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Speakers

Speakers at the Emissions Trading Aviation Summit include:

bullet Guenther Sollinger - Air Baltic
bullet Toru Sasaki - All Nippon Airlines
bullet Dr. Anton Novak - Austrian Airlines
bullet Angus Barclay - Cathay Pacific
bullet Dubravka Turkalj - Croatia Airlines
bullet Heikki Helander - Finnair
bullet Steve Parrott - Flybe
bullet Christoph Fuellemann - Swiss International Air Lines Ltd.
bullet Niels-Eirik Nertun - SAS Group
bullet Sian Foster - Virgin Atlantic Airways
bullet Toby Campbell-Colquhoun - Shell
bullet Arturo Benito - Madrid Polytechnic University
bullet Maria Joao Calha - TAP
bullet David Corregidor Sanz - Endesa
bullet Justin Francis - responsibletravel.com
bullet Olivia Hartridge - Morgan Stanley
bullet Andy Kelly - Centrica Energy
bullet Andrei Marcu - International Emissions Trading Association
bullet Niels Ladefoged - European Commission
bullet Mark Meyrick - EDF Trading
bullet Prof. Dr. Robert Sausen - German Aerospace Center (DLR)
bullet Dorothee Vogel - JupiterResearch
bullet Seb Walhain - Fortis Bank
bullet Owen Wilson - Electricity Supply Board (ESB)
bullet Andreas Arvanitakis - Point Carbon
bullet Gilles Corre - Evolution Markets Inc.
bullet Danielle Chapman - TUI UK
bullet Koen Dejonghe - Statkraft
bullet Nicholas Rock - Dewey & LeBoeuf
bullet Lloyd Brown - Ernst & Young LLP
bullet Christophe Schmeitzky - Ernst & Young LLP
bullet Gareth Davies - Pöyry Energy Consulting


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Guenther Sollinger - Conference Speaker   Guenther Sollinger

SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT FOR GOVERNMENTAL RELATIONS, PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT
AIR BALTIC
     
Graduated from Uppsala University, in Sweden and furthered his studies in the United Kingdom and the United States. He worked for Scandinavian Airlines in various positions both at the head office and in line functions where he was regional director central and East Europe as well as country manager Russia. Within Air Baltic, Guenther has been commercial director and is currently presently senior vice president for governmental relations, planning and development.

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Toru Sasaki - Conference Speaker   Toru Sasaki

DIRECTOR, CSR PROMOTION, SOCIAL & ENVIRONMENTAL AFFAIRS
ALL NIPPON AIRWAYS
     
Mr. Sasaki has been in his current position with All Nippon Airways since 2004. Prior to this, he spent five years as a Senior Manager for International Business and Alliances for Star Alliance. A Hiroshima native, Mr, Sasaki is a member of the Association of Asia Pacific Airlines’ Environmental Working Group where he works on environmental communications, education and international relations. He also participated in ICAO’s Emissions Trading Task Force.

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Dr. Anton Novak - Conference Speaker   Dr. Anton Novak

MANAGER ENVIRONMENTAL AFFAIRS
AUSTRIAN AIRLINES
     
Born in Vienna, Dr. Anton Novak studied Machinery Engineering at Vienna's Technical University and wrote his thesis on the Stochastic Dynamics of Cars. He joined Austrian Airlines first as system analyst for flight operations and occupied various functions within the airline. In 1995, he was in charge of implementing the airline's data center, in 1999 he worked on implementing the Balanced Scorecard System for the airline and in 2003 he implemented a target reporting system (Balanced-Scorecard) in technical maintenance. He then worked on enhancing the Technical Maintenance's Department's public relations and communications program before recently being assigned as Manager for Environmental Affairs in 2007.

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Angus Barclay - Conference Speaker   Angus Barclay

GENERAL MANAGER INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS DEPARTMENT
CATHAY PACIFIC
     
Mr Angus Barclay is General Manager International Affairs for Cathay Pacific Airways in Hong Kong. His role includes securing international operating rights for Cathay Pacific both to and across other countries, as well as having responsibility for Cathay Pacific’s Environment Office, in recognition both of the importance and the international implications of Environmental issues for the airline.

