Michael Liebreich is the chairman and CEO of New Energy Finance, a specialist provider of financial information and services to investors in renewable energy, low-carbon technologies and the carbon markets. Services include the New Energy Finance Briefing, the New Energy Finance Desktop (which is the world’s largest database of clean energy investors and transactions), the New Carbon Finance Deep Dive, subscription-based streams of research, analysis and forecasting, reports and consultancy.

Michael is an experienced venture capitalist and entrepreneur who has helped build more than 25 companies. Before founding New Energy Finance early in 2004, he was UK managing director of a division of Groupe Arnault which invested $700m of technology venture capital. From 1995 to 1998, Michael was deputy managing director of Associated Press Television and founding director of Sports News Television, the world’s leading wholesale provider of sports news video. At the same time he acted as non-executive director of Interactive Investor prior to its IPO on the London Stock Exchange. 

Before that, Michael spent five years with McKinsey & Company in their London office focusing on operations and finance. From 1986 to 1993, Michael was a member of the British Ski Team, competing in the World Cup and in the 1992 Albertville Olympic Games.

Margaret is contributing editor at Economist Conferences, having been a senior commentator and facilitator at board and ministerial level for the past decade. She is internationally known as an expert on macroeconomics, corporate strategy and business leadership. 

She began her career as a management consultant in the financial institutions group of McKinsey & Company, advising banks and insurance clients on strategy and performance improvement. Margaret covered business and finance for The Economist, the world’s premier current affairs magazine, and The Daily Telegraph, for a decade and edited Global Agenda, the magazine of the World Economic’s Forum’s annual meeting at Davos for two years.

She comments regularly on business, the stock market and the economy for a variety of news organisations, including BBC radio and television, America’s NBC and NPR networks, Japan's NHK, Sky News and CNN. She has presented several programmes for the BBC,  including the Today programme, The World Tonight and Analysis on Radio 4; The World Today on the World Service and Wake Up to Money on Five Live.

Marcel Brenninkmeijer is the founder and chairman of Good Energies, the strategic investor to the ongoing energy transition process and supporter of development initiatives in the field of clean energy technologies. Good Energies is a member of Cofra Holding and is represented through offices in Zug, London, New York, Toronto and Washington, DC.

Prior to founding Good Energies in 2001, Marcel was advisor to Anthos Consult, Amsterdam, Netherlands, after spending a sabbatical year on executive studies at IMD in Switzerland and HBS in the United States. Born in 1958, Marcel’s first 20 years of business experience were with C&A, a fashion retailer, which gave him a multicultural exposure to the Netherlands, United Kingdom, France, Canada, Germany, and Switzerland. In his last position with C&A he was a board member responsible for store operations in Switzerland. Marcel also coordinated the C&A European Environmental Working Group, which he set up in 1989.

Dita is the co-founder, together with her husband, Lucien Bronicki, of the Ormat Group of Companies (1965 – Present) and has worked in the power industry since 1965. Dita is a member of the board of directors and the CEO of Ormat Technologies, and various of its subsidiaries. Ormat Technologies, a NYSE listed company, is engaged in the geothermal and recovered energy power business. 

Ormat designs, develops, builds, owns and operates geothermal and recovered energy power plants using Organic Rankine Cycle technology and manufactures the power generating equipment for these power plants. Ormat is a pioneer and a leader in the manufacture of ORC power equipment. Ormat currently operates the following geothermal power plants: in the United States - Brady, Heber, Mammoth, Ormesa, Puna and Steamboat; in Guatemala – Zunil and Amatitlan; in Kenya - Olkaria; and in Nicaragua - Momotombo. In the U.S., Ormat owns and operates four OREG1 recovered energy generation plants. 

Dita has also served as a director of Bet Shemesh Engines, a manufacturer of jet engines. In addition, she was a member of the board of directors of OPTI Canada, and is a member of the board of Orbotech, a manufacturer of equipment for inspecting and imaging circuit boards and display panels. From 1994 to 2001, Mrs. Bronicki was on the advisory board of the Bank of Israel.

