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Dr. Cynthia Rosenzweig, Head of Climate Impacts research group, NASA/Goddard Institute for Space Studies (New York City)
Dr. Cynthia Rosenzweig's primary research involves the development of interdisciplinary methodologies by which to assess the potential impacts of and adaptations to global environmental change. She has joined impact models with global climate models (GCMs) to predict future outcomes of both land-based and urban systems under altered climate conditions. Advances include the development of climate change scenarios for impact analysis, and the application of impact models at relevant spatial and temporal scales for regional and national assessments. Recognizing that the complex interactions engendered by global environmental change can best be understood by coordinated teams of experts, Dr. Rosenzweig has organized and led large-scale interdisciplinary, national, and international studies of climate change impacts and adaptation. She is the Co-Leader of the Metropolitan East Coast Regional Assessment of the U.S. National Assessment of the Potential Consequences of Climate Variability and Change, sponsored by the U.S. Global Change Research Program. She leads the Climate Impacts research group at the Goddard Institute of Space Studies, whose mission is to investigate the interactions of climate (both variability and change) on systems and sectors important to human well-being.
Source: http://www.giss.nasa.gov/staff/crosenzweig.html
Dr. Stephen Hammer, Director, Urban Energy Project, Center for Energy, Marine Transportation and Public Policy, Columbia University (New York City)
Dr. Stephen A. Hammer is Director of the Urban Energy Project at Columbia University's Center for Energy, Marine Transportation and Public Policy. Dr. Hammer researches and supports energy policymaking efforts in cities, and teaches graduate seminars on urban energy systems and distributed energy technologies. Dr. Hammer regularly lectures on environmental and energy topics around the US, Europe, and China, and has published articles and opinion pieces in the New York Times, the New York Daily News, The Scotsman, and other international publications. In 2006, Dr. Hammer completed a comparison of energy policymaking practices in New York City and London, portions of which will be published this year in Urban Energy Transition (Elsevier Press). Dr. Hammer provides research, regulatory, technical and project management support to public and private sector organizations, including President George H.W. Bush's Commission on Environmental Quality, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the U.S. National Park Service, and the City of New York. Dr. Hammer holds a PhD in Urban Planning from the London School of Economics, a Master's in Public Policy from Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government, and a BS in Environmental Studies from the University of California at Davis.
Source: http://sipa.columbia.edu/academics/directory/sh2185-fac.html
Dr. William Solecki, Director, Institute for Sustainable Cities, City University of New York (New York City)
As director of the CUNY Institute for Sustainable Cities, William Solecki's research focuses on urban environmental change, urban land use and suburbanization. A professor in the Geography Department at Hunter College, he is presently co-chair of Mayor Bloomberg's New York City Panel on Climate Change. Dr. Solecki has served on the U.S. National Research Council's Special Committee on Problems in the Environment. He has also served as the co-leader of the Metropolitan East Coast Assessment of Impacts of Potential Climate Variability and Change. He currently is a member of the International Geographical Union Megacity Study Group and the International Human Dimensions Programme, Urbanization and Global Environmental Change Scientific Steering Committee and is a co-founder of UCCRN. Dr. Solecki holds a BA in Geography from Columbia University and an MA and PhD in geography from Rutgers University.
Email: wsolecki@hunter.cuny.edu
Dr. Ademola Omojola, Associate Professor of Geography, University of Lagos, Nigeria
Dr. Omojola is on the the Steering Committee of the Urban Climate Change Research Network (UCCRN) and a coordinating lead-author for the “Mayors’ IPCC”. He is an Associate Professor of Geography at the University of Lagos, Akoka, Lagos, Nigeria. He has conducted, supervised, and published various research projects that use remote sensing and GIS applications for environmental studies in Nigeria. He has also been advising the government and the private sector in the application of remote sensing and GIS in Nigeria. Dr. Omojola has completed a B.Sc. Degree in Geography from the University of Ibadan in 1982, an MA Geography with specialization in Hydrology and Resource Analysis in 1985 and Ph.D in Geography with specialization in Remote Sensing and GIS for environmental change detection, University of Lagos in 1997.
