Lex de Jonge graduated as chemical engineer and worked in research, followed by management positions on environmental issues with industry and local authorities. In 1992 he became head of the Industry Division of the Dutch Ministry of Environment (VROM).

Since 2001 he is head of the CDM Division at this Ministry.
His main responsibility is to implement CDM - organizing the purchase of CERs on behalf of the Dutch government - and to advice on policy developments on international emissions trading.
Since 2006 he is a member of the CDM Executive Board and since January 2008 he is vice-chair of the CDM Executive Board

Akihiro Kuroki is now seconded to the Institute of Energy Economics, Japan from the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI). After he graduated with a degree in Aviation Technology from Tokyo University, he joined Ministry of International Trade and Industry (MITI; now METI) in 1979. He has worked for MITI in various areas including, among all, energy and environment, in which he achieved plenty of outstanding works. For instance, he made significant contributions to the process of establishment of International Panel for Climate Change (IPCC) in 1988, which was one of earliest environmental programs of its kind. He also worked for the IAEA from 1994 to 1997 as Senior Officer for Special Project, Public Division, in which he was involved with various energy-related policies. Since 2001 and until recently, he had served as Director for Nuclear Safety and Quality Assurance Division of Korean Peninsula Energy Development Organization (KEDO), in which he made great contributions to construction of Light Water Reactors in North Korea.

Mr. LU Xuedu, Deputy Head of Office of Global Environmental Affairs of the Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST), Alternate of CDM Executive Board to the Kyoto Protocol, has been engaged in project management, policy-making and international negotiation on climate change from 1991. From 1996, acting as one of the chief negotiators of Chinese delegation to the negotiations on UNFCCC and IPCC, he played a role in both domestic and international policy-making related to climate change. From 2001, he was elected for four times as member of CDM Executive Board, and was elected as Vice Chairman of the Board in 2005, and he has made great contributions to the CDM development in both China and world. In addition, he is the representative of China for the Carbon Sequestration Leadership Forum and Asia-Pacific Network for Global Change Research. From 2004 to 2006, he was elected as the Chairman of the Host Country Committee of Carbon Finance Business of World Bank. In recent years, he published several papers and books on climate change policies and CDM. He has a doctorate in Engineering by Tsinghua University.

Chen Huan is Deputy Director General of the China CDM Fund Management Center, Ministry of Finance (MOF). Approved by the State Council in August 2006, China CDM Fund and its management center were established. As an innovative financial mechanism to address climate change, China CDM Fund is a policy-oriented and development served, public benefit, long-term, open-ended, non-profit and state-owned fund. It will rely on extensive domestic and international cooperation to enhance its operation, and give full play as a funding source, a platform of financial cooperation, a platform of cooperative actions and a platform of information collection and dissemination.

Magnus Gislev has a degree in Chemistry and Business Administration from the University of Karlstad, Sweden. He started in the European Commission in 1995 and joined the Environment Directorate-General in 1999. He was in charge of overseeing the implementation of EU legislation on integrated pollution prevention and control and also took part in the development of the EU Emissions Trading Scheme and the EU Environmental Technologies Action Plan. Since 2005, he is the representative of the Environment Directorate-General at the European Commission in Beijing in charge of the EU-China Environment Policy Dialogue and the EU-China Climate Change Partnership

Member of the European Parliament
Group of the European People’s Party (Christian Democrats) and European Democrats, member

Born on 18 April 1968, Budapest, Hungary

Member
Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety
Delegation to the EU-Kazakhstan, EU-Kyrgyzstan and EU.Uzbekistan Parlaimentary Cooperation Committees, and for relations with Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Mongolia

Substitute
Committee on Budgets
Temporary Committee on Climate Change
Delegation to the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly

Curriculum vitae
Industrial Engineer (BSc) (1990); Chemical Engineer (MA) (1992); Environmental Technology Engineer (MSc) (1993). Head, European Integration Office (1996-2004).

