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Stanley R. Bull is the Executive Director, Strategic Partnerships, at the National
Renewable Energy Laboratory and Vice President of the Midwest Research Institute.
He has has served as the Associate Director for Science and Technology for the
National Renewable Energy Laboratory and Vice President of the Midwest Research
Institute for more than a decade, and has more than 40 years of experience in
energy and related applications, including renewable energy, energy efficiency,
transportation systems, bioenergy, medical systems, and nondestructive testing. He
has experience in leading energy research and development, managing and
developing programs, and planning and evaluating technical programs. He leads
NREL’s RD&D which emphasizes renewable energy and energy efficiency
technologies in support of DOE programs. He has authored approximately 100
publications in diverse fields and technical journals, and presented roughly 150 papers
at international, national, and other meetings. He has also made numerous public
presentations on a variety of energy-related topics.
Dr. Bull has a Ph.D. and M.S. from Stanford University and a B.S. from the
University of Missouri–Columbia with degrees in Chemical Engineering and
Mechanical Engineering. Professional recognition and honors include a Senior
Fulbright-Hays Professorship in Grenoble, France, the Faculty-Alumni Award and
the Missouri Honor Award from the University of Missouri-Columbia, and the
Secretary of Energy Outstanding Program Manager Award. He is listed in Who’s Who
in Engineering, American Men and Women of Science, Who’s Who in the West,
Who’s Who in Frontiers of Science and Technology, Who’s Who in Technology, and
Who’s Who of Emerging Leaders in America.
James Cameron is Vice Chairman and Executive Director of CCC and is responsible
for strategic and sector development, is Chairman of the Advisory Board and
represents the firm at the highest levels of business and government. He is one of the
world’s pre-eminent experts in developing market-based policy responses to climate
change. Prior to CCC he was Counsel to Baker & McKenzie and was the founder and
the head of their Climate Change Practice. Mr. Cameron has spent much of his legal
career working on climate change matters, including negotiating the UNFCCC and
Kyoto Protocol as an adviser to the Alliance of Small Island States. He has held
academic positions at Cambridge, London, Bruges and Sydney and is currently
affiliated with the Yale Center for Environmental Law and Policy. As a barrister, he
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appeared in several of the leading cases in environmental law. He is the Chairman of
the Carbon Disclosure Project and a treasurer of REEEP and a trustee of The Climate
Group. He is a member of the board of GE Ecomagination.
Paul Curnow is a Partner in Baker & McKenzie’s Global Climate Change and Clean
Energy Practice and is at the forefront of the law and policy around carbon markets
and emissions trading. He advises a range of Australian and international private
sector and government clients on carbon market opportunities, including a number
of market-leading funds on CDM, JI and voluntary carbon transactions in a range of
jurisdictions. He has also advised a range of government clients, including the
Australian and Chinese governments, on climate change law and policy. Mr. Curnow
took a three year leave of absence to work for the Australian Greenhouse Office
(AGO) on international and domestic climate change policy. In this role, he
represented the Australian Government at international climate change negotiations
and managed a range of bilateral partnerships with countries such as China, the
United States, New Zealand, Japan and the European Union. He is the Editor of the
CDM (Clean Development Mechanism) Rulebook which was recently launched as a
comprehensive online database for the rules surrounding the CDM under the Kyoto
Protocol. The database can be viewed at http://www.cdmrulebook.org/.
Louisa Fitz-Gerald is a member of Baker & McKenzie’s Global Climate Change
and Clean Energy Practice Group. Her key focus is on advising carbon market
participants, including governments, multilateral organisations, project developers
and financiers on a range of policy and regulatory issues associated with climate
change, emissions trading and renewable energy. She has advised several private
sector clients on the drafting of precedent emissions trading documents and the
development of emission reduction (CDM and JI) projects. She also has general
projects experience, particularly on renewable energy issues, and is a co-author of a
report to the Australian Greenhouse Office on China’s new Renewable Energy Law.
She is the author of the CDM Rulebook, a comprehensive online database of the
CDM rules (www.cdmrulebook.org) funded by eight governments and international
organisations, and the co-author of CCLaw Assist, a handbook on domestic legal
issues surrounding the CDM. Prior to joining Baker & McKenzie, Ms. Fitz-Gerald
worked with the Secretariat of the National Emissions Trading Taskforce to design a
national emissions trading scheme for Australia. Her key focus was on the
institutional arrangements for a national emissions trading scheme, offset
arrangements, and opportunities for linking with international schemes.
