Speakers
Edwin Aalders Carbon Voluntary Markets
Director of the International Emissions Trading Association (IETA) and Acting CEO of the Voluntary Carbon Standard Association
Mr Aalders has held the position of Director of the International Emission Trading Association since 2004 whilst obtaining the role of Acting CEO of the Voluntary Carbon Standard Association in November 2007. As Director of the International Emission Trading Association (IETA) Mr Aalders was responsible for the UNFCCC process such as the CDM & JI as well as the voluntary market. Mr Aalders is an elected member of JI Accreditation Panel and on the roster of experts for the Methodology & Accreditation Panel of Experts of the CDM. Within his role as Acting CEO Mr Aalders contributed to the development and promotion of the VCS, a robust, new global standard for voluntary offset projects which ensures that carbon offsets that businesses and consumers buy can be trusted and have real environmental benefit.
Edwin Aalders has an engineering degree in Tropical Forestry from the LIAC, the Netherlands and a Masters Degree in Forestry from the University of Oxford. He has over 15 years of experience as an assessor in Environmental Auditing (ISO 14 000), Organic Farming and SQF 2000 systems and as a Lead Assessor in Forest Management Certification, ISO 9000 and Climate Change Programmes.
From 1998 to 2004 Edwin was the Corperate Global Business Development Manager of SGS where he was actively involved in the development of EUREPGAP, Carbon Offset Verification Service and other programmes whilst also working within individual client specific certification programmes in Wise Management of Natural Resources. Edwin has worked throughout the developing and developed countries and in particular Latin America, Africa and Australasia.
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Jose Dominguez Abascal Identifying Carbon Abatement Opportunities and Existing Technologies
Technical Director - Abengoa
Jose Dominguez Abascal was born in 1953. He obtained his Mechanical Engineering and Ph.D. at the University of Seville. He was a Research Fellow at the University of Southampton while he worked in his Ph.D. Thesis during 1976, and Postdoctoral Fulbright Scholar and Research Associate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) from 1977 to 1978. In 1981 he became Associate Professor at the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (Spain) at age 27, and became Full Professor in the Structural Engineering Department of the University of Seville in 1982 and continued in this position through 2004. During that time, he served as Vice-Rector (1990-1992) and Dean of Engineering (1993-1998) at this University.
Jose Dominguez has been academic advisor for many researchers in Spain many of them now working in different Universities in the field of Computational Methods in Engineering. His main fields of interest are: computer methods in engineering, seismic design of large structures such as dams, bridges and electrical power plants, and structural integrity of anisotropic and piezoelectric materials. He is author of two books and more than two hundred papers, most of then published in well known international journals. He has been consultant for structural design of relevant structures as the Palenque for EXPO’92 in Seville, the soccer stadium of Real Betis and the Chapina Bridge, both also in Seville. He was responsible for the structural integrity in the restoration of the large S. XVI 3m high bronze sculpture “El Giraldillo” located at the top of the tower of the Cathedral of Seville.
He is an elected member of the Academia Europaea, in the section of Physics and Engineering, and of the Real Academia Sevillana de Ciencias. He is Fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE). In 2004, he received the National Engineering Research Award “Leonardo Torres Quevedo” from HRH King Juan Carlos, and in 2006, the National Cultural Heritage Restoration Award, shared with the restoration team of “EL Giraldillo” from the Spanish Minister of Culture. He is a member of the editorial board of several scientific journals published in USA and UK. Since May 2005, he has served as the General Secretary for Universities, Research and Technology in the regional government of Andalusia, where he has been responsible for the University and R&D&I policy within the Ministry of Innovation, Science and Enterprise. He is president of numerous committees, the Andalusian Foundation for Aeronautical Development and the companies Talentia and Citandalucia.
