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Speakers 
 Imtiaz Ahmad,
Vice President,
Morgan Stanley
Imtiaz Ahmad joined Morgan Stanley in August 2005 where he is a Vice President responsible for trading and origination of carbon at the bank.
Previous to joining Morgan Stanley Imtiaz Ahmad worked for BHP Billiton where he took the company into the emissions market. Prior to that Imtiaz Ahmad worked for AEP and Enron in structured commodities and origination roles, and National Grid Group in Corporate Treasury working on Interest Rate Swaps, project finance and acquisitions. Imtiaz Ahmad holds the following degrees MBA (Finance), LLM (Corporate Law), LLB (Hons).
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Mr. Matthew Arnold,
Co-Founder & Director,
Sustainable Finance LTD
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Mr. Christopher Bell,
Partner,
Sidley Austin LLP
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 Alan Bernstein,
CEO,
Sustainable Forestry Management
Alan Bernstein is a Founder of Sustainable Forestry Management a private group of companies dedicated to realising value from the ethical and sustainable use of tropical and sub-tropical forests including the environmental services which they provide. SFM originates and manages its investments in partnership with the private, public and non-governmental sectors to provide sustainable livelihoods in restored and preserved forest ecosystems.
Mr Bernstein is a businessman specialising in emerging markets. He formed Ceres Capital Ltd, an emerging market investment and finance company which, under his leadership until 1992, developed banking relationships with numerous central, commercial and investment banks, played a prominent role in the development of secondary markets for developing world sovereign debt and designed some of Southern Africa’s first debt-equity swaps.
In 1990 Mr Bernstein founded Conservation Corporation Africa, and as its Deputy Chairman and joint CEO, established the company as a leading eco-tourism organisation in sub-Saharan Africa. In 1992, it successfully completed one of South Africa's first international private placements in the post apartheid era. The company pioneered private sector/state partnerships in eco-tourism and conservation development and grew to over 3,000 employees, operating 25 ecotourism and related investment and development subsidiaries in 8 African countries, financed with both regional and international capital.
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 Eric Bettelheim,
Executive Chairman & General Counsel,
Sustainable Forestry Management
Eric Bettelheim is a Founder of Sustainable Forestry Management a private group of companies dedicated to realising value from the ethical and sustainable use of tropical and sub-tropical forests including the environmental services which they provide. SFM originates and manages its investments in partnership with the private, public and non-governmental sectors to provide sustainable livelihoods in restored and preserved forest ecosystems.
Among Mr Bettelheim’s many publications on financial and environmental markets is a seminal work on carbon sequestration published by The Royal Society.
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Ms. Lauren Bigelow,
Vice President,
Cleantech Group
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Mr. Lauren Bigelow,
Managing Director,
Cleantech Group
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 Mr. Eric Boonman,
Head- Environmental Markets Origination,
Fortis Merchant Banking
Eric Boonman has a bachelor and master in economics and has worked over the past seven years in green energy trading and environmental markets. He started in risk management at the Dutch utility Nuon with a focus to design and implement a Corporate Risk Policy for environmental and green energy products and then became a green and environmental trader at Nuon. Nuon was involved in the first carbon deal in 2003. Nuon soon established itself as the market leader in green energy markets in West-Europe.
After a few years, he moved to Fortis where he was responsible to develop the global energy and carbon market access and clearing services. After having successfully completed, Eric moved to Global Markets as the Head of Trading Emissions where Fortis had a daily market share between 10-20% and became market maker on the most liquid ECX exchange. The team aims to reduce greenhouse emissions efficiently through portfolios of reduction projects and to use those reductions to optimise and ensure compliance for a pan-European corporate client portfolio. The activities of this desk range from valuing environmental benefits in long term discounted cash flow models for project finance to short term pure trading and long term hedging
Now Eric holds the position of Head of Environmental Markets Origination and has been involved in the majority of the primary and secondary cer and eru deals as well as the design and implementation of the Fortis wide Carbon Banking Services. He has set up a local origination team in Hong Kong and New York.
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Mr. Claude Brown,
Partner & Co-Chair Environment and Climatic Trading Group,
Clifford Chance LLP
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 Mike Burnett,
Executive Director,
The Climate Trust
Mike Burnett is Executive Director of The Climate Trust, one of the leading US buyers of greenhouse gas offsets.
Mike has guided The Climate Trust through the assembly of an 18 project greenhouse gas offset portfolio totaling $9 million offsetting over 2.7 million metric tons of greenhouse gas reductions, and to an international reputation for high quality, innovation, and cost-effectiveness.
Highlights of prior jobs include consulting on corporate climate change strategies and offset project assessments, and conducting the largest energy conservation bond sale to date and using the money to deliver three times as much energy savings as planned.
Mike earned a Masters in Environmental Engineering from the University of Florida while on a National Science Foundation Fellowship.
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Mr. Christopher Carr,
Counsel,
Vinson & Elkins
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 Joelle Chassard,
Manager, Carbon Finance Unit,
World Bank
Joëlle Chassard was appointed Manager of the World Bank's Carbon Finance Unit in May 2006. Joëlle joined the Bank in 1981 in the Power & Energy Development Division of the Europe, Middle East and North Africa. She worked in several other Regions as a financial analyst in the energy and infrastructure sectors (urban and transport). She was the deputy country director for India from 1997 to 2003 and most recently, Manager, Strategy, in the Corporate Strategy Group.