Angus is one of a number of senior managers seconded to Cathay Pacific Airways from the airline’s main shareholder, the Swire group. He joined Swires in 1987 and over the past 20 years has worked for 3 companies within the group in 6 different countries. His first 13 years with the group were with Cathay Pacific, first as a Management Trainee in Hong Kong and Korea, then managing the airline’s passenger loyalty clubs in Hong Kong. In 1991-2 Angus was Cathay Pacific’s Country Manager India, Nepal and Bangladesh based in Bombay. He then worked in Revenue Management in Hong Kong before being appointed Country Manager for the Benelux in 1995 based in Amsterdam and then, in 1997, Country Manager for Singapore.

In 2000 Angus was seconded to John Swire and Sons Pty Ltd, the Swire group’s holding company in Australia. As Commercial Manager, he held Directorships of the group’s subsidiary companies which included Trucking Operations (Kalari and Transwest); Steel Industry Materials Handling (Metserv); Cold Storage (Woodmason’s Cold Storage, Frigmobile and South Australian Cold Storage); and the Swire Shipping Agencies in both Australia and Malaysia. In 2003 Angus returned to the aviation sector as Director and General Manager of Cathay Pacific Catering Services (Hong Kong) Ltd: one of the world’s largest flight kitchens with 1,600 staff producing 60,000 meals per day for 35 different airlines.

In August 2006 Angus Barclay was seconded once more to Cathay Pacific Airways as General Manager International Affairs.

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Dubravka Turkalj - Conference Speaker   Dubravka Turkalj

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT ADVISER
CROATIA AIRLINES
     
Dubravka Turkalj has been working for Croatia Airlines since 1991 in various senior-level managing positions. As a Director of Strategic Planning and Development, she attended Cambridge University where she obtained an Advanced Diploma in Sustainability in 2004 and a Postgraduate Certificate in Cross-sector Partnership in 2005. Following this, she worked on the creation and implementation of an integrated sustainable development system within Croatia Airlines including environment, corporate social responsibility and sustainable economics as well as on the issues related to the upcoming European Emissions Trading Scheme. She is also Co-chair of the Association for Corporate Social Responsibility for the Croatian Chamber of Commerce as well as member of the Croatian Business Council for Sustainable Development's managing board.

She specializes in sustainable development, cross-sector partnerships, corporate social responsibility, strategic and corporate planning, fleet planning, fleet economics and fleet financing, budgeting and controlling, investment projects and marketing.

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Heikki Helander - Conference Speaker   Heikki Helander

DIRECTOR OF OPERATIONS ENGINEERING
FINNAIR
     
Heikki Helander joined Finnair as Performance Engineer in 1974 after one year Military Service in Finnish Airforce. He has held different positions within the Finnair Flight Operations Division. Since 1990 Heikki has been acting as Director of Flight Operations Engineering. In addition he has been member of Finnair Fleet Evaluation Team.

His responsibilities include aircraft performance, payload/range/weight issues, environmental issues, operational costs and profitability analysis, and noise and emission issues (Environmental Team from 1992 on).

Heikki has been lecturer in Helsinki University of Technology and some other Universities. As well as this, he has taught different courses in Finnair and other airlines.

Heikki studied at Helsinki University of Technology in Aeronautical Engineering.

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Stephen Parrott - Conference Speaker   Stephen Parrott

DIRECTOR OF HEALTH SAFETY & ENVIRONMENT
FLYBE
     
Steve moved to the aviation industry in 2001 joining what was the British European as Director of Personnel. The company developed into Flybe, the low cost regional airline, which is now, with the acquisition of BA Connect the largest low cost regional airline in Europe, flying the most modern and environmentally friendly fleet of turbo prop and jets aircraft in the world – with the Bombardier Q400 and the Embraer 195.

Steve was previously a Director of Biffa, the Environmental Services Group and prior to that worked in senior positions in both GKN and Smiths Group

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Christoph Fuellemann - Conference Speaker   Christoph Fuellemann

ENVIRONMENTAL DELEGATE
SWISS INTERNATIONAL AIR LINES LTD.
     
