at the Precourt Energy Efficiency Center at Stanford University.  As a two-time member of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate change, he is a co-recipient of the2007 Nobel Peace Prize. Dr. Schipper has authored over 100 technical papers and a number of books on energy economics, environment, and transportation around the world.  He takes part in numerous prestigious international panels and studies on energy and transportation, and is on the editorial boards of five major journals in the fields. Dr. Schipper was a member of the Swedish Board for Transportation and Communications Research for four years, and is currently a member of the US Transportation Research Board’s Committees on Sustainable Transport, on Energy, and on Developing Countries. Dr. Schipper earned his Ph.D. at Berkeley in astrophysics, but has devoted his career to earthly problems of transport, energy and environment.  Previously he had been Director of Research for EMBARQ, the World Resources Institute (WRI) Center for Sustainable Transport, which he helped founded in 2002. Dr. Schipper came to EMBARQ from the International Energy Agency (IEA) in Paris, where he had been visiting Scientist from 1995 to 2001.  Previous to that he was Staff Senior Scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory for two decades.  He worked in Group Planning at Shell International Petroleum Company in the 1980s and again in 2001, where he worked on two sets of Shell Scenarios. He has been a guest researcher at the World Bank, VVS Tekniska Foerening (Stockholm), the OECD Development Center, and the Stockholm Environment Institute. As a consultant, Dr. Schipper works with Global Business Network/Monitor and has rejoined Cambridge Energy Research Associates as a Senior Associate. He also served as a consultant to the World Bank, the Asian Development Bank and other international groups. He also lectures widely around the world.  Lee received a share of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize for his work on two Intergovernmental Panels on Climate Change (IPCC). Dr. Schipper brings a unique twist to the transport and energy worlds, having obtained his BA in Music from Berkeley in 1968 (with course work at UCLA).  One a member of the UCLA jazz quintet, he still leads a jazz quintet from time to time, and recorded “The Phunky Physicist”, with Janne Schaffer, in Sweden in 1973. He appeared in Copenhagen at pre-events for COP 15.

Lewis Fulton

Lewis Fulton has worked internationally in the field of transport/energy/environment analysis and policy development for 20 years. He is a senior transport energy specialist with the International Energy Agency, Paris, where he recently returned after working there from 1999-2005. During 2006-2007 he worked in Kenya with the UN Environment Program, on developing and implementing sustainable transport projects around the world, leveraging funding from the Global Environment Facility (GEF). His IEA reports include Transport, Energy and CO2: Moving Toward Sustainability (October 2009), Saving Oil in a Hurry (2005), Biofuels for Transport: An International Perspective (2004), and Bus Systems for the Future (2002). His previous positions have included the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Policy (1992-1996) and the Independent University, Bangladesh (1996-1997). He received his Ph.D. in Energy Management and Environmental Policy from the University of Pennsylvania in the United States in 1994.

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

Dr. Majid Al-Moneef

Majid A. Al-Moneef is Saudi Arabia’s Governor to OPEC and a member of the Majlis Ashura (consultative Council) and the Advisory Board of the Supreme Economic Council of Saudi Arabia. He is a member of the Economic Research Forum, the Oxford Energy Policy Club and the editorial Board of OPEC Energy Review.

Dr. Al-Moneef earned his Ph.D. from the University of Oregon (USA) and was professor of economics at King Saud University in Riyadh and president of the Saudi Economics Association. He was Vice Dean of King Saud University and a lead author of the second and third assessment reports on climate change of the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and Vice President of the World Energy Council. He was also advisor to the Saudi Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resources, and representative of Saudi Arabia to the OPEC Economic Commission Board. Dr. Al-Moneef has publishes on energy economics, international finance and public policy.

Marco Tavares

Marco Tavares is Managing Partner of GAS ENERGY since 2005. GAS ENERGY is a regional consulting group with headquarters in Brazil and offices in Bolivia, Peru, Uruguay, Argentina, and Canada. Mr. Tavares has over 25 years of professional experience in the petroleum, natural gas and petrochemical industry. Prior to founding GAS ENERGY, Mr. Tavares was Director of Marketing of Natural Gas of Repsol YPF in Brazil (2001-05), where he participated actively in the negotiations for the gas integration between Bolivia, Brazil and Argentina. Prior to that, Mr Tavares held several executive positions in the petrochemical industry. Between 1997-2000, he was Director for Market Development of Ipiranga, where he participated in the strategic planning of the company’s oil and gas areas. Between 1993-1997, he was assistant to the CEO of Copesul. Mr. Tavares has a degree on chemical engineering from Rio Grande do Sul University and MBA from Rio Grande do Sul University.

