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The Rt Hon Lord Deben
Chairman
UK Committee on Climate Change
The Rt. Hon John Gummer, Lord Deben, set up and now runs Sancroft, a Corporate Responsibility consultancy working with blue-chip companies around the world on environmental, social and ethical issues. Lord Deben is Chairman of the Committee on Climate Change, Valpak Limited, and the Personal Investment Management & Financial Advisers Association. He was the longest serving Secretary of State for the Environment the UK has ever had (1993-97). His sixteen years of top-level ministerial experience also include Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries & Food, Minister for London, Employment Minister and Paymaster General in HM Treasury. He has consistently championed an identity between environmental concerns and business sense.
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Beatriz Yordi
Director of European & International Carbon Markets, DG CLIMA
European Commission
Beatriz Yordi is a Director in DG Climate Action leading the team responsible for the EU Emissions Trading System, promoting carbon pricing and advancing innovation, opportunities and competitiveness in line with the Paris agreement. She specialised in fundamental physics at the University of Santiago de Compostela.
A pioneer in renewable energy policies, she joined the European Commission in 1994, working on energy policy, Eco-innovation, Green businesses and the LIFE programme in DG Energy, DG Environment and EASME. Her career began at the Research Centre CIEMAT and this was followed by the role as young Chief Engineer in Endesa-RWE and Notary’s joint venture designing and constructing the first European solar PV plant.
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European Commission
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Dirk Forrister
President and CEO
International Emissions Trading Association
Dirk Forrister is President and CEO of the International Emissions Trading Association (IETA), a non-profit business association dedicated to market-based climate policies. With 140 member companies, IETA is respected globally as a thought leader on strategies to harness the power of markets to bring climate protection.

Dirk brings a long history of public and private sector engagement in energy and environmental policy. He spent a decade as Managing Director at Natsource LLC, the manager of carbon funds valued at $1.2 billion. Earlier in his career, Mr. Forrister served as Chairman of the White House Climate Change Task Force in the Clinton Administration, and Assistant U.S. Secretary of Energy for Congressional and Public Affairs.
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IETA
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David Antonioli
Chief Executive Officer
Verra

David serves as Chief Executive Officer of Verra where he oversees all aspects of the organization, ensuring the organization’s certification programs meet high quality integrity and transparency standards. In recent years David’s focus has been to expand the scope of Verra, broadening it from an organization dedicated exclusively to certifying carbon reductions to one that also identifies and develops other standards frameworks for a sustainable world. In this vein, David works to ensure that the standards Verra identifies, develops and manages facilitate the flow of capital to enable countries, the private sector and civil society achieve and demonstrate their climate and sustainable development goals.  

David began his work in this sector when he worked for ICF Consulting in 1994 providing technical advice to Latin American countries developing their GHG inventories and serving on the team that pioneered verification procedures for emission reduction projects. In 1999 David joined the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) in Mexico as its global climate change advisor overseeing the development of an energy-sector grid emission factor and baseline studies for forest protection efforts. In 2003, David joined EcoSecurities in Oxford (UK) where he led a joint venture to develop landfill gas-to-energy projects under the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM). At EcoSecurities David also spearheaded the company’s efforts in the voluntary market, helping to identify key infrastructure and procedural needs that the voluntary carbon market lacked in the early days of its existence. 

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Verra
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Angela Churie Kallhauge
Head, Carbon Pricing Leadership Coalition (CPLC) Secretariat & Senior Climate Change Specialist
World Bank
Angela Churie Kallhauge works in the Climate Change Group of the World Bank, where she heads the Secretariat of the Carbon Pricing Leadership Coalition, an initiative that brings together stakeholders from government, business, civil society, academic from across the world to advocate and work to put a price on carbon.
She has over two decades of experience working on climate change, energy and development issues in government, academia and civil society in Africa, Europe and the Middle East. She joined the World Bank in December 2016 from the Swedish Energy Agency where she worked for 14 years on climate change, energy and development issues at the international and national levels. She also spent a couple of years working to establish a climate change and renewable energy programme at the International Renewable Energy Agency.