Christoph Fuellemann has been working in the aviation industry for over 22 years. He started his career in this field working as a process engineer in aircraft maintenance in SRTechnics, the maintenance department of former Swissair. He then moved on to create an environmental competence centre within the SAirGroup (former Swissair Group). While in this position, he dealt with all environmental issues of the airline, from waste treatment to legal compliance, aircraft de-icing , ecological reporting and supporting management in strategy and target processes. It is under his leadership that the former Swissair Group produced the first Environmental Report ever published by an airline.

In 2001, Mr. Fuellemann was assigned special tasks in the field of the Kyoto protocol and flexible mechanisms. He worked on the first trials with a CDM project in Kenya together with the former Swissair, two Swiss banks, a re-insurance company, the World Bank and WHO.

Today, Mr. Fuellemann is SWISS International Airlines’ Environmental Delegate and deals with the main environmental issues related to company strategy, environmental and political affairs (EU ETS), aircraft emissions and noise. He is a member of an expert group "Environmental Management Systems" at the Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich and is also a member of the Swiss Federal Department for Transport’s "Aviation and sustainability" project. Mr. Fuellemann is also a member of the climate change working group of the Association of European Airlines AEA.

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Niels Eirik Nertun - Conference Speaker   Niels-Eirik Nertun

DIRECTOR ENVIRONMENT & SUSTAINABILITY
SAS GROUP
     
Mr. Nertun has been working for Scandinavian Airlines Systems (SAS) since 1990. He first joined as the National Manager for Health, Safety & Environment and was promoted to Environment and Sustainability Director in 1994. He has published several articles on environment and air transport and is involved in many international environmental committees.

Mr. Nertun graduated from the University of Oslo with a degree in natural sciences and is a guest lecturer at various universities and institutes in Europe.

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Sian Foster - Conference Speaker   Sian Foster

CORPORATE SUSTAINABILITY & RESPONSIBILITY MANAGER
VIRGIN ATLANTIC AIRWAYS
     
Sian graduated from Birmingham University with a degree in International Studies with French, having specialised in EU policy. After starting her career at the International Air Carrier Association (IACA) in Brussels in 2000, she joined Virgin Atlantic's Government and External Affairs team in 2003, where she was responsible for parliamentary liaison, consumer affairs and CSR. In late 2006 Sian moved to the newly-formed Business Sustainability team at Virgin Atlantic, which is tasked with developing and embedding sustainability objectives throughout the airline, and now works on a wide range of projects relating to aviation and climate change.

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Toby Campbell-Colquhoun - Conference Speaker   Toby Campbell-Colquhoun

ENERGY TRADER
SHELL
     
Toby Campbell-Colquhoun is an environmental products trader at Shell Trading. Shell's environmental trading business has operations in London, Beijing, Tokyo and Houston and holds positions in more than 15 different environmental markets. In addition to managing the compliance positions of Shell installations, the business is a significant proprietary trading house, adding liquidity across the spectrum of environmental markets.

Toby studied biological sciences at Oxford University and holds an MSc in environmental technology from Imperial College. Following the completion of a project on UK industry’s preparation for greenhouse gas emissions regulation, Toby began working for Shell in 2001.

Toby has enjoyed the challenge of developing Shell’s environmental product trading business from its infancy into today’s successful global business, during a period of significant market evolution. His current role includes managing Shell’s compliance position in a number of environmental product markets, including CO2 and NOx, managing origination across Europe in the EU Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) and developing new business with other organisations currently outside the scope of the EU ETS.

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Arturo Benito - Conference Speaker   Arturo Benito

HEAD OF AIR TRANSPORT DEPARTMENT
MADRID POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY
     
Arturo Benito is Head of Air Transport Department at Madrid Polytechnic University. The Department delivers Air Transportation, Air Transport Management and Aviation Environmental Impact Courses for Engineering Graduates, Airline Management and Transportation Systems for Master students, and Aviation Sustainability and Network and Fleet Planning for PhD students. It is also doing research for the Spanish Government on Sustainable aviation, Environmental Levies and Emissions Trading.