Marcos Sawaya Jank

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.

Maurício Tolmasquim

Mauricio Tolmasquim is the President and CEO of EPE – Empresa de Pesquisa Energética (Energy Research Company) and a Professor at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. He graduated in Production Engineering and Economics, with a Master’s Degree in Energy Planning and a Doctorate in Economics in France. He is the author of 19 books and dozens of articles published in national and international news papers. Dr. Tolmasquim coordinated the Technical Committee at the Science Brazilian Academy, and he is Past-President of the Brazilian Society for Energy Planning. He has also served as Counselor for Furnas Eletricity and Itaipu Binacional Companies. Prior to joining EPE, he was an Executive Secretary for Brazil’s Ministry of Mines and Energy, where he coordinated the work team that elaborated a new electricity sector for the nation.

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

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.

Professor Nebojsa Nakicenovic

Nebojsa Nakicenovic is Professor of Energy Economics at the Vienna University of Technology, Deputy Director of the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), and Director of the Global Energy Assessment (GEA).
Among other positions, Prof. Nakicenovic is member of the United Nations Secretary General Advisory Group on Energy and Climate Change; Member of the Advisory Council of the German Government on Global Change (WBGU); Member of the International Advisory Board of the Helmholtz Programme on Technology, Innovation and Society; Member of the Advisory Board of the World Bank Development Report 2010: Climate Change; Member of the International Council for Science (ICSU) Committee on Scientific Planning and Review, and Member of the Global Carbon Project; Member of the Energy Sector Management Assistance Program (ESMAP) Expert Panel on Sustainable Energy Supply, Poverty Reduction and Climate Change; Member of the Panel on Socioeconomic Scenarios for Climate Change Impact and Response Assessments; Member of the Renewable Energy Policy Network for the 21st Century (REN21) Steering Committee; Member of the Advisory Committee of the Center for the Integrated Analysis of Climate and Economy, and Chair of the Advisory Board of OMV Future Energy Fund (Austrian oil company).
He is also an Editorial Board Member of the following journals: International Journal on Technological Forecasting and Social Change, International Journal on Climate Policy, the International Journal of the Institution of Civil Engineers, and the International Journal of Energy Sector Management.
Prof. Nakicenovic was a Coordinating Lead Author of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the Fourth Assessment Report, 2002 to 2007, Coordinating Lead Author of the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, 2001–2005, Director, Global Energy Perspectives, World Energy Council, 1993 to 1998, Convening Lead Author of the Second Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, 1993 to 1995, Convening Lead Author of the IPCC Special Report on Emissions Scenarios, 1997 to 2000, Lead Author of Third Assessment Report of the IPCC, 1999 to 2001, Convening Lead Author of the World Energy Assessment: Energy and the Challenge of Sustainability, 1999 to 2000, Member of the International Science Panel on Renewable Energies (ISPRE), 2006 to 2008, and Guest Professor at the Technical University of Graz, 1993–2003.
Prof. Nakicenovic holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in economics and computer science from Princeton University, New Jersey, USA and the University of Vienna, where he also completed his Ph.D. He also holds Honoris Causa Ph.D. degree in engineering from the Russian Academy of Sciences.
Among Prof. Nakicenovic’s research interests are the long-term patterns of technological change, economic development and response to climate change and, in particular, the evolution of energy, mobility, information and communication technologies.

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.

