Career history:

2008- present:

IPCC Vice Chair

He was the founding president of the Korea Energy Economics Institute -- a government agency for national energy policy development. He was Distinguished Research Fellow at the Korea Environment Institute, faculty member and the dean of the College of Environment at Keimyung University, Korea, senior adviser to the Minister of Energy and Resources and the Minister of Environment, senior fellow at the Korea Development Institute and economist at Exxon Corporation, US.

He was Co-chair of the IPCC Working Group III (The Economic and Social Dimensions of Climate Change) in the Second Assessment , and Lead Author and Review Editor in the Third and Fourth Assessment. He was the member of the International Advisory Board of the Battelle-Pacific Northwest National Lab, USA, the Board of Directors of Hyundai Corporation, Korea Petroleum Development Corporation and the Institute for Global Environmental Strategies, Japan.

Areas of expertise:

The economics of energy, natural resource and climate change

Career history:

2012-present

Director of Sustainable Energy Policy and Technology, International Energy Agency (IEA)

2007-2012

Director of Energy Markets and Security (IEA)

2004-2007

Managing Director of Bureau de Recherches Géologiques et Minières (BRGM), French Geological Survey

1997-2004

Director of Energy and Mineral Resources, French Ministry of Economy and Finances

1987-1990

Held a position in European Affairs at Total, responsible for developing EU strategy.

Areas of expertise:

Energy sustainability, energy efficiency policy, energy technology policy, carbon capture storage (CCS)
Mr. Houssin graduated from the École nationale d'administration and has a Masters in International Law. He also has degrees in Philosophy from Université de Paris 1 - La Sorbonne and in Political Science from the Institut d'études politiques de Paris.

Career history:

2000-2013

Research Professor, London School of Economics

2002-2007

also jointly Alliance Research Professor, Columbia University, New York

1999-2003

Consultant on Security at the Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research of the British Meteorological Office

During the later 1990s
Senior Fellow in the Office of the Special Adviser on Central and Eastern European Affairs, Office of the Secretary-General of NATO.
Senior Fellow at the Royal Institute of International Affairs, Chatham House.
Visiting Senior Fellow in the (former) Defence Evaluation and Research Agency (DERA) of the UK Ministry of Defence

1979-2003

Fellow, Tutor and Director of Studies in History, Emmanuel College Cambridge and University Lecturer in Politics.

Areas of expertise:

Global security studies; geo-political research; international relations; military history and defence; climate policy; climate history and security
He is currently a member of the British Chief of the Defence Staff's Strategy Advisory Panel. He first convened the Hartwell group in 2007 in response to a request to provide advice on climate policy for G-7 heads of state. In 2013 the group published The Vital Spark: Innovating Clean and Affordable Energy for All

Career history:

2009

President of the International Association for Energy Economics (IAEE)

1995-

Professor for Energy Systems at the Institute for Energy Technology, Berlin University of Technology

1982-1995

Post doc researcher and Assistant Professor at the Center for Economic Research, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zürich

Areas of expertise:

Energy economics including energy market modeling and forecasting, energy market reform, energy trade, investment strategies, financing and risk management, and market entry of new energy technologies such as fuel cell and battery electric vehicles; Evolutionary economics applied to energy innovations and technologies

Career history:

2005-2007

Founding Director of UCSD’s Environment and Sustainability Initiative

1998-2006

Director of Scripps Institution of Oceanography, and Dean and Vice Chancellor of Marine Sciences at UCSD

1996-1998

UCLA Executive Vice Chancellor

1993-1996

NASA Associate Administrator for Mission to Planet Earth

1967-1998

Professor in the UCLA Department of Physics

Areas of expertise:

Astronomy, physics, earth science

Career history:

2008-2014

Chairman of the Agency for the Assessment and Application of Technology (BPPT)

2010-Present

Member of Indonesia National Innovation Council (KIN)

2012-Present

Chairman of Institution of Engineers Indonesia, Electrical Engineers Chapter (BKE-PII)

2005-2008

Deputy Chairman of BPPT for Information, Energy and Material Technologies

2002-2005

Principal Secretary of BPPT

1985-1994

Researcher at the Agency for the Assessment and Application of Technology (BPPT)

1994

Dr.Eng in electrical engineering from Tokai University, Japan

1984

Bachelor in electrical engineering from Bandung Institute of Technology (ITB), Indonesia

Areas of expertise:

Energy Policy, Renewable Energy, Biofuel and Smart Electricity