Since joining the CPLC, her focus is on moving the advocacy to action, through advancing the political, social and business case for carbon pricing in a strategic manner that reflects and resonates with specific interests of different constituencies and stakeholders and harnessing the opportunities in different sectors and regions.
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Carbon Pricing Leadership Coalition
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Dr Amal-Lee Amin
Climate Change Director
CDC Group
Amal-Lee is a passionate advocate for sustainable development. In 2019 she was recognized by Apolitico as one of the top 100 influencers on climate policy. Her professional experience includes ten years leading policy on climate change and development, sustainable energy and green finance within the UK Government; seven years at the Inter-American Development Bank, most recently as Chief of the Climate Change and Sustainability division and; developing a new international climate finance programme at the think-tank E3G.

In 2020 Amal-Lee joined CDC Group as Director of Climate Change leading a team on development and implementation of a new strategy for aligning financial flows to the Paris Agreement. In this role she is developing partnerships for increasing climate financed investments, including a new collaborative for accelerating investment in climate adaptation and finance roadmaps for a just transition in India and South Africa. In 2021 she is also a senior advisor to the UK Government COP26 Unit.

Amal-Lee’s professional career is underpinned by PhD research on the technological change implications of social, economic and environmental drivers within the power sector of developing countries. Case studies were undertaken on the potential for commercialization of renewable electricity in India and South Africa.
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CDC Group
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Tim Atkinson
Director, Sales & Trading
CF Partners
Tim Atkinson is Director of Sales and Trading at CF Partners. He has been involved in carbon markets and emission trading for 20 years, including working on the original UK ETS which ran from 2002-2006 and the EU ETS from its inception in 2005. He focusses on working with industry operators to help them understand policy, manage compliance and develop a carbon trading strategy.
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CF Partners
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Amy J. Bann
Director, Sustainability Strategy
Boeing

Amy serves as a sustainability strategy director at Boeing and in board leadership roles.  She has over two decades of global experience in ESG (environmental / social governance), climate finance, sustainability, technology innovation / commercialization, business partnerships, public affairs & complex regulatory matters, media relations, legal, and human resources.

Amy has deep experience in carbon markets. She led the carbon offsets strategy for Boeing’s first net zero target achievement in 2020. She is currently serving on the Taskforce for Voluntary Carbon Markets launched by Mark Carney, Special Envoy to the UN for Climate Finance. She was on the aviation industry delegations to the Paris climate talks and prior UNFCCC conferences, as well as a leader in creating aviation’s groundbreaking carbon emissions agreements adopted by world governments: CORSIA (Carbon Offset Scheme for International Aviation) and the CO2 standard for aircraft, both under the auspices of ICAO (International Civil Aviation Organization). These agreements governing sectoral international emissions are the first of their kind, serving as novel models for future frameworks.

Amy is a licensed attorney and previously worked in the public, private and nonprofit sectors. She holds a Juris Doctorate from the University of Miami, Bachelor / Master of Arts from Virginia Tech in Political Science / International Development, & Certificates in Human Rights from the International Institute of Human Rights & Sustainable Business from the Presidio Graduate School.

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Kathy Benini
Managing Director, Head of Environmental Solutions
IHS Markit
Kathy is a Managing Director at IHS Markit, Head of Environmental Solutions and co-head of Sustainable Finance.She joined the firm in 2009 and has been responsible for the development and growth of IHS Markit's environmental businesses across asset classes. Kathy is a frequent speaker on environmental markets and utilizing data and technology to advance the growth of carbon markets. She currently sits on the board and serves as Past President of the Women's Energy Network Greater New York City Chapter.

Kathy joined from Goldman Sachs where she was Vice President of Commodity Operations including global responsibility for logistics covering electricity, oil, gas, emissions and renewable energy. Kathy served as the senior representative for many of the various U.S. electricity grids and served as Co-Chairman of the Board of Directors of LEAP (Leadership for Energy Automated Processing) and is a member of the ISDA (International Swaps and Derivatives Association) Commodities Working Group.

Kathy holds a degree in Economics from Eisenhower College of Rochester Institute of Technology and an MBA from Columbia University.
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IHS Markit
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Gordon Bennett
Managing Director, Utility Markets
ICE
Gordon Bennett is Managing Director, Utility Markets at Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), responsible for sales and business development for ICE's long-established European natural gas and power franchise, together with its international emissions and coal portfolios.

