INDO-GERMAN ENVIRONMENT FORUM SPEAKERS` PROFILES

INDO-GERMAN
ENVIRONMENT FORUM
SPEAKERS‘ PROFILES
18 / 19 November 2008, New Delhi
SPEAKERS‘ PROFILES
INDIAN DELEGATION
SEVUGAN REGUPATHY
G. N. AGRAWAL
Minister of State, Ministry of Environment and
Forests, Government of India
General Manager, Mawana Sugars Ltd.,
New Delhi
Mr Sevugan Regupathy has been Minister of
Environment and Forests since May 2007.
A lawyer by training, Mr Regupathy joined the
Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly in 1991. One
year later, he became Minister of Labour Welfare in the Government of Tamil Nadu. From
1993 to 1996, Sevugan Regupathy held the post
of Minister of Urban Development and Housing
in the Government of Tamil Nadu. In 2004, he
was elected to the 14th Lok Sabha. The same
year, he became Union Minister of State of
Home Affairs. Mr Regupathy holds a BSc and
a BL from the Madras Law College in Chennai.
Mr G. N. Agrawal has been working in the Power
Generation Business for more than 30 years
now. Presently, he is the Power Generation
Business Head of Mawana Sugar group. He has
an in-depth knowledge of technical, commercial
and legislative aspects of Power Business. In
recent years, he has successfully implemented
the CDM activities in the group including registration of four Bagasse Based cogeneration
projects with the UNFCCC. Mr G. N. Agrawal
holds a BTech in Mechanical Engineering from
IIT Kanpur and an MBA from the Faculty of Management Studies, New Delhi.
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SPEAKERS‘ PROFILES INDIAN DELEGATION
DR RAJIV ARORA
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NITIN M. DESHPANDE
DR PRODIPTO GOSH
Director, Ministry of New and Renewable Energy Vice-President | Corporate Finance, Gujarat
Sources, Government of India
Fluorochemicals Ltd., Noida
DEEPAK ASHER
Managing Director, Neel Water Treatment
Systems Pvt. Ltd., Aurangabad
Honorary Environment Advisor, FICCI; Chairman
FICCI Climate Change Task Force, New Delhi
Dr Rajiv Arora is presently working as Director,
Ministry of New and Renewable Energy Sources,
Government of India. His expertise is in the
areas of Renewable Energy policy and development issues, environment/climate change matters, International Trade (WTO, Trade Protection
Measures including Antidumping, Foreign Trade
Policy), Modelling, Economic Analysis, E-Commerce/E-Governance.
For almost 15 years, Mr Nitin Deshpande has
been working for Neel Water Treatment Pvt.
Ltd., a company speacialising in water and
wastewater treatment. After being in charge as
the technical director for the development and
design of water and wastewater equipments, Mr
Nitin Deshpande became Managing Director of
Neel Water Treatment Systems Pvt. Ltd. in 2005.
Since then, he has been responsible for the
company’s export business. Mr Nitin M. Deshpande holds a B.E. from Bombay University and
a Master in Management Studies (Finance) from
Welingkar Insititute of Management in Bombay.
Dr Prodipto Gosh concurrently is a Member of
the Prime Minister’s Council on Climate Change,
a Member of the National Expert Committee on
Climate Change, and Scientific Consultant in the
Office of the Principal Scientific Adviser to the
Government of India. He is also a Member of the
Independent South Asia Commission on Poverty
Alleviation (ISACPA). He was the Former Secretary of the Ministry of Environment and Forests,
Government of India, and has held consultancy
positions with the UNDP, FAO, and IAEA, and
Visiting Faculty Positions in several national and
international institutions. Dr Prodipto Ghosh
has a Ph.D in Economics and Policy Analysis
from the Carnegie-Mellon University, a B.Tech in
Chemical Engineering from the Indian Institute
of Technology, New Delhi, and was a member of
the Indian Administrative Service (IAS).