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Mr. Peter Cook,
Investment Officer, Carbon Finance,
International Finance Corporation
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Mr. John Curtis,
US Practice Leader,
Environmental Resource Management
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 Mr. Yvo de Boer,
Executive Secretary,
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
Yvo de Boer was appointed by UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan as the new Executive Secretary of the UNFCCC on 10 August 2006. The appointment had been endorsed by the Bureau of the Convention. Mr. de Boer took up his duties on 4 September 2006.
Before joining the UNFCCC, Mr. de Boer was Director for International Affairs of the Ministry of Housing, Spatial Planning and Environment of the Netherlands, responsible for international policy, both in the context of the European Union, as well as broader international cooperation.
He has also served as Deputy Director-General for Environmental Protection in the same Ministry, as Head of the Climate Change Department and has worked in the fields of housing and public information. Early in his career, Mr. de Boer worked for the United Nations Centre for Human Settlements (UN-HABITAT).
Mr. de Boer has been involved in climate change policies since 1994. He has helped to prepare the position of the European Union in the lead-up to the negotiations on the Kyoto Protocol, assisted in the design of the internal burden sharing of the European Union and has since led delegations to the UNFCCC negotiations.
He has actively sought broad stakeholder involvement on the issue of climate change. To that end, he launched an international dialogue on the clean development mechanism and has partnered international discussions with the World Business Council on Sustainable Development, aimed at increasing private sector involvement.
Mr. de Boer has served as Vice-President of the Conference of Parties to UNFCCC and as Vice-Chair of the Commission on Sustainable Development. At the time of appointment, he was a member of the China Council for International Cooperation on Environment and Development, the Bureau of the Environment Policy Committee of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, the Advisory Group of the Community Development Carbon Fund of the World Bank and the Board of Directors of the Centre for Clean Air Policy.
Born in Vienna, Yvo de Boer is married and has 3 children. As the son of a Dutch diplomat, he has travelled the world extensively before entering boarding school in the United Kingdom and obtaining a technical degree in social work in the Netherlands.
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 Mr. Robert de Boer,
Director- Sales,
Noble Carbon Credits
Robert de Boer is Director Sales at Noble Carbon Credits Limited, full member of Hong Kong based Noble Group Ltd; a global supply chain manager of industrial, agricultural and energy products. Robert has been working in the Energy sector since the year 1998. Before he accepted in July 2005 his current position at Noble, he worked several years as an Environmental Products Trader, Emissions Trader and Emissions Trading Manager at a large Dutch Utility. He has more than 15 years experience in managing and coordinating international commercial assignments, where he, today at Noble Carbon Credits Limited, leads trading of EUA’s, CER’s and other carbon market related products. Robert studied Law at the University of Amsterdam.
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 Mr. Neal Dikeman,
Partner,
Jane Capital Partners
Neal Dikeman is a Founding Partner of Jane Capital Partners. Formerly, Mr. Dikeman was a Director of Business Development at Globalgate, an e-commerce holding company, and an Associate at Doyle & Boissiere LLC, a private equity firm backed by CalPers. Mr. Dikeman has extensive experience with distressed and special situation transactions and financings. He has been involved in the acquisition and oversight of several businesses in the technology, aerospace, semiconductor, and manufacturing sectors. Mr. Dikeman began his career with the energy group of Bankers Trust, working on M&A, financing, and distressed situations in the oil & gas and energy service sectors. He holds a B.A from Texas A&M.
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 Andrew Ertel,
CEO,
Evolution Markets
Andrew O. Ertel is President and Chief Executive of Evolution Markets LLC, a leading brokerage and advisory-services firm focused on the markets of environmental credits, coal, weather, natural gas, and power. Under Mr. Ertel’s leadership, Evolution Markets has developed one of the leading brokerage operations in global greenhouse gas markets. The firm has achieved some of the most important milestones in greenhouse gas emissions trading, including facilitating the first ever transaction under the Kyoto Protocol’s International Emissions Trading program and many of the first trades under the EU’s GHG emissions trading scheme.
Under Mr. Ertel, Evolution Markets has brokered more than US$7 billion in emissions credits, became the largest over-the-counter (OTC) coal broker in the world, and a leader in weather derivative, renewable energy credit, natural gas, and power markets.
Evolution Markets’ Environmental Markets desk has received consistent industry accolades as the best broker in U.S. SO2, NO¬X, and renewable energy credit markets, designations Mr. Ertel attributes in part to Evolution Markets’ assembly of the brightest minds in the energy industry. Evolution Markets’ principals are responsible for industry “firsts” such as the first SO2/coal option transaction, the first New York State Emissions Reduction Credits transaction, the first weather derivative transaction in market history, the first Ozone Transport Region NOx transaction, the first NOx SIP transaction, and many of the renewable energy credit market’s first trades.
Prior to founding Evolution Markets, Mr. Ertel was a principal at Natsource LLC, developing new energy and environmental markets. During this time, he helped to broker many of the transactions that formed the emissions trading market as it is today. Mr. Ertel is a former member of the New York Mercantile Exchange (NYMEX), where he traded crude oil futures, and has also worked as a natural gas and crude oil broker at Gerald Energy, from 1992 to 1995.