Luiz Gustavo is commercial director for Usina Alta Mogiana, part of Grupo Lincoln Junqueira, and is based at Sao Paulo, Brazil. Usina Alta Mogiana is a producer of sugar, ethanol and power using bagasse cogeneration. He has also been vice-presidente of the Câmara de Açúcar e de Álcool da BM&F (Bolsa de Mercadorias e Futuros) since 2007.

His main responsibilities at Usina Alta Mogiana the development and implementation of sugar and ethanol strategy; contract logistics; hedging in national and international exchanges; management of sugar inventories; controlling logistics between mill and ports; planning sales; negotiation with traders and broker houses in the sugar and ethanol physical markets; and negotiation of long-term contracts with large clients.

In his earlier career before joining Usina Alta Mogiana in 1994, Luiz Gustavo worked in sales, marketing and supply chain management for Unilever’s Van Den Bergh food business. Prior to that he worked in foreign exchange and private banking for Crédit Comercial de France.

Miguel is the co-founder, managing partner and CEO of N+1 Eolia, a private equity management company exclusively focused in new energy investments. It manages Eolia Renovables de Inversiones SCR (Eolia), one of the leading global private equity clean energy funds with investments in the wind and solar PV sectors with a portfolio in excess of 1400 MW of installed capacity; and also Eolia Mistral de Inversiones SCR (Eolia Mistral), which specialises in investments in the biofuels space.

Prior to founding N+1 Eolia in 2003, Miguel was co-founder, vice-chairman and chief financial officer of Jazztel, one of Spain’s largest integrated telecommunication operators, quoted on Madrid’s stock exchange. He was also vice-chairman of Ya.com, one of Spain´s leading internet access and content providers, sold to Deutsche Telekom in 2001.

Prior to founding Jazztel, Miguel worked 14 years as an investment banker. This included stints with Salomon Brothers, where he co-headed the Iberian Investment Banking Group, and Lehman Brothers. Miguel has been an angel investor in several wind farm development start-ups in Spain since 1998.

Nicolo is chairman of Pirelli Ambiente Renewable Energy, a company that is active in clean energy sectors such as energy recovery from municipal solid waste through the production of a high quality fuel, the SRF-P (solid recovered fuel by Pirelli) developed and patented by the company with the support of Pirelli Labs. He is also chairman of Solar Utility, a joint venture that will invest in 50MW solar systems in Italy, and executive vice president of Pirelli & C.Ambiente.

Other roles include vice president of the Kyoto Club, Rome, director of IEFE (Centre for Research on Energy and Enviromental Economics and Policy) - Bocconi University, and director of Harmony Capital, a global multi-strategy fund of hedge funds.

He was previously managing director of Franco Tosi, the financial arm of the Italmobiliare Group, and founder of Link Corporate Finance. In 1983 he established and managed Itab Bank in London, involved in equity financing and the privatisation business.  He previously worked with Bankers Trust Co, New York from 1973 to 1983.

David Sandalow is Energy & Environment Scholar and a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution.  He is the author of Freedom from Oil (McGraw-Hill 2007).  David is chair of the Energy & Climate Working Group of the Clinton Global Initiative and a senior advisor to Good Energies.  He is a director of First Voice International and member of the Climate Change Task Force of the Council on Foreign Relations.   David has served as assistant secretary of state for Oceans, Environment & Science; senior director for Environmental Affairs, National Security Council; associate director for the Global Environment, White House Council on Environmental Quality; and executive vice president, World Wildlife Fund-US.  His opinion pieces and articles have appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, Washington Times, Financial Times, International Herald Tribune, Boston Globe, Science and many other periodicals.  He has been a Stimson Fellow at Yale University; commencement speaker at the University of Michigan School of Natural Resource & the Environment; member of the Sustainable Development Roundtable at the OECD; member of the American Bar Association (ABA) Standing Committee on Environmental Law; and co-chair of the ABA's Annual Conference on Environmental Law.