Mr Deepak Asher is a Chartered Accountant and
a Cost Accountant by profession. He has been
working for Gujarat Fluorochemicals, a part of
the prestigious Inox Group of Companies, for the
past eighteen years now. He is the Group Head
(Corporate Finance) and a Director on the Board
of several Inox Group Companies. Mr Asher’s
functional area is Corporate Finance and
Business Strategy. His responsibilities include
identifying and implementing new business
opportunities in line with the growth targets for
the Group. Mr Asher has pioneered the CDM
Project Development of Gujarat Fluorochemicals
Limited.
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SPEAKERS‘ PROFILES INDIAN DELEGATION
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D. K. JAIN
R. H. KHWAJA
KOLLURU KRISHAN
SARVESH KUMAR
Executive Director (ENGG), National Thermal
Power (NTPC) Ltd., New Delhi
Additional Secretary, Ministry of Environment
and Forests (MoEF), Government of India
Chairman, Malavalli Power Plant Pvt. Ltd.
(MPPL), Bangalore
Deputy Managing Director, RRB Energy Ltd.,
New Delhi
Mr D. K. Jain presently heads the Engineering
Division of National Thermal Power (NTPC). He
is involved in the engineering of thermal and
hydro power projects from concept to commissioning, coal mining and even in Renovation &
Modernization of thermal projects. D. K. Jain
has headed NTPC-Alstom Power Services Ltd.
as Managing Director guiding the overall business portfolio of NASL primarily in the field of
Renovation & Modernization of thermal power
stations. He has handled various other assignments in CEA as well as in NTPC primarily in
Engineering of power projects, and he headed
the project execution team for (2x500MW) units
at NTPC Vindhyachal. He also headed R&M
Engineering at NTPC Corporate Centre. Mr Jain
holds a B.Tech (Hons) in Mechanical Engineering from IIT, Kharagpur, West Bengal.
Mr R H Khwaja belongs to the 1976 batch of the
Indian Administrative Service. He is presently
dealing with Pollution and Water management
matters as Additional Secretary, Ministry of
Environment and Forests, Government of India.
As a career bureaucrat he has served with distinction in many key assignments in the central
and state government. During his tenure as
Chairman and Managing Director of Singareni
Collieries Company Limited (SCCL), he turned
around this loss making Public Sector Undertaking to a profit making company. He is a committed environmentalist with special interest in
the conservation of Biological Diversity.
Mr Kolluru Krishnan has three decades of
experience in the energy sector, primarily in
power generation, transmission and distribution. He is the Founder and Chairman of MPPL
Renewable Energy Pvt. Ltd., he created EnviTec
Biogas Pvt. Ltd., Green Planet Energy Pvt. Ltd.
and a hand-full of other companies in the realm
of green energy production. Concurrently, he is
President of Grameena Abhivrudhi Mandali, a
not-for-profit company pursuing pilot projects
related to dezentralised management of rural
electrification serving 10,500 consumers in 46
villages within Kurgaval section of Mandya division between July 2004 and February 2008. From
1995 to 2001, Mr Krishnan was the Managing
Director and later the Vice Chairman of Ansaldo
Services (P) Ltd. Before that, he served as Vice
President of Dodsal (P) Ltd. (1986 to 1989) and as
General Manager of Tata Merlin Gerin / Voltas
Ltd. For two years. Kolluru Krishan holds a
B.Tech (Hons) in Electrical Engineering from IIT
Kharagpur.
The former Chief Operating Officer of RRB Energy Ltd., Mr Sarvesh Kumar was elevated to the
Board of Directors of the Company as the Deputy
Managing Director with effect from 1 February
2007. Mr Sarvesh Kumar started his career after
post graduation in Commerce. He has been part
of various Committees formed by the Government of India and national level Associations
like FICCI and ASSOCHAM. Presently, he is a
Member of the Advisory Committee of the World
Council for Renewable Energy (WCRE) and he is
an Executive Member of the Indian Wind Turbine
Manufacturers’ Association (IWTMA). In the past
he has also been the President of the IWTMA. He
has been representing IWTMA in all International Forums. In addition, he is a Life Fellow
of All India Management Association (AIMA), a
national Apex Body of professional management
in the country.
