International Research Network for Low Carbon Societies and Low Carbon Asia Research Network

Mikiko Kainuma

Senior Research Advisor, IGES

Dr. Mikiko Kainuma is a senior research advisor of IGES and a Secretary General of the Climate-neutral Society – Strategic Research Network (LCS-RNet). She has engaged in developing Asia-Pacific Integrated Model (AIM), which assesses policy options for stabilizing the global climate, particularly in the Asian-Pacific region. She is Lead Author of IPCC Special Report on 1.5 degrees and Coordinating Lead Author of UNEP Global Environment Outlook 6 (GEO-6). She received Nikkei Global Environmental Technology Award (1994), Remarkable Contribution to Science and Technology 2010: NISTEP (2010), NIES Awards (2002, 2007, 2008) and Academic Award by the Society of Environmental Science, Japan (2011).

Jim Skea

Co-chair, IPCC AR6 WG3

Jim Skea is Professor of Sustainable Energy at Imperial College London with research interests in energy, climate change and technological innovation. His current main role is as Co-Chair of IPCC Working Group III for the 6th assessment cycle. He was Research Director of the UK Energy Research Centre 2004-12 and Director of the Policy Studies Institute 1998-2004. He has operated at the interface between research, policy-making and business throughout his career. He was a member of the UK Committee on Climate Change from its inception in 2008 until 2018, and the Chair of Scotland’s Just Transition Commission. From 2015-17, he was President of the UK Energy Institute. He was awarded a CBE for services to sustainable energy in 2013 and an OBE for services to sustainable transport in 2004.

Stefan Lechtenböhmer

Wuppertal Institute (WI)

Prof. Dr. Stefan Lechtenböhmer is Director of the Division Future Energy and Industry Structures of the Wuppertal Institute (WI) for Climate, Environment and Energy, Wuppertal, Germany and holds an adjunct professorship in Environmental and Energy Systems with a special focus on Future Sustainable Energy Systems at Lund University, Sweden. He acquired his PhD in energy and environmental management at the International Institute for Management, University of Flensburg, Germany. He conducts applied research in national and international energy and climate scenario analysis particularly on low carbon industries. He has led intensive stakeholder processes on deep decarbonisation scenarios with energy intensive industries. His research topics include design and evaluation of energy system transformation and Energiewende, GHG emission inventories and projections, sustainable building and planning, and the coal and natural gas sectors.

Fredric Bauer

Emeritus Research Director, CNRS / Former Director, CIRED

Dr. Fredric Bauer is an associate senior lecturer in Technology and society with a focus on sustainable industry at Lund University, Sweden. He has done extensive research on transition initiatives and low-carbon innovations in the energy intensive industries in Europe and was a contributing author to the IPCC AR6 WG3 chapter on industry. His current research focuses on lock-ins and transition pathways in the global petrochemical and plastics industries.

Imogen Rattle

University of Leeds

Dr. Imogen Rattle is a UKERC funded Research Fellow in Local Low Carbon Industrial Strategy within the Sustainability Research Institute at the University of Leeds. She is an energy social scientist who uses qualitative methods to explore the politics and governance of the low carbon transition within particular places. Her present work seeks to understand the challenges and opportunities involved in embedding climate change priorities within local industrial strategies in the UK. She has previously worked as a project manager at the Department for Business Energy and Industrial Strategy and the Environment Agency.

Erika Mancuso

National Agency for New

Dr. Erika Mancuso is a researcher at the laboratory resources valorization, in the Sustainability Department of ENEA, National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development, Italy. The laboratory focuses on the development, qualification and dissemination of methodologies and advanced technical services in the field of industrial, service and the territory. She is currently involved in:

– Actions to support the territory for the implementation of industrial development and promotion tools, through a promotion and information activity aimed at transferring the circular economy models identified and shared with the stakeholders;

– Contrasting actions climate change through European and national projects.

She is co-author of over 50 scientific papers published in international peer-reviewed journals, Italian journals, National and International conference proceedings.

Jim Watson

UCL Institute of Sustainable Resources

Prof. Jim Watson is Professor of Energy Policy and Director of the University of College London (UCL) Institute for Sustainable Resources and Research Director of the FCDO Climate Compatible Growth programme. He is also Associate Faculty at SPRU. He was Research Director of the UK Energy Research Centre from January 2015 until December 2019. He is Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences and the Energy Institute; a member of the Executive Committee of the Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement; a judge for the Queens Awards for Enterprise: Sustainable Development; and a chair the Technical Advisory Group to the World Bank Energy Sector Management Assistance Programme (ESMAP).