Chris Greenwood is head of research at New Energy Finance.  He joined the company in 2005. He manages NEF’s global analysis and research team which tracks and analyses global investment activity for investors in clean energy, low carbon technologies and carbon markets.  NEF’s “Insight Streams” for clients include wind, solar, biofuels, biomass, China, venture capital/private equity, public markets, and carbon markets. 

Chris has 15 years of analysis, consulting and management experience from a number of roles within European energy companies, consultancy and IT services organisations. He joined National Grid Transco at vesting, and undertook a operational and development roles as the UK electricity market evolved during the early 1990s.   

Chris then worked for Cap Gemini for five years, where he led the energy and utilities consulting team.  He has also worked for software and information services companies within the energy sector.

Barbara is Chairman of the UK Atomic Energy Authority and LIFE IC. She is also Chair of the School of Oriental & African Studies; Dep Chair of Friends Provident and a non-exec dir of Quintain Estates & Development; NV Bekaert and Magna Intl. She is Co-Chair of the UK/US Task Force for Corp. Governance and a Member of the Trilateral Comm, among others.

Previously Barbara was a partner in a large NY law firm specialising in corporate transactions and thereafter was appointed as Commissioner of the United States Securities & Exchange Commission. Subsequently, she served as the first women exec dir of Samuel Montagu & Co and News International as well as leading a buy-in of Whitworths Food Group and founding Private Equity Investor plc.

Barbara has a B.A. from the Univ of Pennsylvania & Juris Doctor with hons from New York Univ School of Law.

Gearóid Lane is director of British Gas New Energy. He has recently taken responsibility for the creation of a stand alone business on energy efficiency and climate change initiatives within British Gas. The purpose of this role is to develop a market leading business in low carbon energy services; delivering advice, products and services to residential and business customers.
 
Previously, Gearoid directed the team that handles strategic trading and procurement activities in gas, electricity, renewable energy and emissions trading for UK and Europe within Centrica Energy.  This group acquired eight gas-fired power stations with a combined capacity of 3GW and entered into gas and power purchase agreements.  He was responsible for developing weather hedging activities in Centrica, and serves as president of the Weather Risk Management Association. He also served for several years as a member of the Renewables Advisory Board, an independent body sponsored by the UK Department of Trade and Industry.
 
Gearóid worked for Centrica’s predecessor, British Gas, from 1992 and prior to that, for an engineering consultancy business in Ireland for four years.

Chris is the BP Group advisor on energy security and environmental issues. He provides leadership to the BP Group on making its products and operations consistent with the principles of sustainable energy and the environment.
 
Chris joined BP Research, at its London based research laboratories in 1978 as an instrument and control engineer.  During the mid-eighties Chris lead a team to create and commercialise large-scale scientific computers.  In the late eighties he ran BP’s exploration computing activities.  During the early nineties he became commercial manager of exploration and production technical activities.  Chris then moved to BP’s North Sea operations, first to Glasgow and then in Aberdeen, becoming the central technical manager.  He returned to London, becoming the vice president for technology, engineering and HSE for BP’s global gas, power and renewable activities.  

He is a director of the Carbon Trust in the UK, and a member of the advisory boards of the National Center for Atmospheric Research in the US and the Engineering and Physical Research Council in the UK.

Henri Philippe is chief executive officer at Brenco, the integrated, renewable fuels company. Brenco has initiated construction of one of Brazil's largest ethanol production platforms involving the planting, development and harvesting of sugarcane and the large-scale industrial production and distribution of ethanol fuel. The company, formed in spring 2007, aims to become a large-scale, low-cost producer of ethanol.
He is a founding partner of G&R Gestao Empresarial, a management consulting firm based in São Paulo. He is currently a member of the board of directors of Ashmore Energy International, Repsol-YPF and Peugeot Citroen P. S.A., and a member of the consulting board of Lhoist of Brazil.

