Speaker Biographies

Opening Keynote Presentations and Session 1

Session 2

Session 3

Conclusions

Philip Lowe

Director General, DG Energy, European Commission

Philip Lowe was born in Leeds in 1947. He read Politics, Philosophy and Economics at St John's College, Oxford and has an M. Sc. from London Business School. Following a period in the manufacturing industry, he joined the European Commission in 1973, and held a range of senior posts as Chef de Cabinet and Director in the fields of regional development, agriculture, transport and administration, before becoming Director-General of the Development DG in 1997. From September 2002 he was Director-General of the Competition DG until he took up his current appointment as Director-General of the Energy DG in February 2010.

Graeme Sweeney

Chairman, Zero Emissions Platform, Executive Vice-President, CO2, Shell

Dr. Sweeney has been recently appointed as the Executive Vice President of the Future Fuels & CO2 organisation for Shell. Dr. Sweeney was the Executive Vice President of Renewables, Hydrogen, CO2 & Power of Shell from mid 2005 until September 2007. Dr. Sweeney joined Shell in 1976 and performed various roles in manufacturing, sales & marketing and
consultancy. In 1997 he was appointed Vice President of Fuels where he launched the first successful differentiated fuels program. In this role he laid a foundation for Shell in establishing a Hydrogen business. Before joining Renewables & Hydrogen,
Dr. Sweeney was Vice President Manufacturing Supply and Distribution for Shell Europe Oil Products.

Dr. Sweeney is also a member of the Gleneagles Dialogue Project Steering Board, the Advisory Council of the European Union - Zero Emission Platform (EU-ZEP) in which capacity he co-edited the Strategic Deployment Document, and the UK Energy Research Partnership (UKERP). He chairs the Advisory Board of the UK Energy Research Centre (UKERC) and works in the context of Chairman with DTI/DEFRA on the Near-Zero Emission Coal (NZEC) and the EU Coach programmes.
Dr. Sweeney has a PhD in Mathematics from the Victoria University of Manchester and holds a Physics degree from the same institution and is a Chartered Physicist.

Martina Doppelhammer

DG Climate Action, European Commission

Ms Martina Doppelhammer is Senior Policy Officer and Co-ordinator of the CCS and NER 300 files in Unit C.1 "Low Carbon Technologies" of the European Commission's Directorate-General for Climate Action. She has drafted the Directive on the geological storage of carbon dioxide (CCS-Directive), which was adopted in 2009. Since then, she has worked on the implementation of the Directive as well as on the establishment of the NER 300 process, including on the drafting, negotiation and adoption of the Commission Decision laying down criteria and measures for the financing of commercial CCS and RES demonstration projects under the EU Emissions Trading System (NER 300 Decision), and of the related Co-operation Agreement between the Commission and the European Investment Bank (EIB), as well as on the preparation and launch of the NER 300 Call for proposals. She is now responsible for co-ordinating work on the further implementation of the Directive and of the NER 300 process in the Unit. Ms Doppelhammer joined the European Commission in 2002. She is a lawyer by training and holds an LL.M. in European law from the College of Europe in Bruges. She spent several years studying and researching into European environmental law and has authored and co-authored a number of publications in the field.

Christopher Knowles

Head of Climate Change and Environment, European Investment Bank

Christopher Knowles joined EIB in 1982 and has held a number of positions inside and outside Europe. He is currently Head of Climate Change and Environment in the Bank’s European Operations Directorate. In this capacity he has a pan-European responsibility for a diverse portfolio of activities, including climate funds, clean energy, carbon finance and CCS.

Angela Whelan

Chief Executive, Ecofin Research Foundation

Angela Whelan is Chief Executive of the Ecofin Research Foundation, a UK registered charity established by, but independent from Ecofin Limited, a London based investment management firm, which specialises in the global utility, infrastructure, alternative energy and environmental sectors. The Ecofin Foundation uses its knowledge of the global utility and finance sectors and its network of contacts to promote the development of sustainable, low carbon solutions.
Prior to setting up the Foundation, Angela was a portfolio manager at Ecofin Limited specialising in utility funds from 2003 to 2008. From 1989 to 2003 Angela was a utility analyst with several investment banks including Barclays de Zoette Wedd, Credit Lyonnais Securities Europe and Cazenove. At Credit Lyonnais she was head of UK equity research and a member of the Executive Management Committee. She holds a BSc in Economics from Carleton University, Canada and an MA and DPhil in Economics from the University of Sussex.

