19-21 September 2007, Jesus College, Oxford
Speaker Profiles
Lawrence McGinty
is ITV News' award-winning Science Editor. He joined ITV News at Science Editor in 1987 He recently traveled to all four corners of the earth to examine the effects of climate change in each region.
Susan Baker
is a Professor at the Cardiff School of Social Science. Her research focuses on environmental governance in the European Union, including environmental governance and Eastern enlargement, governance and democratic participation, and the promotion of sustainable development. She is an expert advisor to several governmental committees on sustainable consumption and author of a number of books, including Dilemmas of Transition: The Environment Democracy and Economic Reform in East and Central Europe which she co-edited.
Andreas Beckmann
is Deputy Director for the World Wide Fund for Nature's Danube-Carpathian Programme based in Viena. From 2001 to 2005, he was WWF's EU Enlargement coordinator and was responsible for leading WWF's work on EU nature conservation and related EU funds policy. Previously he worked for the Czech Environmental Partnership Foundation as director of development and regional coordinator for Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland, Hungary and Romania. Andreas has written on issues related to civil society, environment and rural development for a wide range of publications.
John Groom
is Head of Safety, Health and Environment at Anglo American plc, one of the world's largest mining companies. He has an engineering background and 19 years of management experience. He is active in the international mining and metals industries' journey towards a better understanding of sustainable development and the role the sector must play. To this end he has been closely involved in a number of international multi-stakeholder initiatives including the Global Mining Initiative and the Mining Minerals and Sustainable Development project. These prepared the way for the industries' contribution to the Johannesburg World Summit on Sustainable Development.
Dr Alex Nicholls
is lecturer in social entrepreneurship at the Saïd Business School Oxford. He is co-author of a major research book on fair trade and a ground-breaking edition of a collection of key papers on the state of the art of social entrepreneurship globally.
Norman Myers
is an independent scientist specializing in Environment and Development, with expertise based in Systems Ecology and Resource Economics, and a range of sectors such as Population, Poverty, Forestry, Biodiversity, Trade/Investment, and Alternative Growth Paradigms. He has received numerous honours for his environmental work and is widely known as originator of the biodiversity hotspots concept which has targeted millions of dollars of biodiversity investment around the globe.
Donald Macrae
is a Member of the Better Regulation Commission, an independent body that advises the British Government on reducing regulatory burdens on business and on how best to apply its 5 Principles of Better Regulation. He was previously the Director General for Law and Regulation and member of the Management Board of the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, which has one of the largest regulatory outputs in government, particularly from the European Union. He has been a government lawyer for 32 years, working at all levels of legislation, from international treaties to local bye-laws, across nine different Departments.
Jacqueline McGlade
is Executive Director of the European Environment Agency on leave from her post as Professor in Environmental Informatics at University College London. She has wide experience of the role of government agencies in environmental governance. In addition to her present role she has been a board member of the Environment Agency of England and Wales and a Director of the NERC Centre for Coastal and Marine Sciences. Her research focuses on the spatial and nonlinear dynamics of ecosystems, with particular reference to marine resources, climate change and scenario development.
Alistair Fulton
is a partner at Environmental Resources Management (ERM) one of the world's largest environmental management consultancies. Mr Fulton has worked on European environmental policy for twenty years. He has worked with the European Commission, the EEA, the World Bank, EBRD and Member State governments on a range of policy issues including the development of legislation and the design and delivery of implementation measures. In addition to his work for the public sector Mr Fulton has also worked with a number of private sector organisations on environmental performance and governance issues. He is currently advising a number of major European multinationals on governance issues and CSR.
Dr Heike Schroeder
is a Tyndall Research Fellow at the Environmental Change Institute, Oxford. Her research focuses is on analyzing options for international action on climate change, specifically on possible roles of non-nation state actors, emerging countries, and transnational networks and partnerships in a post-2012 international policy framework.
Martin Palmer
is Secretary General of the Alliance of Religions and Conservation (ARC). ARC works with to develop environmental programmes with faith traditions world-wide. These programmes range from investment policies, through education and advocacy to land management. As the oldest human institutions in the world, faiths are crucial partners for any long term programme on environmental care. Martin is also a regular broadcaster on the BBC and the author of over thirty books on religion, ecology, history, landscapes and travel.