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Mr. Huang Shengchu is President of China Coal Information Institute based in Beijing. He completed his study with Ph. D degree at universities in China and Germany. He has been working for more than 20 years in coal mining and safety.  Dr. Huang was instrumental in establishment of the China Coalbed Methane Clearinghouse in 1994 with support of USEPA. Under his leadership, his team in Clearinghouse has achieved a lot in CBM/CMM technology and policy study, developed more than twenty CDM Projects on CMM/CBM development and utilization.

Mr. Huang is the vice-chair of the Coal Committee of M2M Partnership, and he is engaged by United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) as consultant of Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), and he is also involved by Asian Development Bank and World Bank as consultant for CBM/CMM projects in China. China Coal Information Institute (CCII) is a  national leading research institute, since established in 1959,CCII has expended its business in the areas of information research , publication of books and periodicals, audio & video products, printing services and property management, making great contributions to the development of China coal industry and occupational safety & health.

Dr. Cheng has been working with the URC as Energy Scientist since Sept. 2006. She holds a PhD from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Boston USA. She has been working on energy efficiency and sustainability related issues in China and India throughout her PhD studies, and her previous work with TERI, India. Her research interests mainly focus on integrating energy efficiency into development strategies in developing countries. She specializes in programmatic CDM and energy efficiency CDM research, energy efficiency technology assessment, and energy demand-side management policy research.

Zhang Hanwen. Since graduated from Hunan Agricultural University, he successively holds the post of the Newspaper Subeditor of Hunan Agricultural University, Printing House Manager of the university, Journalist and Director of Planning Department in Today’s Lady Newspaper office，Publishing and Planning Director General of Oriental News newspaper office, Press Director General and President of Changsha Dajia Cultural Dissemination Company, Sub-decanal, Researcher and Advanced Planner of China Planning Academy, Chief Editor of China Planning Magazine，Sub-decanal and Researcher of Chinese Regional Economic Academy, Chief Editor of China County Regional Economy.

From March, 2003 until now, he has been appointed as Administrator Office Director of Hunan CDM Project Service Center, Hunan Energy Saving and Emission Reduction Scientific Service Center and International Scientific Cooperation Service Center of Hunan Scientific and Technology Institute. President and General Manager of Hunan Xiangke CDM Co., Ltd.,   President of Hunan Zhongrui Environment Investment & Management Co., Ltd.

Under Zhang’s guidance, there are two centers and two companies, of which 57 CDM projects have already been developed or under developing at the moment. The carbon dealing contracts transactions will reach two billion RMB up till 2012. The Center (Company) has turned into the strongest, most powerful and outstanding energy saving and emission reduction specialized service institute both in Hunan and in domestic area.

Work Experience:

1. Director of Ningxia Computer Institute
2. Chairman of Ningxia Software Industry Association
3. Deputy Director of Ningxia Science and Technology Committee
4. Director of Ningxia Department of Science and Technology
5. The Party committee on eighth terms in Ningxia
6. Representative of People's Congress on eighth terms in Ningxia
7. Standing Member of the Committee of Ningxia Political Consultation on seventh and eighth terms

Education:

1. 1967: Mathematics Department, Ningxia University
2. 1985-1986: Training of computer software engineering, Tokyo Training Centre
3. 1993: Training of course of enterprise management and capital operation,    America

Qualifications and Abilities:

1. 1993: an expert with outstanding contribution and enjoy special government  allowance
2. Advanced worker granted by State Science and Technology Committee
3. 1994: get undertaking prize of Chinese science and technology businessman
4. 1999: preside over Ningxia CAD Pilot Project and get the first prize in Ningxia
5. Establish enterprises with floppy disk manufacture and optical disk manufacture
6. Build experts system for matrimony vine, ephedra and viticulture by adopting information technology  
7. Since 2003: implementation of CDM activities in Ningxia and establish Ningxia CDM Service Centre
8. Chinese CDM active person in 2004

Sylvain has a 10+ years experience in Carbon Finance and is currently Deputy head of Carbon Finance, BNP Paribas where he is in charge of originating carbon project and structuring financing based on carbon assets. Before joining BNP Paribas, he co-developed the Carbon practice with the international consultancy PricewaterhouseCoopers where he advised numerous corporates and administrations on emission trading and developed CDM projects as early as 1999. Sylvain is a graduated Civil and Environmental Engineer and hold a MBA from HEC Paris.