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 Doug Esamann,
Senior Vice President, Strategy & Planning,
Duke Energy
Doug Esamann is senior vice president of strategy and planning for Duke Energy. In that role, he leads the company’s strategy development and business planning efforts including integrated resource planning and
environmental compliance planning. His team is also responsible for transaction support, market fundamentals and customer market analytics
which includes load forecasting and load research. He was named to his current position in December 2006. Upon the consummation of the merger of Cinergy and Duke Energy in April of 2006, he held the position of group vice president, strategy and planning for the U.S. Franchised Electric and Gas business.
Prior to the merger, Esamann served as senior vice president of energy portfolio strategy and management for Cinergy’s commercial business unit. He was responsible for fuel management, environmental risk
management, generation dispatch, power purchases and sales, portfolio analytics, load forecasting, generation asset planning, demand-side management planning and environmental compliance planning.
Esamann began his employment with Public Service Indiana Inc. (the predecessor of PSI Energy) in 1979. He
served in a variety of management roles throughout his Cinergy career including tax manager for PSI in 1994,
finance manager of the commercial business unit in 1996, and most notably as vice president and chief
financial officer of the commercial business unit in 1999, and then president of PSI Energy, Indiana’s largest
electric supplier, in 2001.
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Mr. Peter Etienne,
Senior Counsel,
Baxter
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 Mr. Kevin Ewing,
Partner,
Bracewell Giuliani LLP
Kevin A. Ewing assists acquirers and equity/debt investors to neutralize environmental risks in corporate transactions, and he guides developers of major projects through the environmental assessment and permitting process. He also counsels international companies seeking to cure systemic environmental problems through improved compliance infrastructure, disclosure, corporate governance and auditing/performance measurement.
Mr. Ewing advises companies in the manufacturing, energy, and services industries in the United States and abroad, with specific emphasis on liquefied natural gas (LNG), chemicals, heavy manufacturing and natural resources. He typically advises business leaders and senior legal management on matters driven by corporate strategy or involving commercial negotiations.
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 Allen Fiksdal,
Energy Facility Site Evaluation Council Manager,
State of Washington
Mr. Fiksdal has a Bachelor and Masters Degrees in Geology. From 1972 to 1981 he worked as a geologist in the Washington State Department of Natural Resources investigating landslide and slope stability issues as well as impacts from the eruption of Mt. St. Helens. In 1981 Mr. Fiksdal left state government and worked in private industry investigating soil and geologic conditions at nuclear power plants and assessing hazardous waste contamination at industrial sites. In 1986 Mr. Fiksdal rejoined state government as a siting specialist for the Washington State Energy Facility Site Evaluation Council working on energy facility and nuclear waste siting issues. In 1997 he was appointed as the Council Manager where he is responsible for the overall management of the siting and regulation energy facilities.
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Mr. Richard French,
Senior Manager, Assurance/Business Advisory Services,
PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
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 Mr. Gary Guzy,
Senior Vice President,
Marsh USA Inc.
Gary S. Guzy serves as the Global Practice Leader for Climate Risk and Sustainability at Marsh, developing new solutions for clients in responding to emerging environmental risks and trends, spearheading Marsh’s and its parent the Marsh & McLennan Companies’ global efforts in the climate change arena. Marsh is the world’s leading insurance broker and strategic risk advisor. Gary’s work includes serving as Marsh’s chief strategist on sustainability issues and its spokesperson to the media and at conferences, as well as liaison to partner organizations such as the World Economic Forum, Carbon Disclosure Project, U.S. Climate Action Partnership, Pew Center, Global Roundtable on Climate Change, and others on sustainability issues. He also serves as a fellow for the Marsh Center for Risk Insights’ climate change council, guiding the overall direction of the group.
Gary has 25 years of environmental experience. He was appointed by President Clinton and confirmed by the U.S. Senate to serve as the General Counsel of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from 1998 to 2001. He also served as Counselor to the Administrator at EPA and as its Deputy General Counsel, as well as a Senior Attorney at the U.S. Department of Justice, where he handled major environmental litigation from the Everglades to Alaska. He practiced environmental law in the private sector as a partner with the law firm of Foley Hoag LLP and has served as a consultant to the U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works Committee and the Chesapeake Bay Foundation. Gary has a Juris Doctor degree from Cornell Law School and a Bachelor of Arts degree from Cornell University. Gary is the author of the climate change and insurance chapter of the American Bar Association’s recent book on Climate Change and U.S. Law and serves as an Adjunct Professor of Environmental Law at the Georgetown University Law Center.
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 Gary Hart,
Consultant,
ICAP Energy
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 Mr. Michael Casey Herman,
Accounting and Auditing Leader, US Energy and Utilities Practice,
PricewaterhouseCoopers
Casey is the leader of PricewaterhouseCoopers’ US Energy and Utilities Accounting and Auditing Practice. During his career with the Firm he has led the financial statement and internal control audits of numerous energy sector Registrants representing several of the Firm’s most significant electric and gas utility clients including CMS Energy, Entergy Corporation, Exelon Corporation and the Tennessee Valley Authority. Casey has made presentation to numerous professional organizations including the Staff of the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Financial Accounting Standards Board, Edison Electric Institute and American Gas Association. He is the Utilities Practice’s Liaison Partner to the Firm’s National Risk and Quality Group (National Office) and participates in the development of the Firm’s positions and guidance for technical accounting and auditing issues impacting the Utilities Industry. He has written and instructed the Firm utilities industry training materials and is frequently consulted by other industry audit teams regarding accounting and auditing issues.