Giles Dickson

Vice President, Government Affairs, Alstom

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Chris Davies

Member, European Parliament, ALDE co-ordinator, Committee on Environment, Public Health and Food Safety

Chris Davies is a British Liberal Democrat Member of the European Parliament. Elected in 1999, after previously serving in the House of Commons, he is the party spokesman on the Environment Committee. During the past nine years he has played an influential role in shaping EU climate change and other environmental laws, and he has been the Parliament's negotiator on the carbon capture and storage legislation.

Mark Johnston

Senior Policy Officer, WWF

Mark is a Senior Policy Advisor in the European Policy team of WWF International. Based in Brussels since 2002, he has contributed to a variety of the Union’s energy and environment legislative debates and related policy questions. His experience regarding European CCS strategy includes recent legislation on CO2 geological storage, on emissions trading reform and on industrial emissions controls. On behalf of WWF, he participates also in the Zero-Emissions Technology Platform (ZEP) and in the European Commission’s Berlin Fossil Fuels Forum. He supports Commission President Barroso’s assertion in 2009 that global climate change is “the most existential of challenges”.

Adam Dawson

Chief Executive, Office of CCS, DECC

Adam is Chief Executive and Director of the Office of Carbon Capture and Storage.

The OCCS was created in March 2010 and Adam joined in April. The OCCS’ role is to facilitate the delivery of CCS as a key carbon abatement technology in the UK for both power generation and industrial applications, and help promote UK opportunities in the rapid deployment of CCS internationally.
Adam joined the OCCS after three and a half years as head of new nuclear in DECC’s Office for Nuclear Development. One of his team’s key achievements was to publish a White Paper on the future of nuclear power, after a major public consultation taking the best part of a year. This opened up the prospect of new nuclear power stations being built in the UK for the first time in 20 years.

Prior to joining the Civil Service in 2005, Adam spent 19 years working for Shell, primarily in the area of bulk petrochemicals.

Stephen Brown

Director of CCS, CO2 Sense Yorkshire

Dr Stephen Brown is Director of Carbon Capture and Storage with the CO2Sense Yorkshire. CO2Sense is a wholly owned subsidiary of Yorkshire Forward, the regional development agency for the Yorkshire and Humber region of England, and a company limited by guarantee. The company delivers the agency’s aims on sustainable development in a commercially orientated manner. Stephen’s role is to work with industry, investors and government to enable the development of carbon capture and storage in Yorkshire and Humber through the establishment of a shared CO2 transport network.

He also works with universities and companies in the CCS supply chain to ensure the region is as well placed as possible to deliver full chain CCS projects and develop technologies for the next generation of CCS plants.

Stephen has a background in coal combustion and sustainable energy and gained a PhD in Chemistry at the Northern Carbon Research Laboratory, University of Newcastle Upon Tyne.

Stephen is Chair of the Yorkshire and Humber Carbon Capture and Storage Partnership. He is also a non-executive director of Community Energy Solutions (Yorkshire and Humber), which works with fuel poor communities in the region, and is a member of the management committee of the Business Council for Sustainable Development-UK.

Peter Radgen

Technology Area Manager CCS, E.ON

After working for more than 10 years in applied research in the energy business he joined E.ON in 2007 as a senior project manager for energy storage and CCS. Since 2010 he has been appointed Technology Area Manger for Carbon Capture and Storage, responsible for CCS R&D activities and the development of the CCS strategy for the E.ON Group, ranging from development of innovative technologies over pilot and demonstration projects to policy, legal and economic issues.

He has a long track record working in CCS since more than 15 years. He has been serving ZEP in a number of different activities, ranging from the work on ZEP’s flagship and knowledge sharing proposal as well as participating the ZEP task forces demonstration and implementation and communication and is member of the Eurelectric Task Force CCS..
He is reader for Carbon Capture and Storage at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zürich, Switzerland. Peter Radgen received a degree in mechanical engineering from University of Karlsruhe and a PhD in thermodynamics from University of Duisburg.

Maarten de Hoog

Project Manager, CCS & Board Member, Rotterdam Climate Initiative

Maarten de Hoog (b. 1957) studied chemistry at the Vrije Universiteit [Free University] in Amsterdam.

In 1984 he began working for the Royal Netherlands Chemical Society.