Bradford S. Gentry is a Senior Lecturer in Sustainable Investments and Research
Scholar at the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, as well as CoDirector of the Center for Business & the Environment at Yale and Director of the
Research Program on Private Investment and the Environment. He is also of counsel
to the international law firm of Baker & McKenzie, an advisor to GE’s office of
corporate environmental programs, and a member of the advisory boards of Climate
Change Capital in London and the Trust for Public Land in Connecticut, as well as
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the governing board for the Institute for Ecosystem Studies in New York. Mr. Gentry’s
work explores the opportunities for using private investment to improve
environmental performance. He works both across and within particular
sectors/problems. The cross-sectoral work focuses on the steps policy makers can take
to help develop opportunities for sustainable investments, including market
frameworks, information systems, and shared investments/ partnerships. The sectoral
work is concentrated in three major areas – increasing private investment in the
delivery of urban environmental services (particularly drinking water and
sanitation), sustainable forest management, and cleaner energy. Projects in all these
areas are undertaken across a range of contexts from New Haven, to developing
country megacities and to wilderness forest systems. He has written extensively on the
links between private investment and environmental performance, including the
book Private Capital Flows and the Environment: Lessons from Latin America. Mr.
Gentry received his B.A. from Swarthmore College (Phi Beta Kappa) in 1977 and his
J.D. from Harvard Law School (Magna Cum Laude) in 1981.
Stefan Gerig is Chief Investment Officer of Nordkap Bank AG, which he joined in
2004. He previously was responsible for GE Structured Finance’s Zurich office,
covering Europe and the CIS. Prior to GE, he was head of ABB Structured Finance’s
arranging and lending arm in Switzerland and led teams on high profile project
financings around the world, primarily in the power sector, but also including toll
roads and oil and gas. Before joining ABB, Mr. Gerig was a Director with Swiss Bank
Corporation in London, responsible for project financings in the energy sector in
Europe. He holds a graduate degree in international relations from the University of
St. Gallen, Switzerland.
Jennifer A. Haverkamp is an independent consultant based in Washington, DC. and
an adjunct professor of international environmental law and policy, is the Principal
Trade Expert for REIL (Renewable Energy and International Law). From 1995 to 2003
she was the Assistant U.S. Trade Representative for Environment and Natural
Resources at the Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) within the
Executive Office of the President. Prior to that appointment, she served as the Deputy
Assistant U.S. Trade Representative for Environment and Natural Resources and as a
director in USTR’s Office of North American Affairs and Office of Intellectual
Property and Environment. She was responsible for the negotiation of environmental
components of U.S. bilateral, regional, and multilateral trade agreements, including
the World Trade Agreement’s Doha Development Agenda, and the U.S.-Chile and
U.S.-Singapore Free Trade Agreements. She also headed the U.S. delegation that
renegotiated the International Tropical Timber Agreement in 1994; participated in the
negotiation of the environmental and labor side agreements to the North American
Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA); and oversaw the negotiation of the trade-related
components of multilateral environmental agreements, including the Cartegena
Biosafety Protocol and the U.N. agreement on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs).
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Before joining USTR in 1993, Ms. Haverkamp was the Special Assistant to the
Assistant Administrator for Enforcement of the Environmental Protection Agency;
an attorney with the U.S. Department of Justice’s Environment and Natural
Resources Division (receiving the Attorney General’s John Marshall award for her
work on the 1990 amendments to the Clean Air Act); an Associate with the
Conservation Foundation, an environmental think tank now merged with the World
Wildlife Fund; and a law clerk to the Honorable Betty B. Fletcher, U.S. Court of
Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. She earned her J.D. at Yale Law School, an M.A. in
Politics and Philosophy from Oxford University (as a Rhodes Scholar), and a B.A. in
Biology from the College of Wooster.