Casey previously served for two years in our Firm’s Crisis Management Practice delivering business reorganization services to troubled entities and has also has served in the Firm’s litigation services practice. After working more 15 years in PwC’s New Orleans office, Casey relocated to their Chicago practice in 2000.
Casey holds a BS degree in economics and accounting from Tulane University and is a member of the AICPA and several state societies of CPAs. He has served on the Board of Directors of America's Second Harvest, Council Against Alcohol and Drug Abuse of New Orleans, Tulane Association of Business Alumni, Tulane Accounting Advisory Committee and the Holman Vocational Center.
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Mr. Joseph Highland,
CEO,
Environ
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 Mr. Dennis Hirsch,
Professor,
Capital University Law School
Dennis D. Hirsch is Professor of Law at Capital University Law School and Counsel to the Firm at Porter, Wright, Morris and Arthur in Columbus, Ohio. His academic work and law practice focus on environmental law and policy with a particular emphasis on market-based approaches to environmental regulation. He is the author of numerous articles and a prize-winning textbook on environmental law, and recently published a chapter on greenhouse gas emissions trading in Global Climate Change and U.S. Law, the leading treatise in the field. He co-founded the Environmental Markets Practice Group at Porter Wright where his practice focuses on emissions trading, the Clean Air Act, climate change law and environmental litigation.
Professor Hirsch clerked for the Hon. John M. Walker, Jr. of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. He is co-founder and Vice-Chair of the Committee on Innovation, Management Systems and Trading of the ABA Section of Environment, Energy and Resources. Professor Hirsch earned his J.D. from Yale Law School where he served as Articles Editor of the Yale Law Journal. He received his B.A., summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa from Columbia University. He is admitted to the bars of Ohio, New York and the District of Columbia.
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Sam Hitz,
Vice President, Policy & Operations,
California Climate Action Registry
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 Glenn Hodes,
Energy Economist,
United Nations Environment Program
Glenn Hodes is an Energy Economist at the UNEP Risø Center on Energy, Climate and Sustainable Development. Previously he worked on carbon finance project development and capacity building programs in the Africa Region for the World Bank. At UNEP, Hodes is implementing a number of CDM training and technical assistance activities in Africa and Asia. Hodes is also researching ways to grow the market and applications for bioenergy technologies, and how to enhance their financing through the CDM. He is co-editor of Equal Exchange: Determining a Fair Price for Carbon (2007). For clients such as USAID, SEI, and the Shell Foundation, Hodes has contributed to a number of policy advisory, technical assistance, and training initiatives promoting CDM and alternative energy. He has worked in a number of developing countries in Africa, Central Asia, and Latin America, and has resided in South Africa and Kazakhstan. Hodes holds a Masters in International Development, Energy & Environmental Policy from the Woodrow Wilson School of Princeton University and a Bachelor’s in Politics & Economics from Columbia University.
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Mr. Jason Scott Johnston,
Professor and Director, Program on Law, the Environment and the Economy,,
University of Pennsylvania Law School
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Vinod Kesava,
Chief Operating Officer,
Asia Carbon Group of Companies
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Ms. Ann Klee,
Partner,
Crowing & Moring LLP
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 Jennifer Layke,
Deputy Director, Climate & Energy,
World Resources Institute
Jennifer Layke has been at WRI leading business and climate change initiatives since 1997. Ms. Layke founded The Green Power Market Development Group, a partnership with twelve major U.S. businesses including Alcoa, General Motors and DuPont (www.thegreenpowergroup.org) with a collective goal of developing 1000 MW of cost-competitive, new green power in the US by 2010. In 2003, Ms. Layke launched Climate Northeast, (www.climatenortheast.org) a corporate partnership that builds strategies for companies to thrive in a carbon-constrained economy and she is co-author of A Climate of Innovation: Northeast Business Action to Reduce Greenhouse Gases. In 2005 Ms. Layke's work began linking business action to climate with policy activities and in that capacity became deputy director of the climate and energy program at WRI. She has represented WRI in the Chicago Climate Exchange as well as in numerous NGO and business partnerships. She has also authored three reports evaluating international MBA programs on their inclusion of social and environmental issues in management training. She also represents WRI in the United States Climate Action Partnership (USCAP), a coalition of non-profits and corporations committed to helping congress enact economy-wide climate change legislation.
Ms. Layke's international experience includes consulting at the World Bank and at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on technology transfer under the Montreal Protocol. She earned an A.B. in Asian Studies and Political Science from Pitzer College in Claremont, CA., a M.S. in Natural Resource Policy and an MBA from the University of Michigan. In 1990, she was awarded a Watson Fellowship for sociology research in Singapore, Malaysia and Taiwan.
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Mr. Joel Levine,
Vice President- Business Development,
California Climate Action Registry
As the Registry's Vice President for Business Development, Joel Levin is responsible for recruiting participants from all economic sectors and regions of California to register their greenhouse gas emissions. He is a regular speaker at conferences and other public events on climate change and energy topics. He serves as staff to the California Market Advisory Committee and is a member of the California Climate Action Team’s Subcommittee on Local Government.
