SPEAKER BIOGRAPHIES

Carlo Carraro
Carlo Carraro is currently Chairman of the Department of Economics and Professor of Econometrics and Environmental Economics at the University of Venice, and the Director of Research at Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM). Professor Carraro served as a Lead Author for the Third Assessment Report of the IPCC and has been collaborating with the Economic and Social Reserch Institute, Cabinet Office, Goverment of Japan. He is also a consultant to the World Bank and to the OECD.  He is co-editor of the Review of Environmental Economics and Policy and belongs to the editorial board of numerous academic journals. He has published numerous books and scholarly articles. He holds a Ph.D. from Princeton University.

Christian de Perthuis
Christian de Perthuis is associated Professor at the University Paris-Dauphine and head of the Mission Climat of Caisse des Depots since 2004. At the request of the French government, he has led the research and design of the Domestic Offset Project approved for implementation in 2007. Additionally, he manages the production of Tendances Carbone (monthly bulletin analyzing European carbon market). He started his career in the agricultural sector before holding positions in two leading French research and forecasting institutes: Deputy Director at Rexecode and then General Director at Bipe. His research is currently focused on the economics of climate change. He has recently published “Towards a New Finance” and a handbook on sustainable development. He holds a PhD in Political Economy from the University of Paris I.

Ferenc Toth
Ferenc Toth is Associate Professor at the Corvinus University in Budapest and Senior Energy Economist in the Planning and Economic Section of the Department of Nuclear Energy at the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). Over the past 20 years, he worked as senior scientist and project leader on development, energy, and environment studies at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis and the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research. His current projects at IAEA are also in the domain of energy-economic-environmental analysis. He was Lead Author in Working Group II, Chapter 18 of the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report and Coordinating Lead Author and Lead Author of several chapters in the Third Assessment Report. He received his PhD in economics from the Budapest University of Economics.

Frank Lecocq
Franck Lecocq is Deputy Director of the Laboratory of Forestry Economics, a joint research unit of AgroParisTech (Paris Institute of Technology for Life, Food and Environmental Sciences) and INRA (French National Institute for Agricultural Research). His current research focuses on the relationships between climate change and sustainable development, and on the economics of the forest/carbon interface. Franck Lecocq has previously worked at CIRED, France, and at the Development Economics Research Group of the World Bank. He is a lead author of the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report, and he holds a PhD in economics from AgroParisTech.

Ian Johnson
Ian Johnson is Chairman of IDEAcarbon, a leading professional services provider to the carbon finance and policy community. Ian joined IDEAcarbon following a distinguished career at the World Bank. For eight years he was the Bank’s Vice President for Sustainable Development overseeing its work on climate change and carbon finance. Prior to that he played a major role in negotiating the establishment of the Global Environment Facility (GEF) and managed its day-to-day operations for six years. Ian Johnson is presently an advisor to Globe, G8+5 and to the UNFCCC.
 
Jerry Skees
Jerry Skees is The H.B Price Professor of Policy and Risk at the University of Kentucky and President of GlobalAgRisk, Inc. His word focuses on public policy for natural disaster risk in agriculture. He has established himself as a leader in innovation in agricultural insurance programs in the United States and globally. Recent and ongoing work includes a World Bank project developing and pilot-testing a new livestock insurance in Mongolia (won the 2006 World Bank Golden Plough Award for innovation); a USAID project, obtaining approval from the Peruvian government for insurance against catastrophic losses from El Niño with a new ENSO Insurance product; and an Inter-American Development Bank project using index insurance to hedge against irrigation risk in the Rio Mayo irrigation district of Mexico.

Joel Smith
Joel Smith is vice president with Stratus Consulting. He worked for the U.S. EPA from 1984 to 1992, where he was deputy director of Climate Change Division. He joined Hagler Bailly in 1992 and Stratus Consulting in 1998. He has provided technical advice, guidance, and training on assessing climate change impacts and adaptation to people around the world and for clients such as the U.S. Agency for International Development, World Bank, United Nations, Pew Center on Global Climate Change and Rockefeller Foundation. He was a Lead Author for the IPCC’s Fourth Assessment Report and a Coordinating Lead Author for the Third Assessment Report. He has been analyzing climate change impacts and adaptation issues for over 20 years and has published numerous reports and scholarly articles.