Susanne Haefeli-Hestvik CDM/JI Project Management
Head of Technical Department - Tricorona
Susanne Haefeli-Hestvik is head of the Technical Department at Tricorona, the second most active buyer of CDM projects. Susanne has worked on CDM/JI-related issues for the past seven years. She was working towards engaging the private sector in early CDM projects during her time at the World Business Council for Sustainable Development in Geneva and worked on greenhouse gas accounting issues for CO2 capture and storage projects while working at the International Energy Agency in Paris. She then worked as a lead assessor and technical reviewer for Det Norske Veritas in Oslo before taking on her current position. Susanne has reviewed reports and guidelines by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and is a member of the Registration and Issuance expert team to the Executive Board of the CDM.
(Photo take from http://www.tricorona.com/company/94/)
Sonia Medina-Gomez CDM/JI Project Management
Associate Director and Head of Origination - Ecosecurities
Sonia Medina joined EcoSecurities in 2003, a company which specialises in sourcing, developing and trading carbon credits worldwide. Sonia is currently Associate Director and has held the role of Head of Origination at EcoSecurities since December 2005, when the company floated on the Alternative Investment Market (AIM) of the London Stock Exchange.
As Head of Origination, Sonia is responsible for coordinating the Group’s global project origination efforts, which involves supporting over 20 local teams on five continents in identifying, assessing and contracting greenhouse gas emission reduction projects. She has considerable experience in the greenhouse gas mitigation market, particularly in relation to carbon project development, capacity building, and carbon transactions. Sonia has successfully managed the rapid growth of EcoSecurities’ origination team from 20 people in 10 countries to 70 in 20+ countries, while successfully leading the team to acquire approximately 82 million credits worth +USD 400 million in NTM during 2007, which more than doubled the portfolio size of the previous year.
Previous roles at EcoSecurities included Senior Carbon Advisor from October 2003 to December 2005, when she participated in various studies; including asset evaluation and PDD development for CDM projects in Nicaragua, Chile, Brazil, Tanzania and Fiji. As part of her role as Senior Carbon Advisor, she advised private and public organisations about the potential opportunities and liabilities related to climate change regulation.
Antonio Ruiz de Elvira Introduction to Climate change Science
Professor - IPCC and University of Alcala de Henares
Director of the Department of Marine Climate (DMC) in the Spanish State Harbour Concern, from 1993 till 1999. During that time the DMC put into operation the twice-daily wave forecast for the European waters, a model for the tides (astronomical and meteorological), a data base of the buoy data collected by a very dense network of wave and oceanographic buoys deployed during these years around the Spanish coasts, and started work in the wave measurement using coastal radars. He has been responsible scientist of 8 projects of the European Union, 1 of the Spanish organism for research, 2 private contracts and a contract of the European Investment bank of 6 million Euro for the development of the above mentioned wave measurement network around the Spanish coasts.
Professor Ruiz de Elvira is the Chairman of the Scientific Committee of the European Climate Forum: April 2007 – April 2010
Karl Upston-Hooper Legal Aspects of Carbon Training
EBRD
Karl Upston-Hooper is the General Counsel of GreenStream Network plc, a leading Nordic carbon and renewables company. Karl has extensive experience in the global carbon market, and in particular, is actively involved in supporting the Multilateral Carbon Credit Fund (for which GreenStream is a Carbon Manager) in Russia and the Ukraine. In addition, as GreenStream has established several proprietary carbon funds, Karl is involved on a daily basis with the broad spectrum of legal issues resulting from the contracting of carbon credits. In his role at GreenStream, Karl and his team also advise on trading/brokerage issues and market mechanisms in the interrelated renewable energy markets. Karl is an active participant in leading industry associations including INCIS and IETA and is associate editor of the Climate and Carbon Law Review. Prior to joining GreenStream, Karl worked extensively for various multinational utilities. Karl holds an LLB & LLM (Hons) from Victoria University of Wellington and an LLM (summa cum laude) from Katholieke Universiteit, Leuven.