Prior to joining ICE, Mr. Bennett spent over 12 years at the energy broker Spectron. Mr. Bennett joined Spectron as Group Financial Controller in April 2002 and was appointed to the Board as Chief Financial Officer in February 2005. He moved to New York in February 2006 as Managing Director of North America and after Imarex’s acquisition of Spectron in 2008 was appointed Managing Director and co-head of Energy at Imarex. He relocated back to London in February 2011 as Managing Director and Global Head of Energy and was appointed to Marex Spectron’s Executive Committee.

Prior to Spectron, he served as a Senior Manager in the Energy, Infrastructure and Utilities division of accounting firm Andersen and was responsible for several large energy trading companies. He also launched the Andersen Spectron Energy Indices in 2001.

He is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England & Wales having qualified as a Chartered Accountant in 1998. Mr. Bennett holds a Bachelor of Science Degree (with Honours) in Chemistry from the University of Edinburgh.
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Cynthia Cummis
Director of Private Sector Climate Mitigation
World Resources Institute

Cynthia Cummis is the Director of Private Sector Climate Mitigation in WRI's Business Center. In this role she leads the institute’s work with businesses to reduce GHG emissions, including the Science Based Targets initiative, which she co-founded, and GHG Protocol’s suite of corporate GHG accounting and reporting standards. Cynthia was formerly Deputy Director of GHG Protocol and led the development of the Corporate Scope 3 (Value Chain) Accounting and Reporting Standard and the Product Life Cycle Accounting and Reporting Standard. 

Ms. Cummis is a well-known expert in GHG accounting and brings more than 18 years of experience working on the issue of global climate change. Prior to WRI, Cynthia was the Director of Carbon Management at Clear Carbon Consulting where she managed carbon quantification and management projects for multiple Fortune 500 clients as well as large public institutions. Ms. Cummis was the Founding Director of U.S. EPA’s Climate Leaders Program, a voluntary program that partnered with businesses to develop corporate-wide greenhouse gas inventories and reduction goals. For more than 5 years, she led the design and implementation of the program and oversaw the growth of the program to more than 90 corporate Partners. 

Cynthia holds a MPA in environmental policy from Columbia University in New York City and a B.S. from Cornell University in Ithaca N.Y. 

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World Resources Institute
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Sabine Frank
Executive Director
Carbon Market Watch
Sabine Frank is Executive Director of Carbon Market Watch, a not-for-profit, Brussels-based association with unique expertise in carbon pricing and a track record of policy work in international organisations and the European Union. Carbon Market Watch exists to ensure that carbon pricing and other climate policies cut pollution and drive a just transition towards zero-carbon societies. Before joining Carbon Market Watch, Sabine worked for several foundations, notably the Schöpflin Stiftung as Head of Programme “Economy and Democracy”, and looked at climate protection from the perspective of trade policy. Sabine also has many years leadership experience of NGOs at European level. She entered the EU sphere as an assistant to a British MEP and is a politics graduate of the Universities of Heidelberg and Durham, UK.
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Outi Haanperä
Leading Specialist, Climate and Nature Solutions
SITRA
Outi Haanperä is an economist (PhD) and leading specialist at Sitra’s (Finnish Innovation Fund) Climate and Nature Solutions team. Outi has 15 years of experience in economic analysis of public policy interventions. Outi explores cost-effective ways to achieve net-zero emissions and opportunities to protect the biodiversity. For example, she led Sitra’s work on reforming the European Emission Trading Scheme to align it with the objectives of the Paris Agreement. Her previous roles cover both public and private sector, as well as research and international organisations.
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Sitra
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Owen Hewlett
Chief Technical Officer
Gold Standard

As Chief Technical Officer at Gold Standard, Owen Hewlett is responsible for the development of all innovations, standards, methodologies and tools at Gold Standard, including a suite a tools to manage Scope 3 emissions. Owen led the development of the pioneering ‘Gold Standard for the Global Goals’, a first of kind impact-standard focused on accelerating progress to the Paris Agreement + the Sustainable Development Goals. Owen is a member of the Science Based Targets Technical Advisory Group, the GHG Protocol's Advisory Committee for Carbon Removals and Land Sector Initiative, and Mark Carney's Taskforce on Scaling Voluntary Carbon Markets. 

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Gold Standard
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Andrew Howard
Independent Consultant
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Emily Jackson
EU Power and Carbon Analyst
Bloomberg New Energy Finance

Emily is an analyst in the European carbon research team at BloombergNEF. Her analysis focuses on the EU ETS and its wider role in international climate policy. She has previous experience as a WCI market analyst and as a sustainability consultant. 

