Biographies for Speakers and Moderators
Syaiful Anwar obtained his PhD at the University of Edinburgh, UK, in 2001. He currently serves as Deputy Director for Watershed Management under the Indonesian Ministry of Forestry. He is also Secretary for the Indonesian Soil and Water Conservation Society, Programme officer for Asia Soil Conservation Network for the Humid Tropics, and Programme Officer of the Indonesian National Focal Point to the United Nations Convetion to Combat Desertification (UNCCD).
Svante Bodin holds a Ph.D. in Meteorology and is associate professor at Stockholm University. In 1979-1989 he worked at the Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute (SMHI), first as head of the research department and then as head of the meteorological division. In 1989 Bodin joined the Swedish Ministry of the Environment as head of the division for Climate Change, Marine environment and Air Pollution. In his capacity as government investigator he authored a number of studies and reports on environmental monitoring, joint implementation under the Kyoto protocol, oil reception facilities in the Baltic Sea and non-nuclear radioactive waste. Bodin has also been chief negotiator for Baltic Sea region cooperation in the field of environment. Bodin organized the IPCC meeting in Sweden in 1990 at which the panel´s first assessment report was adopted.
Bert Bolin, professor emeritus in meteorology at Stockholm University. Bolin contributed to the early development of numerical weather forecasting in the 1950’s and the emergence of atmospheric chemistry particularly through studies of the circulation of sulphur and carbon in the atmosphere, the oceans and terrestrial ecosystems in the 1960’s. The launching of weather satellites gave new possibilities for the development of global models for weather forecasting and gradually for studies of global climate and its possible change, in which Bolin took active part. Hs chaired the ICSU committee that in 1986 proposed the formation of the IGBP. He also served as chairman of the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, IPCC, during the years 1988-1997, during which time the first two IPCC assessments were completed in 1990 and 1996 respectively.
Claus Brüning
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Upon completion of his Ph.D. in meteorology at the University of Washington and a Fulbright Scholarship at London University, in 1965 he joined the engineering and then the Atmospheric Sciences and Chemistry faculties of the University of Washington. His research interests focus on connecting chemical and physical properties and processes of atmospheric aerosols, focusing especially on the role of sulfur aerosols in climate forcing. He holds an honorary doctorate degree from Stockholm University and was the King Carl XVI Gustav Professor of Environmental Science, 1999-2000 at Stockholm University.
John Cullen received his Ph.D. in Biological Oceanography from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in 1980 and is now the Killam Chair in Ocean Studies at Dalhousie University. His research interests include the physiology and ecology of marine phytoplankton, biological interpretations of optical measurements in surface waters, and real-time ocean observation and prediction systems. With Sallie W. Chisholm of MIT, he co-chaired the original “Iron Symposium” of the American Society of Limnology and Oceanography in 1991. He was selected as a Fellow of the Oceanography Society for “fundamental contributions to our understanding of the influence of environmental conditions on phytoplankton function in the ocean.”
Born in Amsterdam in 1933, Paul J. Crutzen was trained as a civil engineer. In 1959 he joined Stockholm University to study mathematics, mathematical statistics, and meteorology. His research is especially concerned with the natural and anthropogenically disturbed photochemistry of ozone. He was Director of Research at the National Center of Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado, 1977-1980, and thereafter until his retirement in 2000, at the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry in Mainz. He also conducts research at Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Crutzen received the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1995.
Victoria Fabry is a Professor of Biological Sciences at California State University San Marcos. She is a biological oceanographer whose research interests encompass the role of marine organisms in geochemical cycles, particularly the interactions of organisms that calcify with changing seawater chemistry that results from ocean acidification. Fabry earned a doctorate degree in biology at the University of California Santa Barbara and conducted post-doctoral work in marine chemistry at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. She is a member of numerous national and international committees concerned with ocean acidification research.
Sara E. Farley
Sara Farley is a Science and Technology Strategist with a graduate degree from Stanford University and post-graduate studies in the management and policy of science and technology (Buenos Aires University). Commissioned by an array of development institutions—World Bank, United Nations, Rockefeller Foundation, etc.—to help institutions optimize their work in harnessing science, technology, and innovation for development, her policy and strategy work has been published and disseminated globally. She co-authored the science and technology for development strategies of both the World Bank (2002) and later, the African Development Bank (2007). Among her recent publications, UNCTAD just published her assessment of donor support to science, technology, and innovation in the Least Developed Countries.
