These two international clean energy leaders will deliver keynote addresses to delegates at the three-day conference and exhibition, which brings together the leading associations and businesses in the Australian clean energy industry.
Daniel M Kammen is the World Bank Group’s Chief Technical Specialist for Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency. He was appointed to this newly-created position in October 2010, in which he provides strategic leadership on policy, technical, and operational fronts.
Previously, Dr Kammen was Class of 1935 Distinguished Professor of Energy at the University of California, Berkeley.
He is also the founding director of the Renewable and Appropriate Energy Laboratory, Co-Director of the Berkeley Institute of the Environment, and Director of the Transportation Sustainability Research Centre. He has founded or is on the board of over 10 companies, and has served the State of California and US federal government in expert and advisory capacities. He has authored or co-authored 12 books, written more than 240 peer-reviewed journal publications, testified more than 40 times to US state and federal congressional briefings, and has provided various governments with more than 50 technical reports.
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Dr Kammen will present to EcoGen 2011 delegates about the role of renewables in a global context.
Mike Eckhart is the founding President of the American Council on Renewable Energy (ACORE) and the Managing Director and Head of Environmental Finance at Citigroup. He is also the co-chairman of the World Council for Renewable Energy, and an Observer to the International Renewable Energy Agency.
In 1998, Mr Eckhart was named Renewable Energy Man of the Year of India for his work in bringing financing to solar energy markets, and in 1999 formed a $US25 million joint venture between Shell and ESKOM in South Africa which electrified 10,000 off-grid homes with solar home systems.
Mr Eckhart will present to EcoGen 2011 delegates about moving renewable energy into the mainstream of an economy.
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