Ms. Haverkamp serves on the Board of Trustees for the College of Wooster, the
Board of Directors of the American Bird Conservancy, the U.S. Trade Representative’s
Trade and Environment Policy Advisory Committee, the International Advisory
Expert Group of UNCTAD’s BioFuels Initiative, the IUCN’s Commission on
Environmental Law, and the Advisory Board of the Center for International
Environmental Law. In 2003-04, Ms. Haverkamp served as one of two U.S. representatives on the North American Commission on Environmental Cooperation’s Ten
Year Review Advisory Committee, producing recommendations for the CEC’s future
direction.
Aldo Iacomelli is a professor for the official Academic Course of “Environmental
Economics” – Faculty of Economics at Rome “La Sapienza” University. He is the
former Secretary General of ISES ITALY (Italian Section of International Solar Energy
Society). Dr. Iacomelli is the Head of Scientific Research Unit on “Climate Change,
Economics of Energy and International Cooperation Programs” at CIRPS (Inter University Consortium for Research on Sustainable Development) of University of
Rome “La Sapienza”. He is the Deputy Chairman of Renewable Energy Technology
Deployment Implementing Agreement at International Energy Agency (IEA) (OECD)
Paris, delegate on behalf of the Italian Government, responsible to the Task force for
Strategy development and planning. Dr. Iacomelli graduated from the University of
Politecnico in Milan with a degree in Chemical Engineering and joined the Engineers
Professional Association. He received his PhD in ”Energy and Environmental
Technology for the Development” at University of Rome “La Sapienza” – CIRPS.
Debra Jacobson is a Professorial Lecturer in Energy Law at The George Washington
University Law School. Since 2001, Ms. Jacobson also has served as the owner and
principal of DJ Consulting LLC, a consulting firm specializing in energy and
environmental issues. From 1974 to 1994, Ms. Jacobson served as a staff member in the
U.S. House of Representatives and then the U.S. Department of Energy advising
members of Congress and senior Department of Energy officials on energy,
environmental, and procurement matters. Ms. Jacobson received her B.A. in
Environmental Studies from the University of Rochester and her law degree from The
George Washington University Law School. She currently serves on the Steering
Committee for the Department of Energy’s Wind Powering America Program and as
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an Advisor to the Renewable Energy and International Law Project. She was a
member of the founding Board of Directors of the Women’s Council on Energy and
the Environment in Washington, D.C.
Suedeen Kelly is a Commissioner at the U.S. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission,
having served since November 2003. In December 2004, she was confirmed to a
second term that expires June 30, 2009. Previously, she was a Professor at the
University of New Mexico School of Law, where she taught energy law, public utility
regulation, administrative law and legislative process. She also worked with the law
firm of Modrall, Sperling, Roehl, Harris & Sisk in Albuquerque from 2000-2003 and
the law firm of Sheehan, Sheehan, and Stelzner from 1992-1999. In 2000, Ms. Kelly
served as counsel to the California Independent System Operator. In 1999, she worked
as a Legislative Aide to U.S. Senator Jeff Bingaman.
Prior to joining the faculty of the Law School, Ms. Kelly served as Chair of the New
Mexico Public Service Commission, which regulated New Mexico’s electric, gas and
water utilities. She had been a lawyer in the Office of the New Mexico Attorney
General and with the New Mexico firm of Leubben, Hughes & Kelly. She also worked
for two years in Washington, DC, upon her graduation from law school. Ms. Kelly
holds a B.A. from the University of Rochester with Distinction in Chemistry and a
J.D. cum laude from Cornell Law School. She is admitted to the bars of New Mexico
and the District of Columbia.
Rachel Maxwell is the Director of Programs for the Renewable Energy and
International Law (REIL) Network. She joined REIL’s team in 2005. Ms. Maxwell
worked as the Vice President of Maxwell Statistics from 2000 to 2005 and as an independent education and administration consultant. She has worked on analysis projects for various organizations, from Microsoft and Xerox to the Early Learning Center
of Snohomish, WA. She has extensive experience as an independent editor, editing
both books and copy. She earned a degree from Bryn Mawr College in art history and
spent many years working as a dealer in Contemporary Art and Works on Paper. Ms.
Maxwell is the author of Susan Rothenberg the Prints: A Catalogue Raisonne.