Previously, Henri Philippe was president of Petrobrás Petróleo Brasileiro and chief executive officer of Globopar. Prior to that, Henri Philippe held various positions as an economist and as an executive. He has served on the boards of directors of Telebrás, Eletrobrás Centrais Elétricas and BNDES.

Emma Duncan is deputy editor of The Economist, the world’s pre-eminent weekly news and business journal. She offers an extremely well-informed overview of the global economic outlook that is especially valuable for non-specialist, non-economist audiences. Emma is the author of The Economist’s Climate Change Report of September 2006, and can speak on how companies can turn ‘green business” to competitive advantage.

In addition to her current position at The Economist, Emma has been Media Editor, Asia Editor and South Asia Correspondent, and Britain Editor. Before joining The Economist, Emma worked at ITN. Emma writes a regular column for The Sunday Telegraph and has written widely on a freelance basis, for publications such as The Times, The Sunday Times, Vogue and Cosmopolitan. She is also the author of Breaking the Curfew, which examines Pakistan politics and society. She contributes regularly to radio and TV programmes.

James D. Boyd was appointed by Governor Schwarzenegger to a second five-year term on the California Energy Commission on 2 February 2007. He was first appointed to the California Energy Commission on 6 February 2002, and he was appointed to the Vice Chair position on 16 June 2006.

Commissioner Boyd presides over the Energy Commission's Transportation and Fuels Committee and oversees Climate Change and International Export Programs. James presides over the Natural Gas Committee which includes the Energy Commission’s work on Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG). He was the Associate Member of the committee overseeing the preparation of the Energy Commission’s 2005 Integrated Energy Policy Report. He has served on the Governor’s Hydrogen Highway Network Implementation Advisory Panel and presently serves on the Governor’s Climate Action Team. He chairs the Bio-energy Interagency Working Group that developed and is now implementing the Governor’s Bio-energy Action Plan. He is currently overseeing the Commission’s efforts to develop the State Alternative Fuels Plan requested by the Governor and Legislature.

Prior to his appointment, Commissioner Boyd was Deputy Secretary and Chief of Staff of the California Resources Agency. He has served for fifteen years as the Chief Executive Officer of the California Air Resources Board (CARB), directing the nation’s largest state air pollution control program. During this period, CARB led the nation in establishing new pollution control programs for motor vehicles and fuels, toxic air contaminants, consumer products, and industrial and area sources.

Kathleen is secretary of Pennsylvania’s Department of Environmental Protection. In 2003, she became the first woman to head the DEP, a 3,000-employee agency with a mission to protect Pennsylvania’s air, land and water from pollution and provide for the health and safety of its citizens through a cleaner environment.
 
She has also served as vice president for asset management at Natsource LLC, a financial services firm specialising in energy, as director of Proton Energy Systems, a leading fuel cell infrastructure company, and as an advisor to a European venture capital firm.
 
Between 1989 and 2001, Kathleen served in national and international policy. During her tenure in the US Senate, she worked to promote US leadership in the manufacture of advanced technologies while serving on US delegations negotiating global environmental treaties. She chaired the White House Council on Environmental Quality, acted as deputy assistant to President Bill Clinton, and headed the first White House Office on Environmental Policy. In 2000, she was counsellor to Vice President Al Gore during the presidential campaign and senior policy advisor to the Democratic National Committee.

Li Junfeng is currently serving as the deputy director of the Energy Research Institute of the National Development and Reform Commission of China. He also holds the professional and academic positions as a professor and the chair of the Academic Committee of ERI, and the general secretary of the Chinese Renewable Industrial Association, vice-chairman of the Global Wind Energy Council, and vice-chairman of REN 21. 

Li is the focal point of the REEEP program for the region of East Asia. He has also been engaged in project development for GEF and the World Bank, UNDP and other programmes for renewable energy development in China. In recent years, he has been involved in the issues of technology transfer, CDM and carbon trade issues.  

