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The conference speakers Plenary Session Speakers in order of appearance VITOR CONSTANCIO, Vice-President, European Central Bank Vítor Constâncio has been Vice-President of the He was Guest Senior Professor of Economics at the European Central bank since June 2010. He was Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestāo from 1989 Governor of the Bank of Portugal from 1985 to to 2000, culminating a long academic career. 1986 and from 2000 to 2010. Before that he was Executive Director of the Portuguese Investment Bank from 1995 to 2000 and non-executive Director of Electricidade de Portugal, the Portuguese national power utility, from 1998 to 2000. KARMENU VELLA, European Commissioner for Environment, Maritime Affairs and Fisheries Karmenu Vella practised as an architect from 1973 Party Parliamentary Group from 2008 to 2013, to 1981, joining the Maltese Parliament in 1976. and Chairman of the Orange Travel Group from There he served as Minister for Public Works (1981 2010 to 2013. He was appointed as European to 1983), Industry Minister (1984 to 1987), Tourism Commissioner for Environment, Maritime Affairs Minister (1996 to 1998), and most recently as and Fisheries in 2014. Minister for Tourism and Aviation (2013 to 2014). https://twitter.com/KarmenuVella/ He served as Executive Director of Corinithia Hotels status/659032409900453888 International from 2001 to 2007, and Corinthia’s Mediterranean Construction Co. from 2008 to 2010. He was Group Coordinator for the Labour GUNTHER ADLER, State Secretary, Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Building and Nuclear Safety Gunther Adler worked as a policy advisor for former of Transport, Building and Urban Development. German Minister President Dr Johannes Rau in From 2012 to 2014 he was State Secretary at 1999, before serving as a member of the Personal the Ministry for Economic Affairs, Energy, Building, Office Staff of the Federal President until 2004. Housing and Transport of North Rhine-Westphalia, From 2004 to 2008 he was Head of the Office of and since 2014 he is State Secretary at the Federal the Executive Committee of the Social Democratic Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Party. He then became Head of the Political Planning Building and Nuclear Safety. Division and Planning Officer at the Federal Ministry https://twitter.com/adlergunther of Transport, Building and Urban Development, and from 2009 to 2012 he was Head of the External Economic Relations Division at the Federal Ministry EMAS 20 Years 02 Plenary Speakers KESTUTIS SADAUSKAS, Director Green Economy, European Commission Kestutis Sadauskas was born in 1969 in Lithuania. later as Director, responsible for Lithuanian policy He graduated in 1994 from Vilnius University with towards EU, EU accession negotiations, the European an MA in International Relations from the Institute of Convention. In August 2002, he joined the Permanent Political Science and International Relations and an Representation of Lithuania to EU, Brussels, as MA in Geography from the Faculty of Natural Science. Minister-Counsellor responsible for the coordination He started his professional career in September 1993 of EU accession negotiations of Lithuania, at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of general coordination of activities in the COREPER, Lithuania, Vilnius, dealing with Lithuanian policies negotiations of Financial Perspectives 2007–13. In on the Council of Europe, Human Rights, UN, OSCE September 2006, he was appointed Head of the and NATO in the foreign relations sector. In 1996, Representation of the European Commission in he joined the Permanent Mission of Lithuania to Vilnius, Lithuania. In February 2010, he joined the the United Nations, New York, as Deputy Permanent European Commission as a member of the Cabinet of Representative-Counsellor responsible for general Commissioner Šemeta and in April of the same year political affairs, UN Security Council activities and he became the Head of the Cabinet. reform and international security. On 1 November 2014 he assumed his role as the In 2000, he went back to the Ministry of Foreign Director for Green Economy. Affairs as Head of Unit of the EU Department, and MANFRED GREIS, Chief Representative at Viessmann Werke GmbH & Co. KG Manfred Greis is the Chief Representative at Additional professional associations include: Viessmann Werke GmbH & Co. KG. Through his membership of the Environment and Energy position with Viessmann, he is directly responsible Committee for the German Chamber of Commerce for corporate communications, memberships (DIHK), and involvement in cooperation with the and association, and political affairs. He is also action group ‘Energy-efficient Buildings’, the Voice of the President of the