Speakers

Maryam Nemazee - Bloomberg Television

Moderator
Maryam Nemazee is a London-based anchor and the host of Bloomberg Television's weekday program, "The Pulse", which tracks the latest international developments in business, economic and financial news along with exclusive interviews and real-time analysis of breaking news affecting global markets.

- Follow Maryam Nemazee on Twitter

- Learn more about "The Pulse"

Dominic Waughray - World Economic Forum

Moderator
As Senior Director and Head of Environment and Sustainability Initiatives for the World Economic Forum, Dominic Waughray is responsible for the World Economic Forum’s agenda on environment and sustainability related issues, including events (Davos Annual Meeting and regional summits), analysis (reports) and initiatives (multi-stakeholder projects).

- Find out more about "Water security"

- Watch the "The water-food-energy nexus" video on YouTube

Ahmed Aboutaleb - Mayor of Rotterdam

On stage interview
Ahmed Aboutaleb was installed as Mayor of Rotterdam on 5 January 2009. Prior to this, on 22 February 2007, Mr Aboutaleb was appointed State Secretary for Social Affairs and Employment in the fourth Balkenende government.

- Find out more at:
City of Rotterdam www.rotterdam.nl
Climate Initiative www.rotterdamclimateinitiative.nl/en

Peter Voser - Royal Dutch Shell plc

Opening
Peter Voser became Chief Executive Officer (CEO) on July 1, 2009. Before his appointment as CEO, he had been Chief Financial Officer (CFO) and an Executive Director of Royal Dutch Shell since 2004.

- Find out more at:
www.shell.com

- View Peter Voser's speech at the 6th World Water Forum in March 2012

- Learn more about "Energy-water-food"

David Breashears - GlacierWorks

Experts panel
David Breashears is an accomplished filmmaker, adventurer, author, mountaineer, and professional speaker. Since 1978, he has combined his skills in climbing and filmmaking to complete more than forty film projects.

- Find out more at:
www.davidbreashears.com
www.glacierworks.org

Kevin Noone - Stockholm Resilience Institute

Experts panel
Kevin Noone has a background in Chemical Engineering, and Civil and Environmental Engineering, Oceanography, Meteorology Atmospheric Physics. He currently has joint appointments at the Department of Applied Environmental Science and the Stockholm Resilience Institute at Stockholm University, and is Director of the Swedish Secretariat for Environmental Earth System Sciences (SSEESS) at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.

- Find out more at:
http://www.sseess.org
http://www.stockholmresilience.org

Prem Bindraban - ISRIC World Soil Information

Experts panel
Dr.Ir. Prem Bindraban MBA is director of ISRIC World Soil Information and leader of international research in Agro-production systems at Plant Research International, both at Wageningen, The Netherlands. Over the years he has actively participated in food, feed, fuel debates and leads research about the agricultural development strategies and sustainable use of natural resources for various ministries in the Netherlands.

- Find out more about the ISRIC World Soil Information

- Find out more about FoodforThought

Jeremy Oppenheim - McKinsey & Company

Experts panel
Jeremy Oppenheim leads McKinsey’s Sustainability and Resource Productivity Practice. Drawing on deep expertise in renewables, energy efficiency, and environmental finance, he advises private, public, and social sector clients globally.

- Read the report "A new era for commodities"

- Read the report "The next environmental issue for businesses"

Michael Braungart - Environmental Protection Encouragement Agency

Explorers panel
Professor Dr. Michael Braungart is founder and scientific CEO of “EPEA Internationale Umweltforschung GmbH” in Hamburg and holds Cradle to Cradle® Chairs at Erasmus University of Rotterdam, University of Twente and University of Lüneberg. He is also co-founder and head of “McDonough Braungart Design Chemistry” (MBDC) in Charlottesville, Virginia (USA) and scientific head of the “Hamburger Umweltinstitut” (HUI). All institutes share values embracing intelligent, aesthetic and eco-effective design.

- Find out more at:
www.floriade.com

- Learn about the Environmental Protection Encouragement Agency

Bryony Schwan - Biomimicry Institute

Explorers panel
Bryony Schwan is the co-founder and Executive Director of The Biomimicry Institute. She is also an affiliate faculty member in the Environmental Studies Department at the University of Montana. Bryony's activism started in the anti-apartheid movement in South Africa.

