Speakers Bio's
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Hans-Paul Siderius works as expert on product energy efficiency at the Netherlands Enterprise Agency, an agency of the Netherlands ministry of Economic Affairs. He is the Dutch representative in the EC Ecodesign Committee, the Energy Label Expert Group, the EC Energy Star Board and vice-chair of the IEA Technology Collaboration Platform on Energy Efficient End-use Equipment (4E).
He has a PhD on product energy efficiency policy and more than 20 years of international working experience in this field.
Peter Bennich (b 1963) studied at the University of Uppsala, Sweden, where he received a PhD in surface science (physics) in 1996. After two years as lecturer at the Mid Sweden University, teaching courses in physics and electronics, he moved on to the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), working with projects on power electronic based components in the electrical grid. He also worked as program manager for projects on distributed generation (wind power in particular).
Since 2002 Mr Bennich has been working with energy policies within the Swedish government, focussing on energy efficiency. In his present position at the Swedish energy agency, he is working with the EU directives on ecodesign (minimum energy performance standards) and energy labelling. Apart from working on product groups such as lighting, water taps and windows, he is also working on development of new methods for policy evaluation and market surveillance.
Finally, since October 2011 Mr Bennich is the Management Committee chair of the Solid State Lighting annex (SSL annex), part of the IEA Technology Collaboration Program on Energy Efficient End-use Equipment (4E). See http://ssl.iea-4e.org/ for more information.
Arlan Brucal is currently a Research Officer at the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at the London School of Economics. He is also a Fellow at CREST Program of the Japan Science and Technology Agency and a Research Fellow at the Energy Policy Development Program – a USAID-supported project with the UPecon Foundation, Inc. in the Philippines. Arlan earned his PhD in Economics from the University of Hawaii Manoa, USA. His research interests include environmental economics, international trade and energy. He has worked with several institutions, such as the World Bank, the Asian Development Bank, and other international consulting firms, including the Nathan Associates, Inc. Arlan earned his Bachelor and Master’s Degree in Economics at the University of the Philippines.
Jonas Sonnenschein is a Doctoral Student and Research Associate at the International Institute for Industrial Environmental Economics, Lund University, Sweden. His academic work is the evaluation of policies to advance low-carbon energy technology, its uptake and its use. Jonas’ research combines the assessment of top-down national policy approaches to foster the development and uptake of these technologies with the bottom-up study of behavioral aspects. He applies methods and approaches from both environmental and behavioural economics, including multi-criteria evaluation, decomposition analysis, econometrics, surveys, experiments and simulation. Jonas takes a critical stance on the promises of Green Growth and the focus of policy interventions on markets (and their failures).
Daniel Hinchliffe currently works on improving the management of e-waste and circular economy approaches in developing countries as an advisor to a global advisory project at the GIZ (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit). Prior to this, he worked closely with the EU Ecodesign and Energy Labelling Directives at the BAM (Bundesanstalt für Materialforschung und Prüfung) in Berlin, where he authored several publications on the Ecodesign regulatory process. Daniel has a Master in Physics from the University of Bristol.
Dr. Carl Dalhammar (LL.M., M.Sc., PhD) is assistant professor at IIIEE, Lund University. His research projects have analyzed a number of product oriented environmental policies, including the Ecodesign Directive, EU waste law, eco-labels, and government procurement. He has also performed evaluations of the Nordic electricity market, and the use of public money to fund cleantech start-ups in the Nordic countries. He recently received a four-year grant from the Swedish Energy Agency to further explore the potential to set ecodesign product standards to promote energy and resource efficiency.
Carl currently teaches environmental law and politics in several Swedish and European master programs. Carl has been an invited speaker at a number of events, including seminars arranged by the Swedish EPA, the Nordic Council of Ministers, industry associations, and European ministries. He was an invited panelist at the seminar “Energy savings in practice: the role of the EU Ecodesign Directive” held at the European Parliament in April 2011.