Before taking that position, he worked for Iberia Airlines of Spain. Within Iberia, he has been Head of Performance and Power Plant Engineering Department, Head of Aircraft Analysis in the Planning Group and Director Corporate Studies in the Strategic Planning Department. Since 1997 until May 2006 was Director Fleet Planning&Environment.

He has been Iberia representative in oneworld environmental group (2000-2006), Chairman of the IATA Environmental Task Force (2002-2005), Chairman of AEA Infrastructure Environment Committee (2003-2006) and is now Advisor of the Spanish delegation in ICAO Committee on Aviation Environmental Protection (CAEP).

His involvement in aviation started in 1970, within the Project Department of Construcciones Aeronáuticas (formerly CASA, now EADS-Spain), working in utility and regional transport design, like C-212 and CN-235, and afterwards as Advisor to CASA’s Commercial VP for civil market.

He has Master and Doctor Degrees in Aeronautical Engineering from the Polytechnic University of Madrid, where teaches Air Transportation as a Professor since 1981. He is also a Graduate in Journalism from the University of Madrid, author of two books on air transport and a regular contributor to aeronautical publications.

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Maria Joao Calha - Conference Speaker   Maria Joao Calha

Environmental Manager
TAP
     
Maria Joao graduated from New University of Lisbon with a degree in Environmental Engineering. She started her career working in the Ministry for the Environment, Regional Planning and Regional Development (Integrated Pollution Prevention Control - IPPC Department).

She joined TAP Portugal’s Environmental Department in 2004 and is now TAP’s Environmental Manager – Corporate Environmental Affairs and member of IATA Environment Committee. Her main responsibilities in TAP are:
  • To propose environmental strategic guidelines to the Board;
  • To give technical support to the Board in Climate Change issues as the inclusion of aviation in the European Union Emissions Trading Scheme – EU-ETS;
  • To monitor and control the Environmental Management Programmes, in line with the continuous improvement principle adopted by TAP (industrial waste management, waste separation/recycling programmes, energy management);
  • To analyse TAP’s environmental performance through greenhouse gas emissions inventories;
  • To give technical advice and support to TAP’s Business Unities/Companies;
  • To promote environmental responsibility and awareness within the Group.
Maria Joao is also TAP’s Delegate in the Climate Change Working Group of the Association of European Airlines (AEA).

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David Corregidor Sanz - Conference Speaker   David Corregidor Sanz

DEPUTY DIRECTOR FOR THE ENVIRONMENT AND CLIMATE CHANGE
ENDESA
     
From the beginning of his professional career, David has been working on environment issues, harmonizing business work with research in the Spanish electricity sector.

He has been Head of Asinel’s Laboratory of Atmosphere and later worked for UNESA’s Environment Department where he initiated a task group working on Climate Change within the electricity industry.

At present time David is the Deputy-Director of the Environment Area for Generation, Mining and Climate Change at Endesa and is responsible for all issues related to generation and mining businesses, specially the ones related to climate change technical and legislative reality. He is involved in the Spanish Association of CO2, participating in the Working Group dealing with regulatory issues.

Internationally, David is an active member of the E7 Climate Change Group, as well as Chairman of Eurelectric’s CDM & JI sub-group. Furthermore, he is Endesa’s representative at CDCF’s carbon fund and the Spanish Carbon Fund at World Bank and he was the President of the Participants Comitte (CDCF Fund) two years ago as well as member of the Spanish Commission for the CDM & JI Pilot Programme.

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Justin Francis - Conference Speaker   Justin Francis

CO-FOUNDER
RESPONSIBLETRAVEL.COM
     
Justin Francis co-founded online travel agent responsibletravel.com in 2001. Prior to that Justin was Head of Worldwide Marketing at The Body Shop.

responsibletravel.com markets more authentic holidays that maximize the positive impacts of tourism whilst minimizing the negative impacts.