He is the chief author for the development of Chinese Renewable Energy Law. Written output has included Issues and Options of Green Housegas Emission and Control in China, Renewable Technology Assessment in China, Renewable Energy Planning and Development Strategy, Potential Analysis of Carbon Trade in China, China Wind Power Report 2007, China Solar PV Report 2007, and China Renewable Energy Industry Development Report 2007. He graduated from Shandong Mining Institute in 1982.

Ziad is executive director of the Masdar Clean Tech Fund, a $250m venture capital fund that was setup by the innovation and investment unit of Abu Dhabi’s Masdar Initiative as a joint venture with Credit Suisse. The fund is made up of commitments from Abu Dhabi Future Energy Company, Consensus Business Group, Credit Suisse and Siemens. Ziad is also director of innovation and investments at Abu Dhabi Future Energy Company. His job includes developing successful joint ventures in the emirate in the sustainability and clean energy sector.

He has over 18 years’ experience in strategic business planning, business development and joint ventures and acquisitions. Ziad is an expert in corporate development and the strategic growth operations of international companies and governments in the Middle East with an emphasis in energy and IT.

Earlier in his career, Ziad was the founder and chief executive officer of Interactive Limited, an Internet development and for-profit incubator where he raised capital for start-ups and formed them into commercially viable businesses.

Wolfgang is chairman of the World Council Renewable Energy, based in Bonn and Paris. His large number of other roles include that of member of the science board of Ademe, the French National Energy Agency; board member of Instituto de Sistemas Fotovoltaicas de Concentracion, based in Ciudad Real, Spain; and advisor to the European Commission on aid programmes for Latin America.

From 2000 to 2002, Wolfgang was member of an energy committee of the German Parliament, the Bundestag in Berlin, charged with establishing an energy strategy for Germany to 2050. From 1977 to 2002, Wolfgang was an official of the EU Commission in Brussels. In 1977-1997, he managed the development programme of renewable energies. The R&D programme comprised the sectors of solar architecture, solar energy, wind energy, biomass and ocean energy. After 1997 he was an EU Commission counsel for renewable energy deployment in Africa.

Earlier in his career, Wolfgang was professor of semiconductor physics in Nancy, France in 1965-70, and in charge of power systems development at the French National Space Agency CNES in Paris in 1970-76.

Tom was appointed as the first Chief Executive of the Carbon Trust in 2001.

A chartered engineer with extensive experience of the energy sector, Tom worked for Shell for 16 years in a variety of commercial and operations roles including four years as General Manager of Pizo Shell - a Shell subsidiary in Gabon, Africa. He moved into management consultancy with McKinsey and Co and then as a Principal with the Global Energy Practice of AT Kearney before joining the Carbon Trust.

Tom gained a first class honours degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Southampton in 1981 and completed an MBA at INSEAD, Paris in 1988.

Margaret is contributing editor at Economist Conferences, having been a senior commentator and facilitator at board and ministerial level for the past decade. She is internationally known as an expert on macroeconomics, corporate strategy and business leadership. 

She began her career as a management consultant in the financial institutions group of McKinsey & Company, advising banks and insurance clients on strategy and performance improvement. Margaret covered business and finance for The Economist, the world’s premier current affairs magazine, and The Daily Telegraph, for a decade and edited Global Agenda, the magazine of the World Economic’s Forum’s annual meeting at Davos for two years.

She comments regularly on business, the stock market and the economy for a variety of news organisations, including BBC radio and television, America’s NBC and NPR networks, Japan's NHK, Sky News and CNN. She has presented several programmes for the BBC,  including the Today programme, The World Tonight and Analysis on Radio 4; The World Today on the World Service and Wake Up to Money on Five Live.

Bruce is a managing director of Jefferies International investment banking group and head of European technology investment banking for Jefferies. He also leads the firm's European cleantech practice.