Nick Clarke is the Chief Executive of Carbon Resource Management (CRM).  Having spent 20 years in the oil & gas industry as an engineer, energy trader and entrepreneur he began investing in the carbon market in 2004 and has subsequently built CRM into one of the world’s leading developers of CDM projects with a strong presence in China.

Nuclear Engineer, Master in Finance, with long international experience:

1. In China, for 5 Years (1997-2001) as deputy chief
   of Italian Trade Commission Beijing and Program Manager of the Sino-Italian Cooperation program for Environmental Protection.
2. In Poland for 3 years (2001-2004), a Trade Commissioner and Member of the Board of Ecofund (Debt for Environment Swap Fund).
3. 2004-2007 in Brussels, as  Head of the EU Task Force of  the Italian Ministry for Environment, in charge for European funding and market mechanisms for Environmental protection.

Green Initiative Carbon Assets S.A. is established in Lugano – Switzerland, by four major italian industrial and banking investors, with the aim to originate and trade Carbon Assets, based on the flexible mechanisms of the Kyoto Protocol.

GICA shareholders have decided to put together an initial capital commitment of 60M EUR for the procurement of a primary CER/ERU portfolio, to be delivered in the period 2008-2012.

GICA is a top rated buyer, with a quick and effective decision making process, willing to cooperate with project owners in order to deploy full Carbon Credit potential of their project.

GICA is looking for projects capable to start delivery in 2010 at latest.

All approved methodologies are eligible, except AR

GICA is also willing to include in the portfolio a few innovative projects, with an addition of high environmental and technological value.

Lucy Mortimer is the Global Manager of the CDM & JI brokerage team at Tradition Financial Services (TFS), one of the largest international energy and environmental brokerage firms worldwide.  She joined TFS in 2005 to start up the project-based emissions business, brokering credits from projects under the Clean Development Mechanism and Joint Implementation Scheme, and assisting in the financing and development of projects.

The team has a strong focus not just on the developing a robust business, but also on the sustainability and environmental integrity of projects; TFS actively promotes efforts aimed at improving the level of environmental standards in projects, through sponsorship of high level accreditation processes such as the Gold Standard, and the promotion and development of projects from least developed nations.

As the head of the CDM & JI business, Lucy has built up a successful team, and with their assistance, has concluded significant deals within the past two years, including transactions for millions of credits between the largest state-owned power companies in China, and enterprises in the UK and Europe.

Alongside the CDM & JI business, TFS also has successful EU ETS and Renewable businesses in the UK, and US, Australian and German based environmental businesses.

Prior to working at TFS, Lucy spent four years working within the emissions markets, working on the emerging project-based emissions markets and secondary markets, concluding the first two Secondary CER and CER/EUA swaps in the market. Prior to working in the market, Lucy gained a BA (Hons) Architecture degree from Manchester University, specializing in Sustainable and Environmental Architecture & Design.

TFS is part of Compagnie Financière Tradition Group, which is one of the world "Top Three" brokers in over-the-counter financial and non-financial products, and n°1 in Continental Europe. With a presence in 22 countries, Compagnie Financière Tradition has a strong client base, primarily comprised of banks and financial institutions around the globe as well as local authorities, major industrial and commercial corporations. Compagnie Financière Tradition shares have been listed on the Swiss Stock Exchange since 1973 and on the third compartment of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange since 1999. It has offices in London, Paris, New York, Frankfurt, Lausanne, Milan, Luxembourg, Stockholm, Moscow, Los Angeles, Houston, New Jersey, Stamford, Buenos Aires, Hong Kong, Singapore, Tokyo, Beijing, Toronto, Sydney, Santiago, Johannesburg and Dubai.