Joel has worked in government, private business and the non-profit sector. Immediately prior to working at the Registry, Joel was the Chief Financial Officer at Feeva Wireless. He has also worked in marketing at the Automated Power Exchange. Joel served on the Capitol Hill staff of Senator Timothy E. Wirth (D-Colorado).
As Chair of the Energy Committee of the Sierra Club’s Angeles Chapter and as a member of the Club’s National Global Warming and Energy Committee, Joel has been active in promoting renewable energy and energy efficiency as key elements in California’s energy future. He has written and spoken extensively on these topics.
Joel holds an MBA from UC Berkeley and an MA in International Economics from the Johns Hopkins University.
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William Luraschi,
President,
AES Alternative Energy
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Mr. Christopher Mcdermott,
Manager-Environmental Investments,
Hartz Capital
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Mr. Christopher McDermott,
Manager, Environmental Investments,
Hartz Capital
Chris McDermott is the Manager of Environmental Investments for Hartz Capital Inc., a family investment office that has been participating in Clean Development Mechanism projects since 2005.
Prior to joining Hartz Capital, he served for several years in various capacities with the Canadian Ministry of the Environment, including as a lead negotiator on the Kyoto Protocol’s provisions for international emissions trading and as a manager with the Canadian Government’s carbon credit procurement vehicle - the Climate Fund Agency.
Chris has a B.A. in Economics from McGill University and an M.A. in International Affairs from Carleton University.
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Ronald Meissen,
Sr. Director SustainabilityCorporate Environment, Health and Safety,
Baxter Healthcare
In his present position Ron coordinates a number of company-wide sustainability programs and specific new initiatives at Baxter. One is a new CEO sponsored executive level Sustainability Steering Committee launched in 2007 to drive sustainability priorities and practices throughout the organization.
For over ten years, Ron has coordinated Baxter’s internal and external response to global climate change. This includes the firm’s annual responses to the international Carbon Disclosure Project and membership in specific climate groups, such as the Pew Center on Global Climate Change, the U.S. EPA Climate Leaders Program and the Chicago Climate Exchange. In June 2005, Ron testified before the U.S. House of Representatives Science Committee on actions Baxter is taking to reduce energy usage and associated GHG emissions.
In 2006, Baxter was recognized on four occasions for corporate leadership on climate change, including two climate awards from the U.S. EPA. In early 2007 Baxter was recognized for the third year in a row as one of the “Global 100 Most Sustainable Corporations in the World.”
Ron has B.S. and M.S. degrees in engineering and is a registered professional engineer. He has a MBA from Lake Forest Graduate School of Management and Ph.D. in Environmental Science from the University of Wisconsin – Madison. His dissertation focused on the development and application of a strategic business decision-making process to aggressively reduce company energy-related greenhouse gas emissions.
Baxter is a global diversified healthcare company that develops, manufactures and markets medical products to treat life-threatening conditions. The company manufactures in 27 countries, sells products in 100 countries and has 45,000 employees. In 2006, Baxter sales totaled $10.4 billion.
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 Ricardo Nogueira,
Counsel/Investment Advisor to Trading Emissions PLC,
EEA Fund Management Limited
Ricardo Nogueira is an attorney by training and has extensive transaction expertise in the energy and environmental fields. At EEA Ricardo has led CDM deal flow origination in Latin America for Trading Emissions PLC. Ricardo performs a transaction management function on debt and equity investments. Ricardo is responsible for several EEA ventures in the US. Prior to joining EEA Ricardo was a senior attorney with the Washington, DC based law firm of Van Ness Feldman where his practice focused on cross-border transactions, foreign investment and climate change matters. He has also acted as transaction counsel on a range of CDM projects located in Latin America, Asia and Africa. Prior to Van Ness Feldman, Ricardo lived and worked in Brazil for three years with a leading law firm. Ricardo is fluent in Spanish and Portuguese. Ricardo has an undergraduate degree in Anthropology from Lafayette College and a J.D. from Seton Hall University School of Law.
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 Mr. Klaus Opperman,
Vice President,
KfW Carbon Fund
Phd in economics, 7 years of carbon finance experience as carbon market analyst, CDM/JI methodology specialist and deal manager within KfW and the World Bank. Dr. Oppermann participated in the discussion about the EU-ETS and its implementation in Germany. He contributed to the conceptual development of the KfW Carbon Fund. Within the World Bank Carbon Finance Business he had a leading role in the devolpment of the new concept of programmatic CDM. As methodology specialist he focused on energy efficiency projects and projects in the transportation sector. He deal managed CDM projects in India and Africa.