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SPEAKERS‘ PROFILES INDIAN DELEGATION
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DR AJAY MATHUR
A. K. MEHTA
DR AMIT MITRA
DEVIN NARANG
Director General, Bureau of Energy Efficiency,
New Delhi
Joint Secretary, Ministry of Urban Development,
Government of India
Secretary General, Federation of Indian
Chamber of Commerce and Industry (FICCI),
New Delhi
Co-Chairman, Renewable Energy Committee,
FICCI; Chairman, Freeplay Energy India, New
Delhi
Dr Ajay Mathur, the first Director General of
Bureau of Energy Efficiency has interests in
the promotion of technological change for
the enhancement of energy efficiency and of
sustainable development. After completing
his doctorate in Chemical Engineering he has
worked with University of Illinois, CNT, Chicago,
TERI in Washington and New Delhi, the World
Bank, Washington to name a few. His expertise
is in the areas of climate change, energy planning, and in coal utilisation technologies. His
work experience in these areas encompasses
technology development, policy analyses and
planning, and programme management.
Mr A.K. Mehta is an IAS officer of 1988 batch
with over 20 years of experience and has a Master’s degree in Civil Engineering. He has worked
in the Ministry of Environment and Forests for
a period of 5 years dealing with issues related
to Climate Change and Clean Development
Mechanism, Bio Diversity and desertification.
He is currently posted in the Ministry of Urban
Development as Joint Secretary and looks after
policy issues in the urban sector.
Dr Amit Mitra reived his Masters in Economics
from Delhi School of Economics and attained
a Doctorate Degree in Economics from Duke
University, USA. Dr Mitra sits on the Advisory
Committee to Union Commerce Minister of India
on WTO. He serves on the National Manufacturing Competitiveness Council and on the Planning Commission’s Expert Group on Equitable
Development. Dr Mitra is a Member of several
Forums formed by the Government of India such
as India-China Eminent Persons Group, and
the Indo-EU Round Table. He is also a Member
of the `Eminent Persons Group’ established by
the UNCTAD Secretary General on Non-Tariff
Barriers (NTBs). Dr Mitra is also an Independent Board Member of some of the largest public
sector companies in India and a Member of the
Advisory Board of Microsoft Corporation (India)
Pvt. Ltd. He was also the Chairman of the Radio
Broadcast Policy Committee set up by the Ministry of Information & Broadcasting, Government
of India. He is the Recipient of highest civilian
Awards, among them the prestigious National
Civilian Award “Padma Shree” conferred by the
President of India in 2008.
After receiving an MBA from Harvard University,
Mr Devon Narang joined the management of
‘The Narang Group’. Currently, he is the group’s
Co-Chairman. His main business interests
lie in Non-Conventional Energy Sources and
Real Estate. Mr Narang has recently acquired
Freeplay Energy group based in the U.K. who are
the pioneers and global leaders in self generating eco-friendly products which are capable of
converting human/animal energy into electrical
energy by a patented hand-cranked mechanism and alternator. Consequent, his company
has acquired the global operations of Freeplay
Energy. Devon Narang is now the Chairman
of Freeplay group globally. Mr Narang is also
the Chairman of Indian operations of Turner
& Townsend Pvt. Ltd. – U.K.’s biggest Project
Management Company. Mr Narang is also an
active participant in several Industrial and Social
organisations: He is President of the All India
Distillers’ Association (AIDA) and he is a Member of the Executive Committee of Federation of
the Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry
(FICCI).
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SPEAKERS‘ PROFILES INDIAN DELEGATION
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T. N. NINAN
E. P. NIVEDITA
SHAILESH I. PATWARI
R. R. RASHMI
Editor and Publisher, Business Standard, New
Delhi
Director, Ministry of Urban Development,
Government of India
Chairman, Naroda Enviro Projects Ltd.,
Ahmedabad
Joint Secretary, Ministry of Environment and
Forests (MoEF), Government of India
T. N. Ninan is Editor and Publisher of the
financial daily Business Standard. Previously,
he served as Editor of the Economic Times,
Editor of Business World, and Executive Editor
of India Today. He is Chairman of the Society for
Environmental Communication and has been on
the Executive Committee of the Editors Guild of
India, and a Member of the Board of Trade. He
is also a Member of the Indo-German Consultative Group and the International Institute for
Strategic Studies, London.
