Since 2009, Rana Adib, works as a Policy Advisor at REN21, the Renewable Energy Policy Network for the 21st Century, based in Paris. Among others, she is coordinating the work on the REN21 Renewables Global Status Report and the Renewables Interactive Map. She has worked previously for more than 10 years for private industry and applied research in the field of renewable energy, energy access, and waste management, and coordinated the biogas research programme of Veolia Environment. She holds a German Master Degree in industrial engineering. University of Wedel in Germany.
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Sustainable Biomass for Electricity Conference Presentations
Sustainable Biomass for Electricity Conference Presentations
Presentations from day one and two of the conference and the executive training sessions from day three.
Introductory Session – Bioelectricity contribution towards achieving universal energy access by 2030
Michael Taylor
Michael Taylor is a New Zealander who also has British nationality. He is an energy analyst focusing on energy modelling and the economic analysis of energy sector issues. He has nearly 20 years experience in energy modelling, the economic analysis of energy sector issues and energy policy development.
He has worked as a senior analyst at the Ministry of Economic Development (formerly the Ministry of Commerce) in New Zealand. His primary responsibilities included developing, maintaining, running and analysing the results of the Ministry’s energy demand and supply model. He was also involved in providing projections and economic advice for use in energy policy development. He spent two years on secondment to the UK Department of Trade and Industry working in their energy modelling team before returning to the Ministry.
Michael joined the International Energy Agency (IEA) in 2001, working in the Economic Analysis Division on the World Energy Outlook (WEO), contributing to the analysis, modelling and drafting of successive WEOs. In 2004 Michael returned to New Zealand and worked as a consultant specialising in the energy sector. Michael rejoined the IEA in late 2005 as part of the Energy Technology Policy Division and was responsible for leading that divisions modelling and analysis of the buildings sector, including the development of IEA roadmaps for the buildings sector. He is one of the lead authors of the IEAs groundbreaking Energy Technology Perspectives: Scenarios and Strategies to 2050 series of publications and has contributed to numerous other publications at the IEA (and externally) that focus on the energy sector and the economic and environmental challenges it faces.
After a brief stint as a consultant, Michael has recently has recently joined the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) to analyse renewable costs and technology status. He has been involved in IRENAs analysis of power generation technologies and costs, as well as IRENAs scenarios and strategies work for Africa.
Stefan Salvador
Stefan Salvador coordinates the FSC Ecosystem Services Program. He is in charge of related research, strategic development, testing and promotion of policies and standards, including FSC's activities around forest-based carbon and climate change. He worked in several functions for and with FSC since 1998. Stefan holds an M.Sc. in Forestry Sciences.
Nebojsa Nakicenovic
Nebojsa Nakicenovic is Professor of Energy Economics atthe Vienna University of Technology, Deputy Director of theInternational Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA),and Director of the Global Energy Assessment (GEA).Among other positions, Prof. Nakicenovic is member of the United Nations Secretary General Advisory Group on Energyand Climate Change; Member of the Advisory Council of theGerman Government on Global Change (WBGU); Memberof the Advisory Board of the World Bank Development Report 2010: Climate Change; Member of the International Council for Science (ICSU) Committee on Scientific Planning and Review, and Member of the Global Carbon Project; Member of the Energy Sector Management Assistance Program (ESMAP) Expert Panel on Sustainable Energy Supply, Poverty Reduction and Climate Change; Member of the Panel on Socioeconomic Scenarios for Climate Change Impact and Response Assessments; Member of the Renewable Energy Policy Network for the 21st Century (REN21) Steering Committee; and Chair of the Advisory Board of OMV Future Energy Fund (Austrian oil company).