John Reilly
John Reilly is the Associate Director for Research in the Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change and a Senior Lecturer in the Sloan School at MIT. Prior to joining MIT in 1998, he spent 15 years with the US Department of Agriculture’s Economic Research Service. He has served in a variety of capacities on the IPCC and was Co-Chair of the US National Agricultural Assessment on Climate Variability and Change. His research career has focused on the integrated assessment of climate change, including modelling of energy use, biofuels, and greenhouse gas emissions and climate’s effects on agriculture including consideration of land use change. He holds a PhD in economics from the University of Pennsylvania.

Katherine Daniels
Katherine Daniels is currently a Senior Advisor with the Private Sector Department at Oxfam America in Washington DC.  She is primarily responsible for engaging with the private sector on climate change and other key issues.  Katherine has worked at Oxfam America since May 2002 as a policy advisor on the Make Trade Fair campaign. Prior to joining Oxfam, Katherine researched the impact of US trade and investment policies on labor rights in the US and abroad at the AFL-CIO.  She was a Peace Corps volunteer in Guinea, West Africa, where she worked on public health and community development projects. Katherine holds a Master Degree in International Development Management and MBA in International Business from American University, as well as a B.A. in Psychology from Georgetown University.

Kelly de Bruin
Kelly de Bruin is currently a PhD researcher at Social Sciences Group, Wageningen University. She is completing a PhD thesis on include trade-offs between adaptation and mitigation, coalition formation and stability in international climate policy. She is involved in several projects on the modelling of adaptation in climate change integrated assessment models.
 
Lorents Lorentsen
Lorents Lorentsen is currently Director for Environment, Organisation for Economic Co operation and Development (OECD), Paris. Prior to joining OECD in June 2003, he served for eleven years at the Ministry of Finance, Norway. His position as Acting Secretary-General succeeded four years as Deputy Secretary-General, where he led groups on a number of environmental and pension policy issues, after heading the Department of Policy Analysis and Planning, the Economics Policy Department and the Budget Department. Before joining the Ministry of Finance, Mr. Lorentsen served as Director of Research, Head of Unit and researcher in the Research Department of Statistics Norway from 1974 to 1991. He was responsible for work on natural resource accounts, and analyses of energy consumption and pollution integrated in macroeconomic forecasting.

Mark Fulton
Mark Fulton is the Global Head of strategic planning and a climate change strategist at Deutsche Asset Management in New York. He joined the Company in 2006 after 29 years of investment experience in senior roles in research and management at Citigroup in the US, Salomon Smith Barney and NatWest in Sydney, Potter Partners in Melbourne and James Capel in London. He received his BA in Philosophy & Economics from Oxford University, UK.

Michael Hanemann
Michael Hanemann is a Chancellor's Professor of Environmental Economics and Policy in the Department of Agricultural & Resource Economics and the Goldman School of Public Policy at University of California Berkeley, and Director of the California Climate Change Center at UC Berkeley. His work has focused on non-market valuation, the economics of environmental policy, water resource economics, and the economics of climate change. In 2005, he co-directed the Climate Change Scenarios Project for the Schwarzenegger administration in California and he serves on advisory committees for climate change for several agencies in California.

Mohammed Dore
Mohammed Dore is a Professor of Economics at Brock University, Canada. In 1996 he established a Climate Change Laboratory. The research work in his Lab has been concerned with adaptation by water utilities to the projected changes in future climate. Professor Dore was also a Theme Leader for Water Infrastructure for the Canadian Water Network (CWN) and served on the CWN Research Management Committee. His research on water has focused on transboundary water conflicts, climate change impacts on precipitation, economics of bulk water exports, desalination of water and forecasts of future costs, and privatization of water. He has published several books and numerous scholarly articles. He received his PhD from the University of Oxford, UK.

Momodou Njie
Momodou Njie is the Founder and Manager of Blue Gold Solution and serves on the Board of Directors of Unique Solutions, a leading IT company in the Gambia. He trained as a hydrologist in Africa and Europe, and holds a PhD from Imperial College, London. Dr. Njie played a pivotal role in the preparation of the Gambia’s NAPA. He teaches part-time in the University of the Gambia and has research interest in environmental and biophysical modelling, global change assessments, vulnerability science and natural resources economics. Prior to starting a career in the private sector in 2005, he worked for 15 years as senior scientist with the Gambian civil service and occasionally worked as an independent consultat to public and private client organisations.
 