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Bloomberg New Energy Finance
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Jouni Keronen
Founder and CEO
Climate Leadership Coalition
Jouni Keronen, FLKI (born 7 January 1960) is Chief Executive Officer of the Climate Leadership Coalition (CLC) and a Vice Chairman of the Climate Policy Round Table of Finland. Before CLC he has worked as a Vice President, Innovation development, and Chief Information Officer in Fortum Corporation, Head of Power Plant Technologies Unit, Imatran Voima Oy, Finland and as manager and researcher in the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) and SRI International, California and VTT, Finland. Dr Keronen holds four academic degrees, Dr. Tech., Electric Engineering, Lic. Tech., Computer Science, M.Sc., Power Plant Eng. and Energy Economics, and MBA. In 2011 he was nominated for Influencer of the year in the energy sector, and 2008 CIO of the Year in Finland.
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Climate Leadership Coalition
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Kelley Kizzier
Associate Vice President for International Climate
Environmental Defense Fund

Kelley Kizzier is Vice President for Global Climate at Environmental Defense Fund, where she leads EDF’s work to promote ambitious and effective global climate action in multilateral forums including the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, the International Civil Aviation Organization, and the International Maritime Organization.

Kelley joined EDF in 2019, bringing a deep knowledge on the design and performance of international carbon markets and the related issues of emissions accounting, tracking and reporting. She recently served as the UNFCCC co-chair for the UN climate negotiations under Article 6 of the Paris Agreement. Prior to joining EDF, Kelley worked as an independent consultant, her clients including the World Bank, the Western Climate Initiative, and the Center for Climate and Energy Solutions.

Kelley worked on EU and international climate issues for many years as a senior official at the European Commission’s Directorate for Climate Action in Brussels, and at the Irish Environmental Protection Agency in Dublin. Kelley has been an EU negotiator in the UNFCCC for the past 15 years, negotiating issues related to international cooperation through carbon markets, transparency and accounting for the Framework Convention, the Kyoto Protocol and ultimately, the Paris Agreement.

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Environmental Defense Fund
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Lars Kroijer
Founder
AlliedCrowds

Lars Kroijer is the founder and managing director of AlliedCrowds – the leading directory and aggregator of alternative capital into the world’s 132 lower and middle income countries.  He is also leading the AlliedOffsets initiative, a data aggregator and registry for carbon offset markets.  He is the author of "Money Mavericks - Confessions of a Hedge Fund Manager" and “Investing Demystified – How to Invest without Speculation and Sleepless Nights”. 

Kroijer currently serves on the advisory board of alternative investment funds in London, New York, and Hong Kong. He has frequently appeared as a finance expert on a broad range of media, including BBC, CNN, CNBC, FT, Bloomberg, Reuters, NY Times, Forbes, etc. 

Previously, Kroijer was the CIO of Holte Capital Ltd, a London-based market neutral special situations hedge fund which he founded in 2002 before returning external capital in the spring of 2008. Prior to establishing Holte Capital, Kroijer served in the London office of HBK Investments focusing on special situations investing. In addition, he previously worked at SC Fundamental, a value-focused hedge fund, and the investment banking division of Lazard Frères, both in New York.   

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AlliedCrowds
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Chris Leeds
Executive Director, Commodity Origination
Standard Chartered Bank

Chris joined Standard Chartered in 2011 and provides commodity risk management services to the Bank’s clients across EMEA. He is currently a member of the operating team for the Taskforce for Scaling the Voluntary Carbon Markets, chaired by SCB’s CEO, Bill Winters as well as the CLPC’s Net Zero Taskforce and the SMI’s Financial Services Taskforce. Chris’s experience in the commodity industry spans over 25 years in sales and trading. At Standard Chartered, he built up the Bank’s energy risk management platform, providing services for state-owned and merchant refiners, oil producers, airlines, utilities and shipping companies.  ​

Previously Chris was with Barclays where he was Global Head of Environmental Markets Sales and before that at Merrill Lynch where he traded power, gas and set up their carbon emissions trading desk. He was a founder member of the Carbon Markets and Investors Association (CMIA) and was the Chairman of Power Trading Forum a division of the Futures and Options Association (FOA). He also worked as a base metals trader for a number of years before moving to energy. Chris has a strong understanding of commodity trade flows, managing price risk and working with clients across commodities.

