Roger Harrabin, is the BBC’s Environment Analyst, and one of their senior journalists on the environment and energy. He has broadcast on environmental issues since the 1980s and has won many awards in print, TV and radio. Aside from his specialty he has covered many major general news stories. He is a Visiting Fellow at Green Templeton College, Oxford, an Associate Press Fellow at Wolfson College, Cambridge and has received an Honorary Doctor of Science from Cranfield University.

In 2004, the BBC created the role of Environment Analyst so Harrabin could work across all media. He reported early on the uncertainty in climate forecasting and on geoengineering to combat climate change.

In 2007, he shared the Media Natura TV News award for films including a report from Bangladesh highlighting the need for climate adaptation; another revealing how China was building two power stations a week; and a third demonstrating the drive for the Chinese to increase energy production to tackle poverty. He also showed how some people in the West were blaming China for its emissions created during the manufacture of goods for export. Harrabin popularised discussions around these “embedded” emissions and showed that there were problems in all methodologies comparing international greenhouse gas emissions. In 2015, Harrabin’s report on renewable energy sources in Malawi , including a cook stove that charges mobile phones, reportedly pulled in 22 million hits.

Harrabin’s reporting is dominated by risk issues. He states that often major risk issues fail to fit news criteria of novelty, drama, conflict, personality and pictures. The media therefore provides prominence to statistically lower probability events such as MMR vaccine problems, dirty bombs, child abduction, transport safety, exotic diseases, the UK National Health Service “crisis”, the Brent Spar oil platform, nuclear power failures and genetic modification impacts. He argues that the media should find new ways of exploring long-term risk issues like preventative health and security of water, food, energy and climate, which can and will impact many more people’s lives.

Tim Naylor is a veteran in advanced Information Management and Analytics sectors and heads Envision Energy’s Digital business in EMEA. He has an Honours degree in Information Science from Otago University, an MBA from London Business School and 20 years leadership experience with Oracle EMEA.  For the past 4 years Tim has been helping global energy companies create advantage from digitalisation, where advances in Energy IoT, cloud computing, big data and machine learning are dramatically reshaping the energy value chain.  These advanced technologies are also creating opportunities for:

(i) reduced LCOE and system integration cost of renewables,

(ii) better predictions of weather, power, asset health and optimised O&M activities,

(iii) exciting new business models in power system flexibility, microgrids and intelligent infrastructure, and

(iv) the electrification of heating, lighting, buildings and e-mobility networks.

Gilles Dickson is the CEO of WindEurope since 2015. Previously he ran global public affairs in Alstom and served 16 years as a UK Government civil servant.

Michael Sen is a member of the Siemens Managing Board, in which he has special responsibility for Siemens Healthineers, Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy and the company’s Global Services unit. After completing a Siemens Trainee Program (Stammhauslehre) and earning a degree in business administration at the Technical University in Berlin, he held various positions at Siemens, where he served among others, in the Corporate Strategy Department, as Head of Investor Relations and as Chief Financial Officer of the Healthcare Sector. In 2015, Sen moved to E.ON, where he was the company’s Chief Financial Officer. In this role, he was responsible for the spinoff of E.ON’s energy trading business and its conventional power generation business to form the subsidiary Uniper including the unit’s public listing. In 2017, he returned to Siemens. As the member of the Managing Board with special responsibility for Siemens Healthineers, he helped prepare the business’s IPO, which took place in March 2018.

Dr. Daniel M. Kammen is a Professor of Energy at the University of California, Berkeley, with parallel appointments in the Energy and Resources Group where he serves as Chair, the Goldman School of Public Policy where he directs the Center for Environmental Policy, and the department of Nuclear Engineering. Dr. Kammen is the founding director of the Renewable and Appropriate Energy Laboratory (RAEL; http://rael.berkeley.edu), and was Director of the Transportation Sustainability Research Center from 2007 – 2015

He was appointed by then Secretary of State Hilary Clinton in April 2010 as the first energy fellow of the Environment and Climate Partnership for the Americas (ECPA) initiative.  He began service as the Science Envoy for U. S. Secretary of State John Kerry in 2016, but resigned over President Trump’s policies in August, 2017.  He has served the State of California and US federal government in expert and advisory capacities, including time at the US Environmental Protection Agency, US Department of Energy, the Agency for International Development (USAID) and the Office of Science and Technology Policy

Dr. Kammen was educated in physics at Cornell (BA 1984) and Harvard (MA 1986; PhD 1988), and held postdoctoral positions at the California Institute of Technology and Harvard. He was an Assistant Professor and Chair of the Science, Technology and Environmental Policy Program at the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University before moving to the University of California, Berkeley. Dr. Kammen has served as a contributing or coordinating lead author on various reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change since 1999.  The IPCC shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize.