We also founded and organize the worlds’ biggest Award scheme for responsible/eco holidays - the Virgin Holidays Responsible Tourism Awards www.responsibletourismawards.com

responsibletravel.com is the largest travel agent of its kind in the world, and one of the fastest growing travel agencies in the UK selling £20m of holidays in 2007. Justin is also a Trustee of The Travel Foundation and writes for The Times and The Guardian Travel.

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Olivia Hartridge - Conference Speaker   Olivia Hartridge

ASSOCIATE
MORGAN STANLEY
     
Olivia Hartridge has a BA (Hons) in politics, philosophy and economics from Balliol College, Oxford and an MSc in environmental economics from University College London. She started working in climate change in 2000 for the UK Government where she co-wrote the rules and ran the auction for the UK emissions trading scheme - the first traded carbon market.

In 2003, Olivia joined the European Commission to work on implementing the EU emissions trading scheme. Here, she initially concentrated on finalising the legislation itself, overseeing and drafting its daughter legislation (monitoring and reporting guidelines and registries regulation), assessing national allocation plans, and managing the setup of the EU electronic registries system across 25 countries. She then became responsible for relations with developed countries on climate change, and finally worked on the legislative proposal to bring international aviation into the EU scheme.

In 2007, Olivia joined Morgan Stanley as an originator on the carbon trading desk. Here, she is responsible for the recently announced “carbon bank” – the first fully-integrated carbon auditing and offsetting service based on the highest international standards.

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Andy Kelly - Conference Speaker   Andy Kelly

BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT MANAGER
CENTRICA ENERGY
     
Andy has worked within Centrica for 6 years, the last 4 of which have been in Centrica Energy, the firm's upstream energy management business. After 2 years in the commercial electricity procurement team, Andy took up his existing role in Emissions, with key focus to further develop and deliver Centrica’s strategic response to the EU Emissions Trading Scheme. As a major energy generator and supplier in UK and continental Europe, emissions trading, and the EU ETS in particular, has a major impact on the investment and operational decisions undertaken by the company. His responsibilities include structured origination opportunities in the emissions area, and in addition ensuring Centrica's voice is heard within Government and industry associations on related policy developments.

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Andrei Marcu - Conference Speaker   Andrei Marcu

PRESIDENT AND CEO
INTERNATIONAL EMISSIONS TRADING ASSOCIATION
     
Andrei Marcu is President and CEO of the International Emissions Trading Association, a business association with offices in Geneva, Switzerland and Toronto, Canada. IETA includes organizations such as bp, Shell, Tokyo Electric, Ontario Power, Dupont, TransAlta, etc dedicated to the creation of an efficient and environmentally robust market for greenhouse gases to address the issue of global warming and climate change. In this capacity he has been deeply involved in COP process and the national and international effort to make the provisions of the Kyoto Protocol operational and create its governance regime

Mr. Marcu has spent most of his career in the electric power industry with Ontario Hydro in Toronto, Canada where he has worked in many areas of the corporation in a senior capacity position including contracts, energy efficiency, regulatory affairs, and international operations.

As Deputy Managing Director of the E7 and Chair of the Climate Change Subcommittee he has had the opportunity to work on issues related to sustainable energy development in a sector critical to development and in implementation of Agenda 21.

He has also worked in the field of development as Manager of Private Sector Cooperation in the United Nations Development Programme, where he has pioneered cooperation between the UN system and multinational corporations.

Mr. Marcu holds a degree in electrical engineering from McGill University in Montreal and an MBA from the University of Toronto.

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Niels Ladefoged - Conference Speaker   Niels Ladefoged

POLICY OFFICER
ENVIRONMENT DG, CLEAN AIR AND TRANSPORT UNIT
EUROPEAN COMMISSION
     
Niels Ladefoged is policy officer in the "Clean Air and Transport Unit" of the European Commission's Directorate-General for Environment.He has been working on environmental aspects of EU air transport policy since 2001 and been responsible for developing the Commission's new strategy on aviation and climate change. Before coming to the Commission Mr Ladefoged worked for the Danish Energy Administration on a number of issues ranging from energy demand forecasting to renewable electricity support schemes. Mr Ladefoged has a Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering with specialisation in energy conversion and emissions.