He is also on Member of Editorial Boards of the InternationalJournal on Technological Forecasting and Social Change,International Journal on Climate Policy, the International Journal of the Institution of Civil Engineers, and the International Journal of Energy Sector Management. Prof. Nakicenovic was a Coordinating Lead Author of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the Fourth Assessment Report, 2002 to 2007, Coordinating Lead Author of the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, 2001–2005, Director, Global Energy Perspectives, World Energy Council, 1993 to 1998, Convening Lead Author of the Second Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, 1993 to 1995, Convening Lead Author of the IPCC Special Report on Emissions Scenarios, 1997 to 2000, Lead Author of Third Assessment Report of the IPCC, 1999 to 2001, Convening Lead Author of the World Energy Assessment: Energy and the Challenge of Sustainability, 1999 to 2000, Member of the International Science Panel on Renewable Energies (ISPRE), 2006 to 2008, and Guest Professor at the Technical University of Graz, 1993–2003. Prof. Nakicenovic holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in economics and computer science from Princeton University, New Jersey, USA and the University of Vienna, where he also completed his Ph.D. He also holds Honoris Causa Ph.D. degree in engineering from the Russian Academy of Sciences. Among Prof. Nakicenovic’s research interests are the long-term patterns of technological change, economic development and response to climate change and, in particular, the evolution of energy, mobility, information and communication technologies.
Session 1 – Biomass for electricity production: key issues and challenges
Alexander Müller
Assistant Director-General, FAO. Previous appointments and achievements 2001-2005: State Secretary, Federal Ministry of Consumer Protection, Food and Agriculture, Berlin, Germany. 1995-2001: Member of Parliament, Hesse, Germany; Chairman of the Caucus of the Green Party; Member of the Committee of Environmental Affairs, of the Finance Committee and of the Committee for New Media,Wiesbaden, Germany. 1992-1995: State Secretary, Hessian Ministry of Youth, Family and Health Affairs, Wiesbaden, Germany. Mr. Müller holds Master of Social Sciences (Sociology, Political Sciences), Philipps Universitat, Marburg,Germany, 1977-1985. He serves on a number of international advisory boards, including the China Council for International Cooperation on Environment and Development (CCICED).
Peter Rechberger
He is Austrian and graduated with a master in Environmental System Science after studying in Graz, Hong Kong and Madrid. He first gained practical experience in the bioenergy sector by advising farmers in Eastern Austria.
He has been working as "Bioenergy Expert" European Biomass Association for more than 3 years and also coordinates the European Pellet Council since its creation in 2010 as General Manager.
Session 2 – Biomass for electricity: Investments and financing considerations with a focus on sustainable bioelectricity supply chains and related public infrastructure
Lukas Casey
Lukas Casey is a Principal Investment Officer and Sector Lead for Forest Products and Plantations on IFC's global Agribusiness and Forestry team at International Finance Corporation, or IFC, the private sector investment arm of the World Bank Group. IFC makes equity investments in and long term loans to privately owned businesses in emerging markets, and has a portfolio of approximately US$1.1 billion in Forest Products investments in emerging markets. Lukas has worked in IFC’s investment operations for 14 years, including 7 years posted to IFC's Moscow, Russia office and the last 7 years in Washington, DC. Lukas has led transactions totaling over US$400 million in Russia, China, Serbia, Bosnia, Lebanon, Egypt, Kazakhstan, Armenia and Belarus. In Forest Products, he manages several key client relationships, including with Stora Enso of Finland, with whom he led over $300 million in combined equity and syndicated loan transactions, most recently to support Stora Enso's operations in China, including their Eucalyptus plantation in southern China.
Jeppe Bjerg
Senior Innovation Manager and responsible for DONG Energy's corporate biomass research and development portfolio.
He has 15 years' experience within the biomass and energy sector and has lead a number of international projects. He is engaged in developing and advancing sustainable biomass sourcing e.g. in collaboration with European utilities within the Industrial Wood Pellet Buyers Initiative.
He served five years as Senior Analyst at the International Energy Agency in Paris before joining DONG Energy.
Jeppe Bjerg is currently Chairmanof EURELECTRIC BiomassTask Force andBoard Member of the Danish Industry Confederations BioenergyAssociation.