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Mr. Andrew Orringer,
Partner,
Clifford Chance US
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Mr. Andrew Orringer,
Partner,
Clifford Chance US
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 Mr Nicholas Parker,
Chairman & Co-Founder,
Cleantech Group, Canada
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Ms. Lindene Patton,
Senior Vice President & Counsel,
Zurich
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Ms. Andrea Pinna,
World Bank
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Mr. David Cameron Prell,
Associate,
Williams Mullen
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 Mark Proegler,
Director, Emission Markets Group,
BP
Mark Proegler is Director, Environmental Policy, for BP Australia, where he is leading BP’s advocacy efforts for the development of legislation for emissions trading and complimentary measures for low-carbon technologies in Australia and the Asia Pacific region. Mark recently moved from BP’s Corporate Environmental Policy team, where he was deeply engaged in GHG emissions market development, particularly in the EU and, more recently, in the US. Prior to this, he held a number of managerial, operational, marketing, and business development positions in a wide array of businesses in BP and the former Amoco Corporation, including Gas & Power, Chemicals, and Marketing & Refining. Mark has an undergraduate degree in Chemical Engineering and a Masters in Business Administration.
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Mr. Jeff Reamer,
Associate,
MissionPoint Capital
Jeff is with MissionPoint Capital, where he is focused on equity investments in firms that are accelerating the transition to a low carbon economy. Jeff was previously at GE Energy Financial Services where he worked for the Renewable Energy Group, leading their entry into the carbon markets as well as structuring equity investments in renewable energy projects and companies. Jeff has experience in the environmental commodities markets through his work with Evolution Markets and has also spent time with the Tamarack Group, developing large-scale wind and biomass projects. Jeff served for five years as a Cavalry Officer in the United States Army. He has an MBA from the Yale School of Management, a Master of Environmental Management from the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies and a B.S. in Environmental Studies from the United States Military Academy at West Point.
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 Louis Redshaw,
Head of Environmental Markets,
Barclay's Capital
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Ms. Zoe Riddell,
US Director,
Carbon Disclosure Project
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 Nancy Ryan,
Energy Advisor,
California Public Utilities Commission
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 Mr. Richard Saines,
Partner,
Baker & Mckenzie
Mr. Saines heads the U.S. arm of Baker & McKenzie’s Global Climate Change and Emissions Trading Practice Group. Mr. Saines advises multinational companies, financial institutions, project sponsors and governments in the area of carbon policy, emissions trading and risk management. In the area of domestic Environmental Law, Mr. Saines advises lenders and project sponsors on the environmental permitting and liabilities relating biofuels and wind energy development and advises specialty chemical, oil and gas and power sector clients on complex compliance matters under the Clean Air Act.
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 Mr. Armin Sandhoevel,
CEO,
Allianz Climate Solutions GmbH
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Mr. Steven Schleimer,
Barclay's Capital
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 Mike Scott,
Pricipal,
Carbon Ventures
Mr. Scott is a Principal of ENVIRON and Managing Director of the firm’s CarbonVentures subsidiary, which focuses on development of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions reduction projects under the Clean Development Mechanism and other GHG offset programs. He has 30 years of broad-based environmental experience including waste management and contaminated sites, environmental due diligence, regulatory compliance, and environmental management including management of GHG emissions. He has also provided strategic risk management advice and litigation support to clients on numerous environmental matters worldwide and published widely on matters relating to GHG emissions management. Prior to joining ENVIRON, he was Risk Assessment Group Manager for Environmental Resources Ltd. in the UK.
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John Scowcroft,
Head, Environment & Sustainable Development,
Eurelectric
After a long career in the British Electricity Industry where he held a number of posts covering the whole range of employee relations issues, John Scowcroft joined EURELECTRIC’s predecessor, UNIPEDE in 1991 as a Senior Adviser where he was responsible for environmental matters and structural and organisation issues.
In 1997, following the re-organisation of both UNIPEDE and EURELECTRIC, he became Head of the Environment and Sustainable Development Unit. He is responsible for all aspects of environmental and sustainable development policy. He is responsible for the Energy Wisdom Programme, a voluntary initiative by the electricity industry to improve energy efficiency and reduce greenhouse gas emissions and has been actively involved in the groundbreaking EURELECTRIC greenhouse gas and electricity trading simulations (GETS).
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 Truman Semans,
Director for Markets and Business Strategy,
Pew Center for Climate Change
Truman Semans is the Director for Markets and Business Strategy at the Pew Center on Global Climate Change. He manages the Center's 41-member Business Environmental Leadership Council (BELC), and directs Pew Center analytic work on climate-related markets and investment.
Mr. Semans’ experience spans business and finance, environmental issues and domestic and international policy. He has held senior management positions in the environmental management software industry, and at McKinsey & Company and the consulting firm he founded, Mr. Semans advised large corporations and organizations on corporate strategy, mergers and acquisitions, technology investment and commercialization, new venture development and strategic marketing.
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Michael Sheehan,
Chief, Mobile Source Planning Section, Division of Air Resources,
New York State Department of Environmental Conservation
Mike Sheehan is the Chief of the Division of Air Resources’ Mobile Source Planning Section at the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation. In this capacity, he is responsible for overseeing the mobile source emissions inventory and planning activities in New York State, as well as the oversight of all transportation and general conformity activities. Mike is the Division of Air Resources’ lead staff person assigned to the Department’s Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) team. He is also serving as an alternate on the Air Quality Management subcommittee of the Clean Air Act Advisory Committee. Prior to this Mike was actively involved in the promulgation of the Acid Deposition Reduction Program regulations.
Mike has been with the Department of Environmental Conservation for just over 17 years and the Division of Air Resources for 13 years. Mike has a B.S. in Industrial Engineering from the State University of New York at Buffalo and is a licensed Professional Engineer.