- Find out more at:
Woman's voice www.womensvoices.org
The Biomimicry Institute biomimicry.net

- Read the article "Looking to nature for energy solutions"

Mark Post - University of Maastricht

Explorers panel
Dr. Mark Post, MD, PhD, received his medical degree from the University of Utrecht in 1982 and, at the same University, his PhD in 1989 on Pulmonary Pharmacology. He is currently Chair of the department of Physiology at Maastricht University Medical Center, and Chairman of the Dutch Society of Physiology. Dr. Post has co-authored 150 papers in leading peer-reviewed scientific journals and received during his career close to 30 million dollars in funding and awards from different sources including government, charity and industry.

- Find out more at:
Maastricht University
TEDx Brainport

Hubert Klumpner - Urban-Think Tank (U-TT)/ETH Zürich

Explorers panel

Hubert Klumpner graduated from the University of Applied Arts in Vienna in 1993 and received a master’s degree in Architecture and Urban design from Columbia University in 1995. Since 2001, he has been urbanism consultant of the International Program for Social and Cultural Development in Latin America (OAE and UNESCO).

- Find out more at:
Urban-Think Tank (U-TT)
HOLCIM Award 2012

- Read the article "A closer loot at cities as an energy solution"

Paul Polman - Unilever

Executives panel
Paul Polman became an Executive Director of Unilever in October 2008, and assumed the role of Chief Executive Officer (CEO) on 1st January 2009. He earned a BBA/BA from the University of Groningen, The Netherlands, in 1977 and an MBA/MA in economics and finance from the University of Cincinnati in 1979. He has honorary degrees from the Universities of Northumbria, Newcastle, UK (2000) and the University of Cincinnati, USA (2009).

- Find out more at:
www.unilever.com

Frans van Houten - Philips

Executives panel
Frans van Houten is the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and Chairman of the Board of Management and the Executive Committee of Philips. He is also a member of the European Round Table of Industrialists. Frans van Houten holds a Master’s degree in Economics and Business Management from the Erasmus University in Rotterdam, The Netherlands.

- Find out more at:
www.philips.nl

- Learn about horticulture lighting

Klaus Helmrich - Siemens AG

Executives panel
Klaus Helmrich joined Siemens as a development engineer back in 1986 and has held numerous operational positions since then, particularly in the Automation Group. In 2008, he became the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Drive Technologies Division. Today, as a member of the Managing Board, he is the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of Siemens AG.

- Find out more about:
E-mobility

Colin Harrison - IBM Corporation

Executives panel
Dr. Colin Harrison is a director and distinguished engineer in IBM's Enterprise Initiatives team working on the cross-IBM technical coordination of the Smarter Cities offerings. He was the inventor of the Smarter Cities technical architecture, which grew out of 2007 work on Energy & Environment offerings and a technology assessment on the Instrumented Planet.

- Find out more about:
IBM Smarter Cities Challenge
IBM Smarter Planet

Alexandra van Huffelen - Vice-Mayor of Rotterdam

Reflections
Alexandra van Huffelen, in her function as Vice-Mayor of Rotterdam, is responsible for the current prioritising of sustainability in Rotterdam. She is also on the regional executive committee of ICLEI, an association of over 1220 local government members who are committed to sustainable development.

- Find out more about:
Rotterdam Investment Agency
- Read the article "Rotterdam seeks to build a new energy economy"

Dick Benschop - Shell Netherlands

Reflections
Dick Benschop is President-Director of Shell Netherlands and Vice-President Gas Market Development. He leads Shell's effort in raising the profile of natural gas by advocating the economic and environmental benefits of gas that offer new options for energy policy making. Before joining Shell, he was deputy minister for Foreign Affairs in the Dutch government.

- Find out more at:
www.shell.com

- Read more about the "Energy Future" at www.energyfuture.nl

Ellen MacArthur - Ellen MacArthur Foundation

Closing keynote

Dame Ellen MacArthur first hit the headlines in 2001 when she raced single-handedly non-stop around the world in the Vendée Globe when only 24 years old. She was knighted by the Queen in 2005 and has received the Legion d' Honneur from French President, Nicolas Sarkozy. In September 2010 she launched the Ellen MacArthur Foundation with the goal of “accelerating the transition to a regenerative, circular economy”.

- Find out more at:
www.ellenmacarthurfoundation.org