Ms E.P. Nivedita belongs to the 1993 batch of
the Indian Administrative Service. Currently,
she is posted as Director in the Ministry of
Urban Development where she is involved in
framing of National Urban Sanitation Policy,
the formulation of service level benchmarks,
the administration of schemes for the benefit of North Eastern State including Sikkim,
and she is responsible for issues relating to
externally aided Urban Water Sanitation and the
SW sector. Previously, she was in charge of the
computerisation of State Government Accounts
in the State of Maharashtra. Before that, Ms
E.P. Nivedita was responsible for the audit of
State level commercial undertakings including the State Electricity Board, the State Road
Transportation Corporation, the State Electricity
Board as well as Central Ministries in the Social
Sector such as the Ministry of Social Justice and
Empowerment, the Ministry of Tribal Affairs, and
the Ministry of Culture.
Mr Shailesh I. Patwari is Chairman of Naroda
Enviro Projects Ltd., a company that runs a
common effluent treatment plant, a hazardous waste landfill site and a cleaner production
centre in Ahmedabad. He also holds the post of
President, Naroda Industries Association and
he is the Director of Novel Infrastructure Ltd.
Mr Patwari is a Principal Co-ordinator of the UN
Development Programme – Global Environment
Facility Project (UNDP-GEF) and he is a member
of the Executive Committee of the Gujarat
Chamber of Commerce and Industry as well as
Chairman of its Environment Committee. Mr
Shailesh is active in many charities and professional organisations, such as the Confederation of Indian Industries (CII), the Ahmedabad
Initiative for Reduction in Air Pollution (AIR),
the Federation of Industries Association (FIA),
the Gujarat Dyestuff Manufacturers Association
(GDMA) as well as the NIS Charitable Hospital,
the Nehru Foundation for Development (VIKSAT)
and other charities.
Mr R R Rashmi belongs to the 1983 batch of
the Indian Administrative Service. He has been
dealing with Climate Change matters as Joint
Secretary, Ministry of Environment and Forests,
Government of India for the last 8 months. He
has participated in several important bilateral
and multilateral negotiations on behalf of India.
In his career spanning more than 25 years, he
has acted as trade negotiator on behalf of India.
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SPEAKERS‘ PROFILES INDIAN DELEGATION
ANIL RAZDAN
R. K. SETHI
VIJAI SHARMA
ASHWIN SHROFF
Secretary, Ministry of Power, Government
of India
Director, Ministry of Environment and Forests,
Government of India; Member secretary, India
DNA and Vice-Chairman, CDM Executive Board
Secretary, Ministry of Environment and Forests
(MoEF), Government of India
Chairman, FICCI Environment Committee and
Managing Director; Excel Industries Ltd.,
New Delhi
Mr Anil Razdan is an officer of the Haryana
cadre of the Indian Administrative Service and
an alumnus of St. Stephen’s College, Delhi.
He holds a BSc in Physics and studied Law at
Delhi University. He has been Director/ Joint
Secretary with the Department of Atomic Energy,
Joint Secretary, Ministry of Power, Additional
Secretary and Special Secretary with Ministry of
Petroleum & Natural Gas in the Government of
India. He has also been Financial Commissioner
and Principal Secretary, Government of Haryana
in the Power, Irrigation and Public Works Departments. He has worked as Head of Department in the Industries, Tourism, Education,
Information, Town and Country Planning, Urban
Development/Estates Departments in the Government of Haryana. He has been Chairman &
Managing Director of the North Eastern Electric
Power Corporation, and he handled World Bank
assisted power sector reforms and restructuring
in the erstwhile Haryana State Electricity Board
and was later Chairman of the Haryana Power
Generation Corporation.
