CONCURRENT SESSION
The Role of Public Sector for RDD&D;

Hoesung Lee [Chair]

Current position:

Professor at Korea University Graduate School of Energy and Environment
Member of the Board of Directors of the Korean Academy of Environmental Sciences
Senior adviser to Korean Society for Climate Change Research and the Korea Resources Economics Association
Member of the Asian Development Bank President's Advisory Board on Climate Change and Sustainable Development
Vice Chair of the IPCC(Inter governmental Panel on Climate Change)

Country:

Korea

Career history:

2008- present:
IPCC Vice Chair

He was the founding president of the Korea Energy Economics Institute -- a government agency for national energy policy development. He was Distinguished Research Fellow at the Korea Environment Institute, faculty member and the dean of the College of Environment at Keimyung University, Korea, senior adviser to the Minister of Energy and Resources and the Minister of Environment, senior fellow at the Korea Development Institute and economist at Exxon Corporation, US.

He was Co-chair of the IPCC Working Group III (The Economic and Social Dimensions of Climate Change) in the Second Assessment , and Lead Author and Review Editor in the Third and Fourth Assessment. He was the member of the International Advisory Board of the Battelle-Pacific Northwest National Lab, USA, the Board of Directors of Hyundai Corporation, Korea Petroleum Development Corporation and the Institute for Global Environmental Strategies, Japan.

Areas of expertise:

The economics of energy, natural resource and climate change

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Didier Houssin

Current position:

Director, Directorate of Sustainable Energy Policy and Technology, International Energy Agency (IEA)

Country:

France

Career history:

2012-present
Director of Sustainable Energy Policy and Technology, International Energy Agency (IEA)
2007-2012
Director of Energy Markets and Security (IEA)
2004-2007
Managing Director of Bureau de Recherches Géologiques et Minières (BRGM), French Geological Survey
1997-2004
Director of Energy and Mineral Resources, French Ministry of Economy and Finances
1987-1990
Held a position in European Affairs at Total, responsible for developing EU strategy.

Areas of expertise:

Energy sustainability, energy efficiency policy, energy technology policy, carbon capture storage (CCS)
Mr. Houssin graduated from the École nationale d'administration and has a Masters in International Law. He also has degrees in Philosophy from Université de Paris 1 - La Sorbonne and in Political Science from the Institut d'études politiques de Paris.

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Gwythian Prins

Current position:

Emeritus Research Professor, London School of Economics
Convenor of the Hartwell Group

Country:

United Kingdom

Career history:

2000-2013
Research Professor, London School of Economics
2002-2007
also jointly Alliance Research Professor, Columbia University, New York
1999-2003
Consultant on Security at the Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research of the British Meteorological Office

During the later 1990s
Senior Fellow in the Office of the Special Adviser on Central and Eastern European Affairs, Office of the Secretary-General of NATO.
Senior Fellow at the Royal Institute of International Affairs, Chatham House.
Visiting Senior Fellow in the (former) Defence Evaluation and Research Agency (DERA) of the UK Ministry of Defence

1979-2003
Fellow, Tutor and Director of Studies in History, Emmanuel College Cambridge and University Lecturer in Politics.

Areas of expertise:

Global security studies; geo-political research; international relations; military history and defence; climate policy; climate history and security
He is currently a member of the British Chief of the Defence Staff's Strategy Advisory Panel. He first convened the Hartwell group in 2007 in response to a request to provide advice on climate policy for G-7 heads of state. In 2013 the group published The Vital Spark: Innovating Clean and Affordable Energy for All

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Georg Erdmann

Current position:

Professor, Berlin University of Technology
Member of the independent Expert group "Energy for the Future" consulting the Federal Government on the German Energy Transformation

Country:

Germany

Career history:

2009
President of the International Association for Energy Economics (IAEE)
1995-
Professor for Energy Systems at the Institute for Energy Technology, Berlin University of Technology
1982-1995
Post doc researcher and Assistant Professor at the Center for Economic Research, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zürich

Areas of expertise:

Energy economics including energy market modeling and forecasting, energy market reform, energy trade, investment strategies, financing and risk management, and market entry of new energy technologies such as fuel cell and battery electric vehicles; Evolutionary economics applied to energy innovations and technologies

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Charles Kennel

Current position:

Distinguished Professor Emeritus, University of California, San Diego (UCSD); Scripps Institution of Oceanography

Country:

United States

Career history:

2005-2007
Founding Director of UCSD’s Environment and Sustainability Initiative
1998-2006
Director of Scripps Institution of Oceanography, and Dean and Vice Chancellor of Marine Sciences at UCSD
1996-1998
UCLA Executive Vice Chancellor
1993-1996
NASA Associate Administrator for Mission to Planet Earth
1967-1998
Professor in the UCLA Department of Physics

Areas of expertise:

Astronomy, physics, earth science

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Marzan Aziz Iskandar

Current position:

Former Chairman of the Agency for the Assessment and Application of Technology (BPPT)

Country:

Indonesia

Career history:

2008-2014
Chairman of the Agency for the Assessment and Application of Technology (BPPT)
2010-Present
Member of Indonesia National Innovation Council (KIN)
2012-Present
Chairman of Institution of Engineers Indonesia, Electrical Engineers Chapter (BKE-PII)
2005-2008
Deputy Chairman of BPPT for Information, Energy and Material Technologies
2002-2005
Principal Secretary of BPPT
1985-1994
Researcher at the Agency for the Assessment and Application of Technology (BPPT)
1994
Dr.Eng in electrical engineering from Tokai University, Japan
1984
Bachelor in electrical engineering from Bandung Institute of Technology (ITB), Indonesia

Areas of expertise:

Energy Policy, Renewable Energy, Biofuel and Smart Electricity

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Tomoji Kawai

Current position:

Executive Director, Technology Strategy Center, New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO)

Country:

Japan

Career history:

2002
Director of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Center, Osaka University
2001
Director of the Intermaterial Research Center, Osaka University
1992
Professor, Institute of Scientific and Industrial Research (ISIR) , Osaka University
1983
Associate Professor, Institute of Scientific and Industrial Research (ISIR) , Osaka University
1974
Research Associate at the Institute of Molecular Science

Areas of expertise:

DNA Nanotechnology, Scanning Probe Microscopy, Magnetic and Ferroelectric Artificial Lattices, Bio-mimetic Sensors (Super Five-senses), Memories (Brain type Memory, Fabrication of Functional Thin Films by Laser MBE

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