Ms. Victoria Q. Wang serves as a CEO of Green Capital Consulting Company, a 1998 Beijing registered company specializing in structuring the innovative package solutions to meet the ever-increasing demands for sustainable development in the energy and industrial sectors as well as investment markets in the PRC. The Company is now staffed by 40 some professionals and has achieved dozens of millions RMB revenues in its business operations while has created the carbon assets under Kyoto Protocol of UNFCCC about 100 million tons of CERs (the certified emission reductions) for the PRC markets. Before this role, Ms. Wang spent twelve years of studying and working in the US.

Ms. Wang has made significant contributions to the business communities in the PRC by supporting the knowledge transfer and capacity building of sustainable development in the PRC market. She also serves as the managing director of the Research Center of Climate Change and an Editor-in-chief of three periodicals providing the timely news and reports on the issues related to the global carbon markets as well as China CDM markets. As an influential speaker and active business promoter in the global carbon markets, She has provided several dozen training workshops for more than a few thousands business executives and government officials in the PRC since 2004.

Coen Weddepohl is an Investment Director at Man ECO based in London with responsibility for originating new environmental investment opportunities. He joined the business in 2008 from Man Investments where he was head of Environmental Finance.

Prior to this, Mr. Weddepohl was responsible for the Style & Strategy Development team at RMF, conducting “new alternatives” research, product development and portfolio management. Prior to that, he was a senior analyst with responsibility for manager selection and portfolio management in the areas of Global Macro and Equity Hedged at RMF, which he joined in 2000.

Andrew Aldridge is a Vice President in the Carbon Markets team, where he is responsible for investments in renewable energy and energy efficiency businesses.  Andrew brings wide ranging experience of investing in energy companies in emerging markets, as a private equity investor, project/corporate financier and project developer.  Before joining CCC, he founded EM Energy Solutions, a boutique consultancy providing project development and investment management advice to private equity funds operating in Europe, Middle East and China.  Prior to this, Andrew was a director at Actis/CDC Group, a private equity business focused on Emerging Markets, where he built a US$350m portfolio of investments in energy and utility companies. Andrew is a chartered accountant and graduated with a BSc(Hons) in Physics from Imperial College, London.

Ross Warner -  Credit Suisse Group Commodities Group Mr. Warner is a Vice President at Credit Suisse where he works on carbon structuring, offset origination and carbon linked financing.  Mr. Warner has executed multiple ERPA and VERPA agreements with Credit Suisse clients. Previously to joining the Commodities Group, Mr. Warner was an investment banker in Credit Suisse's Power and Utilities Group where he executed approximately $20 billion in Corporate and Project financings and also worked on numerous M&A and strategic advisory assignments. Previously to joining Credit Suisse, Mr. Warner worked in China for Lucent Technologies (China).

Dr Ka Keung Chan is Managing Director and Head of Investments Greater China. Prior to CCC, Dr Chan was Managing Director of Renewable Energy for CLP Holdings, where he was responsible for the development and operation of renewable energy projects in Asia Pacific and led all CLP’s project financing, corporate restructuring and acquisition in China. Previously, he was the General Manager of Corporate Finance, for the Concord Group: a conglomeration of businesses in property, oil & gas, pharmaceutical, banking and information technology. Dr Chan was responsible for all of Concord Group’s corporate finance activities in Hong Kong, China and Thailand. Dr Chan has also held positions at NatWest Markets and Credit Suisse First Boston, both in Hong Kong. Dr Chan has a B.A. from Robinson College, Cambridge; a Doctorate from Churchill College, Cambridge; a Bachelor of Laws from London University and an MBA from Tsginhua University, Beijing.

John Gao is responsible for establishing and maintaining strategic partnerships with key clients throughout China. He is also acting Director of Camco’s Business Development Division. John has been in the carbon industry since its early inception in 2005 and has been responsible for developing several milestone CDM projects, including the Jigang WHR project, the Yangquan CMM projects (for which Camco received Environmental Finance’s 2007 Carbon Transaction of the Year Award), the Conch cement WHR projects and the Taiyanggong CCGT project.