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Mr. Gray Taylor,
Corporate Partner, Head - Climate Change & Environmental Group,
Bennett Jones LLP
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 Mr. Bill Thomas,
Counsel,
Clifford Chance
William L. Thomas heads the Environment practice of Clifford Chance US LLP in the Americas, and is based in the firm's Washington, D.C. office. He is a member of Clifford Chance's Global Environment Group, Environmental and Climatic Trading Group, and Global Energy and Projects Group, and works closely with related practices within the firm, including Corporate, Finance, Real Estate, and Litigation and Dispute Resolution. He advises companies, financiers, developers and other enterprises on all aspects of environmental law, including climate change issues arising in connection with transactions and projects, formulation of management and legal compliance strategy, and disclosure.
Mr. Thomas is active in a number of professional and environmental organizations that cover, and inform, the development of climate law and policy. He is a past member of the governing Council of the American Bar Association (ABA) Section of Environment, Energy and Resources (SEER) and past Chair of the Section's International Environmental Law Committee. He is Chair of the International Environmental Law Committee of the ABA Section of International Law and Secretary of the Environmental, Health and Safety Committee of the International Bar Association. He is also a member of the North American Working Group of the International Emissions Trading Association, and the Emissions Trading Working Group of the International Swaps and Derivatives Association. He is recommended by directories of leading practitioners in the field of environmental law, including The International Who's Who of Environmental Lawyers (2006) and PLC’s Cross-border Environmental Handbook (2006/7).
He is a widely published author on environmental law, policy and related matters of corporate strategy, and appears frequently at national and international conferences devoted to such subjects. He serves on a number of Editorial Advisory Boards, including those of the Colorado Journal of International Environmental Law & Policy and Sustainable Development Law & Policy, and contributes regularly to the leading publications in this field, including The International Lawyer, Natural Resources & Environment, Georgetown International Environmental Law Review, Environmental Law Reporter, National Law Journal, European Environmental Law Review, Corporate Environmental Strategy, and the Review of European Community & International Environmental Law. His articles on carbon finance have been featured in Natural Resources & Environment, Environmental Finance, Project Finance International, and the International Financial Law Review, among others.
He earned his J.D. in 1989 from the Georgetown University Law Center, and his B.A., Magna cum laude, in 1986 from St. Olaf College, where he was Phi Beta Kappa. He is admitted to the bars of the District of Columbia and the State of New York.
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Mr. Pierre Trevet,
Innovest Strategic Value Advisors
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 Mr. Guy Turner,
Director,
New Carbon Finance
Guy is Director of New Carbon Finance, a specialised provider of carbon market analysis. New Carbon Finance is a service of New Energy Finance. Guy was previously Director of Climate Change Policy and Strategy at UK based consultancy, Enviros Consulting. With 15 years experience in consulting, Guy has worked extensively in the field of environmental economics and policy, climate change, renewable energy and emissions trading.
Guy is one of the leading experts in the theoretical and practical application of market based instruments, in particular tradable allowances. He has advised numerous companies on the business implications of the Kyoto mechanisms and the EU ETS, and has helped frame emissions trading policy. Guy was co-author on a recent technical analysis of a new emissions trading scheme for the UK. He also helped the UK and Irish governments prepare their allocation policies for Phase II of the EU ETS and assisted in the design a tradable allowance scheme in the waste sector in the UK. Guy has also undertaken numerous strategy assignments advising companies on investments in the energy and environmental sectors.
Over the last three years Guy has led the development of the Carbon Balances Model, a highly detailed forecasting tool of carbon prices in the European Emissions Trading Scheme. This model is now used by several banks and energy companies to help predict and analyse future carbon prices in the EU ETS.
Guy holds degrees in Mechanical Engineering (B.Eng) and Economics (B.Com), an MSc in Environmental and Pollution Control and is a graduate of the London Business School Corporate Finance Programme.
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Mr. Chris Walker,
U.S. Director,
The Climate Group
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Michael Walsh,
Executive Vice President, Research,
Chicago Climate Exchange
Michael J. Walsh is an Executive Vice President of Chicago Climate Exchange, Inc., a self-regulatory exchange that administers a voluntary, legally binding greenhouse gas reduction and trading program for North America. CCX’s affiliated companies European Climate Exchange and Chicago Climate Futures Exchange host markets for futures products based on European Union carbon dioxide emission allowances and U.S. sulfur dioxide emission allowances. . Walsh also serves on the Board of Directors of the Montreal Climate Exchange.
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Mr. Scott Weaver,
Strategic Policy Analyst,
American Electric Power
Scott A. Weaver is a Strategic Policy Analyst for American Electric Power (AEP). In this position, he focuses on analysis of federal and state energy and environmental policy as well as analysis and development of long-term environmental and energy strategy for AEP. His group serves as the nexus for climate change strategy formulation and communication between AEP’s federal and state offices and internal functional groups. Weaver graduated magna cum laude from Ohio University with a bachelor’s degree in environmental biology. He also holds a master’s degree in environmental management from Duke University, where he focused in environmental economics and policy. Weaver joined AEP in 2004 and currently resides in Columbus, Ohio.
