Expert Committee
The Expert Committee Board of the World Resources Forum works on conceptual issues for the WRF 2011.
Martin Charter is the Director of The Centre for Sustainable Design (www.cfsd.org.uk) at University for the Creative Arts (UCA) and a former Visiting Professor of Sustainable Product Design at UCA before joining full-time. Since 1988, he has worked at director level in 'business and environment' issues in consultancy, leisure, publishing, training, events and research. Prior to this he held in a range of management positions in strategy, research and marketing in gardening, construction, trade exhibitions, financial services and consultancy including Save & Prosper Group, Reed International, Creative Marketing Group and Kiveton Park (Holdings) Ltd. Martin was the launch Director of Greenleaf Publishing, Marketing Director at the Earth Centre, former co-ordinator of one the UK's first green business clubs, more recently he ran a regional network on green electronics (www.cfsd.org.uk/seeba) and currently he directs a network focused on eco-innovation (www.cfsd.org.uk/eco-i-net). |
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Hans Hänni was born in 1946. He graduated in elementary particle physics in 1979 from University of Bern. After several years of research performed at CERN he has been working as scientific collaborator with a telecom company, then with the University of Fribourg and with the Swiss Academy of Sciences, before establishing at ETH Zurich the Network for Educational Technology. 2001 till 2007 he was Secretary General of the Swiss Academy of Engineering Sciences SATW. Since 2007, Hans has been Senior Consultant of SATW. |
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The biologist Gabi Hildesheimer, with a long experience in environmental consultancy, is Managing Director of the Swiss Network for Sustainable Business Öbu (www.oebu.ch). She is campaigning for a structural change of the national economy towards sustainability by motivating the 400 member companies to improve their ecological and social footprint. Furthermore Öbu lobbies for enhancing market based instruments in environmental policy. Ms. Hildesheimer is a member of the Swiss Advisory Body on Climate Change (OcCC) and other scientific and economic organisations. |
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Friedrich Hinterberger, born in 1959, is the founding President of SERI. Studies of national economics at the Johannes-Keppler University Linz. 1985-1991 scientific member at the Justus-Liebig University Gießen. Since 1985 he has been teaching at universities both in Austria and abroad. 1993-2000 leader of the working group Ecological Economics and Ecological Economical Policy at the Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy. Since 1999 founding president of the Sustainable Europe Research Institute. Board member of the Austrian Chapter of the Club of Rome. Work focus: Ecological Economics, Scenarios for sustainable economies and societies, Quality of Life Research. |
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Michal is a senior consultant at Technopolis Group, Belgium (www.technopolis-group.com). He has ten years of experience in policy research in the field of science, technology and innovation, and regional development. His main interest is on public policies and business strategies supporting eco-innovation and the systemic transition towards a green economy and sustainable society. Michal currently coordinates the Eco-Innovation Observatory (www.eco-innovation.eu), a three-year EU-funded initiative providing information and analysis on eco-innovation trends to policy makers and business actors in Europe. |
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Dr. Michel Monteil holds a PhD of the Inorganic Institute for Chemistry at the university of Bern/Switzerland. From 1988 to 2002 he was Scientific Manager in the waste management division of the Swiss Federal Office of Environment, Forests and Landscape (FOEFL). And from 2002 - 2010 EHS Coordinator at Holcim (Schweiz) AG. As of 2010 he is Head of the Section for Waste Recovery and Treatment at the Federal Office for the Environment (FOEN). |
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Arthur Ruf is Founder of the engineering & consulting company “4p & partners”. He is board member of SATW (Swiss Academy for Engineering Sciences) where he is responsible for foreign relations. |
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Mathias Schluep is senior scientist at the Technology and Society Lab at Empa in Switzerland, a research institution belonging to the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) domain. He is leading Empa's e-waste related research and is responsible for several cooperation projects with developing countries in e-waste management in Africa and Asia. His special focus is in Africa, where he was implementing various e-waste projects for the Swiss States Secretariat of Economic Affairs (SECO), Hewlett Packard, Microsoft, UNIDO, UNEP, the Secretariat of the Basel Convention and the European Union. Before that he worked in the private sector in the field of environmental and general business consultancy at national and international levels for several years. He received his MSc in Environmental Engineering and his PhD in natural sciences from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETH). |
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Walther Stahel is Alumni of ETH Zurich, where he received his diploma in architecture in 1971. He is founder-director of the Product-Life Institute, Geneva, since 1983; Vice-Secretary General and director of risk management research, since 1986, of The Geneva Association, the leading international insurance ‘think tank’ researching strategic insurance and risk management issues www.genevaassociation.org. In addition he is visiting professor at the Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences, University of Surrey, since 2003 and guest lecturer at Tohoku University, Japan, since 2005. |
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Stephanie Weis-Gerhard (born in 1950) holds an MA in Comparative Literature. After her son was born she became an environmental activist, a self-made woman with a patchwork life. Years of Green politics focusing on environment. Years of program managing a private German foundation focusing on dematerialization. Years of membership in international networks focusing on sustain/ability and systems thinking. Years of freelancing focusing on linking like minded people focusing on structural change to maintain the life sustaining ecosystems’ services. |
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She has joined EACI, the European Commission Agency managing Competitiveness and Innovation as head of unit for Eco-innovation three years ago. She has set up a team working with a Community instrument on Eco-innovation defined as all forms of innovation reducing environmental impacts and optimising the use of resources. She joined the European Commission in 1994 working in energy policy making. Conceiving, and implementing Community legislation at Directorate General for Energy and Transport in the European Commission, with the EU’s priorities in the area of renewable energies and energy efficiency. Main actor of the European Directive on electricity from renewable energy sources and the European Directive on Biofuels for transport and Communication "Renewable Energy Road map, Renewable energies in the 21 century, building a more sustainable future" where the 20% European objective was proposed. Physicist as a background, she started her carrier at the Ciemat Centre in Madrid and joined the private sector at the electricity utility Union Fenosa in a first large solar photovoltaic energy together with ENDESA and RWE. |
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