Jane Barton
Jane Barton is the Chief of International Smog Program, Environment Canada. Mrs. Barton works closely with the US through the Canada-US Air Quality Committee. Part of this work includes being the lead on the Canada-US Emissions Cap and Trading and feasibility study.

Rob Bradley
Rob Bradley is an energy and climate policy specialist at World Resources Institute's Climate, Energy, and Pollution Program. Mr. Bradley's research has focused on climate policy legislation in the European Union; he has been a member of the European Commission's Energy Consultative Committee and the European Climate Change Programme Working Group. He has worked on wind energy issues in Argentina, examined the employment impacts of energy efficiency projects in Spain, and was the energy specialist to a global network of 350 non-governmental organizations working on climate change and related fields.

Chris Dekkers
Chris Dekkers is a senior policy advisor Emissions Trading Programme in the Directorate-General for the Dutch Ministry of the Environment.

Mr. Dekkers’ professional career includes corporate planning in industry, development work in Africa for the United Nations, and policy development for the oil industry in the Ministry of Economic Affairs. Mr. Dekkers joined the Ministry of Environment in 1990 and became in 1997 responsible for developing the Dutch NOx Emission Trading Programme. Since early 2001 he has been responsible for the co-ordination of the various Task Forces and Working Groups in the NOx and CO2 Emissions Trading Programmes with focus on the implementation and verification of the monitoring of NOx and CO2 emissions in both trading programmes. In addition, Mr. Dekkers has been appointed for the coordination in the Dutch Ministry of Environment of the oncoming review of the IPPC directive and the preparation of proposals relevant for the review, which is to start end of this year.

Mr. Dekkers was born in the Netherlands in 1942. He has a University Degree in Mathematical Economics at the Erasmus University of Rotterdam.

Jill Duggan
Jill Duggan heads the policy team developing the UK 's National Allocation Plan for the Second Phase of the EU ETS and the Registry Development Team for the EU/UN Emissions Trading Registry. Until recently she also led the team responsible for the UK 's voluntary Emissions Trading Scheme that has been running since 2002.

Mr. Egenhofer is a political scientist by training and holds an additional law degree. He has been working on the EU ET since 1999.

Rob Fowler
Rob Fowler is currently a Senior Analyst with the Scheme Administrator of the New South Wales Greenhouse Gas Abatement Scheme – one of the first mandatory emissions trading schemes in the world. He is responsible for a variety of aspects of the Scheme’s operation including implementation of the carbon sequestration side of the Scheme, enhancement of protocols to measure emissions from coal-fired power stations, training of verifiers, and monitoring the development of domestic and international standards and conventions.

Mr. Fowler contributes to a number of domestic and international initiatives in energy and greenhouse. He is a Director of the Australian Institute of Energy, a member of the Australian Standards committee for development of ISO and Australian greenhouse standards, and a registered expert for the CDM Meth Panel.

Prior to joining the NSW GGAS, Rob worked for six years as a business strategy consultant living and working in China, Indonesia, Thailand, Singapore, USA, New Zealand and Australia. Rob has an honours degree in Mechanical Engineering from Monash University and worked for a period as a project engineer in aluminium smelting and in manufacturing.

Prior to joining the Environment Agency in 1999, he had 20 years experience working in industry on regulatory policy and compliance with complex and simple regulation.

Erik F. Haites
Dr. Erik Haites has participated in the analysis of domestic greenhouse gas trading system designs for Alberta , Australia , Canada , the U.K. the European Commission, and the U.S. He has assisted the UNFCCC Secretariat on issues related to the Kyoto mechanisms since 1998. Dr. Haites served as Head of the Technical Support Unit for Working Group III of the IPCC during the preparation of its Second Assessment Report.