Dr. Albert Bressand, Director, Center for Energy, Marine Transportation and Public Policy, Columbia University (New York City)
Dr. Albert Bressand is the Director of the Center for Energy, Marine Transportation and Public Policy at Columbia University. Formerly, Dr. Bressand headed the Global Business Environment department in Royal Dutch Shell's global headquarters in London from 2003-2006, where he was most notably responsible for designing a new generation of Shell Global Scenarios around an enhanced, original methodology for risk and opportunity assessment. Dr Bressand is also Special Adviser to the EU Commissioner in charge of energy in Brussels. Previously, he was managing director and cofounder of Prométhée, a nonprofit, Paris-based think tank specializing in the emerging global networked economy and its implications for corporate strategies, capital markets, and international economic relations. Dr. Bressand served as Economic Advisor to the French Minister of Foreign Affairs and held key positions with the French Institute for International Relations and the World Bank. He is a member of the faculty of the World Economic Forum, and has chaired a number of sessions at the Davos Annual Meetings. Dr. Bressand earned advanced degrees in both mathematics and engineering at Ecole Polytechnique in Paris, and an MPA and a PhD in Political Economy at the Kennedy School at Harvard University.
Source: http://sipa.columbia.edu/academics/directory/ab2816-fac.html
Dr. Alice Grimm, Associate Professor, Universidade Federal do Parana (Curitiba)
Dr. Alice Grimm is an Associate Professor in the Department of Physics at the Federal University of Paraná, Brazil. She is currently visiting at the International Research Institute for Climate Prediction (IRI) at Columbia University, where she is conducting research on climate variability and the performance of climate models in Southern South America during El Niño and La Niña events. Dr. Grimm's early training was in physics and geodetic sciences (Fed. Univ. of Paraná), and she has a Ph.D. in Meteorology from the University of São Paulo. Dr. Grimm's research interests include diagnostic and modelling studies related to climate variability on several time scales. Her current research activities includes the assessment of the impacts of El Niño and La Niña events over the climate of Brazil and southern South America, and the detection and description of intraseasonal oscillations in precipitation and circulation over South America. Dr. Grimm is also studying the remote influence of tropical heat sources, through the generation and propagation of Rossby waves.
Source: http://www.rsmas.miami.edu/IAI/Inst1999/leaderbios99.html
Dr. Richenda Connell, CTO/Co-Founder, Acclimatise (London)
Dr. Richenda Connell is the Chief Technical Officer and Co-founder of Acclimatise, a specialist risk management company bridging the gap between the latest scientific developments and real world decision-making. She manages the development of their products and services, ensuring that the company remains at the cutting-edge of best practice in climate risk management. Dr. Connell has 15 years of expertise working at the interface between decision-making and scientific issues, on climate change, air pollution and environmental impact assessment. She was formerly Technical Director at the UK Climate Impacts Programme, where she co-developed the world’s first web-based climate adaptation tool and the UKCIP climate risk management framework, now recommended in UN and World Bank guidance. She has also helped several hundred UK public and private sector organizations assess and manage their climate risks. She holds a doctorate in atmospheric chemistry from Oxford University.
Source: http://www.acclimatise.uk.com/the-team/dr-richenda-connell
Dr. Claudia E. Natenzon, Professor, Humanities School, University of Buenos Aires (Buenos Aires)
Dr. Natenzon is a member of the Scientific Committee of the Buenos Aires Interdisciplinary Program on Climatic Change, the Executive Committee of the Argentinean International Human Dimension Program (IHDP), and the Steering Committee of the Urban Climate Change Research Network (UCCRN). Since 1988, she has led the Natural Resources and Environmental Research Program (PIRNA) at the University of Buenos Aires, where her research focuses on the analysis of catastrophic floods and social vulnerability with a focus on social theory of risk. Dr. Natenzon has served as the lead researcher for several projects with the National Science Foundation, and is presently a co-researcher in UNESCO’s Conflict to Co-operation project for Latin America and the Caribbean. Dr. Natenzon holds a Ph.D in Geography from the University of Sevilla, Spain, and has published over fifty book chapters and papers.
