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Speaker Biographies
KATY BRADY
New South Wales Environment Protection Authority, NSW
Katy Brady joined the New South Wales Environment Protection Authority
(now part of the Department of Environment and Conservation) in
1996. She previously worked in the Greenhouse Unit of the NSW Cabinet
Office, the Sustainable Energy Development Authority, the NSW Land
and Environment Court, and the NSW Crown Solicitor's Office.
Ms. Brady was closely involved with the development of the ground-breaking
Hunter River Salinity Trading Scheme, and was responsible for developing
the Scheme's legal framework and penalty structure. She has also
worked on the development and implementation of the innovative Load
Based Licensing scheme, and on a range of other trading proposals
relating to nutrients, salinity and biodiversity. Ms. Brady has
worked extensively on the development of greenhouse and energy policy
in NSW - including the NSW Benchmarks scheme, designed to reduce
greenhouse emissions from the electricity sector.
She now leads a team of economists and policy analysts developing
innovative strategies to tackle energy, greenhouse, water and transport
issues. Current projects include development of a Water Efficiency
Target Scheme, a market based scheme designed to guide water management
investments from a range of providers within a least cost framework.
Ms. Brady holds a Master of Laws from the University of London,
where her studies focussed on international environmental law and
economics, as well as degrees in Law and Environmental Law from
the University of Sydney.
RUPERT EDWARDS
Climate Change Capital
Director of Climate Change Capital and Head of Environmental Products
Trading
From 1988-2002: Worked at JPMorgan where I was latterly Head Of
European Government Securities Trading, Sales and Research. Prior
To that I headed their UK Interest Rate Swap And Government Securities
Trading Business, and traded US and European fixed income, currency
and derivative markets.
In 2003: MSc In Environmental Technology (Distinction) from Imperial
College, London
In 1985: MA in History (2.1). Trinity College, Cambridge.
DIETER ROBIN HELM
New College, Oxford
Dr. Dieter Helm is a fellow in Economics at New College, Oxford.
He is Associate Editor of the Oxford Review of Economic Policy and
Editor of the Utilities Journal. He is a member of the Sustainable
Energy Policy Advisory Board and of Defra's Task Force on Sustainable
Development. He chairs Defra's Academic Economic Panel. Dr. Helm
is a director of OXERA Holdings Limited and Chairman of the OXERA
Energy Group. He has many publications to his name and also presented
UK Plc, a BBC Radio 4 series. He is a Fellow of the Institute of
Energy and the Royal Society of Arts. Dr elm's interests include
the links between science, economic and policy process in relation
to a number of policy areas, including energy, agriculture and water.
JOE KRUGER
Resources for the Future, Washington DC
Joe Kruger is a Visiting Scholar at Resources for the Future (RFF),
an independent environmental economics and policy research organization
in Washington, D.C. At RFF, his research focuses on the design and
implementation of emissions trading programs. His current projects
include an assessment of the European Union Emissions Trading Directive
and an analysis of whether conventional pollution cap and trade
programs are appropriate for developing countries. Kruger is currently
on a leave of absence from the U.S. EPA, where he worked in various
positions for 17 years. Beginning as an analyst in EPA's Policy
Office in 1986, he joined the Acid Rain Division in 1990 and worked
on the regulations setting up the U.S. SO2 Trading Program. In 1995
he became head of the Acid Rain Division's Energy, Evaluation and
International Branch, where he was responsible for evaluating the
economic and environmental impacts of the SO2 Trading Program. From
1999-2003, he led a group within EPA's Clean Air Markets Division
that was responsible for analysis of greenhouse gas trading proposals
and for producing the annual U.S. Greenhouse Gas Inventory. Kruger
holds a Master's degree in public policy from the University of
California, Berkeley, and an A.B. in government and economics from
Cornell University.
KEES J. VAN KUIJEN
Director of the Netherlands Emission Authority, Ministry of Housing,
Spatial Planning, and the Environment
Mr. Van Kuijen joined the Ministry of Environment in 1978. At first
he served as an assistant
Inspector for the Environment. Later he worked successively as Director
for Chemical Substances and Industrial Safety and as Programme-Director
for International Environmental Cooperation. Since 2002 he has been
responsible for the formation of the Netherlands' Emission Authority.
Mr. Van Kuijen was born in 1940. He graduated in biology at Leiden
University.