Cameron Hepburn Carbon Economics
Deputy Director - Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, University of Oxford. Director Vivid Economics
Dr Cameron Hepburn is an expert in market economics and commercial strategy, the economics of the behaviour of individuals, public economics and climate change. His appointments include the Elizabeth Wordsworth JRF in Economics at St Hugh’s College, Oxford, a James Martin Fellowship in Climate Policy at the Environment Change Institute, Oxford, and he is a member of the Defra Academic Panel, and the Ofgem Environmental Economists Panel. He has had steering committee and advisory board roles for companies and policy reviews in the carbon trading and finance sector. He holds a doctorate in economics from the University of Oxford and first class degrees in law and engineering from the University of Melbourne.
Murry Ward Carbon Policy
Founder - GtripleC (Global Climate Change Consultancy)
Murray Ward leads GtripleC, Global Climate Change Consultancy, a specialist consultancy that assists public and private sector groups to understand international climate change policy and develop strategic programmes to identify opportunities and risks and means to engage on issues that are key to their interests.
From 1996 to 2002 Murray led the New Zealand Ministry for the Environment’s climate change team. In addition to steering the development of domestic climate change policy, Murray was a leading senior negotiator in New Zealand delegations to international climate change meetings. He is considered to be one of the key architects of the Kyoto framework, in particular for his international work on Land-Use, Land-Use Change and Forestry (‘sinks’) and market trading mechanisms. This has included chairing key rules-drafting groups and the development of the international emissions unit registries system.
Irma Lubrecht Verification, Registration and Monitoring Systems
Director IR-ON
Irma Lubrecht has a degree in forestry from the University of Wageningen, the Netherlands. Following her graduation she moved to Amsterdam where she started her career as research assistant at the University of Amsterdam as part of the European NITREX (NITRogen saturation EXperiments) programme. This research focused on nitrogen transformations in two forest ecosystems in The Netherlands. The second large project she worked on was situated in the Krkono Mountains, Czech Republic, an area heavily affected by acid deposition resulting in massive die-back of forests and soil transformations.
In 2000 she started at SGS and became a lead auditor for FSC certification and Climate Change. In eight years time, she became a technical reviewer for the SGS Climate Change Programme and CDM specialist. Irma has extensive experience in validation and verification of all climate change projects. She performed several training courses and numerous presentations at all major conferences on a variety of topics.
Irma has recently established her own company, IR-ON, which delivers consultancy on all climate change issues.
Irma is married to Gaston Dolmans and has two children, Leon and Iris. She lives in Amsterdam.
Robin Smale ETS Cap & Trade Systems
Founder - Vivid Economics
Robin Smale is a Founder of Vivid Economics, a consultancy putting economics to good use in the private and public sectors. His forte is the application of economic frameworks and foresight of markets and policy in the realm of strategic decision support, shaping of competitive advantage, and policy choice. He has special interests in climate change action, in the energy and water sectors and in fisheries management. His technical expertise includes valuation, option selection, industrial organisation, market dynamics, consumer behaviour and welfare economics.
Robin Smale has built his reputation working with leading firms and their advisors in chemicals, construction, energy, finance, insurance, paper, private equity, renewable energy, transport, waste management and water. He has also worked on government policy development with departments for environment, energy, fisheries, public finance, health, reform of government and transport, and for economic regulators, environment regulators, safety regulators, and the National Audit Office. He holds degrees from the Universities of Oxford and London.
Richard Hinton ACA - Accounting Aspects of Carbon Trading
Senior Manager, Financial Sector - KPMG
As a Senior Manager in KPMG London’s Investment Management Practice, Richard leads audits and accounting advisory projects for a variety of hedge funds, pension funds and investment managers
As a result of his experience with hedge fund clients investing in CDM projects and trading CERs, Richard is responsible for promoting KPMG UK’s Sustainable Reporting Assurance Services to financial sector clients
Previously, Richard was a Principal Advisor in KPMG’s Financial Sector Technical Advisory department and provided IFRS and US GAAP accounting advice and training to a range of financial sector clients.