Email: natenzon@filo.uba.ar
Dr. Peter Droege, Professor, School of Architecture and Built Environment, University of Newcastle (Australia)
Dr. Peter Droege is an expert on the role of renewable energy within the fields of urban design, development and urban infrastructure with a wide variety of experience and responsibility. He has directed and developed Solar City, a research development effort conducted under the auspices of the International Energy Agency as well as carrying out academic roles at major universities in the United States and Japan. He is presently Senior Advisor, Beijing Municipal Institute for City Planning and Design, Steering Committee member, Urban Climate Change Research Network (UCCRN), Conjoint Professor, School of Architecture and Built Environment, University of Newcastle, Visiting Professor and Director, Centre for Sustainable Urbanism, School of Landscape Architecture and Planning, Beijing University and Chair, World Council for Renewable Energy (WCRE) Asia Pacific. He is a Chair of the World Council for Renewable Energy, for Asia Pacific, and directs Epolis, a Sydney-based consultancy active in sustainable urban change worldwide. He is the author of the recent book on transforming the urban energy system from fossil to renewable, The Renewable City.
Source: http://www.suesupriano.com/article.php?id=127
Source (of picture): http://www.renewablecity.org/
Dr. Saleemul Huq, Head, Climate Change Group, International Institute for Environment and Development (London)
Source (of picture): www.southsouthnorth.org/abouttheteam.asp
Dr. Saleemul Huq is Head of the “Climate Change Group” in the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED). He is a specialist of links between climate change and sustainable development, particularly from the perspective of developing countries. He works on research into vulnerability and adaptation to climate change in the least developed countries, and is the lead author of the chapter on Adaptation and Sustainable Development in the third assessment report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and Coordinating Lead Author of chapter on Adaptation and Mitigation in the IPCC's fourth assessment report. He was formerly Executive Director of Bangladesh Centre for Advanced Studies, and advises the LDC Group in UNFCCC negotiations. Dr. Saleemul Huq completed his PhD in Plant Sciences from Imperial College, London, United Kingdom.
Source: http://www.iddri.org/L'iddri/Intervenants-auteurs/Saleemul-Huq
Eva Ligeti, LLB/LLM, Executive Director, Toronto Clean Air Partnership (Toronto)
Source (of picture): www.brantfordpower.com/corporate/board.shtml
Eva Ligeti is the Executive Director of the Toronto Clean Air Partnership and co-chair of the GTA Clean Air Council. Ms. Ligeti's goal is to build programs, policies and practices that facilitate sustainable urban environments. She develops market and community-based research and strategies for: healthy, clean air; climate adapted, resilient cities; a sustainable built environment that reflects livable, sustainable urban planning, with convenient, accessible, public transit and active forms of transportation. Ms. Ligeti serves on numerous boards and committees including, Federation of Canadian Municipalities' Green Municipal Fund's Council, Brantford Power Inc. and the Advisory Council of the Nuclear Waste Management Organization. She is a member of the Province of Ontario's Expert Panel on Climate Change Adaptation and a co-chair of the Greening Greater Toronto. Ms. Ligeti is a lawyer and she teaches environmental law in the University of Toronto, Graduate Program in Environmental Science. Ms. Ligeti was Ontario's first Environmental Commissioner from 1995 until 1999. She was the Principal, Sheppard Campus, Seneca College of Applied Arts and Technology and Chair, School of Legal and Public Administration.
Source: http://www.torontocat.ca/main/bikesummit2009/speakers
Dr. Niels Schulz, Research Associate, Imperial College (London)
Dr. Niels Schulz1 joined the Global Energy Assessment in June 2008. He is a Research Fellow and Team Leader of the Urban Energy Systems Project at the Energy Futures Lab, Imperial College London. Before joining the Energy Futures Lab, he worked for two years as postdoctoral fellow at the United Nations University, Institute of Advanced Studies (UNU-IAS) in Yokohama, Japan. At UNU-IAS he worked with the ecosystem and people program and conducted research and capacity building programs to address urban environmental challenges of cities in the Asian-Pacific region. In particular he worked on indicators of sustainable production and consumption at the urban scale. Dr. Schulz holds a PhD in ecology from Vienna University, where his research examined changes in energy use and resource consumption during the industrial transformation of the United Kingdom. Past research has also included an examination of integrated measures for land-use and land-cover change such as human appropriation of net primary production, ecological footprint analysis, and other measures of society’s material and energy metabolism.
Source: http://www.iiasa.ac.at/cgi-bin/ifinger?login:^schulz$:11:383