Reid Harvey
Reid Harvey is a Branch Chief with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Climate Change Division, Office of Atmospheric Programs (OAP). His group in EPA is responsible for developing the U.S. greenhouse gas emissions inventory and conducting domestic and international analyses in support of U.S. climate change policy. In addition, OAP implements the U.S. cap-and-trade programs for SO 2 and NO x and works with other countries that are analyzing or developing cap-and-trade mechanisms. He has over 20 years of experience with environmental and energy policy analysis, both at EPA and in the private sector. He holds a Masters Degree from the Graduate School of Public Policy at the University of California at Berkeley.

Joe Kruger
Joe Kruger is a Visiting Scholar at Resources for the Future (RFF), where his research focuses on the design, implementation, and evaluation of emissions trading programs. He is a lead author of the forthcoming Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Fourth Assessment Report and a member of the Resource Panel for the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI). Previously, he was at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, where he managed a group within the Clean Air Markets Division that was responsible for technical and policy analysis of greenhouse gas trading and inventory issues. In the mid-90’s, he managed a group within EPA’s Acid Rain Division that assessed the economic and environmental impacts of the SO2 Trading Program.  Starting December 12, he will start a new position as Policy Director of the National Commission on Energy Policy.

Marco Loprieno
Marco Loprieno is a European Commission Official. He is a member of the Emissions Trading team in the Climate Change, Ozone & Energy Unit of the Directorate General for Environment of the European Commission in Brussels . He has special responsibility on the monitoring, reporting and verification of the European Union Emissions Trading Scheme.

Previously Marco worked on broader development and co-operation issues and on the setting-up of the first European Climate Change Programme. Before joining the European Commission in 1995, Marco had different positions at executive level in the environment and international affairs departments of the chemical group Montedison. He holds a M.A. in International Economics and International Relations at the School of Advanced International Studies , Johns Hopkins University . He is Italian by nationality.

Mr. McLean has been with EPA since 1972. He helped develop the Administration’s acid rain legislative proposal which was enacted in 1990 as Title IV of the Clean Air Act, and was a principle negotiator of the 1991 US-Canada Air Quality Accord.

Mr. McLean holds a bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from Lafayette College , a Master’s degree in City and Regional Planning from Rutgers University , and a Doctorate in City Planning from the University of Pennsylvania .

Mike McMahon
Mike McMahon is a Senior Advisor for the Climate Change Program of BP's Health, Safety, Security, and Environment Group.

Mr. McMahon has worked for BP for 28 years and is based at BP’s technical/commercial centre at Sunbury just outside of London in the UK. In his current role, Mike provides technical support to senior management on policy issues relating to Climate Change, such as Emissions Trading, CDM, emerging voluntary and mandatory reporting and reduction initiatives, and the impact of possible future national and international policy instruments on BP’s business.

Mike helped to develop BP’s own GHG reporting guidelines in 1996 and since then has been actively involved in a number of external initiatives such as the WBCSD/WRI GHG Protocol and the Petroleum Industry GHG Reporting Guidelines.

The presentation will explore options for the future direction of Monitoring, Reporting and Verification of GHG emissions and emission reductions to meet the challenges of low transaction costs and global harmonization.

Alan S. Miller
Alan S. Miller is a Principal Project Officer at the International Finance Corporation, the private sector lending arm of the World Bank Group.  He serves as Team Leader for Climate Change and Global Environment Facility (GEF) Coordinator with responsibility for the preparation and execution of IFC projects using GEF resources to achieve global environmental benefits, particularly renewable energy projects. Mr. Miller is a lawyer with more than 30 years experience working on energy and environmental issues.  He is a member of the Summer Faculty of the Vermont Law School and co-author (with Robert Percival, Christopher Schroeder, and James Leape) of the textbook Environmental Regulation: Law, Science and Policy and (with Curtis Moore) the book Green Gold: Japan, Germany, and the United States and the Race for Environmental Technology.