With over 24 years of growth investment banking expertise, including over 16 years working with European clients, Bruce has advised on over 100 merger and acquisition and capital market transactions across Europe and North America. Previously, he was a director focusing on international M&A at Barclays de Zoete Wedd (BZW), working in London and Frankfurt. 

Prior to joining BZW, Mr Huber worked at Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette in their New York office where he helped build the firm's communications investment banking practice from 1985 to 1990, and worked in alternative energy project finance from 1983 to 1985. He has a breadth of experience across IPOs, convertible debt, private placements, alternative energy projects financing and high yield debt through M&A advisory.

Shai Weiss joined Virgin to lead the formation of the Virgin Green Fund. Prior to this, Shai was with NTL-Telewest (now known as Virgin Media), the UK’s and Europe’s largest cable operator. He took part in the turn-around of NTL, and saw the company’s stock increase fivefold in 2003.  Shai was also behind the recent merger between Virgin Mobile UK and NTL-Telewest and the re-brand to Virgin Media. The Virgin Group is now its largest shareholder.  

At NTL, Shai was managing director of consumer products, responsible for the development and delivery of internet, telephone and TV for the consumer division and for the Virgin.net broadband ISP and also the integration director for the merger between NTL and Telewest.  Shai’s other positions included director of Operations for the NTL Group where he was responsible for major operational and business development projects, joint ventures, and relationships with strategic partners, as well as director of financial planning for the consumer division.  

Prior to that, Shai set up the European office of Jerusalem Venture Partners, an early stage technology venture fund, and was a senior associate with Morgan Stanley's high tech mergers and acquisitions and corporate finance team.

John Cavalier is vice chairman of corporate and investment banking and chairman of the global and energy group at Credit Suisse. He also leads the renewables energy group, the largest established finance and advisory group to the alternative energy space. It has played a principal role in the initial public offerings of SunPower, Suntech, REC, Cosan, Hawkeye, and financings for Airtricity, FPL Wind and other major solar, wind and biofuel companies.

John joined Credit Suisse in November 2000 when it merged with Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette, where he was a managing director and founding member of DLJ’s power and energy group. That, in turn, carried on work that he performed at his previous firm, Drexel Burnham Lambert.

Earlier in his career, John served in the US Army for nine years, where he was an office in the Signals Corps, and later the Judge Advocate Generals Corps.

David Sandalow is Energy & Environment Scholar and a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution.  He is the author of Freedom from Oil (McGraw-Hill 2007).  David is chair of the Energy & Climate Working Group of the Clinton Global Initiative and a senior advisor to Good Energies.  He is a director of First Voice International and member of the Climate Change Task Force of the Council on Foreign Relations.   David has served as assistant secretary of state for Oceans, Environment & Science; senior director for Environmental Affairs, National Security Council; associate director for the Global Environment, White House Council on Environmental Quality; and executive vice president, World Wildlife Fund-US.  His opinion pieces and articles have appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, Washington Times, Financial Times, International Herald Tribune, Boston Globe, Science and many other periodicals.  He has been a Stimson Fellow at Yale University; commencement speaker at the University of Michigan School of Natural Resource & the Environment; member of the Sustainable Development Roundtable at the OECD; member of the American Bar Association (ABA) Standing Committee on Environmental Law; and co-chair of the ABA's Annual Conference on Environmental Law.

Peter Zapfel is an expert on policy-making in the field of climate change and carbon emission trading. Joining the European Commission in 1998, he worked for two years in the directorate general for Economic and Financial Affairs, before moving into the DG Environment in 2000. He has represented the Commission as a delegation member in UN climate negotiation sessions, and for several years was responsible for the economic assessment of climate policy. This comprised the development and quantitative assessment of cost-effective strategies and instruments to implement the EU climate policy objectives.

Peter has been involved in the Commission’s work on emission allowance trading since 1998. He has coordinated DG Environment’s EU ETS team for over two years and in particular the Commission's assessment of national allocation plans for phase 2 of the EU Emission Trading Scheme.

