HYDRO 2011

Session Chairmen and

Opening Session Speakers

Mgr. Ing. Vladimir Hlavinka, Michel de Vivo, Secretary- Dr Andy Hughes, Director Alessandro Palmieri, The
Chief Production Officer, General of ICOLD; Opening Atkins Water, UK; Opening World Bank; Opening Keynote
CEZ; Welcome Address Message and Co-Chair of Address. Address and panellist,
Sessions 12 and 16 Sessions 1 and 17.

Jean-Michel Devernay, Deputy Prof Hermod Brekke, Øivind Johanssen, Deputy Prof Luis Berga, Spain;
Managing Director, EDF Hydro Professor Emeritus and Director, Ministry of Energy Hon President, ICOLD;
Engineering Centre, France; Consultant; Chairman of and Petroleum, Norway; Chairman of Session 4.
Chairman of Session 1. Session 2. Chairman of Session 3.

Asit K. Biswas, Director, J. Plummer, Cambridge John Gummer, Hydro-Consult C.V.J. Varma, President,
Third World Centre for Water University, UK and The Pty Ltd, Australia; Chairman Council of Power Utilities,
Management, Mexico; World Bank; Chair of of Session 6. India; Co-Chairman of
Keynote Speaker, Session 4. Session 5. Session 7.

Chhewang Rinzin, Director, Niels Nielsen, Joint Secretary, C.R. Head, Consultant, UK; Dr. Yannis Thanopoulos, Public
Druk Green Power Corp, IEA; Co-Chairman of Chairman of Session 9. Power Corporation, Greece;
Bhutan; Co-Chairman of Session 8. Chairman of Session 10.
Session 7.
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Session Chairmen and
Opening Session Speakers

José C. Freitas, Deputy Dr Cecilia Tortajada, Scientific Maria Antonieta Gomez Michel Poupart, Consultant,
Director, Hydro Division - EDP, Director, International Centre Balandra, IMTA, Mexico; Dam Safety Management,
Portugal; Co-Chairman of for Water and Environment, Co-Chair of Session 13. France; Chairman of
Session 11. Spain; Co-Chair of Session 13. Session 14.

B. Trouille, Vice President Mihiret Debebe, CEO, EEPCo, Dr Harald Kreuzer, Lori Nielsen, Joint-
MWH, USA; Chairman of Ethiopia; Co-Chaiman of Consultant, Switzerland; Secretary, IEA;
Sessions 15 and 18. Session 16. Chairman of Session 17. Co-Chair of Session 19.

Dr. Gaudenz Koeppel, Alpiq Adama Nombre, President, Karin Seelos, Statkraft B. Das, Soma Enterprises,
Suisse AG; Co-Chairman of Burkina Faso Committee of Energi AS, Norway; India; Chairman of Session 23.
Session 20. ICOLD; Co-Chairman of Co-Chair of Session 22.
Session 21.
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Session Chairmen and
Opening Session Speakers

Bryan Leyland, Consultant, J.R. Rojas Morales, Centro Hu Xiaobo, International F. Lempérière, Hydro Co-op;
New Zealand; Nacional de Planificación Centre for SHP, China; Chair of Chairman of Session 27.
Chairman of Session 24. Electrica, Costa Rica; Session 26.
Chairman of Session 25.

F.J. Coellho da Rocha e Silva, Jean Teyssieux, Tractebel S. Alam, Consultant, France; Marko Gospodjinacki,
Portugal; Co-Chairman of Engineering, France; Chairman of Session 29. President, ESHA;
Session 28. Co-Chairman of Session 28. Co Chairman of Session 30.

Prof. Bernhard Pelikan, Vice Geraldine M. Schroeder, Francis Griffin, Prof. J-J. Simond, Ecole
President of ESHA, Austria; Head of Corporate Mott MacDonald, UK; Polytechnique Fédérale de
Co-Chairman of Session 30. Communications, Storengy Chairman of Session 32. Lausanne;
Germany; Chair of Session 31. Co-Chairman of Session 33.