In 1990 he transferred to the Dutch Ministry of Housing, Spatial Planning and the Environment (VROM), where he worked as coordinator of industrial target group policy, then as head of the department of industry and finally as head of the department of products and consumers.

In 2002 he made the switch from policy making to the implementation of environmental policy, and began working for the DCMR Environmental Protection Agency Rijnmond as branch head of licensing and energy for the process industry.

In 2005 he became head of the Process Industry department and a member of the DCMR management team.

In his position as member of the management team, he currently manages the Industry and Port department and represents the DCMR in the Rotterdam Climate Initiative (RCI) management team. The DCMR provides specific input and monitoring for the RCI, and also has primary responsibility for activities in the field of CO2 capture and storage (CCS).

Dave Hawkins

Director, Climate Programs, Natural Resources Defense Council

David G. Hawkins began his work in “public interest” law upon graduation from Columbia University Law School in 1970. He joined the Natural Resources Defense Council’s (NRDC) Washington, DC office in 1971 as one of the organization’s first staff members.

In 1977, Mr. Hawkins was appointed by President Carter to be Assistant Administrator for Air, Noise, and Radiation at the Environmental Protection Agency. During his time at EPA, he was responsible for initiating major new programs under the 1977 Amendments to the Clean Air Act. With President Reagan’s election in 1981, Mr. Hawkins returned to NRDC to co-direct NRDC’s Clean Air Program.

In 1990, Mr. Hawkins became Director of NRDC’s Air and Energy Program, and in 2008 he became the Director of NRDC’s Climate Programs. The Climate Center focuses on advancing policies and programs to reduce the pollution responsible for global warming. In addition to working with Congress to design a legislative mechanism that will slow, stop and reduce the emissions of global warming pollution, Mr. Hawkins is recognized as an expert on advanced coal technologies and carbon dioxide capture and storage.

Mr. Hawkins currently serves on the boards of the Woods Hole Research Center, Center for Clean Air Policy, Resources for the Future and the Board on Environmental and Energy Systems of the National Academy of Sciences. He is also a member of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Climate Change Science Program Product Development Advisory Committee. Mr. Hawkins participated in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s Special Report on Carbon Dioxide Capture and Storage and is participating in the IPCC’s Fourth Assessment Report on climate change.

Mr. Hawkins is married with three children and lives in Maryland.

Jingquan Chen

Second Secretary, Mission of PR China to the EU

Jingquan Chen
Ph.D., Second Secretary in S&T Section of the Mission of P.R.China to EU
Responsible for the EU-China research cooperation on energy and environment areas.

EMPLOYMENT AND EDUCATION HISTORY
2009.9 Second Secretary, S&T Section of the Mission of P.R.China to EU
2009.6 Deputy Director, Division of Development Strategy, Bureau of Science Policy, National Natural Science Foundation of China
2008.6-12 Visiting Scholar, Department of Science and Technology Studies (STS), Cornell University (US)
2004.7, program officer, Division of Development Strategy, Bureau of Science Policy, National Natural Science Foundation of China
2004.6, D.Phil, Wuhan University (China), Scientometrics and Research evaluation
2001.6, M.Sc., Wuhan University (China), information management and Bibliometrics
1998.6, B.A, Wuhan University (China), Hydrology and Water Resources Engineering

Derek Taylor

Regional Representative - Europe, Global CCS Institute

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Juho Lipponen

Head of CCS, International Energy Agency

Juho Lipponen is a Finnish national and is the Head of the new CCS Unit at the International Energy Agency. Before joining the IEA, Mr. Lipponen held various positions at the European electricity sector federation Eurelectric in Brussels from 2000 to 2009. He was Advisor for wholesale and retail electricity market issues until 2004, and in January 2005 was appointed Head of Eurelectric's Energy Policy and Power Generation Unit, where he ran a team of experts in various power production technologies and policies, including renewable energy, nuclear, gas and coal fired power and CCS. Prior to joining Eurelectric, Mr. Lipponen worked as a Researcher at the Turku University in Finland, specialising in network regulation. Mr. Lipponen holds a M.Sc degree from Turku University and has also conducted business studies at the Turku School of Economics and Business Administration.