Dr. Kammen helped found over 10 companies, including Enphase that went public in 2012, Renewable Funding (Renew Financial) a Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) implementing company that went public in 2014.  Dr. Kammen played a central role in developing the successful bid for the $500 million energy biosciences institute funded by BP.

During 2010-2011 Dr. Kammen served as the World Bank Group’s first Chief Technical Specialist for Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency. While there Dr. Kammen worked on the Kenya-Ethiopia “green corridor” transmission project, Morocco’s green transformation, the 10-year energy strategy for the World Bank, and on investing in household energy and gender equity.  He was appointed to this newly-created position in October 2010, in which he provided strategic leadership on policy, technical, and operational fronts. The aim is to enhance the operational impact of the Bank’s renewable energy and energy efficiency activities while expanding the institution’s role as an enabler of global dialogue on moving energy development to a cleaner and more sustainable pathway.  Dr. Kammen’s work at the World Bank included funding electrified personal and municipal vehicles in China, and the $1.24 billion transmission project linking renewable energy assets in Kenya and Ethiopia.

He has authored or co-authored 12 books, written more than 300 peer-reviewed journal publications, and has testified more than 40 times to U.S. state and federal congressional briefings, and has provided various governments with more than 50 technical reports. For details see http;//rael.berkeley.edu/publications.  Dr. Kammen also served for many years on the Technical Review board of the Global Environment Facility.  He is the Specialty Chief Editor for Understanding Earth and Its Resources for Frontiers for Young Minds.

Dr. Kammen is a frequent contributor to or commentator in international news media, including Newsweek, Time, The New York Times, The Guardian, and The Financial Times. Dr. Kammen has appeared on ‘60 Minutes’ (twice), NOVA, Frontline, and hosted the six-part Discovery Channel series Ecopolis.  Dr. Kammen is a Permanent Fellow of the African Academy of Sciences, a fellow of the American Academy for the Advancement of Science, and the American Physical Society. In the US, has served on several National Academy of Sciences boards and panels.

Since Mr. Aagaard was appointed CEO of the Danish Energy Association in 2009 his main focus has been on safeguarding the interests of the energy sector – and securing its position on the global market for energy technology solutions – a sector which will play a pivotal role in the struggle for implementing the ambitious political visions of becoming independent of fossil fuels in the years to come. Internationalisation of energy policy is a unifying principle in his work as well.

Communicating highly complex energy policy to a broad audience, politicians and journalists, in particular, is one of Mr. Aagaard’s skills and high priorities.

Mr. Aagaard has obtained his professional and technical knowledge through his MSc in Public Administration and through his management career as Head of Division in The Ministry of Economic and Business Affairs, Climate and Energy section of DI Confederation of Danish Industry, and from 2006 to 2009 Vice President of the Danish Energy Association.

Professor Dr. Jean-Michel Glachant completed his Master’s degree and Ph.D. in economics at La Sorbonne in France. His Ph.D. was published by the Presses de La Sorbonne. After having been employed by the industry and private sector he became assistant professor at La Sorbonne (1981), associate professor and then full professor (1999).

He left La Sorbonne for University Paris Sud in Autumn 2000 where he took the direction of the department of economics and founded the research team ‘Groupe Réseaux Jean Monnet’ and later the European Erasmus Mundus Master EMIN (Economics and management of network industries).

He has been advisor of DG TREN, DG COMP & DG RESEARCH at the European Commission and of the French Energy Regulatory Commission (CRE). He is or has been coordinator or scientific advisor of several European research projects (SESSA, CESSA, Reliance, EU-DEEP, RefGov). He is a research partner in the CEEPR at MIT (USA), the EPRG at Cambridge University, the EEI at the University of Leuven and the GIS Larsen at University Paris Sud.

His main research interests are the building of a common European energy policy (security of supply, renewable energy, energy efficiency, energy technology policy, and climate change policy), the achievement of the European energy internal market (design, regulation and competition policy), the industrial organisation and market strategy of energy companies.

He has been Director of the Loyola de Palacio Energy Policy Programme and Florence School of Regulation from Autumn 2008.