Paulo César Coelho Tavares

Mr. Tavares graduated in electric engineering from Federal University of Pernambuco-UFPE, state of Recife, and received a masters degree in power systems from Unicamp, City of Campinas, State of São Paulo (1998). He has an MBA in Ñnance from IBMEC, City of Rio de Janeiro (1998). He has been a member of the faculty of Universidade Estadual de Pernambuco since 1988, where he teaches computer methods applicable to power systems. Mr. Tavares has worked at CHESF as an engineer and as Manager of the Areas of Energy Planning and of Energy Commercialization. In addition, he was an Assistant to the Executive Management Team of Eletrobras, in charge of the Programa Nacional de Conservação de Energia (PROCEL) and of the Areas of Rural and Urban Distribution. He also acted as Deputy Secretary of PROCEL. Mr. Tavares coordinated and negotiated several agreements and international cooperation projects related to Electricity EÇciency Area, with institutions such as the World Bank, USAID, ACEEE, CIDA, in Canada, ETSU, in UK and ALURE, in the European Comunity. He was also a member of the Board of Directors of Companhia Energ π etica de Alagoas Ì CEAL, Companhia Energ π etica do Rio Grande do Norte Ì COSERN and Companhia Energ π etica de Pernambuco Ì CELPE. He was vice-president of corporate development and president of CELPE, the distributor of electricity in the State of Pernambuco, and, subsequently, CEO of GCS, an energy and gas trading company of the Guaraniana Group. He is currently the vice-president of energy management in the companies CPFL Energia’ Group. He is also the president of the Brazilian Association of Energy Traders (ABRACEEL). Mr. Tavares has been our vice-president of energy management since August 28, 2002.

Peggy Montana

Peggy Montana is the Executive Vice President, Supply & Distribution, Shell Downstream Inc. and is a member of the Shell Downstream Leadership Team.  In this role, she has responsibility for hydrocarbon supply to Shell’s Downstream manufacturing and marketing businesses worldwide.
Peggy’s career with Shell spans 32 years across a wide variety of businesses and cultures. She started at the Deer Park Refinery and also worked at the Geismar and Norco sites, in research, then at the head office in a variety of assignments supporting manufacturing.  In 1995 she joined the lubricants business and led several business units and then the US lubricants supply chain.  In 2001, Peggy became General Manager-Distribution for Shells Asia Pacific business based in Singapore.  She returned to the US in 2004 as Vice President Supply and then Vice President-Global Distribution where she led Shells fuels terminaling and distribution activities worldwide.  She assumed her present responsibilities in 2009.

Active in the community, Peggy serves on the boards of the Houston Area Urban League and the YMCA.  She is married with two children and resides in Houston Texas.

Mr. Rachid Bencherif

Mr. Rachid Bencherif is the Senior Planning Analyst at the OPEC Fund for International Development, OFID since 2004. He has 21 years of hands-on experience in the oil and gas industry. Before joining OFID, he worked for 6 years at the OPEC Secretariat as the Senior Energy Models Analyst and 15 years at SONATRACH – the National Oil Company of Algeria – where his last position there was Director of Corporate Planning. He was also a part-time lecturer at the University in Algiers, Algeria.

Mr. Bencherif holds two Master’s Degrees from Stanford University (USA), one in Operations Research/Industrial Engineering from the School of Engineering, and one in Statistics from the school of Humanities and Science.

Reinhard Haas

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.

Richard Newell

Dr. Richard G. Newell was sworn in on August 3, 2009 as the seventh Administrator of the U.S. Energy Information Administration.
Dr. Newell is on leave from his position as the Gendell Associate Professor of Energy and Environmental Economics at Duke University’s Nicholas School of the Environment. Previously he served as the Senior Economist for energy and environment on the President’s Council of Economic Advisers. He also spent many years as a Senior Fellow at Resources for the Future (RFF), an independent, non-partisan environmental and resource economics research institution in Washington, DC. He has published widely on the economics of markets and policies for energy, the environment, and related technologies, particularly alternatives for reducing greenhouse gas emissions and achieving other energy and environmental goals.
Prior to his confirmation, Dr. Newell was a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, a University Fellow of RFF, and on several boards including the Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, the journal Energy Economics, the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, and the Automotive X-Prize. He has served on several National Academy of Science expert committees related to energy, environment, and innovation. Dr. Newell holds a Ph.D. from Harvard University in environmental and resource economics. He also holds a Master in Public Affairs (M.P.A.) from Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, and a B.S. in materials engineering and a B.A. in philosophy from Rutgers University.

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.