Lou Bono

Counselor for Energy, Environment, Science and Technology, US Mission to the European Union

Louis Bono arrived at USEU in July 2008 and heads the Energy, Environment, and S&T unit. A native of New York, he earned his J.D. at Pace Univ. School of Law, with a certificate in environmental law, and his B.A. at Manhattanville College. He joined the U.S. Foreign Service in 1999. His has severed overseas in Berlin, Islamabad, and most recently as the head of the U.S. Regional Office in Basrah. His other postings include the staff of the Undersecretary of State for Economic, Energy, and Agricultural Affairs, the State Department’s Office of EU Affairs, and the Legal Office at the U.S. Mission to the UN in New York. Prior to joining the Foreign Service, he was an assistant attorney general in New York. He also served in the U.S. Army and remains a member of the reserves. He has written on EU environmental legislation and has received several commendations from the State Department, including two for heroism. He and his wife have four children.

Doug Lammie

Director, CCS Projects, Government of Alberta

Doug Lammie is the Director, CCS Projects at Alberta Energy. He is responsible for managing the Canadian province’s $2 billion CCS fund, developing CCS policy, and overseeing CCS economics and engineering.

Doug joined Alberta Energy in 2002 and has had a number of different roles within the department including: Director, Unconventional Gas and Tenure and Director, Petrochemical Development.

Doug has a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering (with Distinction) and a Master of Business Administration (MBA) with a specialization in Natural Resources and Energy, both from the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada.

Jeff Chapman

Chief Executive, The Carbon Capture & Storage Association

Jeff Chapman established the Carbon Capture & Storage Association in March 2006 following a long period of supporting UK businesses to establish a position in greenhouse gas emissions trading and carbon capture & storage.

Jeff has over thirty years of management experience in industry, consultancy and more latterly in government circles. He has specialised in the energy sector with a focus on the business opportunities that arise from climate change mitigation. Jeff has been a significant contributor to the establishment of London as the World centre of emissions trading.

Recognising the enormous potential of carbon capture & storage to control global greenhouse gas emissions and the consequent opportunities for business Jeff established an industry interest group with support from UK Trade & Investment in 2001 which became the foundation of the Carbon Capture & Storage Association in 2006. The objective of the Association is to represent the interests of its members in the business of capture and geological storage of carbon dioxide. From its base in London the CCSA brings together specialist companies in manufacturing & processing, power generation, engineering & contracting, oil, gas & minerals as well as a wide range of support services to the energy sector such as law, banking, consultancy and project management.

Jesse Scott

Programme Leader, E3G

Jesse Scott leads engagement with the EU institutions in Brussels for environmental NGO E3G (Third Generation Environmentalism). Working with a wide coalition of government actors, policy experts and industry and other NGOs, she has was closely involved in the 2008 Climate Package negotiations which created the “NER” fund for the EU CCS demonstration programme. Over the last year she has worked on implementation of the NER programme and in particular its legislated requirement for knowledge sharing to speed CCS deployment and technical innovation. She also works more broadly on financing for low carbon innovation and infrastructure in the context of the EU budget reform debate and the Strategic Energy Technology Plan.

Paal Frisvold

Director, Bellona Europa

Since 2001, Paal Frisvold has been part of the Bellona Energy Team whose main focus is to advocate policies, technological solutions and economic incentives to reverse and stabilise climate change by reducing CO2 emissions. Frisvold is Chairman of the Board of Bellona Europa aisbl – the Brussels office of The Bellona Foundation. He currently co-chairs the Task force on Policy and Regulation under the European Technology Platform on Zero Emission Fossil Fuel Power Plants (ZEP).

Prior to joining Bellona, Frisvold spent four years at the EFTA Secretariat in Brussels in the Secretary General’s private office responsible for managing of the Standing Committee of the EFTA States and the EEA Joint Committee. Prior to joining EFTA, Frisvold worked in the Norwegian Shipowners’ Association’s EU policy unit. He has also worked four years as Director of the Business and Industry Advisory Committee to the OCED, responsible for articulating and advocating private sector views to OECD deliberations on environmental and economic policies. From 1986-88, Frisvold worked in the commercial section of the Norwegian Embassy in Beijing, China. Frisvold frequently speaks and debates on broader EU policy issues in Brussels and in Norway. Frisvold holds a Master degree in International Relations from Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) and a Bachelor Degree in Political Science from The American University of Paris where he is currently a Member of the Board of Trustees.

Frisvold is trilingual in English, French and Norwegian. A former fencer at international level, he placed 11th for Norway in the Olympic games in Los Angeles, 1984. Paal Frisvold was born in Oslo on 5 May 1962 and is married, with two children.