Preety Bhandari
Preety Bhandari is the Coordinator of Financial & Technical Support Programme at United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Secretariat. She joined the Secretariat in April 2007 and was closely involved in guiding and reviewing the UNFCCC project on Investment & Financial Flows to address climate change. Prior to joining the Secretariat, she worked for a research organization in India (The Energy & Resources Institute, TERI), and has experience in normative and quantitative research on climate change, energy economics and planning and also in environmental economics. She has also worked with UNEP’s Environment Assessment Programme for the Asia Pacific in Bangkok, Thailand and at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, in Laxenburg, Austria.

Rob Dellink
Rob Dellink is a senior researcher in Economics and Technology at the Institute for Environmental Studies (IVM) at VU University of Amsterdam and Assistant Professor at the Environmental Economics and Natural Resources Group at Wageningen University and Research Centre. He is a specialist in the field of environmental economic modelling and involved in several projects on the modelling of climate change. He published a thesis on dynamic computable general equilibrium modelling for the Netherlands with special attention to pollution and abatement. His current research interests include trade-offs between adaptation and mitigation, coalition formation and stability in international climate policy, economic consequences of the European Water Framework Directive, and sustainable national income.

Roberto Roson
Roberto Roson is currently associate Professor at Ca’Foscari University, Venice, where he teaches Industrial Organization, International and Antitrust Economics. He has been “visiting fellow” at the Free University of Amsterdam, at the University of Warwick, and at S.Francisco Xavier University (Sucre, Bolivia). He is the author of several articles published in books and international scientific journals. He has also coordinated several applied research projects. Currently, he is collaborating with Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei, and his research interests deal primarily with computable models for economic policy simulation (mainly in the environmental field), and with the industrial organization of networks and telecommunications.He graduated in Venice and received a doctoral degree from the University of Umeå (Sweden).

Samuel Fankhauser
Samuel Fankhauser is Managing Director (Strategic Advice) of IdeaCarbon. He served on the 1995, 2001 and 2007 assessments of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. He also gained hands-on experience in the design of emission reduction projects as a climate change economist for the Global Environment Facility and the World Bank. Sam joined IDEAcarbon from the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, where his most recent position was Deputy Chief Economist.

Shardul Agrawala
Shardul Agrawala leads the work program on adaptation to climate change at the OECD Environment Directorate. He served as the Coordinating Lead Author (CLA) for the chapter on Assessment of Adaptation Practices for the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report (2007), and as Lead Author for the chapter on Cross-Sectoral Mitigation Options for the IPCC Second Assessment Report (1995). He received his PhD from Princeton University, and has previously held positions at Princeton, Columbia and Harvard universities.

Shruti Mehrotra
Shruti Mehrotra currently works for the World Economic Forum as an Associate Director and Global Leadership Fellow, managing the Forum's portfolio of public-private partnership initiatives for humanitarian relief and disaster management and the organization's activities in the area of climate change adaptation. She has a background leading humanitarian assistance programmes in the field in response to complex emergencies and natural disasters. Before joining the Forum, Shruti served as the Director of Relief International-UK and led humanitarian relief operations for several international NGOs such as Oxfam GB and ACTED in Afghanistan, the Palestinian Territories, and Eastern Chad and Sudan.

Stéphane Hallegatte
Stéphane Hallegatte is a researcher in environmental economics and climate sciences for Météo-France and the Centre International de Recherche sur l’Environnement et le Développement (CIRED). He was contributing author of the working groups I and II of the IPCC fourth assessment report, participates in the French inter-ministerial working group on the assessment of climate change impacts, and has been consultant for the OECD and private companies. His research interests include the economic consequences of natural disasters, the assessment of economic impacts due to climate change, and the development and assessment of public or private strategies to adapt to climate change.
Suruchi Bhadwal
Suruchi Bhadwal has done her Masters in Environmental Sciences and has since then been working in the field of climate change. Her focus has been mainly on impacts, vulnerability and adaptation assessments workingin close association with communities. She contributed the Vulnerability and Adaptation component as part of India’s first national communications submitted to the UNFCCC, and has recently contributed to a study on Vulnerability to climate change in the Indian agricultural sector in the context of economic globalization. She has published several papers on related issues and has contributed to the IPCC AR4 WGII Report in the capacity of a Lead Author.