JÜRGEN LEFEVERE
DG Environment, European Commission
Jürgen Lefevere is administrator at the Climate Change and
Energy Unit of the Environment Directorate General (DG ENV) of the
European Commission in Brussels, Belgium, since October 2003, where
he is involved in the implementation and further development of
the EU's emission allowance trading scheme. From October 1998 until
August 2003 he worked at the London-based Foundation for International
Environmental Law and Development (FIELD), where he was Programme
Director of the Climate Change and Energy Programme. Jürgen
has been involved in a number of studies for DG ENV that have laid
the foundations for the Green Paper on Emissions Trading (March
2000), the proposal for a Directive establishing a scheme for greenhouse
gas emission allowance trading within the Community (ET Directive)
(October 2001), the proposal for a Directive to link the ET Directive
with the project-based mechanisms (July 2003) and the guidelines
for the monitoring and reporting of greenhouse gas emissions (January
2004). Jürgen is a former legal advisor of the Alliance of
Small Island States (AOSIS) and from 1998 until 2003 participated
in the international climate change negotiations as a representative
of Samoa.
KEN MARKOWITZ
President of Earthpace, LLC and Consultant to the INECE Secretariat
Ken Markowitz is the President and founder of Earthpace LLC, which
is dedicated to enabling organizations to meet environmental policy
objectives and legal requirements through communications, strategic
planning, partnership building, and innovation. Ken serves as the
Deputy Director of the Secretariat for the International Network
for Environmental Compliance and Enforcement (INECE).
Ken has significant environmental compliance and enforcement experience
- he previously served as a senior counsel to the United States
Environmental Protection Agency, Region III, where he received several
national honors for the implementation of innovative legal approaches
to rapid, defensible enforcement in emergencies such as petroleum
and hazardous waste spills.
He has assisted environmental decision makers in applying technologies,
including the Web, geographic information systems, and satellite
remote sensing, in planning, response, assessment, and enforcement
contexts. He published "The Legal Challenges and Market Rewards
to the Use of Satellite Remote Sensing as Evidence," 12 Duke
Envtl. L. & Pol'y F. 219 (2002).
Ken also practiced law with Kilpatrick Stockton LLP, gaining experience
with pollutant trading systems and project finance, and with Hall
and Associates, counseling municipal and corporate clients in over
30 states. Ken earned a BBA in finance from Emory University's Goizueta
Business School (1985) and a JD from the Washington College of Law
(WCL), American University (1989), where he was an editor of the
Journal of International Law and Policy and a dean's fellow in corporate
tax. He has served as a member of the Adjunct Faculty at WCL, teaching
water and wetlands law, and is the alumni advisor for the school's
Law and Sustainable Development Journal. Ken is a member of the
New Jersey and District of Columbia Bar Associations.
MJ MACE
Foundation for International Law and Development
M.J. Mace is a lawyer with the Foundation for International Environmental
Law and Development (FIELD) in London. She serves as Programme Director
for FIELD's Climate Change and Energy Programme, where among other
things she provides legal advice and assistance to members of the
Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS). Areas of particular interest
include FIELD's work programmes on adaptation to the impacts of
climate change, insurance-related adaptation issues and capacity
building for the Pacific region. M.J. joined FIELD in 2003 after
working for many years for the National Government of the Federated
States of Micronesia, where she served as General Counsel to the
FSM Supreme Court and subsequently as an Assistant Attorney General
for the FSM Department of Justice. In the latter capacity, she represented
the FSM at numerous climate change negotiations and participated
in the UNFCCC Expert Working Group on Compliance. She has served
as a guest lecturer on the Kyoto Protocol in UCL's LLM course on
International Environmental Law and SOAS's Masters course on International
Studies and Diplomacy. Before moving to the Pacific, M.J. practiced
environmental law and international trade for Skadden, Arps in Washington
D.C. She holds a B.A. from Yale University and a J.D. from the University
of Chicago Law School. She is admitted to practice law before the
New York, Washington D.C., and Federated States of Micronesia Bars.
BRIAN MCLEAN
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Mr. McLean is currently Director of the Office of Atmospheric Programs,
part of EPA's Office of Air and Radiation. His Office is responsible
for designing and implementing emissions "cap and trade"
programs, such as the acid rain program; for running EPA's voluntary
climate protection programs, such as Energy Star; and for implementing
the stratospheric ozone protection program. Previously, Mr. McLean
served as the Director of the Clean Air Markets Division, which
develops and manages trading programs to control emissions of sulfur
dioxide (SO2) and nitrogen oxide (NOX), and assists other countries
with the development of emissions trading programs. Mr. McLean led
EPA staff efforts to develop the proposed Clear Skies legislation
to reduce power plant emissions of SO2, NOX and mercury in the U.S.