During his time with KPMG, Richard has spent 2 years working in Mexico and Central America, and 3 years working in Eastern Europe were he has had the opportunity to work with a broad range of KPMG’s Global clients from outside the financial sector, particularly in the Pharmaceutical and Automotive sectors.
Benoit Lambert Carbon Corporate Strategies
Professor
Born in Canada (1964), Professor Lambert studied political science in Montreal University and later development and environmental issues at the Institute for Development Studies in Geneva and the EPFL in Lausanne. In 2003 he received a Ph. D. in Political Science from the University of Geneva where he was assistant professor for six years and a scientific collaborator for two years with its business school (HEC).
Benoit wrote, co-authored or published six books and has been the editor of an online magazine in close collaboration with the Worldwatch Institute since 2002. He is now teaching Sustainable Development, Global Environmental Issues, and Energy and Environmental Issues at the International University in Geneva.
Justin Bryon Carbon Finance
Vice President in the Asset & Capital Structuring Department of Santander Global Banking and Markets Division
Justin Bryon is a Vice President in the Asset & Capital Structuring Department of Santander Global Banking and Markets Division where he is responsible for the Bank's global Primary Carbon Market activities, focusing on providing carbon finance solutions to emitters, promoters and investors. He joined Santander in 2004 having previously been with Nmás1, a Spanish-based investment banking boutique for 10 years in London and Madrid dedicated to emerging market corporate and project finance. He commenced his career with Arthur Andersen where he spent
6 years working in Europe, Middle East, Africa and Asia in project and corporate financial advisory. Justin has a degree in economics and statistics from Exeter University and is married to Sandra.
Andrea Pinna Carbon Funds Management
European Investment Bank s Lead Climate Change Officer
Since March 2008, Andrea Pinna is the Luxembourg-based European Investment Bank’s Lead Climate Change officer.
From 2002-2008, Mr. Pinna was at the World Bank in Washington DC as Team Leader of the Carbon Funds Management Unit, Manager of two of the World Bank’s ten carbon funds and facilities, member of the Management Team of the $2.1 billion Bank’s Carbon Finance Program, Coordinator of the Program’s $7.0 million technical assistance facility for carbon finance projects, and Executive Secretary of the Advisory Group of the Community Development Carbon Fund.
In 1994-2002, Mr. Pinna was a staff member of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change secretariat (UNFCCC secretariat). At the time of leaving the secretariat, Mr. Pinna held the positions of Special Assistant to the Executive Secretary and Manager, Emissions Trading Program. As a UNFCCC secretariat staff, Mr. Pinna supported at increasing levels of responsibility the negotiations of the Parties to the UNFCCC that culminated on 11 December 1997 with the adoption of the Kyoto Protocol. He coordinated the work of the Secretariat on international emissions trading and supported the work of the Parties to the UNFCCC directed to put its provisions into effect.
Mr. Pinna started his career in 1989 as UNDP Associate Expert in Bangkok, Thailand, where he worked until 1992 on a program to remove environmental regulatory barriers to export.
A lawyer by training (1987, Università di Sassari, Italy), Mr. Pinna holds Masters degrees in International Relations (1993, Columbia University, New York) and Business Administration (1989, FORMEZ/Columbia University, Italy). He teaches regularly at the Università degli Studi di Milano (Statale).
Mr. Pinna is married with three children and is a national of Italy.
Luis Palacios Carbon Finance
Banco Santander
Luis Palacios is a Vice President in the Asset & Capital Structuring Department of Santander Global Banking and Markets Division where he is responsible for the Bank's Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency projects in Latinoameria on providing investment solutions to promoters and investors. He joined Santander in 2007 having previously been with ENDESA, a Spanish-based utility for 8 years in London, Paris and Madrid dedicated to commodity trading, origination, regulatory affairs and risk management. He commenced his career with the Instituto de Investigación Tecnológica where he spent 2 years working on the electricity Spanish Market. Luis has a degree in electrical engineering from Comillas University - ICAI (1997) and an Executive MBA from Instituto Empresa (2007).