Chris Bataille

Simon Fraser University/IDDRI

Dr. Chris Bataille is Associate Researcher at the Institute for Sustainable Development and International Relations (IDDRI) in Paris, and Adjunct Professor at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver. He also conducts freelance energy and climate policy consulting. He leads the DDPP Heavy Industry Deep Decarbonization Project. He is Lead Author of industry chapter of IPCC AR6.

Peter Taylor

University of Leeds and UK Energy Research Centre (UKERC)

Peter is an internationally leading researcher with thirty years of experience working on a wide range of energy and climate change policy issues. He currently holds a joint appointment at the University of Leeds as Professor of Sustainable Energy Systems in the Schools of Earth and Environment and Chemical and Process Engineering. Peter has acted as advisor to a number of United Nations organisations, the International Energy Agency and the European Commission. He is also a member of several large national research centres including the Industrial Decarbonisation Research and Innovation Centre, the UK Energy Research Centre, the Centre for Research into Energy Demand Solutions, the Supergen Energy Networks Hub and the ESRC Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy. Peter’s research is strongly interdisciplinary, combining science, technology, economics and policy to enhance the understanding of, and policy responses to, the challenges of accelerating the transition to sustainable low-carbon energy systems. Prior to joining the University of Leeds, Peter was Head of the Energy Technology Policy Division at the International Energy Agency in Paris from 2007 to 2011, responsible for high profile publications such as the Energy Technology Perspectives and the Energy Technology Roadmap series. In an earlier consultancy career, he was Technical Director of a major UK energy and environmental practice.

Robert Gross

UK Energy Research Centre (UKERC)

Prof. Robert Gross is Director of UK Energy Research Centre (UKERC). Prior to this role He was Director of the Centre for Energy Policy and Technology (ICEPT) at Imperial College London. He was also the Policy Director of Imperial’s Energy Futures Lab. He has wide-ranging research management expertise and has made a substantive contribution to UK energy policy development, acting as advisor to Select Committees, preparing reports and chairing committees for Government departments and non-departmental public bodies, and as a consultant.

Akihisa Kuriyama

IGES

Dr. Akihisa Kuriyama is a researcher at the Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES). He had engaged in supporting the CO2 mitigation projects in the energy sector of Southeast Asian countries and conducted quantitative analysis on the international mechanisms such as the Kyoto mechanism. For the domestic issues in Japan, he worked for analysis to develop scenarios towards a decarbonized society, and to assess long and medium-term goals. He also engaged in projects to promote renewable energies such as Japan’s power system analysis and just transition issues.

Naoya Abe

Tokyo Institute of Technology

Dr. Naoya Abe is an associate professor at the Department of Transdisciplinary Science and Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech.) Dr. Abe is working on wide range of environmental and social issues from sustainability point of view with the emphasis on people’s daily lives, including the topics related to water accessibility in developing countries, people’s recognition and acceptance of meat substitutes, waste management in different life-stages, acceptance of home PV systems. He holds Ph.D. from Cornell University in Applied Economics and Management and was a visiting professor at the Center for Global Engineering (CGEN) at the University of Toronto in 2018.

Richard Hanna

UKERC

Dr. Richard Hanna is a Research Associate at Imperial College London and works for the UK Energy Research Centre (UKERC). He has carried out systematic evidence reviews on energy technology innovation, low carbon heating policy, energy models and disruption, and green job creation. Previously he was a Research Fellow at the University of Reading from 2013 to 2015 contributing to the Dynamics of Energy Mobility And Demand (DEMAND) project. Richard completed his PhD at the University of Surrey in 2013, studying installer businesses and small scale renewable energy uptake in the UK.

Philippe Quirion

CIRED

Philippe Quirion is an economist, senior researcher at CNRS. He works at the International center on environment and development (CIRED) on the analysis of climate policies, renewable energy policies, energy efficiency policies; on the employment impact of environmental and energy policies; on the link between climate policies, competitiveness and carbon leakage; on the impact of climate on West-African agriculture and on tools to mitigate this impact. He has published 59 peer-reviewed papers, in the main energy economics and environmental economics journals but also in environmental science journals. He works regularly with climatologists and agronomists. He has been an elected member of the Comité national de la recherche scientifique.

http://www.centre-cired.fr/philippe-quirion/
https://scholar.google.fr/citations?user=BN9i2acAAAAJ&hl=fr

Joyashree Roy

AIT

Prof. Joyashree Roy is the inaugural Bangabandhu Chair Professor at AIT. Joyashree lectures at the Department of Energy, Environment, and Climate, School of Environment, Resources and Development, AIT, Thailand. Joyashree was Indian Council of Social Sciences Research (ICSSR) national fellow and a Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, USA. She is Coordinating Lead Author of Chapter of Demand, services and social aspects of mitigation of IPCC AR6.