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 principal negotiator
of the 1991 U.S.- 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.
HONGJUN ZHANG, Ph.D
Counsel, Beveridge & Diamond, P.C.
Dr. Zhang counsels clients in a wide variety of businesses, including
members of the electronics, chemicals, consumer products, agriculture,
energy, paper, real estate, and food and beverage industries, on
regulatory and enforcement matters in China.
Prior to joining the firm, Dr. Zhang was a Director in the Legislative
Office of the Environmental Protection and Natural Resources Conservation
Committee (EPNRCC) of China's National People's Congress responsible
for drafting national environmental laws and policy documents and
overseeing national and local government implementation and enforcement
of environmental protection and natural resources conservation laws.
He also served as Program Officer in China's State Environmental
Protection Administration (SEPA). Within these capacities, Dr. Zhang
was responsible for managing a significant number of multilateral
development bank and United Nations technical assistance projects.
When working at the Chinese government, Dr. Zhang served as a member
of the Executive Planning Committee of the International Network
on Environmental Compliance and Enforcement (INECE). Dr. Zhang also
has served as a legal advisor on matters related to multilateral
treaties. Dr. Zhang is one of the seven environmental experts and
the only environmental lawyer invited by President Clinton to participate
in the Environmental Round Table in Guilin when the President visited
China in 1998.
Dr. Zhang received legal degrees from Peking University School
of Law and Harvard Law School, and his undergraduate and graduate
degrees from Peking University. Dr. Zhang currently is a Senior
Research Fellow with the Harvard University Committee on Environment
and serves on the Board of Directors of the Energy Foundation. Dr.
Zhang is a member of the Bar Association of New York.
DURWOOD ZAELKE
Director of the Secretariat, International Network for Environmental
Compliance and Enforcement
Durwood Zaelke is the founder (2003) and President of the Institute
for Governance & Sustainable Development in Washington, D.C.
and Geneva; the co-founder (2003) and Co-Director (with Dr. Oran
Young and Matthew Stilwell) of the Program on Governance for Sustainable
Development at the University of California, Santa Barbara's Bren
School of Environmental Science & Management; the founder (1989)
and President (from 1989-2003) of the Center for International Environmental,
where he continues to serve as a member of the Board; and the founder
and Co-Director (with David Hunter) of the International & Comparative
Environmental Law Program at the American University law school
(http://www.wcl.american.edu/environment/llm.cfm).
He also has taught at Yale Law School, Duke Law School, and Johns
Hopkins.
Mr. Zaelke is the founding Director of the Secretariat for the
International Network for Environmental Compliance & Enforcement
(www.inece.org), and the Resident Managing Partner in the Washington,
D.C. office of Zelle, Hofmann, Voelbel, Mason & Gette, LLP,
a law firm specializing in complex litigation (http://www.zelle.com).
In July 2003 Mr. Zaelke joined Dr. Stephen O. Andersen in publishing
INDUSTRY GENIUS: INVENTIONS AND PEOPLE PROTECTING THE CLIMATE AND
FRAGILE OZONE LAYER (Greenleaf UK, 2003) (Andersen & Zaelke)
(http://www.greenleaf-publishing.com/catalogue/genius.htm).
INDUSTRY GENIUS presents the inventive genius behind technological
breakthroughs by ten global companies, including Honda, Seiko-Epson,
Japan's F-Center for Greenhouse Gas Alternatives, ST Microelectronics,
Trane, Aviation Partners, Daimler Chrysler, and Alcoa Aluminum,
and suggests how forward looking companies can pursue sustainable
business strategies and avoid potentially costly liabilities.
Mr. Zaelke also is the author of the leading law school textbook
on International Environmental Law & Policy (Foundation Press
2nd ed. 2002; with Hunter & Salzman); Van Dyke, Zaelke &
Hewison, eds., FREEDOM FOR THE SEAS: A NEW LOOK AT OCEAN GOVERNANCE
(Island Press 1993), co-winner of the Smithsonian's 1994 Sprout
Award for best book on international environmental affairs; and
Zaelke, Housman & Orbach, eds., TRADE AND THE ENVIRONMENT: LAW,
ECONOMICS, AND POLICY (Island Press 1995).
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