Jeremy Schreifels
Jeremy Schreifels is a Senior Environmental Protection Specialist with the U.S. EPA’s Office of Atmospheric Programs. He is the leader of the international outreach group, applying his experience with market-based policies to assist foreign governments address air quality problems through the use of emission trading. He has worked with local, provincial, and national governments in Chile , China , Czech Republic , India , Mexico , Russia , Slovakia , and Ukraine to assess the potential for emission trading and design trading programs appropriate for the characteristics of each country’s environmental problem.

Prior to joining the international outreach group, Mr. Schreifels worked with Intel Corporation as a corporate environmental management specialist. His responsibilities included developing measurement protocols, life-cycle assessments, and environmental performance indicators. He also worked with Accenture Consulting as a business and technology consultant to Fortune 100 firms.

Mr. Schreifels has published numerous articles on emission trading, has contributed to several books on China ’s environment, and has co-edited two books on designing and implementing emission trading programs. In 2003 and 2004, he was awarded a Science Fellowship with the U.S. Department of State to do environmental research in China .

While working as a researcher, he has been involved in international negotiations on climate change policies as a Japanese delegate and provided advice on international negotiations strategies. Right after this workshop, Mr. Shimada is transferred to Ministry of the Environment, Japan, as Chief Administrator to conduct negotiations on the design of Beyond 2012 climate regime, development and transfer of technology, synergies among Rio Conventions, Joint Implementation, and compliance issues. He is a national of Japan and obtained MA in International Studies at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), BA from Amherst College, and LL.B from Doshisha University.

Gudmundur Sigurthorsson
Gudmundur Sigurthorsson is Senior Vice president with DNV,  He has global responsibility in DNV for the Energy and Process industry sectors and for all Climate Change related services. Gudmundur is also a Board Member of the International Emissions Trading Association (IETA) and, jointly with Mike McMahon from BP, the Chair of IETA's working groups on Monitoring, Reporting and Verification.

Michael J. Walsh
Dr. Michael J. Walsh is a Senior Vice President of Chicago Climate Exchange, Inc., a self-regulatory exchange that administers a voluntary greenhouse reduction and trading program for North America . CCX subsidiaries administer futures contract markets for sulfur dioxide emission allowances and manage marketing of products for the European Union carbon dioxide Emissions Trading Scheme that are traded on the International Petroleum Exchange. In his prior position with Environmental Financial Products LLC (the predecessor company to CCX), Dr. Walsh arranged several international carbon credit transactions, developed rules for efficient international carbon trading and designed sustainable forestry and carbon funds. He also served as lead writer for a series of five technical papers on international emissions trading prepared for the Government of Canada. He has been a keynote speaker on environmental markets in over a dozen countries.

Dr. Walsh previously served as a Senior Economist with the Chicago Board of Trade where he directed the CBOT annual auctions of sulfur dioxide emission allowances conducted on behalf of the U.S. Environmental Protection A­gency. Dr. Walsh has also served as a Financial Economist in the Office of Tax Policy in the U.S. Department of the Treasury and has been on the faculties of the University of Notre Dame and the Illinois Institute of Technology. He has been a consultant to the U.S. Agency for International Development on emissions trading in central Europe and served on the Florida Air Emissions Trading Commission. Dr. Walsh holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Michigan State University.

Jeff Williams
Jeff Williams is a Manager, Corporate Environmental Initiatives for Entergy Corporation. Mr. Williams has over 25 years experience providing environmental support to the power generation industry and has been an innovator in creating shareholder value from environmental excellence initiatives. In that capacity he plays an important role in planning for how Entergy will act on future sustainable growth opportunities, demonstrate how environmental leadership will result in great financial performance, and achieve stakeholder consensus on emerging legislative and regulatory environmental issues. Mr. Williams has been instrumental in developing and executing Entergy's Integrated Environmental Strategy. He has implemented a number of Entergy's groundbreaking internal and external voluntary greenhouse gas reduction initiatives and is helping Entergy establish itself as leader in sustainable development.