Göran Holmqvist is since April 2007 acting Director General at Sida, the Swedish International Development Co-operation Agency. He has prevously held positions within Sida as Director of the Regional Departments for Africa and Latin America. Most of his field experience are from Latin America, where he has worked for Sida at the Swedish embassies in Guatemala and Nicaragua. He is trained as development economist (fil.lic).
Paola Kistler is currently Director Environment, EHS FIRST for Alcan Inc. She has worked since September 2003 at Alcan Corporate in Montreal and is responsible for the management of environmental issues throughout the worldwide Alcan organization. Before being relocated to Canada, Paola was managing different environmental projects for Alcan business groups in Europe. Paola has a Master’s degree in Chemical Engineering and in Industrial Management, and a PhD from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich.
Johan Kuylenstierna works as a Project Director at the Stockholm International Water Institute and Adjunct Professor at the Stockholm University. He has a PhLic in Physical Geography and a MSc in Earth Sciences. Johan has previously been a freelance consultant and a senior environmental management consultant. He has experience from the UN system as a scientific officer at the World Meteorological Organization and Associate Expert at UN-DESA, UN Headquarters in New York. He has extensive experience of university teaching and from extensive field studies in polar regions.
Margaret S. Leinen obtained her Ph.D. (1980) in Geological Oceanography from the University of Rhode Island. She recently joined Climos as Chief Science Officer after having served as Assistant Director for Geosciences at the National Science Foundation since 2000. Previous to her position at NSF, she was Dean at the Graduate School of Oceanography and Vice Provost for Marine and Environmental Programs at the University of Rhode Island. Leinen is a well-known researcher in paleo-oceanography and paleoclimatology and her work focuses on global biogeochemical cycles and how biological processes in the upper ocean combine with the cycles to control carbon flux and sedimentation. She is past president of The Oceanography Society and also served as the Vice Chair of the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme. She is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the Geological Society of America.
Peter Liss
Peter Liss is in the School of Environmental Sciences at the University of East Anglia researching and teaching many aspects of environmental chemistry. In particular his research is focussed on the biogeochemical interactions between the ocean and the atmosphere, specialising in the processes of air-sea gas exchange, the mechanisms of trace gas formation in the oceans, and their reactivity and role in the atmosphere. He was Chair of the Scientific Committee of the IGBP, and is currently Chair of the Scientific Steering Committee for the SOLAS Project.
Pauline Midgley obtained her PhD in chemistry in 1975 and is currently affiliated with Stuttgart University. She runs the German IPCC Coordination Office for the Federal Ministries of Research (BMBF) and of the Environment (BMU) and since 2003 has provided support to BMBF’s Global Change division. She began her career in the chemical industry, working in the UK and the USA in an international team that planned and managed a multi-million dollar research effort on the effect of CFCs and other halocarbons on the environment. She has also worked as a consultant to the world halocarbon producers, developing global emission inventories and has published numerous papers on this topic. From 1999 to 2003 Pauline was the Executive Secretary of EUROTRAC-2. In 2004 EUROTRAC-2 received the EUREKA Lillehammer Award for its outstanding environmental achievements.
Arne Mogren is Vice President of Climate Policy at Vattenfall AB. Studying at Gothenburg University, he received a M. Sc. Degree in mechanical Engineering in 1978 and a B.A. in Philosophy, Mathematics and Economics in 1976. During the 80s, he was a researcher at the Swedish Defence Research Institute in the energy futures studies field. In 1989, he started as policy analyst in the strategic planning department at Vattenfall. Arne established Vattenfall’s Brussels office in 1992 and headed the Brussels activities until 1995. Up until his present position, Arne was responsible for Vattenfall’s Public Affairs from 2001 to 2006. In his present role Arne is responsible for Vattenfall’s extensive engagement in the climate policy field including the publication of the report “Curbing Climate Change” in January 2006 and Vattenfall’s Global Climate Impact Abatement Map in January 2007.
Berrien Moore joined the University of New Hampshire (UNH) in 1969, soon after receiving his Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of Virginia. He has led the Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans and Space at UNH as Director since 1987 and has been a visiting scientist at the International Institute of Meteorology at Stockholm University, the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, the East-West Center in Hawaii, and, a visiting senior scientist at the Laboratorie de Physique et Chemie Marines at the Universite de Paris. Moore has chaired a number of committees, including the Scientific Committee of IGBP (1998-2002), the Global Analysis, Interpretation and Modelling (GAIM) Task Force, and NASA’s senior science advisory panel. He is co-chairing a National Research Council decadal survey, "Earth Observations from Space: A Community Assessment and Strategy for the Future”.