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Standard Chartered Bank
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Andrei Marcu
Founder and Executive Director
European Roundtable on Climate Change and Sustainable Transition

Andrei Marcu is currently the Executive Director of the European Roundtable on Climate Change and Sustainable Transition.

Andrei Marcu has vast experience in managing policy-focused organisations, creating partnerships, managing stakeholder relations and fundraising. His focus has been on sustainable development, climate change and energy. In different capacities, he has been engaged in multilateral negotiating processes and subsequent implementation action, both at the global and sectorial level. He has acted as negotiator for developing countries, coordinator for the G-77 and China, and as representative of the international business community.  He pioneered cooperation between the UN system and multinational corporations when serving as Manager of Private Sector Cooperation in the United Nations Development Programme.

During his career, Mr. Marcu has performed at the highest managerial level, both in business organisations and in non-profit organisations. This includes: Sr. Vice President and Head of Regulatory and Policy Affairs at Mercuria Energy Group; CEO of Bluenext, a Paris based exchange; Managing Director for Climate & Energy at the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD)  in charge of Energy and Climate and as Vice Chair of the Energy and Environment Commission of the International Chamber of Commerce in Paris; Senior Associate to the International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development (ICTSD), Senior Advisor on Climate Change and Emissions Trading at Bennett Jones LLP in Canada; Founder, President and CEO of the International Emissions Trading Association (IETA), a business association with offices in Geneva, Brussels, Washington and Toronto. Mr Marcu founded the organisation and made it into one of the leading global business NGOs and the voice of business in its field. Mr. Marcu initiated his career in Ontario Hydro, where among other responsibilities, he served as Chief of Staff for the Chairman & CEO.

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European Roundtable on Climate Change and Sustainable Transition
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Will Mathis
Journalist
Bloomberg News
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Esteban Mezzano
General Counsel Operations & Sustainability
Nestlé

General Counsel Operations & Sustainability at Nestlé- based in the company’s headquarters in Switzerland. Esteban leads a global team of lawyers dedicated to sustainability and reports to the Chief Operating Officer. Among other responsibilities, his team is in charge of the legal support to important ESG commitments made by Nestlé, such as those related with climate change, plastic packaging and human rights. 

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Nestlé
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Jahn Olsen
Head of European Carbon
BloombergNEF
Jahn is the Head of European Carbon at BloombergNEF, where he leads coverage of EU ETS policy development and price forecasting. Prior to joining BNEF, Jahn had a short stint as an oil and gas market analyst focusing on offshore services. He completed an LLM in Oil and Gas Law at Robert Gordon University and also holds a BA in Management with Economics from the same university.
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BloombergNEF
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Janet Peace
Chief of Advisory Services
Bluesource
As Chief of Advisory Services, Janet is responsible for leading outreach, guidance and engagement on key climate issues important to Bluesource clients including policy, natural climate solutions, GHG inventories, carbon strategy, reporting, goal setting and carbon neutrality. Janet brings a wide spectrum of experience on environmental issues to her work at Bluesource. Prior to Bluesource, she was in the executive management team at the Pew Center on Global Climate Change and helped launch its successor, the Center on Climate and Energy Solutions. At Pew and C2ES, Janet led their engagement with the corporate community, including their Business Environmental Leadership Council - mostly Fortune 500 companies. Janet also led research and engagement on market-based policy, domestic policy, corporate sustainability, climate resilience and carbon capture, use and storage.

As a recognized expert on climate issues, she is an advisor to the World Bank's High Level Panel on Carbon Pricing Competitiveness, the NRG COSIA Carbon XPRIZE, American University's Center for Environmental Policy and Arizona State's Urban Resilience Network. She is past member of the review team for the Fourth National Climate Assessment, National Research Council’s Roundtable on Climate Change Education and the Council of Canadian Academies on oil sands environmental technologies.

Janet holds a Ph.D. and Master of Science in economics and an undergraduate degree in geology.
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Bluesource
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Fiona Ross
Senior Associate
Pinsent Masons LLP

Fiona has worked as a specialist in environmental law throughout her career. She advises clients throughout the UK on a wide range of environmental law issues, including climate change and net zero, EU and UK Emissions Trading Schemes, industrial and waste regulation and permitting, energy from waste, contaminated land and remediation projects, SEA, EIA, HRA, and Water Framework Directive compliance, water resources management planning and the Ofwat SRO process. Fiona assists clients with regulatory advice, bespoke commercial contracts, strategic advice and project future-proofing, and provides specialist support for Nationally Significant Infrastructure Projects and major development.