Prof. Dr. ir. Joost R. Duflou (Professor Mechanical Engineering Department, KU Leuven) holds master degrees in Architectural and Electro-mechanical Engineering and a PhD in Applied Sciences from KU Leuven, Belgium. After a number of years of industrial experience in different international companies, he is a faculty member at the Mechanical Engineering Department of KU Leuven since 1997. He became a tenured Full Professor in 2012. His principal research activities are situated in the field of design support methods and methodologies, with special attention for Ecodesign and Life Cycle Engineering, and Sustainable Manufacturing. As chairholder of the LVD Chair on Sheet Metal Processing, he also leads a research group focussing on sheet metal oriented manufacturing processes and systems and he supervises the KU Leuven FabLab. He is a CIRP Fellow and has published over 200 international publications. As chair and board member of several spin-off companies and professional associations he contributes to research valorisation and dissemination. More detailed information can be obtained via http://www.kuleuven.be/wieiswie/nl/person/00016263 .
Karsten Schischke, Group Manager Environmental Evaluation and Optimization at Fraunhofer-Institute for Reliability and Microintegration (IZM), is a passionate ecodesign researcher for 17 years. His technical expertise includes the lifecycle oriented environmental assessments of electronic products, the development of environmental screening methodologies, and the environmental optimization of products. He has co-authored preparatory studies under the ErP ecodesign Directive on external power supplies, televisions, imaging equipment, complex set-top-boxes and machine tools. He also managed the implementation of the research project “LCA to go” supporting SMEs across Europe. Under his coordination the Horizon 2020 project “CloseWEEE“ implements a Circular Economy for plastics from electical and electronics equipment and researches recycling of batteries. Since 2015 Karsten is coordinating the “sustainablySMART” project, a large EU-funded project that focuses on modular designs of smartphones in support of prolonged product use life. As part of the German Top-Runner Initiative (NTRI) he is involved in the development of the European Product Registry for Energy Labeling.
Jessika Luth Richter is a PhD candidate and research associate at the International Institute for Industrial Environmental Economics (IIIEE) at Lund University in Sweden. Jessika’s research has focussed on the case of energy efficient lighting and how questions related to energy efficiency, lifetimes, disposal, collection, labels, procurement, and value in closing material loops can be addressed in a synergistic way through an effective policy mix. She has also researched emissions trading schemes and green stimulus packages and is involved in teaching Masters courses and massive open online courses.
Kathleen Jacobs has been a Research and Teaching Assistant at the Faculty of Business Management at Alanus University of Arts and Social Sciences (Alfter, Germany) for approximately four years. She holds a bachelor degree in Business Administration (University of Mannheim, Germany) and a master degree in International Marketing (Nuremberg Institute of Technology, Germany). Her research foci are sustainable consumer behaviour, sustainability marketing and sustainability labelling. She is in the final phase of her PhD thesis for which she has conducted quantitative empirical analyses on sustainable consumption with a special focus on product longevity.
Christoforos Spiliotopoulos is a Senior Policy Officer at the European Environmental Citizens Organisation for Standardisation (ECOS). He has been working on the development of testing standards that support the Ecodesign and Energy Labelling Directives for the past five years, and represents environmental NGOs in more than 20 standardisation groups and technical committees of CEN and CENELEC. Christoforos holds an M.Sc. in Environment and Development from the London School of Economics and Political Science.
Moderators
Nils Borg is the Executive Director of eceee. A seed for energy efficiency was planted during the first oil crisis in 1973 when he was assigned the task of feeding the boiler in the family house with fire wood. Energy efficiency grew into a passion during the Swedish nuclear energy referendum in 1980. Nils has a background in journalism and science writing and it was efficient lighting that made him move from just writing about efficiency to actually working with it.
Dr. Carl Dalhammar (LL.M., M.Sc., PhD) is assistant professor at IIIEE, Lund University. His research projects have analyzed a number of product oriented environmental policies, including the Ecodesign Directive, EU waste law, eco-labels, and government procurement. He has also performed evaluations of the Nordic electricity market, and the use of public money to fund cleantech start-ups in the Nordic countries. He recently received a four-year grant from the Swedish Energy Agency to further explore the potential to set ecodesign product standards to promote energy and resource efficiency.
Carl currently teaches environmental law and politics in several Swedish and European master programs. Carl has been an invited speaker at a number of events, including seminars arranged by the Swedish EPA, the Nordic Council of Ministers, industry associations, and European ministries. He was an invited panelist at the seminar “Energy savings in practice: the role of the EU Ecodesign Directive” held at the European Parliament in April 2011.