Federation of German German Industry (BDI). Heating Industry (BDH), as well as a member of the Executive Council for the Association of the European Heating Industry (EHI). WERNER STUDENER, Director General Administration European Central Bank Mr. Studener is Director General Administration of Investment Committee, the Working Group on the European Central Bank (ECB) and Chairman of Operations involving Foreign Reserve Assets and of the “Accounting and Monetary Income Committee” the Monitoring Working Group. of the European System of Central Banks since Prior to joining the European Central Bank, Mr. November 2011. He is responsible for the Finance Studener worked from 1977 onwards at the Function and the Facility Management Function. Oesterreichische Nationalbank, holding various Furthermore, he is the Chairman of the Asset and assignments such as Deputy Head of the Foreign Liability Committee and the ArtCommittee. He acts Exchange Strategy and Risk Division, Head of the as New ECB Premises Project Co-ordinator and Oesterreichische Nationalbank’s Representative Environmental Coordinator. Office and Consul for Financial Affairs in New York Before moving to Administration Mr. Studener and Head of Treasury Front Office. During 1990 and held the position of Deputy Director General of 1991 he was an Advisor to the President of the Market Operations and was overseeing the portfolio former Centralbank of Czechoslovakia as part of an management area since the inauguration of the IMF-programme. ECB in 1998. He was a member of the Market Werner Studener was born in Vienna, Austria in Operations Committee of the Eurosystem as well 1956. as the Foreign Exchange Contact Group of the ECB. Furthermore, he was Chairman of the ECB 20 years of premium environmental management High Level Conference on EMAS Frankfurt am Main, 13 November 2015 The conference speakers Speakers in alphabetical order MARTIN BAXTER, Parallel panel session 1 Moderator Executive Director of policy at the Institute of Environmental Management and Assessment Martin Baxter works in the UK and internationally government and business. Martin is a Chartered to support the transition to a low carbon, resource Environmentalist, a Fellow of the Institute of efficient and sustainable economy. He has national Environmental Management and Assessment, and a and international experience of developing and Fellow of the Royal Society for the encouragement negotiating global and European standards, and of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce. developing capacity for effective and widespread https://twitter.com/mbaxteriema implementation. He leads IEMA’s policy and external engagement activity, representing the environment and sustainability profession with PETRA BERNERT, Office of Biosphere Reserve Swabian Jura, Germany Petra Bernert has headed the UNESCO biosphere network in Baden-Württemberg. In 2005 she took reserve, Swabian Alb, since 2009. Her career has over the professional supervision of nature reserves been committed to nature and environmental at the Regierungspräsidium (regional council) of protection. From 1994 to 1999 she held various Tübingen for a short period. From 2006 Petra nature conservation posts in the Lower Rhine Bernert worked on setting up the planned biosphere in North Rhine-Westphalia. In 1999 she went reserve on the Swabian Alb, which was founded in to Karlsruhe in Baden-Württemberg to work as 2008 by Baden-Württemberg State law. a research assistant at the State Institute for Environmental Protection. Her main activity there was the implementation of the European Birds Directive for the protection of the Natura 2000 PAOLO CANFORA, Joint Research Center, European Commission Paolo Canfora is a scientific officer in the sustainable Paolo Canfora’s background is in environmental production and consumption unit of the Joint engineering. His main professional interests are Research Centre (JRC) of the European Commission. energy and climate change, resource efficiency, and, He is responsible for the development of the EMAS more broadly, environment and sustainability. Sectoral Reference Documents (SRDs) on Best Prior to joining the European Commission, he Environmental Management Practice. These are worked at the International Energy Agency (IEA) comprehensive best practice guidance documents and at the EU Executive Agency for Competitiveness aimed at promoting best environmental performance and Innovation (EACI). for a number of key sectors, by bridging the information gap on best techniques, mesures or actions to minimise the environmental impact. EMAS 20 Years 02 Speakers JAN DICTUS, Parallel panel session 2 Rapporteur Founder of GOJA Consulting for Environment and Sustainable Development Jan Dictus is an expert on the sustainable developing a reference framework of sustainability