HOLIVAR2006 - Panel Discussion
1.30PM - 4PM on 15th June, 2006 Lecture Theatre 1, Cruciform Building (see maps)
This session is a chance for HOLIVAR2006 participants to put their questions to a panel of experts. If you are participating in the meeting you will be able to suggest a question by writing it on a form during the meeting and leaving it with a member of the local organising committee. Questions will be selected by the chairperson and you will be asked to present your question during the session.
The four panelists are:
Catherine Pearce - Friends of the Earth International Climate Change Campaign co-ordinator
The campaign focuses on a number of areas, including climate justice, equity, sustainable energy and the international climate negotiations under the UNFCCC. Friends of the Earth International (FoEI) is the worlds largest environmental federation with member organizations in 71 countries, and more than one million members and supporters.
Catherine has previously worked in the field of energy policy - advising members of parliament on sustainable energy policy, as co-ordinator of the Parliamentary Renewable and Sustainable Energy Group in Westminster and facilitating stakeholder dialogue processes on energy with the Environment Council. Catherine has 6 years experience of working on climate and energy policy. She graduated from Liverpool University in Development Studies.
Chris Mottershead - Distinguished Advisory, Energy and the Environment, British Petroleum
As Distinguished Advisory Chris
provides leadership to the BP Group on making its products and operations consistent with the principles of sustainable energy and the environment. He is a Director of the Carbon Trust in the UK, the Center for Clean Air Policy in the US, and on the Advisory Board of the National Center for Atmospheric Research and the Climate Group.
Chris joined BP Research, at its London based research laboratories in 1978 as an instrument and control engineer. During the mid-eighties Chris lead a team to create and commercialise large-scale scientific computers. In the late eighties he ran BP’s exploration computing activities. During the early nineties he became commercial manager of exploration and production technical activities. Chris then moved to BP’s North Sea operations, first to Glasgow and then in Aberdeen, becoming the central technical manager. He returned to London, becoming the VP Technology, Engineering and HSE for BP’s global gas, power and renewable activities.
Heike Langenberg - Senior Editor for the Physical Sciences at Nature
Heike is responsible for the assessment and selection for publication of original research manuscript in the climate-related subject areas.
Having studied mathematics, she obtained a PhD in physical oceanography from the University of Hamburg, followed by postdoctoral work on ocean-atmosphere modelling. She changed careers to become an editor for Nature in 1999, reading and assessing scientific papers in the climate and palaeoclimate sciences, advising all sections of the journal on their coverage of the climate sciences and occasionally writing for the journal.
Chris Sear - Branch Head, Climate and Stratospheric Ozone Science, Global Atmosphere Division, Defra
Chris’ current role for Defra includes managing Defra’s flagship climate research and prediction programme at the Met Office’s Hadley Centre, as well as providing scientific evidence-based advise to Defra and other government customers on the science of climate change.
Chris did his PhD in Norwich on Climate Modelling and has since undertaken and managed applied scientific research on climate change, oceanography and extreme statistics, remote sensing and environmental and natural resource management; including long spells in government, academic and commercial environments.