SPEAKERS

Gurdeep Singh Chhatwal works as an external consultant to Tempelmann, a major German coffee roasting company, in the field of marketing and customer relationship management. His work as managing partner of T & C Handels- und Beratungs GmbH includes bridging the condition spread between brand-name articles within the EU, and merging private label producers.

Dr Paolo Frankl is scientific head of Ecobilancio Italia, a private research and consulting company based in Rome, and is assistant professor of materials technology in the Industrial Design programme at the University of Rome I "La Sapienza". In his current research, "Renewable Energy Market Accelerator (REMAC 2000)", he analyses the impact of electricity industry developments on the acceleration of the renewable energy market.

Dr John Green is a director of Green Electricity Marketplace and manager of the Climate Change Strategy Unit at IT Power, a renewable energy consultancy based in the UK. He is managing projects covering green electricity marketing, electricity disclosure, tradable green certificates and the clean development mechanism.

Prof. Dr Reinhard Haas is an associate professor at the Institute of Power Systems and Energy Economics at the Vienna University of Technology, and coordinator of the EUs ELGREEN and Green Electricity Cluster projects. For more than ten years he has worked in the fields of renewable energy sources, liberalisation versus regulation of the energy markets, energy models and forecasts.

Heddeke Heijnes is manager of the Greenprices website, which serves as an information platform and intermediary on the European green energy market. Greenprices.com was launched on the initiative of Ecofys BV, a European consultant in the field of renewable energy and energy saving. In the 1990s she worked for five years as a consultant at the Institute for Applied Environmental Economics in The Hague.

Ludwig Kons is an environmental trader at RWE Trading GmbH in Essen, Germany. Before moving to that organisation in August 2001 he worked for RWE Energie AG and RWE Power AG as project manager responsible for hydroelectric, wind and biomass energy projects. In addition to this he was involved in the development of RWEs first green power products, and was responsible for the certification of regenerative power generation plants.

Mag. Dr Marianne Moscoso-Osterkorn has been with Verbund, Austrias largest power producer and distributor, since 1981. In 1996, after more than 15 years as head of Organisational Development, she took over as head of International Relations. Besides international lobbying, she is involved in developing new products and markets for APT, Verbunds trading company. Marianne Moscoso-Osterkorn is also the Austrian representative in the RECS Group.

Andreas Schläpfer is head of Internal Environmental Management at Swiss Re in Zurich. Here he was responsible for leading the logistics and Swiss Re Guest Service units to ISO 14001 certification. Since 1999 he has been responsible for the coordination and control of the worldwide introduction of a corporate environmental management system in twenty Swiss Re Group business locations.

Rick Sellers is head of the Renewable Energy Unit of the International Energy Agency (IEA) in Paris. The unit is responsible for developing a strategy for accelerating renewable energy markets worldwide, as well as overseeing the coordination of member country R&D. Before joining IEA he was deputy manager of the US Solar Energy Industries Association, where he was involved in creating market development strategies for the solar industry.

John Traynor is head of Energy Policy & Generation at Eurelectric, Brussels. During the 1990s he worked as a national expert for the Directorates-General Energy and Transport of the European Commission in the Forecasts and Analysis unit, where he was responsible for electricity issues. He was also involved in launching and running the early rounds of Irelands Alternative Energy Requirement (AER) competitions to contract renewable energy and CHP.

Heiko von Tschischwitz is CEO of LichtBlick die Zukunft der Energie GmbH. LichtBlick, one of the best-known newcomers to the German electricity business, markets green power to households and businesses. Until 1998, Heiko von Tschischwitz worked in various positions at VASA Energy, ultimately as head of business development.

Arnold Vonbank is departmental head of the newly created renewable energy unit at ewz (Zurich Municipal Electric Utility), where he previously worked for four years as a key account manager. He has broad experience in the international sale of capital goods in the automation technology and high-voltage engineering businesses.

Dr Rolf Wüstenhagen is a lecturer at the Institute for Economy and the Environment, University of St. Gallen (IWOe-HSG), and Energy Analyst at SAM Sustainability Group, Zurich, a leading European provider of sustainability investments. His international research and consulting experience makes him one of the leading authorities on the green power markets in Europe and North America.

Karl Heiz has been Director of Rätia Energie AG, Poschiavo (formerly Kraftwerke Brusio AG), since 1987. In 1999 his company launched Pure Power St. Moritz, the first power brand in Switzerland. Before joining Rätia Energie, Karl Heiz worked for Nestlé in Switzerland and abroad, ultimately as Head of Marketing in Korea.