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Mr Sethi holds a Bachelor’s in Electrical
Engineering (with Honours) from Delhi College
of Engineering, University of Delhi, and an
M.Tech in Energy Studies from Indian Institute
of Technology (IIT) Delhi as well as an MBA
with specialisation in Financial Management.
He has more than 20 years experience in the
power sector in the fields of design, engineering and coordination of thermal and gas based
power stations. He has been working in the
field of Climate Change and Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) for the last six years
as Director (Climate Change) in the Ministry of
Environment and Forests, Government of India.
He was instrumental in setting up the National
CDM Authority, India’s Designated National
Authority and is presently the Member Secretary
of the Authority. He has served as the Chairman Methodologies Panel of the CDM Executive
Board and is presently the Chairman of the CDM
Executive Board.
Mr Vijai Sharma, Secretary, Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF), Government of India
belongs to the 1974 batch of the Indian Administrative Service. He is a science and law post
graduate. As a career bureaucrat, he had served
distinct positions and made invaluable contributions both at the state and central level. Mr
Sharma has gained wide experience in matters
relating to industries, agriculture and cooperatives, pollution control, energy, environment and
forests as well as law and justice. Before joining
the MoEF as Secretary, he was Special Secretary, Cabinet Secretariat.
Mr Ashwin Shroff is the current Chairman of the
FICCI-Environment Committee. After Graduating in Chemistry from Bombay University, he
joined Excel Industries. Moving through various
operational and functional departments in
the company, he rose to become its Chairman
and Managing Director. He has been an active
spokesman of the Indian chemical industry,
interacted with the various government bodies and shared his experience in shaping the
industry-specific policies. He is past President
of Indian Chemical Manufacturers Association.
He has been a regular participant in various
study groups, conferences, seminars and has
contributed papers on diverse subjects, and
articles in leading journals. He is also Chairman
of Excel Crop Care Ltd., Transpek Industry Ltd.,
Transpek-Silox Industry Ltd. He is on the Board
of several companies and Director of Crop Life
India.
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SPEAKERS‘ PROFILES INDIAN DELEGATION
JOHN THOMAS
R. K. VAISH
Senior Director, Weston Solutions India Pvt. Ltd., Joint Secretary, Ministry of Environment and
Hyderabad
Forests (MoEF), Government of India
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Mr John Thomas is currently serving as Senior
Director with Weston Solutions India Private
Ltd., a leading worldwide engineering, environmental, construction, and redevelopment
firm focused on restoring efficiency to essential
resources: air, land, water, and facilities. Prior
to joining Weston, he served as Head and Joint
Director (Resource Conservation & Management Group) of Federation of Indian Chambers
of Commerce & Industry (FICCI). He has served
as Deputy Director and Senior Consultant with
the National Productivity Council of India. He
has gained over 16 years of experience and wide
exposure in techno-managerial consultancy
and research projects, training programmes
for various industrial sectors, policy makers /
formulators, multi-lateral / bi-lateral funding
agencies. He was one among the Senior Professional fellows from Asia, trained on Ground
Water Governance, Policy & Management under
CGIAR Challenge Program on Water and Food
Project (CPWF) by the International Water Management Institute (IWMI). He is a Postgraduate
in Industrial Pollution Prevention and Control,
with Diploma in Marketing Management and has
done his graduation in Mechanical Engineering.
Mr R K Vaish belongs to the 1978 batch of the
Indian Administrative Service. He is presently
working as Joint Secretary, Ministry of Environment and Forests, Government of India dealing
with matters relating to National River Conservation Directorate, Pollution Control, Hazardous
Substance Management and administrative
matters relating to Central Pollution Control
Board. He has been serving the Central and
State governments for last 30 years and has
held various positions of distinction.
