Yvo de Boer joined KPMG in July 2010 as Special Global Advisor, Climate Change and Sustainability. He is responsible for thought leadership and strategy development, and acts as a global ambassador for KPMG worldwide. Prior to joining KPMG, he was Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)—the body responsible for a multi-lateral response to the climate change challenge. He has been involved in climate change policies since 1994 and seeks broad stakeholder involvement in all issues relating to the challenge. Alongside his work for KPMG he is a Professorial Fellow at the University of Maastricht.
Suh-Yong Chung is an Associate Professor in the Division of International Studies at Korea University and is an international expert on sustainable development law and policy. His research covers various emerging issues in the environment and sustainable development such as climate change, marine environment, and biodiversity both at global and regional level. His most recent works focus on internationalization of Green Growth policy, post-2020 climate change regime formation, and regional environmental institution building in Northeast Asia. He holds degrees in law and international relations from Seoul National University, the London School of Economics, and Stanford Law School.
Paul Ekins has a PhD in Economics from the University of London and is Professor of Resources and Environmental Policy at, and Director of, the UCL Institute for Sustainable Resources, University College London. He is also a Fellow of the Energy Institute and a co-Director of the UK Energy Research Centre, in charge of its Energy Systems theme. From 2002–2008 was a Member of the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution. From 1997–2005 he was a special advisor to the Environmental Audit Committee of the House of Commons, from 2003–2007 he was a Member of the Government’s Sustainable Energy Policy Advisory Board, and in 2007 was a Specialist Advisor to the Joint Parliamentary Committee on the Climate Change Bill. He also has extensive experience consulting for business, government, and international organizations. In 1994 he received a Global 500 Award for Outstanding Environmental Achievement from the United Nations Environment Programme.
Wan Portia Hamzah is currently a Senior Fellow at the Institute of Strategic and International Studies (ISIS) Malaysia, where she has worked since 1991. She has served in various national, regional, and Commonwealth working groups on science and technology for development. Her main responsibility within ISIS currently relates to the nexus-oriented approach to better understand the interlinkages between the water, energy, and food sectors as well as the influence of climate policies. Her most recent publication is “The Environment and Human Security in Southeast Asia” in Carolina G. Hernandez (ed.) Mainstreaming Human Security in ASEAN Integration—Vol. 1: Regional Public Goods and Human Security (ISDS, 2012). She is currently a member of the International Advisory Board of the Center for Climate and Sustainable Development Law and Policy.
Myung Kyoon Lee is the Senior Economist and Director of Green Growth Planning and Implementation (GGPI) Unit in the Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI) located in the Republic of Korea. He studied Economics at Seoul National University in Seoul, Korea and did his MA and PhD of Environmental Economics at Brown University in the USA. As the Director of GGPI he supervises various country projects which the GGGI conducts with developing country partners. He has been a professor at Keimyung University in the Faculty of Environment as well as Senior Economist at UNEP Risoe Centre on Energy, Climate and Sustainable Development, where he managed its “Capacity Development for the CDM (CD4CDM)” programme and led its Climate Change cluster.
Hui-min Li is a Postdoctoral Fellow of Climate Policy at Tsinghua University, School of Public Policy and Management, Beijing. He received his PhD in Environmental Science in 2009 from Beijing Normal University. His major fields of interests are climate policy, low-carbon economy, and environment management.
Ye Qi is a Cheung Kong Professor of Environmental Policy at Tsinghua University School of Public Policy and Management and Director of the Climate Policy Initiative at Tsinghua, Beijing. He serves on the Science Steering Committee of the Global Carbon Project and advises governments, NGOs, and international organizations on climate change, clean energy, and environmental policy issues. Before he returned to China, he taught Environmental Science, Policy, and Management at University of California, Berkeley from 1996 through 2003. He received a PhD in Environmental Science in 1994 from the State University of New York of Environmental Science and Forestry and Syracuse University.
David G. Victor is a Professor at the School of International Relations and Pacific Studies at the University of California, San Diego. He leads the International Law and Regulation Laboratory which studies why some international laws are highly effective and others founder. Prior to joining UC San Diego, he served as Director of the Program on Energy and Sustainable Development at Stanford University where he was also a Professor at Stanford Law School. He has also directed the Science and Technology Program at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) in New York where he led the organization’s task force on energy security. Victor earned his PhD in Political Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1998) and his AB in History and Science from Harvard University (1987).
Juan Zak is a Senior Energy Scientist at UNEP Risoe Centre on Energy, Climate and Sustainable Development, Denmark. Main activities during his career at the Centre have included energy-efficiency financing, small renewable energy enterprises, renewable energy strategies, capacity building on wind energy, and support on National Communications to the UNFCCC. He has recently developed a special interest in the links between climate change, technology transfer, and equity. At present he dedicates most of his time to developing and maintaining the Centre’s websites, and to IT coordination. He is a mechanical engineer with further specialization in energy efficiency, sustainable energy development, and information systems.