John has 25 years experience in the electrical and power industry and EMBA from the North China Electrical Power University.

Tanja Illic joined Nord Pool in 2005 from her position as director marketing & communications of SchlumergerSema/Atos Origin AB. Ilic has broad international marketing and communication experience from businesses worldwide. Since 2006, Ilic is also part of the Supervisory board of the holding company, European Energy Exchange based in Leipzig Germany.

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Peter Corne joined Eversheds in 2006, and is the Managing Director of the Shanghai office. He has been based in Shanghai since 1996, working first at Simmons & Simmons from 1996 to 2000, and then at Linklaters from 2000 to 2006. Qualified to practice in England & Wales, Hong Kong, New South Wales and Victoria, he has specialised in the area of Chinese corporate, commercial and regulatory practice for many years, and more recently in the area of global warming and renewable energy, which encompasses areas ranging from wind, biomass and hydro, to energy saving, cleaner coal and geothermal.  He acted for a Japanese consortium in 2005 in the largest Clean Development Mechanism Project (under the Kyoto Protocol) in the world to that time in Zhejiang Province, and for Mitsui & Co in a CDM Project involving the capture of mine gases in North China.  Most recently, he acted for Anshan Iron and Steel in one of the largest CDM Projects of 2007, an energy conservation project generating 13 Million tonnes of carbon credits worth EURO 150 Million.  In addition to his expertise in CDM and renewable energy, is recognised as a leading practitioner in the fields of mergers and acquisitions, corporate restructuring, and equity and asset acquisitions of foreign-invested enterprises and State-owned enterprises.

Peter has acted for a number of major corporate clients such as Coca-Cola, Hershey, SPX, MeadWestVaco, Tetrapak, Mitsui & Co, Itochu, Marubeni, Alcatel, Syngenta, Sumitomo Chemical, Asahi Chemical, Intel, Toshiba and BOC Gases (now Linde Group).  He is, in addition, a noted authority on PRC administrative law and the foreign investment process, having authored a critically acclaimed book on the subject. He is listed in International Who’s Who of Professionals, and Euromoney’s Asia Leading Lawyers.

A dual national (Australia and UK) and a fluent speaker of Chinese and Japanese, Peter holds a BA and LLB from the University of Sydney and an LLM in Chinese law from the University of Melbourne. He won several scholarships for study in China and Japan, including scholarships from both the Australian and Japanese governments.

As a Director of Business Development in MGM International (China), Mr. Liu Jianguo carries out procurement of CDM/VM projects for MGM Carbon Portfolio. In 2007, as a technical director in MGM, Mr. Liu Jianguo, carries out initial assessment on the feasibility of CDM projects, management of CDM cycle for projects including PDD

revision, validation, and registration, and technical assessment of chemical projects. In 2006, Mr. Liu Jianguo, as a procurement manager China in Carbon Asset Management Sweden (CAM), successfully researched the CDM market in China and developed relationships with many project developers and potential CDM project owners, played a key role introducing CAM into CDM market in China and assisting closing its very first ERPA in China and a number of cooperation agreements. Between 2003 and 2005, Mr. Liu Jianguo, as an online analyzer technician Shanghai SECCO Petrochemical Co., commissioned and maintained on-line analyzers for process and emissions monitoring, compiled bilingual maintenance procedures in English and Chinese, investigated Chinese regulations on emissions monitoring, and assisted the commissioning for the company’s first boiler.

In 2002, Mr. Liu Jianguo, as a trainee in Det Norske Veritas (DNV) Research, investigated the Clean Development Mechanism for greenhouse gas mitigation under the Kyoto Protocol, compiled DNV Report No. 2002-1249 “GHG Emissions and CDM opportunities in China”, and facilitated and interpreted for a high-level delegation from China’s authorities in environmental management visiting Norway.

Mr. Liu Jianguo holds a Bachelor’s degree in environmental engineering at Zhejiang University.

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