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SPEAKERS‘ PROFILES
GERMAN DELEGATION
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SIGMAR GABRIEL
CHRISTIAN BELTLE
DR WERNER BREUERS
BORIS BRONGER
Federal Minister for the Environment, Nature
Conservation and Nuclear Safety, Germany
Chief Executive Officer, Solar Millennium AG,
Erlangen
Board Member, LANXESS AG, Leverkusen
Head, CDM Projects at OSRAM GmbH, Munich
Sigmar Gabriel was born in 1959 in Goslar. He
began his political career in his home town as
local president of the “Socialist Youth Group
Germany – Die Falken” and joined the Social
Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) in 1977. He
studied at the University of Göttingen to become
a grammar school teacher. Gabriel was a directly elected member of the Lower Saxony Landtag
(state parliament) from 1990 to 2005, becoming
SPD parliamentary leader in 1998. During this
time he was a member of the Landtag environment committee, County Councillor of the town
of Goslar and spokesman for domestic policy of
the SPD parliamentary group. In December 1999
he became Minister-President of Lower Saxony
and subsequently chair of the SPD parliamentary group. Since November 2005, Sigmar Gabriel
is the Federal Minister for the Environment,
Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety.
Christian Beltle is Chief Executive Officer of
Solar Millennium AG. He held various managerial positions at L.&C. Steinmüller GmbH, BBP
Environment, Carl Robert Eckelmann AG and
was Chief Representative of the Board and Executive of the Cleanpipe Polska Sp.Z.o.o. before
he joined Solar Millennium AG in 2005. Solar
Millennium AG is a globally active company in
the renewable energy sector, its main focus being on solar thermal power plants. The company
has developed the first European parabolic
trough power plant in Southern Spain.
Dr Werner Breuers is a member of the Board of
Management of LANXESS AG. Prior to this he
held various managerial positions at Hoechst
AG, Hostalen Polyethylen Gmbh, Elenac GmbH
and Basell Polyolefins Europe. LANXESS AG is a
global player in the chemical industry, employing
some 15,100 employees worldwide and will be
investing over 30 million EUR in India over the
coming years.
Boris Bronger is Head of CDM Projects at OSRAM GmbH. He previously held other managerial positions within the company, including
marketing & sales positions in Germany and
Japan. OSRAM GmbH is part of Siemens’ industrial sector and one of the two leading lighting
manufacturers in the World. OSRAM is currently
implementing three CDM projects in India where
up to two million long-life compact fluorescent
lamps (CFL) will be distributed directly to households, mainly to those that normally cannot
afford to buy energy-saving lamps.
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SPEAKERS‘ PROFILES GERMAN DELEGATION
DR ULRICH VON DEESSEN
MARKUS DÖRING
KARL-HEINZ FLICK
PROF DR-ING ALBERT GÖTTLE
President of the Competence Center
Environment, Health & Safety, BASF SE,
Ludwigshafen
Export Manager, LAR Process Analysers AG,
Berlin
General Manager, Steinzeug I Keramo, Frechen
President, Bavarian Environment Agency,
Augsburg
Dr Ulrich von Deessen is President of the
Competence Center Environment, Health &
Safety and Climate Protection Officer of BASF
SE. A chemist by training, he joined the BASF
Research Division in 1987. Since then he has
held several executive positions in the headquarters of BASF SE in Ludwigshafen, Germany,
and in Antwerp, Belgium. BASF is the world‘s
leading chemical company. Its portfolio ranges
from chemicals, plastics, performance products,
agricultural products and fine chemicals to
crude oil and natural gas. BASF has more than
95,000 employees and posted sales of almost 58
billion EUR in 2007.
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Markus Döring is Export Manager of LAW Process Analyers AG in Berlin. After studying biology
and environmental technologies, he started
working for LAR Process Analysers as a service
and product engineer. He moved to the International Sales Department in 2007, his main markets being located in Asia/Pacific. Since 2008,
Mr Döring he has been Export Manager and a
member of LAR’s management team.
Karl-Heinz Flick has been General Manager of
Steinzeug I Keramo since 2005. After taking his
second degree in water management, he joined
the company in 1984 as Head of the Engineering
Department. Since 2001 he has held the position
of Head of the Vitrified Clay Pipe Association,
Frechen/Germany. Prior to his promotion to
General Manager, Karl-Heinz Flick held the position of Head of the Engineering and Strategic
Marketing Departments at Steinzeug I Keramo
from 2004. He is an expert in the planning, construction and maintenance of sewer systems.