He is an experienced speaker and has presented numerous papers in Denmark and abroad within bioenergy, energy technology, RD&D policy and sustainability issues with focus on biomass energy.
Note: Mr Bjerg's presentation could not be presented during the Conference
Mads Asprem
Managing Director Green Resources he was born in 1961 in Northern Norway. He holds a BSc in Economics from Wharton School, USA, (1983) and an MBA from the University of Chicago, USA (1987).
He started his career as portfolio manager of Storebrand in 1984 and was a consultant of Monitor Company from 1987-89. He worked for BZ Bank Zurich and CSFB as equity analyst and joined Morgan Stanley in the same function in 1991, where he later was appointed Managing Director and was head of forest products and paper global research team of Morgan Stanley. From 2000 to 2005 Asprem worked for Merrill Lynch as a First Vice President, equity analyst and head of the global forest products and paper research team.
Asprem founded Green Resources AS in 1995, served as Chairman from 2004-06, took over as Managing Director in 2006 and remains the company’s largest shareholder. Green Resources is a plantation, carbon offset, forest products and renewable energy company and has been Africa’s largest forestation company during the last 10 years, establishing more than 10,000 ha new forest. It employs more than 2,000 people and has invested more than NOK 250 mill (US$50 mn) in Tanzania, Uganda and Mozambique.
Asprem met as a Substitute Member of Parliament in Norway, being the youngest person ever to speak in the Parliament, and was a competitive swimmer.
Session 3 – Ensuring Sustainability: setting up a certification and verification system for the biomass for electricity supply chain
Jinke Van Dam
Has 12 years of international practical and theoretical experience in bioenergy in Europe, Asia and Latin America. She studied physical geography and graduated in environmental sciences at Utrecht University, the Netherlands. After various assignments in the environmental sector, Jinke van Dam joined Utrecht University as a researcher in 2003. During this period, she worked and managed various EU funded projects over various years on biomass and bioenergy, as BIOMITRE (developing a GHG and cost calculation tool) and VIEWLS. The latter includes a biomass potential assessment of Central and Eastern European countries. From 2004 to 2006, Jinke worked in Vietnam for the NGO Tropenbos International. After that, she extended her international experience by working as an Interim Executive Secretary for the RTRS in Buenos Aires. In the same period, she did research in Argentina on the topic of sustainable bioenergy. Since 2008, Jinke holds a PhD on the "Sustainability of bioenergy chains: the result is in the details". From that period onwards, she has also been appointed as Senior Researcher at the Utrecht University where she coordinated various international projects as EUBIONET III and Global BIOPACT until June 2010.
Since 2010, Jinke van Dam is working as independent consultant on a wide range of projects relating to impact assessments, certification and feasibility of bioenergy chains. Recent examples include contributing to the National Bioenergy Strategy in Lebanon, implementing a desk study on the practicality of the GBEP indicators in the Netherlands or the benchmark of the level of assurance and costs of certification systems. She is an associate of SQ Consult.
Hans Nordström
Since 2010 Consultant sustainable bioenergy & research renewable fuels. From 2001-2010 was the Director renewable fuels / strategist , Vattenfall Heat Nordic (state owned) Supply renewable fuels, sustainability, fuel handling/preparation, power plant technic, energypolitics, R&D, EU issues esp. climate/renewable fuels related. From 1994-2001 Head of Production, Uppsala Energi AB.
Csaba Vaszkó
Csaba Vaszkó has a degree in Geography from University of Debrecen (Hungary), additionally postgraduate degrees in Environmental Science and Geographic Information System from Budapest University of Technology and Economics.
He had spent 5 years with Hungarian Academy of Sciences focussing on natural resource management planning and climate change vulnerability and adaptation. In the last 6 years with WWF his work concentrated increasingly on renewable energy and corporate carbon emission reduction, including bioenergy related sustainability questions. He is actively working in Central East European region to develop bioenergy based projects which aim to reduce the negative environmental and social impacts while maximizing benefits.
