Dr. Richard Bradley is the Head of the Energy Efficiency and Environment Division at the International Energy Agency in Paris. He served from 1997-2004 as Senior Advisor for Global Change in the Office of Policy and International Affairs at the U.S. Department of Energy. In that role he served as the senior departmental negotiator for international environmental agreements. He has participated among others in the negotiation of the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change and its Kyoto Protocol. Dr. Bradley received his Ph.D. in natural resource economics from the University of California, Riverside and was Assistant Professor of Economics and Environmental Sciences at the University of Texas from 1974-1977. He joined the Department of Energy in 1978 as an economist. From 1980 to 1983 he was with the Environment Directorate of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development in Paris.He has held several management positions before assuming his current responsibilities.

Dr Wenying Chen Associate professor, Tsinghua University, China received her Ph.D. degree from Tsinghua University in 1996 where she has worked since in the Energy, Environment and Economy Research Institute. Her researches mainly focus on energy system modeling, energy development strategies as well as climate change mitigation strategies. She has been the project leaders/coordinators for several national tenth-five-year key research projects, national ninth-five-year key research projects, Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) project, and international cooperation projects, covering China MARKAL-MACRO model development and energy development strategies as well as carbon mitigation strategies study, energy model development and strategy study for western China, carbon capture and storage, Beijing natural gas market study, future carbon permit allocation approaches study, clean development mechanism (CDM) potentials assessment for the whole country and three provinces, and etc. She has published over 40 papers on air pollution control, energy modelling, energy development strategies, carbon permit allocation approaches, CDM, and etc. in domestic and international journals.

Dr Ottmar Edenhofer is chief economist at the Potsdam Institute of Climate Impact Research. He is currently leading the research on the Economics of Atmospheric Stabilisation. Within the project SPARK, he explores the impact of induced technological change on mitigation costs and mitigation strategies. He studied Economics and Philosophy at the University of Munich and holds a Diploma in Economics from Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München and a BA in Philosophy from the Hochschule für Philosophie. His research interests are the Economics of Atmospheric Stabilization, Social Cost-Benefit Analysis, Sustainability Theory, Economic Growth Theory, Environmental Economics, Welfare Theory and General Intertemporal Equilibrium Theory.

Mr Gary Gardner works as Director of Research at the Worldwatch Institute. His areas of expertise are Materials Use, Religion and the Environment, Global Malnutrition, Social Change. He’s also a co-author of the Worldwatch Institute’s State of the World. Before joining the Institute in 1994, Gary was project manager of the Soviet Nonproliferation Project, a research and training program run by the Monterey Institute of International Studies in California. He has developed training materials for the World Bank and for the Millennium Institute in Arlington, VA. Gary holds Master's degrees in Politics from Brandeis University, and in Public Administration from the Monterey Institute of International Studies, and a Bachelor's degree from Santa Clara University.

Prof Joyeeta Gupta works as the Head of the International Environmental Governance Program in the Institute for Environmental Studies at the Free University of Amsterdam, Netherlands. She also is appointed as professor in Policy and Law on the Environment at the UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education. Dr. Gupta’s areas of expertise are in the multidisciplinary (legal, political and policy) analysis of international environmental agreements and multi-level environmental governance. In particular her focus has been on the climate change regime, which she has examined from the North-South perspective and the perspective of Europe. She has also looked at domestic implementation issues especially in relation to energy in countries like Brazil, China, India, Indonesia and Kenya.

Dr. Niklas Höhne is following the international climate change negotiations since 1995. As programme officer of the UNFCCC secretariat (1998 to 2001), he was responsible for supporting the negotiations on various issues, such as projections of greenhouse gas emissions, emissions from international transport and fluorinated gases. Since 2001 he works at Ecofys as consultant on projects related to the international climate change negotiations and the Kyoto Mechanisms for international organizations, national governments and companies. He completed his PhD of the University of Utrecht on "What is next after the Kyoto Protocol - Assessment of options for international climate policy post 2012" in 2005. He is lead author for the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report for the chapter 13 "Policies, Instruments and Cooperative Arrangements". Since 2005 he is Coordinator of the Energy and Climate Strategy group of Ecofys in Germany.

Mr Martin Khor is the Director of the International Secretariat of the Third World Network. He was also a Member of the Board of the South Centre (1996-2002) and formerly a Vice Chairman of the Expert Group on the Right to Development of the UN Commission on Human Rights. He is a member of and Consultant to the Consultative Group on Globalisation established under the National Economic Action Council in the Prime Minister’s Department in Malaysia. He has also been a Consultant to UNCTAD, UNDP, UNEP and the UN University. He coordinated a report of the Third World Network for UNDP on The Multilateral Trading System: A Development Perspective which was published by UNDP in January 2002. He is the author of the book, Globalisation and the South, which was a report he wrote for UNCTAD and distributed at the South Summit in Havana in 2000, and has written several other books and papers on trade and WTO issues, and on environment and development issues.

Professor Jacqueline McGlade became Executive Director of the European Environment Agency on June 1 2003. Prior to this she was Natural Environment Research Council Professorial Fellow in Environmental Informatics in the Mathematics Department of University College London where her main areas of research included spatial data analysis and informatics, expert systems, environmental technologies and the international politics of the environment and natural resources. Professor McGlade has won various prizes including the Minerva Prize, the Swedish Jubileum Award and the Brno University Gold Medal. Professor McGlade has worked extensively in North America, south-east Asia and west Africa; she has published more than 100 research papers, written popular articles, presented and appeared in many radio and television programmes, including her own BBC series The Ocean Planet and Learning from Nature and given public lectures worldwide on sustainable development, conflicts over environmental impacts of industrial and natural activities, patenting of organisms, environmental technologies and the release of genetically modified organisms.

Dr Mohan Munasinghe was born in Sri Lanka, and received the B.A. (Hons.) and M.A. degrees in Engineering from Cambridge Univ., U.K. in 1967, S.M. and Ph. E.E. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the Massachusetts Inst. of Technology, U.S.A. in 1970, Ph.d. in Solid State Physics from McGill Univ., Canada, in 1973, and M.A. in Development Economics from Concordia Univ., Canada, in 1975. Presently, he is Chief Energy Advisor to the Govt. of Sri Lanka; Chairman, Munasinghe Institute for Development (MIND), Sri Lanka, Visiting Professor, Inst. of Advanced Studies, United Nations University, and Vice Chair, Bureau of the Intergovenmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). During the past decade, he has served as Senior Advisor for Sustainable Development, and Division Chief for Environmental Policy, World Bank, Washington, DC. While working 30 years in the international development area, he has acquired field experience in environment, energy, electricity, water, transport, urban infrastructure, and telecommunications projects in most developing countries.

Hon Suresh P. Prabhu, Member of the Parliament (Lok Sabha) in India has served among others as the Union Cabinet Minister for Environment & Forests and Minister for Industry in India. Before joining politics in 1996 he had his own Chartered Accountancy firm. His special areas of expertise are in the sectors of environment and sustainable development, water & energy, framing and implementation of public policy and rural development works. He has also extensive knowledge of Finance, Law, Accountancy, Framing of Public Policy and Public Administration. He was the Chairman of the largest Urban Experience Co-operative Bank in India and had been connected with over 150 NGOs, which operate in various fields. He has also been a Senior Advisor to a UN organisation.