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 David Webster,
Founder,
Clean Air Conservancy
David Webster is a commercial lawyer with broad experience, including matters involving banking, commodity trading, securities, technology, real estate, intellectual property, and environmental law. He has been lead counsel in hundreds of cases involving virtually every aspect of modern commerce from basic breach of contract claims to complex class actions, commercial insurance coverage, copyright, corporate governance, franchise disputes, D&O liability, e-commerce, environmental liability, executive employment, Internet libel and privacy, patent infringement, product liability (chemical and mechanical), professional liability, securities, trademark, trade-secrets and unfair competition. David has extensive trial experience including significant bench and jury trials in both the state and federal courts and has particular expertise in handling claims involving difficult valuation or damage issues, important public policy issues/or and little or no established legal precedent. He successfully defended one of the earliest Internet trade disparagement claims (AnswerThink Consulting v. John Doe, aka “Aquacool 2000”), which was litigated simultaneously in federal courts in Ohio, California and Virginia. He obtained a judgment in excess of $5,000,000 against Sony BMG in a jury trial in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio on behalf of Cleveland International Records, the original record label for Meatloaf’s Bat Out of Hell involving novel and difficult valuation issues. This landmark case received national press attention and was featured in Billboard Magazine (June 11, 2005).
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Martin Whittaker,
Director,
MissionPoint Capital
Martin Whittaker is a Director of MissionPoint Capital Partners, a Connecticut-based private investment firm, where he leads the firm’s environmental finance and environmental commodities strategies. Prior to joining MissionPoint, Martin was a senior vice president at Swiss Re Financial Services in New York City, where he was part of the Environmental and Commodity Markets team. At Swiss Re, Martin helped to establish and grow the company’s emissions trading and carbon insurance capabilities, and provided carbon advisory and clean energy market expertise to the company’s asset management organization. Prior to Swiss Re, Martin was a managing director of Innovest Strategic Value Advisors, Inc., where he led the firm’s clean energy and carbon finance practice, and was an Adjunct Professor at the University of Toronto where he taught environmental finance. Martin has also served in the downstream environmental group at Elf Aquitaine and in consulting with Golder Associates. Martin earned a PhD in environmental science from the University of Edinburgh, an MBA from the University of London, and M.Sc. and B.Sc. degrees in Chemistry from, respectively, McGill University, Montreal and the University of St. Andrews, Scotland.
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 Vikram Widge,
First Vice President, KfW Carbon Fund,
International Finance Corporation
Vikram Widge manages the carbon finance business at the International Finance Corporation, the AAA-rated private sector arm of the World Bank Group. In addition to managing funds to purchase carbon credits, Vikram’s group is rolling out new financial products for IFC’s own account to help mitigate risks in the rapidly developing carbon market.
IFC’s Carbon Finance Unit has developed innovative financial products that leverage IFC’s ability to take long-term project and credit risk in emerging markets. These include a Carbon Delivery Guarantee provided on behalf of CDM projects that will help buyers of CERs mitigate their risks, while sellers will realize significantly higher value for their carbon credits.
Vikram also oversees ~US$175 million that IFC currently has under management in partnership with the Government of the Netherlands, through which it purchases emission reduction credits from projects eligible under the Kyoto Protocol's CDM and JI mechanisms.
Vikram has nearly two decades of experience in developing and financing projects that deploy clean technologies in emerging markets. Previously, Vikram managed the Photovoltaic Market Transformation Initiative (PVMTI) a $30 million strategic intervention to accelerate the sustainable commercialization and financial viability of PV technology in selected countries. Vikram also led IFC’s efforts in financing emerging environmental-friendly technologies including phase out of ozone-depleting substances at IFC’s investee companies, and a financing initiative to accelerate use of fuel cells in distributed generation applications.
Vikram graduated with a bachelor’s degree in engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) in Delhi and holds a master’s in economics from University of Maryland at College Park. After working in the private sector for 10 years, Vikram has been with IFC since 1994.
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Ms. Cynthia Williams,
Professor of Law,
University of Illinois College of Law
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Mr. Sergio Wolkovisky,
Structured Products,
ING Financial Markets LLC
Sergio Wolkovisky is a Director of ING's Structured Products Group and he is responsible for leading the efforts to grow ING Financial Markets’ presence in the carbon space. Sergio has extensive experience with originating, structuring, financing and placing emerging markets credit, interest rate, foreign exchange and special situation structures. Prior to joining ING, Sergio held positions as an emerging markets trader at Republic National Bank (London), Credit Suisse (NY) and Banamex. In addition, he ran a New York-based family office where he planned and implemented tax, legal and investment structures. Sergio holds a MBA from Columbia Business School and an accounting degree from ITAM in Mexico City.
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 Bernhard Zander,
First Vice President, KfW Carbon Fund,
KfW Bankengruppe
Bernhard Zander is economist by profession and works with KfW since the early 80s in various functions. He looks back on many years of experience in Financial Cooperation with Developing Countries, mainly concentrating on Asia.
In the recent years Bernhard Zander was dealing with commercial Export and Project Finance, responsible for power finance transactions in Asia as well as in Eastern Europe.
In this capacity he also had joined KfW‘s in-house working group on climate change, where he took a leading role in developing the concept of the KfW Carbon Fund.
As head of the Carbon Fund Team Bernhard Zander is now fully concentrating on the implementation of this concept, which he will present to you in the course of this conference.
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