Peter Markussen
Peter Markussen is head of Strategy in DONG Energy Power. He is responsible for the strategic development of the thermal power plants and long term electricity price modeling and analysis. Current challenges is conversion of more thermal power plants from use of coal to biomass and on delivering more flexibility in the energy system to integrate wind power in the Danish energy system.
He has ten years' experience from the energy sector and his background is a university degree in Political Science
Session 4 – Taking it Forward: Introducing the Biomass for Electricity (B4E) Charter and the Sustainable B4E Alliance
Session 5 – Setting up sustainable biomass supply chains: Presentation of the Sub-Saharan Africa supply chain project
Horst Fehrenbach
Biologist M.Sc./ Dipl.-Biol. He joined the IFEU (Institute for Energy and Environmental Research) Heidelberg, Germany, in 1991. He is consulting the German government and Federal Environment Agency (UBA) in the area of sustainable bioenergy, including the development of criteria, GHG methodologies and default values, as well as supporting implementation of legislative requirements. He is member of a number of panels and committees, such as GBEP, diverse ISO and CEN committees.
Session 6 – International Cooperation on Bioenergy: Advancing efficient biomass technologies deployment and supply chain industries
Melinda Kimble
Melinda Kimble is currently a Senior Vice President at the United Nations Foundation where she focuses on issues related to climate change, sustainability, agriculture and bioenergy, among others. During Melinda's decades-long career with the US Foreign Service in Africa and US Department of State she worked closely with UNDP and FAO on a number of initiatives related to agriculture and energy and held a number of policy level positions, including Deputy Assistant Secretary for International Finance and Development in the Bureau of Economic and Business Affairs and Acting Assistant Secretary for Oceans, Environment and Science.
In addition to the UN Foundation, Ms. Kimble has served, or is serving, on several key international boards and commissions, including the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, the Board of International Science Organizations for the National Academy of Sciences, the Regional Environment Center, the US National Commission for UNESCO and the Roundtable on Sustainable Biofuels. Ms. Kimble also serves as an adjunct professor teaching classes on international environment issues at the Maxwell School of Syracuse University.
Ms. Kimble has lived and worked in Cote d'Ivoire, Egypt, and Tunisia. She speaks French and Arabic and holds two masters degrees: Economics (University of Denver) and MPA (Harvard's Kennedy School of Government).
Maarten Gnoth
Maarten Gnoth (43) is Manager Sustainability Projects at GDF SUEZ Energy The Netherlands. He is responsible for biomass upstream developments and corporate responsibility of coal and (sustainable) biomass. Next to sustainability of biomass, Maarten has expertise on international wood pellet supply chains for co-firing and business development of upstream sustainable biomass supply from emerging countries and emerging biomass feedstocks like bamboo, invader bush and bagasse. He is also experienced in biomass torrefaction from local production until testing at a co-firing plant and overseas shipping as well as overseas sourcing of biomass. Maarten has 15 years of experience in international business development and consultancy in renewable energy, power generation and start up of SME enterprises in emerging economies, specifically in Africa. With GDF SUEZ, Maarten has also been involved in development of wind projects and has initiated and led a Sustainable Development department. Prior to GDF SUEZ, Maarten worked in international business development and consultancy in the energy sector with Nuon/Vattenfall, KEMA and Wärtsilä. With Advance Consulting he has been involved in international JV startups. Maarten holds a M.Sc. degree in International Technological Development Sciences, Social Sciences & Industrial Management from Eindhoven University of Technology, acquainted to act as intermediary between various disciplines and stakeholders in emerging economies. On a personal note, he is a jazz musician playing the trumpet and saxophone.
Diego Masera
Diego Masera studied in Italy and collaborated for some years with the European industry. He worked in the promotion and development of Renewable Energies and Appropriate Technologies in Africa for over ten years.