He holds academic degrees from the University of Business and Economics in Vienna, Austria, and the John F Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.

James Cameron is vice chairman of Climate Change Capital. He is responsible for strategic and sector development, is chairman of the advisory board and represents the firm at the highest levels of business and government. James is one of the world’s pre-eminent experts in developing market based policy responses to climate change.

Prior to CCC he was counsel to Baker & McKenzie and was the founder and the head of its climate change practice. James has spent much of his legal career working on climate change matters, including negotiating the UNFCCC and Kyoto Protocol as an adviser to the Alliance of Small Island States.

He has held academic positions at Cambridge, London, Bruges and Sydney and is currently affiliated with the Yale Centre for Environmental Law and Policy. As a barrister he appeared in several of the leading cases in environmental law. He is the chairman of the Carbon Disclosure Project and a treasurer of REEEP and a trustee of The Climate Group. He is a member of the board of GE Ecomagination.

Bruce is a member of JPMorgan’s global commodities management team and a member of the group steering committee for environmental business development. He joined JPMorgan's global commodities team in late 2005, and has been responsible for expanding the firm’s worldwide capability in environmental markets for origination and sales of the gamut of carbon emission trading instruments including EUAs, CERs, ERUs and VERs.

Bruce is on the board of the Carbon Markets Association, the steering committee of the European Supply Chain Institute, and is a member of the Clean Energy Investment Framework Working Group coordinated by the World Economic Forum and World Bank.

Prior to joining JPMorgan, Bruce was a managing director at Rabobank International, in a number of senior roles in emerging market project finance, structured trade commodity finance, commodity derivatives and corporate mergers and acquisitions. He was also a senior advisor to
the World Bank's Commodity Price Risk Management Task Force in 2002-2005.

James is director of insights at the Carbon Trust. Set up by the UK government in 2001 as an independent company, the Carbon Trust helps UK business and the public sector cut carbon emissions and supports the development of commercial low-carbon technologies for the future.

One of the Carbon Trust’s five business areas, Carbon Trust Insights helps to explain the risks and opportunities associated with climate change, aiming to inform both business and government – on topics ranging from the EU Emissions Trading Scheme, renewables policy, low carbon buildings design through to the emerging carbon offsetting market.

Prior to joining the Carbon Trust, James worked for management consultancy McKinsey & Company.

Lord Browne joined Riverstone Holdings LLC, the New York-based energy and power focused private equity firm, in August 2007 as Managing Director and Managing Partner (Europe). He has been a Trustee of the Tate Gallery since 1 August 2007, and a board director of Foster & Partners since September 2007. He is one of the world’s most experienced and respected industrialists, following more than 40 years with BP.

Born in 1948, he joined BP in 1966 and in 1984 became Group Treasurer and Chief Executive of BP Finance International. In 1989, he became Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of BP Exploration, based in London, and in September 1991, he joined the Board of The British Petroleum Company as a Managing Director. He was appointed Group Chief Executive on June 10, 1995. he became Group Chief Executive of the combined group on 31 December 1998, following the merger of BP and Amoco, and stayed in that post until 1 May 2007. He was voted Most Admired CEO by Management Today from 1999 – 2002.

Lord Browne’s other appointments have included Chairman of the Advisory Board of Apax Partners LLC from 2006 to 2007, non-executive director of Goldman Sachs from 1999 to 2007, a non-executive director of Intel Corporation from 1997 to 2006, a Trustee of The British Museum from 1995 to 2005, a member of the Supervisory Board of DaimlerChrysler AG from 1998 to 2001, and non-executive director of SmithKline Beecham from 1996 to 1999. He was knighted in 1998 and made a life peer in 2001.

Neil Auerbach founded Hudson Capital Management (NY) to capture the growing market opportunities in clean energy investing.  Hudson launched its inaugural global private equity fund, Hudson Clean Energy Partners, last November.  Hudson is targeting $1bn in capital commitments for the fund, and intends it to focus on late stage investing, from initial technology commercialisation through to full scale deployment. Hudson CEF will encompass a mix of growth capital, buyout and real asset investment styles. 