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Pinsent Masons LLP
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Marc Sadler
Practice Manager, Climate Funds Management
World Bank

Marc Sadler is the Manager of the Climate Funds Management unit at the World Bank. The unit manages climate and carbon trust funds housed at the World Bank covering land-use, forestry, renewable energy, energy efficiency, as well as the relationship with the Montreal Protocol, the Global Environmental Facility and the Green Climate Fund. His previous roles with the World Bank include Adviser on Risk and Markets and Global Lead for Climate Smart Agriculture in the Agriculture Global Practice. Before this, Marc was a consultant for the World Bank and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in Central Asia, Caucasus and Turkey on issues related to agribusiness and sectoral policy. Prior to that, he was a commodities trader based out of the Former Soviet Union. He has an M.A. in Jurisprudence from Trinity College, Oxford University.  

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World Bank
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Dr Lambert Schneider
Research Coordinator for International Climate Policy, Energy & Climate
Oeko-Institut

Lambert Schneider is Research Coordinator for International Climate Policy at Oeko-Institut and a member of the CDM Executive Board. He conducts re-search on international carbon market mechanisms and GHG emissions ac-counting and is an EU delegate in the negotiations on Article 6.

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Oeko-Institut
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Wayne Sharpe
Founder and CEO
Global Environmental Markets and the Carbon Trade eXchange ® (CTX ®)
"Ahead of his time" is a term often used when describing Wayne's technology solutions. In 2008, Wayne designed the world's first Global Web based exchange for the Voluntary Carbon Markets; the Carbon Trade Exchange (CTX). During the almost 2 years of R&D, Wayne attended every major Carbon related event, before creating CTX; the simple, secure and transparent, fully electronic platform providing Climate Finance to projects, globally. In 2012, Wayne eventually sold out of his global technology company, Bartercard, to focus entirely on CTX. Bartercard once operated from 136 offices in 20 countries, trading over $40 billion, but CTX strives to deliver up to 100 times more in Carbon trade this decade, owing to the ongoing electronic interface from Westpac Bank. CTX now provides a 24/7/365 trading platform of Carbon Credits and offsets at exceptionally low fees.

In 2010, Wayne founded Global Environmental Markets (GEM); a design and technology infrastructure operating in a range of environmental instruments, and a stock exchange. GEM has also built the world's first National Carbon Meta-Registry for Nations to record and manage emissions activity, and issue ITMOs (ITMO Registry®) under the Paris Agreement.

Wayne is a global leader in the industry, attending and speaking at World Climate Summits, Innovate4Climate, Carbon Expo's, NACW (USA), Climate Leadership Conferences, as well as sponsoring the IETA Business Hub at COP25, the 25th UN Global Climate Conference in Madrid, 2019.
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Carbon Trade eXchange ® (CTX ®)
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Paul Spence
Director of Strategy and Corporate Affairs
EDF Energy

Paul joined the EDF Energy Executive Team in January 2009. His teams are responsible for R&D, Strategy, Policy & Regulation, Communications, and Supply Chain activities across EDF in the UK. He also chairs EDF’s UK R&D centre.  

He currently serves on the board of Energy UK, the Nuclear Industry Association, is a Fellow of the Energy Institute, and is the Executive Sponsor of EDF’s BAME Network.

Before their acquisition by EDF, he was Head of Strategy and Business Development for British Energy from 2003.  He joined them from Accenture where he spent 17 years, latterly as Senior Partner, responsible for the UK Energy Strategy and Human Performance practices. His early career included time with Davy McKee (London) Limited, and Ford Motor Company.

Paul holds an MBA from London Business School and a BSc in Engineering from the University of Bristol. He lives in South London with his wife and dog and tries to keep fit with cycling, swimming, and hockey.

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EDF Energy
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Naomi Swickard
Chief Program Officer
Verra

As Chief Program Officer, Naomi oversees Verra’s portfolio of standards, leading implementation and evolution of Verra programs, including those related to REDD+ and AFOLU, and provides strategic input to organizational opportunities and challenges.

