Secretariat
The Climate Strategies secretariat liaises with our large global network of researchers, producing rigorous, independent research and facilitating the dissemination of this research to governments and stakeholders.
Prof. Michael Grubb: Chairman
Professor
Michael Grubb is Chair of the Board of Climate Strategies, providing support and advice across the range of Climate Strategies’ activities, and responsible for ensuring professional governance of the organisation. His academic positions are as Senior Research Associate at the Faculty of Economics in Cambridge University (half time), and Editor-in-Chief of the journal Climate Policy.
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was formerly Chief Economist at the Carbon Trust, the £100m/yr body established to spearhead the UK’s transition to a low carbon economy, from which he stood down in Oct 2009 to write a book The Carbon Connection. In 2008 he was appointed to the UK Climate Change Committee, established under the UK Climate Change Act to advise the government on future carbon budgets and to report to Parliament on their implementation.
Before joining the Carbon Trust, Michael was head of Energy and Environment at Chatham House, and then Professor of Climate Change and Energy Policy at Imperial College London, where he remains a Visiting Professor. He has been a Lead Author for several reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) addressing the economic, technological and social aspects of limiting greenhouse gas emissions
. He has also been a Council Member of the International Association for Energy Economics, and of the British Institute of Energy Economics. Professor Grubb has been sole or principal author of seven books and around fifty journal research articles, plus numerous smaller contributions in the professional and wider media, on technological and economic dimensions of energy policy and climate change at domestic, European and global levels.
Dora Fazekas: Research Manager This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
Dr. Dora Fazekas joined Climate Strategies as Research Manager in January 2009, after finishing her PhD in Environmental Economics focusing on carbon market implications of the new EU member states. She spent her Fulbright scholarship at the Earth Institute at Columbia University in New York contributing to the development of a methodology to evaluate carbon and energy sustainability options in carbon footprint and labelling assessment which could serve as an industry standard.
Prior to starting her PhD she was a Counsellor at the Hungarian Ministry for Environment in the Energy and Climate Change Unit, and was heavily involved in the implementation of the EU ETS in her native Hungary.
Her role at Climate Strategies includes coordinating and managing our portfolio of research projects, making sure our world caliber academic research is independent, timely, relevant and connected to the policy-making process and public debate. Dora speaks 5 languages and is learning a 6th.
Non-Executive Directors
Michel Colombier, Director, IDDRI, France This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
Hans-Jürgen Stehr, Director, Danish Commission on Climate Change Policy This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
Most recently (2008 to 2010) he served as director of the secretariat for the independent Danish Commission on Climate Change Policy which was asked by the Government to elaborate recommendations about how to make Denmark fully independent of fossil fuel. The Commission published it's final report in the Autumn of 2010. The recommendations of the Commission can be found on www.klimakommissionen.dk. One of the main issues was how to accommodate large amounts of fluctuating renewable energy into the entire energy system.
Before that Hans Jürgen was directing the Danish Energy Research Programme of the Energy Agency and he was instrumental in the transformation of that program into a more focused Energy Technology Development and Demonstration Programme putting emphasis on private/public partnership and potential deployment of new technologies and systems. He was at the same time member of the Board of Nordic Energy Research.
Hans Jürgen served two terms as chair and one term as vice-chair of the Executive Board of the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) under the Kyoto Protocol, of which he was a member from the beginning in 2001 until 2008. In that capacity he played a major role in making the CDM operational. He has in particular been dealing with institutional and governance issues. He also initiated a study about possible interaction between micro finance and CDM (in particular programmatic CDM).
Hans Jürgen holds a Master's degree in Law from the University of Copenhagen and he has been teaching constitutional law as an assistant professor. Currently he acts as an independent advisor.