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Mark Meyrick - Conference Speaker   Mark Meyrick

ENVIRONMENTAL PRODUCTS MANAGER
EDF TRADING
     
A chartered accountant by profession, Mark Meyrick spent many years trading foreign currency options for a variety of banks before taking over as managing director of ABB Treasury & Energy Services in 1995. Here he implemented ABB's entry into the liberalising European energy markets, in Sweden in1999 and the UK in 2001.Joined EDF Trading in 2003 with the task of setting up EDF's entry into the incipient emissions trading market, which he did until the end of 2005, when he moved over into EDF's Kyoto credit origination business, in which he has worked since, with a particular responsibility for Latin America.

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Prof. Dr. Robert Sausen - Conference Speaker   Prof. Dr. Robert Sausen

HEAD OF THE DEPARTMENT OF ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS
GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER (DLR)
     
Prof. Dr. Robert Sausen has been Head of the Department of Atmospheric Dynamics at the Institute of Atmospheric Physics of the Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt e.V. (DLR) since 1991, and Professor at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. His expertise includes global climate modeling including climate impact of transport emissions. He was Coordinating Lead Author of a chapter of the IPCC Special Report "Aviation and the Global Atmosphere” (1999) and contributed to several other IPCC reports. Currently he coordinates the EC Integrated Project QUANTIFY, quantifying the climate impact of transport. He is author of more than 70 peer reviewed papers. He was awarded the Otto-Lilienthal Research-Semester in 2000.

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Dorothee Vogel - Conference Speaker   Dorothee Vogel

ANALYST
JupiterResearch
     
Dorothee Vogel covers European Commerce with a focus on online retail and travel.

Dorothee previously worked at 12travel.com as German Market Manager and as a research associate for the German Federal Environmental Agency, where she was responsible for creating the legal framework around Germany's Eco label ‘Blue Angel' during the re-launch of its website.

Dorothee has practiced law in Germany and has been awarded a Master of Laws at Canterbury University, Christchurch New Zealand. She also holds a Diploma in E-commerce with the Irish Law Society.

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Seb Walhain - Conference Speaker   Seb Walhain

DIRECTOR ENVIRONMENTAL MARKETS
FORTIS BANK
     
Seb has a M.Sc. in Environmental Sciences, policy specialisation. Seb completed his thesis on Environmental Mediation as part of joint Program on Negotation at Harvard Law School and MIT, Boston, USA.

From 1996 until 1999 Seb used to teach strategic energy management and environmental accounting at the University of Amsterdam, faculty of Economics. There he also did contract research for the European Commission on emissions as well as worked on a Ph.D. on the interaction between regulatory frameworks and corporate governance in multinationals.

From 1999 until 2003 Seb was the Manager environmental products at Nuon Energy Trade & Wholesale. Following a stint in Business Development in Nuon Renewables, he set up a leading environmental products trading desk. In particular Seb explored new cross border arbitrage opportunities and approaches for various national green and carbon policies and systems anticipating and profiting from frequent changes in legislation.

In 2003 Seb established Europe's first financial institution carbon desk at Fortis. The desk aims to reduce greenhouse emissions efficiently through portfolios of reduction projects, and to use those reductions to optimise and ensure compliance for a pan-European corporate client portfolio. The activities of this desk range from valuing environmental benefits in long term discounted cash flow models for project finance, to short term pure trading and long term hedging.

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Owen Wilson - Conference Speaker   Owen Wilson

MANAGER, GROUP HEALTH, SAFETY AND ENVIRONMENT
ELECTRICITY SUPPLY BOARD (ESB)
     
Owen Wilson works with the Electricity Supply Board (ESB), Ireland where he has held a number of technical and management roles and currently leads the company’s Group Health, Safety and Environment function. His work at national and European level has focused in particular on pollution control licensing, air emissions and climate change. He is Vice-Chairman of the Environment and Sustainable Development Committee of Eurelectric (the electricity industry representative body in Europe) and chairs the Group leading the industry’s response on the emissions trading Directive. Dr. Wilson also has led the response of IETA (the International Emissions Trading Association) on the proposal to include aviation in the Emissions Trading scheme.