Prior to forming Hudson, Neil was a partner at Goldman Sachs, where he founded and managed the US Alternative Energy Business and several other businesses.  Neil invested over $1.5bn of firm capital in numerous investments in wind, solar energy and biofuels.  Neil and his partners at Hudson, Joe Slamm and Dan Gross, played pivotal roles in some of Goldman’s most notable investments in the clean energy sector, including Horizon Wind, First Solar and SunEdison.  Prior to Goldman, Neil was a managing director at Barclays Capital in New York, and launched his banking career at Morgan Stanley, where he was a principal.  Neil has a LLM. from New York University School of Law, a JD from Boston University School of Law and a BS from SUNY at Albany.  Neil’s practice specialty was in taxation, and developed expertise in leasing, leveraged finance, mergers and acquisitions and international taxation. He is a member of the CEO Council of the American Council on Renewable Energy (ACORE).

John C. S. Anderson
Senior Managing DirectorJohn Hancock Financial Services

John Anderson is the Head of Power Finance for John Hancock, the US arm of Manulife Financial of Toronto, the second largest life insurer in North America. His team manages an $11bn portfolio of public bonds, private placement debt, and private equity investments. In 2007, they invested $2bn in the power industry. The firm’s renewable energy portfolio includes $3bn of investments in energy efficiency, as well as hydroelectric, wind, geothermal, biomass, and solar generation.

John has worked in the financing of the power and environmental industries since 1992, as an investor, as an arranger of financing, and as a financial advisor to power, energy, and environmental companies in both developed and developing markets. Prior to joining John Hancock in 2001, John worked in the New York and London offices of JP Morgan Chase, where he led teams that advised on or arranged more than $8bn in debt financing from the syndicated loan and bond markets.

John holds an MBA from Georgetown University, and a BA in Economics from The University of Chicago. He speaks French, Spanish, German, Russian, and Serbo-Croatian at an intermediate level, and would not be mistaken for a native speaker in any of these languages.

John heads up the London energy project finance desk at HSH Nordbank, a commercial bank based in the Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein areas of Germany and with operations across Northern Europe. John’s desk specialises in arranging debt finance for UK-based sponsors acquiring or developing projects across in Europe. The bank has financed a wide range of renewable energy technologies across Europe, including waste to energy plants in Germany, solar projects in Spain, wind farms in Poland and biomass in the UK.

Recent sector-leading deals that the London desk of HSH Nordbank has financed include the Q7 offshore wind farm in the Netherlands and Europe’s first two wind turbine supply loans. In November, the bank agreed to loan Invenergy Wind the funds required to buy 80 of GE’s 2.5MW turbines in Europe.   

John began his career at The Boeing Company in Seattle and has spent the past ten years in London in both commercial and investment banking roles.

Michael Liebreich is the chairman and CEO of New Energy Finance, a specialist provider of financial information and services to investors in renewable energy, low-carbon technologies and the carbon markets. Services include the New Energy Finance Briefing, the New Energy Finance Desktop (which is the world’s largest database of clean energy investors and transactions), the New Carbon Finance Deep Dive, subscription-based streams of research, analysis and forecasting, reports and consultancy.

Michael is an experienced venture capitalist and entrepreneur who has helped build more than 25 companies. Before founding New Energy Finance early in 2004, he was UK managing director of a division of Groupe Arnault which invested $700m of technology venture capital. From 1995 to 1998, Michael was deputy managing director of Associated Press Television and founding director of Sports News Television, the world’s leading wholesale provider of sports news video. At the same time he acted as non-executive director of Interactive Investor prior to its IPO on the London Stock Exchange. 

Before that, Michael spent five years with McKinsey & Company in their London office focusing on operations and finance. From 1986 to 1993, Michael was a member of the British Ski Team, competing in the World Cup and in the 1992 Albertville Olympic Games.