Naomi also supervises the ongoing development of standards frameworks including LandScale, a new initiative which provides outcome-based metrics for assessing sustainable production at the landscape scale. In addition, she works to establish and oversee key partnerships for existing and new frameworks, including with donors, host countries and business and NGO partners.

Naomi has been with Verra since 2009 and previously served as Chief Market Development Officer and Director for Land-based Frameworks, among other roles. She oversaw the development of the Jurisdictional and Nested REDD+ (JNR) framework, and managed the evolution of the Agriculture, Forestry and Other Land Use (AFOLU) Requirements, which is now the preeminent global carbon accounting standard for Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD) projects. Naomi led the expansion of the AFOLU standard to include peatlands, wetlands, grasslands, and shrublands, as well as a number of additional tools, updates, and improvements to the AFOLU Requirements.

Before joining Verra, Naomi focused on quality assurance for VCS, Gold Standard, and CDM projects with South Pole Carbon and provided program coordination for climate change and environmental services programs with Conservation International. She has worked on climate and environment-related issues for more than 15 years. Naomi holds a Master’s degree in International Development, with a focus on Environmental Policy, from Chulalongkorn University in Thailand.

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Verra
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Gavin Templeton
Partner
Pollination Group

Gavin is an entrepreneurial leader in all areas of sustainability,  recognised globally as an expert in the green economy and the low carbon transition. He has a proven track record of identifying concepts and developing them into innovative commercial opportunities. Prior to joining Pollination, Gavin ran the Climate Finance Advisory function at Macquarie’s Green Investment Group which advised governments, public bodies, multilateral organisations and development finance institutions. He also represented Macquarie Group on the United Nations Global Commission on Adaption and Bloomberg’s Climate Finance Leadership Initiative.  Gavin was part of the team that set up, ran and eventually privatised the world’s first dedicated green finance institution, the UK Green Investment Bank, which was subsequently bought by Macquarie. He began his career at BP before moving to Morgan Stanley and Rabobank. A pioneer, he worked at the inception of the European Emissions Trading Scheme and United Nations Clean Development Mechanism. Gavin is a Senior Advisor to the UK Government’s Partnership for Accelerated Climate Transitions and a member of the Advisory Committee for the new Green Bank Design Platform currently under development at the UK’s Green Finance Institute.

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Susanna Twidale
Correspondent
Thomson Reuters News Agency
Susanna Twidale is a London-based correspondent at Reuters news agency covering power, gas and carbon as well as renewable energy, climate change and carbon offsets.

Susanna has been a journalist at Reuters for over 12 years covering the energy transition and has previously worked for Point Carbon, specialising in carbon markets, Shares magazine, Platts and Metal Bulletin.
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Thomson Reuters News Agency
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Peter Zaman
Partner
HFW

With over 20 years' experience as a transactional lawyer in the UK, EU and Asia, Peter has developed a multi-faceted practice spanning commodities, derivatives, structured products and climate finance. His rare combination of commodities and climate finance expertise enables him to provide a holistic view and skillset that is crucial to support businesses in the energy transition pathway. 
As a partner at two very different international law firms before joining HFW, Peter genuinely understands his clients' perspectives on both the 'buy side' and the 'sell side'. He firmly applies the mantras “variety is the spice of life” and “there is no such thing as bad experience” to embrace work opportunities and to collaborate with clients to solve their problems and achieve their commercial objectives.

Peter is a global market leader in his field. He has been active in climate finance and environmental products markets since 2004. He has experienced all of the 'ups and downs' of carbon markets in the EU ETS, under the Kyoto Protocol, in the pilot markets in China, the voluntary markets, UERs, RECs, ROCs and now the Article 6 markets under the Paris Agreement. Most recently, Peter was invited to join the IIF Task force on scaling voluntary carbon markets initiated by Mark Carney in his capacity as UN Special Envoy for Climate Action and Finance Advisor to UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson for COP26.

Peter advises on all aspects of over-the-counter, exchange-traded and structured energy derivatives and commodities, including netting, collateral management and regulatory issues. His commodity product suite includes LNG and natural gas, base metals, precious metals and power.

He also advises lenders, borrowers, issuers and arrangers in the context of the derivative aspects of project finance, asset finance and capital markets products.

Peter is an active member of a number of industry groups including at ISDA, IETA and EFET.

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