Lily Mitchell is a senior associate in the Environment & Environmental Markets
group at Baker & McKenzie, Sydney. Prior to joining Baker & McKenzie in 2006, she
worked in the Projects group at a major Australian law firm on public-private
partnerships and project finance transactions. Ms. Mitchell advises clients within
Australia and overseas on renewable energy and environmental law matters, as well as
carbon credit trading schemes and greenhouse gas abatement projects. She
contributed to the RELaw Assist project on renewable energy law in China, as well as
other environmental publications, and has worked or presented on renewable energy
and carbon trading matters around Australia and in India and the USA.
Volker Oschmann is deputy head of the Renewable Energies Law Division within the
German Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety. As
such, he is responsible for legislation on renewable energy sources, such as for the
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Renewable Energy Act (“Erneuerbare-Energien-Gesetz – EEG”) on electricity from
renewable sources or the Renewable Energy Heat Act (“Erneuerbare-EnergienWärmegesetz – EEWG”).
Dr. Oschmann is visiting lecturer at the Humboldt-University in Berlin, co-editor
of the Journal for New Energy Law (ZNER) and author of several publications on
European and German renewable energy law and practice. Before working with the
Ministry, he was working with the German Parliament.
Hugh Outhred retired in September 2007 from the positions of Presiding Director,
Centre for Energy and Environmental Markets and Associate Professor and Head,
Energy Systems Research Group in the School of Electrical Engineering and
Telecommunications at the University of New South Wales (UNSW), Sydney. Now a
Professorial Visiting Fellow at UNSW, he has a BE (Hons1) and a PhD in Electrical
Engineering from the University of Sydney and is a Fellow of the Australian Institute
of Energy. His main research interests are in the areas of electricity industry
restructuring and sustainability. He has been a member of the Board of the Australian
Cooperative Research Centre for Renewable Energy and an Associate Director of the
Centre for Photovoltaic Devices and Systems at UNSW. He is a member of the CSRIO
Energy Flagship Advisory Committee.
In 2000 he worked on secondment to Murdoch University, contributing to the
development of a new undergraduate course on renewable energy engineering. In
2001 and 2002 he was seconded to the Australian Cooperative Research Centre for
Renewable Energy as Product Executive, Grid-connected Renewable Energy Services,
to lead a research program on grid-connected renewable energy resources. From 2005
to 2008, he has led a UNSW research project for the Australian Greenhouse Office on
facilitating the uptake of wind energy in the Australian electricity industry and from
2008 will lead a research project for AusAID on ways to improve the sustainability of
energy service delivery for rural communities in Indonesia and China.
Leslie Parker is the founder and managing director of the Renewable Energy and
International Law (REIL), an international policy and law network for clean energy, in
association with the Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Partnership, the Yale
Center for Environmental Law and Policy and the Center for Business and the
Environment at Yale, and Baker and McKenzie’s Global Clean Energy and Climate
Change Practice. REIL is a network of policy makers, business and finance, thought
leaders, lawyers, and technical experts, addressing policy and law and technical issues
arising in the mainstreaming of clean energy and the development of the clean energy
market. It was founded in 2003 from a 2002 initiative of the International Energy
Agency’s (IEA) Renewable Energy Unit where Ms. Parker interned. Prior to that she held
various posts in New York City government, notably as division director in the Finance
office of the Department of Social Services where she was responsible for developing and
enhancing City revenue and working with the Mayor’s Office on the agency’s 12 billion
dollar budget, and as an Assistant Director of the budget at the Administration for
Children’s Services where she oversaw 1.2 billion dollars of the NYC city budget.
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Ms. Parker has a Masters in Art History, and worked for 11 years at the
Metropolitan Museum of Art, including seven years in the Department of European
Sculpture and Decorative arts. She attended Bryn Mawr College and New York
University.
Emanuele Piccinno has a PhD. in Economics. His research involves the economic
aspects of international cooperation and energy markets, particularly renewable
energy markets. He collaborates with the Environmental Economics chair in the faculty of Economics at the University of Rome “La Sapienza.” He is also a consultant for
ISES ITALY, the Italian section of the International Solar Energy Society, as well as
other institutions and Italian energy market players.