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Andreas Arvanitakis - Conference Speaker   Andreas Arvanitakis

SENIOR ANALYST
POINT CARBON
     
Andreas has been following climate change policy for over 10 years and advised the European Parliament’s erstwhile chairman of the environment committee at the Kyoto summit in 1997. As a senior analyst at Point Carbon, Andreas has worked on many assignments for a spectrum of external customers in a broad range of sectors. His work has covered policy analysis, corporate strategy in carbon markets, carbon credit procurement and transaction support.

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Gilles Corre - Conference Speaker   Gilles Corre

DIRECTOR, EUROPEAN ENVIRONMENTAL MARKETS
EVOLUTION MARKETS INC.
     
Gilles Corre is a Director, European Environmental Markets for EVOLUTION MARKETS INC. Mr. Corre leads Evolution Markets emissions brokerage operation in Europe, directing the company’s industry-leading European emissions allowance and Kyoto credits brokerage desk and providing structured transaction services for global emissions credits.

Based in Evolution Markets’ London office, Mr. Corre brokers transactions in Kyoto credits for utilities, manufacturers, financial institutions, and project developers. He also directs the company’s business development activities for Europe, educating European emissions market participants and introducing new transaction structures. In addition, Mr. Corre advises European corporations and financial institutions on developing risk management programs for the global carbon market, including transaction-oriented solutions for carbon allowances and structuring trades in carbon credits.

Mr. Corre brings to Evolution Markets an extensive knowledge base of environmental markets, as well as significant management expertise. Prior to joining Evolution Markets, he was a founder and senior executive of several technology companies, including firms in the software and technology consulting sectors. A native of France, Mr. Corre graduated from the Universite Pierre et Marie Curie in Paris and a Masters of Physics degree from California State University in San Jose.

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Danielle Chapman - Conference Speaker   Danielle Chapman

HEAD OF INDUSTRY AFFAIRS AND ENVIRONMENTAL TEAM
TUI UK
     
Danielle joined TUI UK to assist Britannia Airways with governmental affairs in 2003 prior to the rebranding to Thomsonfly. Working across TUI UK, Danni covers both Airline and Tour operator Industry Affairs issues in the UK and the EU, identifying proposals or media support for change and introduction of legislation that could impact on the tourism industry. Prior to joining TUI UK Danni graduated from the University of the West of England with a degree in business studies, focusing on communication. Before joining TUI UK Danni also worked for British Nuclear Fuels communication office, focusing on local stakeholder relations and public relations.

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Koen Dejonghe - Conference Speaker   Koen Dejonghe

CARBON BUSINESS DEVELOPER
STATKRAFT
     
Koen Dejonghe has been Carbon Business Developer at Statkraft in Amsterdam for almost 3 years. His responsibilities in this position mainly consist in developing and structuring carbon products for compliance companies in the ETS. He has over 6 years of experience in the energy sector and worked for E.ON Benelux in Rotterdam and Luminus in Hasselt (Belgium). During his studies in Business Economics he wrote a Master’s thesis at the University of Calgary about the implications of emissions trading for the Canadian electricity sector.

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Nicholas Rock - Conference Speaker   Nicholas Rock

PARTNER
ENVIRONMENT GROUP
DEWEY & LEBOEUF
     
Nick is a partner in Dewey & LeBoeuf's 30-strong global environmental law team and a founding member of the firm's Climate Change Group. He has particular expertise in relation to the EU ETS, emissions trading and Kyoto-related matters generally. He has handled challenges to allocations under Phase 1 and II of the EU ETS and been involved in numerous overseas emission projects. Nick has written and lectured extensively on the proposals to introduce emissions trading for the aviation sector and has spent much of the last year lobbying on behalf of aviation sector clients before the EU Commission, Parliament and Council. He is also a member of the RAeS "Greener by Design" Advisory Committee (on sustainable aviation and emissions trading).

