About the Speakers

Kevin Noone

Executive Director of theInternational Geosphere-Biosphere Programme,Swedish Royal Academy of Sciences

Kevin Noone has degrees in Chemical Engineering, and Civil and EnvironmentalEngineering from the University of Washington in Seattle, WA (USA). He was onthe faculty at Stockholm University from 1987-91, a research scientist andAdjunct Professor of Oceanography at the Center for Atmospheric ChemistryStudies, Graduate School of Oceanography at the University of Rhode Island(USA) from 1992-1995, and was Professor of Meteorology and head of theAtmospheric Physics Division at the Department of Meteorology, StockholmUniversity from 2000-2004. From 2004-2008 he was the Executive Director of the International Geosphere-Biosphere Program (IGBP), and a member of theEarth System Science Partnership (ESSP). In autumn 2008 he moved back toStockholm University, with joint appointments at the Department of AppliedEnvironmental Science and the Stockholm Resilience Centre.Early research work in Chemical Engineering focused on transparentsemiconductors for use as solar cells in the generation of electricity. Hisprimary research interests at present are in the area of atmospheric chemistry& physics, the effects of aerosols and clouds on air quality and the Earth'sclimate, and Applied Earth System Science. He is an advocate of aninterdisciplinary approach to obtaining a solid scientific basis for decisions onenvironmental and climate issues. He is author/coauthor of more than 120scientific articles and book chapters.Kevin has headed up of a number of large international field experiments, andis (or has been) a member of a number of international committees andboards, currently including the European Academies Science Advisory Council’sEnvironment Steering Panel. He is Associate Editor of the journals

Ambio

and

Atmospheric Research

, and was Editor in Chief of the IGBP Global ChangeNewsletter.Kevin is active in conveying science to stakeholders and the general public. Heregularly gives presentations and short courses on climate and Earth SystemScience for non-science audiences. He also interacts regularly with the mediain international arenas.

Anders Wijkman MEP

President of GLOBE EU

University degree in political science at University of Stockholm (1967).Member of the Swedish Parliament (1970-1978). Secretary General of theSwedish Red Cross (1979-1988). Secretary General of the Swedish Society forNature Conservation (1989-91). Director General of the Swedish Agency forResearch Cooperation with Developing Countries (SAREC) (1992-94). AssistantAdministrator of UNDP (1995-97). Ambassador at the Swedish Foreign Ministry(1998). Member of the European Parliament since 1999.

Other ongoing commitments:

-Vice President - Club of Rome-Chairman - Plan Sverige-Board member - Tällberg Foundation-Expert Group Chairman for the Commission on Climate Change andDevelopmentAnders Wijkman has been a member of several government task forces onissues related to environment, sustainable development, energy, foreign aidetc. During 1992-94 he was chairing a special government commissionanalysing the possible effects for Sweden's physical environment of joining theEuropean Union. In 1993-94 he was chairing a government task force reviewingSwedish foreign aid after UNCED. From 1993-96 he served as one of themembers of the Independent Commission on Population and Quality of Life. InApril 2001 Mr Wijkman participated in the high-level expert panel on “ICT(Information and Communication Technologies) for development”, appointed bythe UN Secretary General.Mr Wijkman is the author of several books on issues related to disasterprevention, sustainable development, Hiv/Aids etc. His latest book "TheNeedless Tragedies: Man and Disasters" was published in 2005.

Delia Villagrasa

Senior Advisor to the European Climate Foundation

Delia is Swiss-Spanish, and has a degree in business administration from theUniversity of St. Gallen. She has worked in the corporate sector, fordevelopment and environmental organisations. At present she is Senior Advisorto the European Climate Foundation (ECF) particularly on the issue of theupcoming Copenhagen global climate agreement and the EU’s role within thisprocess.After some corporate work, her environmental career started at WWFInternational, where she worked for 4 years and got the «environmental bug»,never to fully leave environmental issues thereafter.Delia came to Brussels 13 years ago to become Director of Climate ActionNetwork Europe, which she steered for 4 years during the exciting time of theUN negotiations for the Kyoto Protocol, and the resulting development of EUpolicies until 1999. Afterwards she headed the Business Council for SustainableEnergy for several years and then made herself independent, advising differentorganisations on EU environmental, particularly climate and energy, matters,working intensively with the EU Institutions.

Martin Rocholl

European Climate Foundation Policy Director & Programme Director for Transport

Martin Rocholl has over 30 years experience as a volunteer and professional inenvironmental NGOs, working on a broad spectrum of issues, such assustainable city planning, EU structural and agricultural policies, transport and

climate change. He previously worked as a consultant on environmental andEuropean politics and campaign strategies in Berlin, with a specialisation inenergy efficiency legislation in the EU. Rocholl has founded and served on theboard of several local, national and international NGOs.From 1998 to 2005 Rocholl worked in Brussels as the director of Friends of theEarth Europe, a network of environmental organisations in 30 Europeancountries with more than 2000 local groups. He was the coordinator of thesuccessful Ecological Tax Reform Campaign in Germany in 1996-1997 (with'Deutscher Naturschutzring'). Rocholl has also worked as a journalist andscientist and holds a PhD in Biology.

Mariangiola Fabbri

Senior Energy Policy Officer at World Wildlife Fund, Europe

Mariangiola is Senior Energy Policy Officer at WWF EPO in Brussels. She leadsthe WWF network in developing positions and policies for energy efficiency andenergy conservation and actively involves in the decision-making andimplementation of European legislation. Trained as a political scientist in Italy, France and Canada, she holds an MSc inEuropean Environmental Law and Advanced European Political Studies. She joined WWF in 2004.

Nicholas Dunlop

Co-founder and Secretary-General of the e-Parliament

Nicholas Dunlop served for ten years as the first Secretary-General of Parliamentarians for Global Action, an international network of legislatorsconcerned with global problems. He designed and launched the Six NationPeace Initiative, which brought together the Presidents and Prime Ministers of Argentina, Greece, India, Mexico, Sweden and Tanzania in a group to work onnuclear disarmament. He was a co-recipient of the first Indira Gandhi Prize forPeace, Development and International Cooperation, an annual award presentedby the President of India.More recently, Nicholas Dunlop was Executive Director of the EarthActionNetwork, which consists of over 2,000 citizen groups in more than 160countries working together to generate political will to solve global problems.Working with celebrities such as the actor Leonardo DiCaprio and the rock bandCrosby, Stills and Nash, Dunlop has helped to increase public attention to majorproblems such as climate change and desertification. He has also served as aConsultant to the Administrator of the United Nations Development Programmeon relations with national parliaments.

Michael Benien

RWE AG Corporate Development Department

Michael was a consultant for Roland Berger Strategy between 2006 and 2007.He joined the Corporate Development Department of RWE AG, which is partly