Carlos A. Nobre, senior scientist at the Brazilian Institute for Space Research (INPE), is chair of the Scientific Committee of the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP). He obtained a degree in Electronics Engineering at the Brazilian Technological Institute of Aeronautics and a doctoral degree in Meteorology at the Massachusetts Institute of Techology (MIT). He was director of INPE's Center for Weather and Climate Forecasting (CPTEC) during 1991-2003 and the Program Scientist for the Large Scale Biosphere-Atmosphere Experiment in Amazonia (1996-2002). His research insterests range from tropical meteorology and Amazonia to climate modeling, biosphere-atmosphere interactions and climate change.
Kevin Noone has degrees in Chemical and Civil & Environmental Engineering. He has been a faculty member in departments of Meteorology at Stockholm University in Sweden, and Oceanography at the University of Rhode Island in the US. His research interests include multiphase atmospheric chemistry, atmospheric physics and earth system science. He is currently Executive Director of the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP), and Professor of Meteorology at the Department of Applied Environmental Science at Stockholm University.
Johan Rockström, Ph.D., Associate Professor in Natural Resources Management, is Executive Director of the Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI) and Executive Director of the Stockholm Resilience Centre. His key qualifications are integrated research on natural resource management, systems analysis on water-land-climate inter-relations, systems research on resilience and ecosystem services, sustainable livelihoods research in vulnerable developing countries, environmental management and environmental policy making. His research includes water resource management, global water resource analysis, hydrological modelling, farmer-driven research methodologies, and watershed, soil and water management.
Ildo Sauer
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Tore Torp received his PhD in material sciences (1972) from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. He joined Statoil in 1984, coming from the steel industry. In 1984-96 he lead several international R&D cooperation projects developing offshore field technologies. Since 1997 he has been project manager for the Statoil CO2 storage R&D projects; first organising the SACS R&D project, and later collaborating with a series of European and overseas CO2 storage R&D projects. He has been vice chairman for the CSLF Technical Group, and was also a lead author for the IPCC Special report on CO2 Capture and Storage. Recently he has been supporting the European Technical Platform ZEP (Zero Emission Fossil Fuel Power Plants). His present position is as Advisor on CO2 Storage, heading the storage part of Statoil’s R&D programme on CO2 Capture and Storage.
Carol Turley’s interests have centred around the role of microbes in the ocean’s biogeochemical cycles looking at habitats from deep-sea sediments, estuaries, frontal systems to large enclosed waters such as the Mediterranean to the open waters of the North Atlantic. She is currently interested on the impacts of climate change and mitigation technology on marine ecosystems. She was an author of the Royal Society and OSPAR Reports on ocean acidification. She has given advice to policy makers and other stakeholders and was Lead Author on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change 4th Assessment Report, WGII, for Chapter 4 – Ecosystems, Their Properties, Goods and Services.
Mathis Wackernagel, Ph.D., is a founder and Executive Director of Global Footprint Network, a charitable research organization with headquarters in California. This organization supports the creation of a sustainable economy by advancing the policy-utility of the Ecological Footprint. The goal is to make ecological limits central to decision-making everywhere. Together with Professor William Rees, Mathis created the “Ecological Footprint” concept, now a widely used sustainability measure. Mathis is an adjunct faculty at SAGE of the University of Wisconsin-Madison and his awards include an honorary doctorate from the University of Berne, a 2007 Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship, a 2006 WWF Award for Conservation Merit, and the 2005 Herman Daly Award of US Society for Ecological Economics.
Anders Wijkman is a member of the European Parliament since 1999, working mainly with development and climate issues. He also chairs GLOBE EU. He was a member of the Swedish Parliament (1971-1978); Secretary-General of the Swedish Red Cross (1979-1988) and the Swedish Society for Nature Conservation (1989-1991); Director-General of the Swedish Agency for Research Cooperation with Developing Countries (1992-1994); Vice-Chairman of the Committee on Development and Cooperation (2002-2004); and Assistant Secretary-General of United Nations and Policy Director of UNDP (1995-1997).
Michael M. Wood was sworn in as U.S. Ambassador to Sweden on June 5, 2006. Ambassador Wood is former CEO and co-founder of Hanley Wood, LLC, the leading media company in the housing and construction industry and one of the ten largest business-to-business media companies in the U.S. President George W. Bush appointed Ambassador Wood to the U.S. delegation attending the inauguration of President Lucio Gutierrez Borbua of Ecuador on January 15, 2003 in Quito, Ecuador. In 1984 he organized a housing industry round table with President Ronald Reagan called "Building the American Dream." He is a former member of the Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies and has served on the NAHB Long-Range Planning Committee.