Jennifer Ronk is the Deputy Director of Renewable Energy and International Law
(REIL). Her research includes international investment law and renewable energy
policies. Prior to joining REIL, she was the Vice-President of an environmental
consulting firm, Applied Environmental Solutions, Inc., where her work focused on
the investigation and remediation of contaminated soil and groundwater. Ms. Ronk
received her Bachelor’s of Science degree in Geology from the University of
Wisconsin and her Master’s of Environmental Management degree from the Yale
School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. She is a Wisconsin-registered
Professional Geologist. Ms. Ronk was a member of the Interstate Technology
Regulatory Commission, and a technical reviewer for their Passive Diffusion Bag
Sampler Working Group, a former Vice-President of Women in Science in
southeastern Wisconsin, a member of Women Environmental Professionals, and a
past member of the Society of American Military Engineers.
Manik Roy is the Director of Congressional Affairs for the Pew Center on Global
Climate Change, where he manages communication between the Center and the U.S.
Congress. Dr. Roy has twenty-four years of experience in environmental policy,
having worked, before coming to the Pew Center, for Senator Frank R. Lautenberg,
Representative Henry A. Waxman, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the
Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection and the Environmental
Defense Fund. Dr. Roy holds a Ph.D. in public policy from Harvard University. He
also holds a Master of Science degree in environmental engineering and a Bachelor of
Science degree in civil engineering, both from Stanford University.
Ashley Stafford is a Senior Associate in Baker & McKenzie’s Environment &
Environmental Markets Practice. He practises environment and planning law, with a
focus on greenhouse gas abatement and renewable energy regulation. He has acted
for government, industry, mining, property and financial services clients advising on
the obligations, opportunities and risks connected with greenhouse gas emissions
and renewable energy regulation (domestically and internationally), as well as
developing regulatory and contractual frameworks for emissions trading. He also acts
in environment and planning litigation. Mr. Stafford has published papers and
presented on emissions trading and renewable energy in Australia and
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internationally, including in industry journals and in recent conferences at Tsinghua
University (Beijing), McGill University (Montreal) and Chennai (India).
Richard Saines heads the U.S. arm of Baker & McKenzie’s Global Climate Change and
Emissions Trading Practice Group. Mr. Saines advises multinational companies,
financial institutions, funds and project sponsors on carbon and environmental
market transactions under the Kyoto Protocol, EU ETS and voluntary markets. He
also advises major global corporations in the area of climate change policy, sustainable
development and global corporate greenhouse gas management. He received his
bachelor’s degree from Miami University and a J.D. from Kent College of Law.
Eric Sievers is Senior Vice President/Head of Origination at Nordkap Bank AG in
Switzerland. Prior to Nordkap, as an infrastructure projects attorney, he represented
banks and sponsors in the development, acquisition and financing of more than ten
gigawatts of natural gas-fired generation and half a billion gallons of biofuels, as well
as solar, wind, and toll road projects. He was a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard and
holds a Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a J.D. from Yale Law
School, an M.A. from Norwich University and a B.A. from Swarthmore College.
Daniele Villoresi has a bachelor’s degree in economics and received a master’s degree
in Environmental Accountability from Perugia University in 2005. Currently he is a
PhD candidate in Sustainable Development and International Cooperation at CIRPS
(Inter-university Research Center for Sustainable Development) at the University of
Rome “La Sapienza.” He is involved in research related to the economic aspects of
international cooperation and energy markets, particularly renewable energy
markets. He is also a consultant for ISES ITALY, the Italian section of the
International Solar Energy Society, as well as other institutions and Italian energy
market players.
Martijn Wilder heads Baker & McKenzie’s global climate change and emissions
trading practice and is regarded as one of the world’s leading carbon and climate
change legal experts, having worked in the area for over 10 years. Representing an
international client base he has advised a number of governments and multilaterals
on the development of climate change and emissions trading laws and advises clients
on international carbon transactions on a daily basis. Mr. Wilder is also Chairman of
the NSW Climate Change Council; on the Governing Board of REEEP; Board
Member of the International Law Association (Australian branch); a Governor of
World Wildlife fund; and President of TRAFFIC (Oceania). He has honours degrees
in both Economics and Law and a LLM (Master of Laws) from the University of
Cambridge where he studied as a Commonwealth Trust Scholar. He has published
widely in the climate change and international law area.
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