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Lloyd Brown - Conference Speaker   Lloyd Brown

PARTNER
ERNST & YOUNG LLP
     
Lloyd Brown is Ernst & Young’s Aviation sector leader for the UK, Middle East and Africa and is specialised in audit assurance services. Throughout his 18 years with the firm, he gained Significant experience in the travel, transportation and leisure sectors and worked with a number of large listed multinational groups including British Airways, Exel Logistics and P&O. Member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland as well as of the South African Institute of Chartered Accountants, Lloyd is also a regular media commentator for television and radio on aviation sector matters.

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Christophe Schmeitzky - Conference Speaker   Christophe Schmeitzky

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
ERNST & YOUNG LLP
     
Christophe Schmeitzky works in Ernst&Young’s Sustainability Assurance and Advisory Services in Paris. He has been with the firm for 14 years and is an accredited verifier for CO2 verification (EU ETS) in France, UK and Luxembourg. Christophe is also an accredited verifier for ISO14001 EMS.

Christophe’s area of specialization is climate change and greenhouse gases emissions verification. In this regard, he has worked on the verification of CO2 emissions within the frame of the CO2 Directive with EXXONMOBIL, TOTAL and ARCELOR. He has also worked on the verification of CO2 emissions within the frame of the CO2 Directive in other sectors: SAINT-GOBAIN, EDF, La SNET and participated in sustainable development reporting and environmental data verification and site audits for clients like AIRBUS and AIR FRANCE-KLM (first common CSR report and Air France-KLM’s group environmental policy drafting), MACQUARIE, CARLYLE GROUP, APAX PARTNERS, PAI, SUEZ INDUSTRIE and MONITOR CLIPPER.

Recently, Christophe led the Association of European Airlines’ economical analysis of the European Commission proposal to include aviation activities in the Emission Trading Scheme in 2011. This included an impact study of the cost of purchasing allowances from 2011 to 2022 and a discussion of economical assumptions made by the European Commission.

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Gareth Davies - Conference Speaker   Gareth Davies

PRINCIPAL CONSULTANT
PÖYRY ENERGY CONSULTING
     
Gareth Davies is speaking at Emissions Trading Aviation 2007.

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Speakers Include
Niels-Eirik Nertun, Environmental Director,
SAS divider Andy Kershaw, Climate Change Manager, British Airways
divider Sian Foster, Corporate Sustainability & Responsibility Manager, Virgin Atlantic Airways
divider Mark Meyrick, Environmental Products Manager, EdF
divider Heikki Helander, Director
of Operations Engineering
, Finnair
divider Guenther Sollinger, Senior Vice-President for Planning and Development,
Air Baltic
divider Steve Parrott, Director of Health, Safety and Environment, Flybe
divider Toby Campbell-Colquhoun, Energy Trader, Shell
divider Maria Joao Calha,
Environmental Manager - Corporate Environmental Affairs, TAP Portugal
divider Andrei Marcu, President, International Emissions Trading Association
divider Niels Ladefoged, Policy Officer, Environment DG, Clean Air and Transport Unit, European Commission
divider Andy Kelly, Business Development Manager, Centrica
divider Seb Walhain , Director Environmental Markets, Fortis Bank
divider Prof. Arturo Benito, Head of Air Transport Department, Madrid Polytechnic University
divider Toru Sasaki, Director Social & Environmental Affairs, CSRB Promotion, All Nippon Airways
divider Anton Novak,
Environmental Affairs Engineer, Austrian Airlines
divider Olivia Hartridge,
Associate, Morgan Stanley
divider Angus Barclay, General Manager International
Affairs Department
, Cathay Pacific
divider Dubravka Turkalj, Sustainable Development Adviser, Croatia Airlines
divider Prof. Dr. Robert Sausen, Head of Department
German Aerospace Center
Institute of Atmospheric Physics Dynamics of the Atmosphere
, German Aerospace Center divider Danielle Chapman, Head of Industry Affairs and Environmental Team,
TUI UK divider Dorothee Vogel, Analyst, Jupiter Research divider Nicholas Rock, Partner, Environment Group, Dewey & LeBoeuf divider Gareth Davies, Principal Consultant, Pöyry Energy Consulting

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