He received a PhD in England, for the development of a sustainable industrial model based on the utilization of renewable energies, carbon sequestration and poverty reduction. Diego Masera worked for five years as a Regional Coordinator for the Industry, Technology and Economics Programme of UNEP in Latin America and the Caribbean. During this time he promoted cleaner production, renewable energies, energy efficiency and climate change mitigation in the region.
More recently, Diego Masera worked as Climate Change Regional Coordinator for Latin America and the Caribbean in the United Nations Development Programme, with project portfolio of Renewable Energy worth 240 million dollars. Diego Masera is currently the Unit Chief of the Renewable and Rural Energy Unit of UNIDO, based in Vienna. Diego Masera is the author of several articles and books on Climate Change, Renewable Energy and Sustainable Production and Consumption. He is also a Smart Wood and Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) certifier for sustainable forests.
Peter Traupmann
Energy expert Peter Traupmann was born in Güssing (Burgenland) in 1962. He finished his degree in agronomy at the BOKU (University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences), Vienna. Before taking up his post at the Austrian Energy Agency in November 2011, he was manager with overall operative and strategic responsibility of a medium-size energy supply company for some years.
In his function as member of the Board of the European Centre for Renewable Energy, Güssing, Peter Traupmann has been dealing with the strategic development and support of sustainable concepts and projects in the field of renewable energies since 1995 already. In the Austrian Chamber of Agriculture he acted as energy politics expert.
Training - Executive Seminar: Assessing Bioenergy Sustainability
Olivier Dubois
Olivier Dubois is Senior Rural Institutions Officer and Coordinator of the Bioenergy Group within the Environment, Climate Change and Bioenergy Division of FAO. An Agronomist, Land Use and natural Resource Management Specialist, he has a Masters in Agronomy, Certificates in Tropical Agriculture, Rural Economics and Sociology from the Faculty of Agronomy of Gembloux, Belgium, and a Masters in Environmental Management from the European Community Environment Programme.
He has worked on land use intensification, forest management and institutional aspects of rural development in more than 40 countries in Africa, Asia-South Pacific, Latin America, the Middle East and CIS countries, through both long term assignments with the Belgian Cooperation Agency, the German Consulting Company DFS (Deutsche Forest Service) the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) and FAO, and several short term missions, including for the World Bank and the European Commission.
Martina Otto
Martina Otto, Head of the Policy Unit in UNEP's Energy Branch, oversees the development and implementation of UNEP's energy policy related activities, and coordinates UNEP's activities in the area of bioenergy.
With UNEP since more than 12 years, Martina has served in different functions, including working as the Executive Assistant to the Executive Director in UNEP's Headquarters in Nairobi and coordinating UNEP's work in the area of transport.
Before joining UNEP, Martina worked on 'Trade and Environment' and 'Economic Instruments in the Area of Environmental Protection' with the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, the European Commission and the Foundation for International Environmental Law and Development. She also worked with a US Law firm on environmental due diligence in the context of mergers and acquisitions.
Marco Colangeli
Marco Colangeli is Programme Adviser for the Global Bioenergy Partnership since April 2012. Previously, he served as Bioenergy Consultant for the FAO BEFSCI project, contributing to the publication of the Working Paper 49, Good Environmental Practices in Bioenergy Feedstock Production. His primary focus is on the technical aspects of feedstock production, environmental protection and biodiversity conservation, biofuels implementation in transport, and natural resource management. Prior to joining FAO, Marco worked for the International Relations Office of the Universitá degli Studi della Tuscia as Environmental Studies Coordinator. Moreover, from January 2010, he is professor of Landscape Ecology, Mediterranean Ecology, Sustainable Landscape Design, and Rural Development for the University Studies Abroad Consortium based at the Universitá degli Studi della Tuscia in Viterbo, Italy. Marco holds a BA in Forestry and Environmental Science, a MSc in Environmental Science for Large Urban Areas from Universitá degli Studi della Tuscia, and a MSc in Environmental Science and Policy from PACE University of New York. Marco speaks Italian, English, and some Spanish.