Prof Dr-Ing Albert Göttle has been President of
the Bavarian Environment Agency since 2005.
In 1978 he joined the Bavarian Water Management administration where he was the Head of
State Office for Water Management in Kempten
(1987 to 1992). After holding different positions
in the administration, including Head of section
for river training and river restoration and Head
of section for torrents and water ecology, he
also became the Head of department for Water
Management in the Bavarian State Ministry of
the Environment, Public Health and Consumer
Protection from 2004 to 2005.
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SPEAKERS‘ PROFILES GERMAN DELEGATION
CHRISTIAN HAAS
PROF DR PETER HENNICKE
DR MANFRED KONUKIEWITZ
DR HUBERT LIENHARD
Director, KfW Office India, New Delhi
Former President, Wuppertal Institute for
Climate, Environment and Energy, Wuppertal
Deputy Director General, Federal Ministry
for Economic Cooperation and Development,
Germany
Chairman, India Committee of the Asia-Pacific Committee of German Business (APA);
President and CEO, Voith AG, Heidenheim
Before Dr Manfred Konukiewitz became Head
of the Directorate ‘Global and Sectoral Policies’ and Commissioner for Climate Policy in
the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation
and Development in 2006, he lead the Ministry’s
Division ‘Water, Energy, Urban Development’. Dr
Konukiewitz served as Head of German Delegations in many UN and World Bank conferences,
mainly in the realm of environmental policy. Dr
Konukiewitz started his career at the Federal
Ministry of Transport, Building and Urban Affairs
where his last position was Chief of Staff of the
Minister’s Office. In 1998, he was seconded as
Senior Advisor of Prof. Dr Klaus Töpfer to the UN
Environment Programme in Nairobi. Dr Konukiewitz studied Political Sciences and History at
the Free University in Berlin and the Indiana
University (USA).
Dr Hubert Lienhard is Chairman of the India
Committee of the Asia-Pacific Committee
of German Business (APA). APA voices the
concerns of German business to policy-makers in Germany and the Asia-Pacific region. It
is the most important German forum for the
formulation and discussion of Asia-related
economic and political strategies pertaining to
German and Asian business interests. Dr Hubert
Lienhard is also President and CEO of Voith, a
leading manufacturer of machines for paper
production, hydropower turbines and generators, as well as drive components found in
industrial applications, in road and rail vehicles
and in ships.
Christian Haas is heading the India Country
Office of KfW Development Bank since 2005.
Previously, he has been in charge of KfW’s
project operations in Central Asia and Afghanistan. Before joining KfW in 1998, he has worked
with various research institutes on topics related
to environmental economics in developing countries. He has studied Political Science, Economics and Development Studies and the Universities of Berlin (Germany) and Sussex (UK).
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Having studied chemistry and economics, Prof
Dr Peter Hennicke started his career as consultant for energy policy at the Ministry of Environment in the Federal State of Hesse. From 1988 to
1992, Peter Hennicke was Professor of Economics at the University of Applied Sciences Darmstadt, and in 1994 he was appointed Professor
at the University of Wuppertal. At the same time
he served as Director of the Energy Division of
the Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment
and Energy. From 1998 to October 2000, he was
the Institute’s Vice President. From 2000 until
2003, Peter Hennicke was Acting President of
the Wuppertal Institute, from 2003 to 2008 its
President. Prof. Hennicke served twice as an
expert in Enquiry Commissions of the German
Bundestag, and from 2002 until 2006 he was a
member of the Scientific & Technical Advisory
Panel (STAP) of the Global Environment Facility
(GEF). Professor Hennicke is an affiliate of the
advisory board ‘Environmental Technology’ of
the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature
Conservation and Nuclear Safety.
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SPEAKERS‘ PROFILES GERMAN DELEGATION
ANDREAS LÜCKE
DR JÜRGEN PORST
FRANZJOSEF SCHAFHAUSEN
DR THEO SOMMER
General Executive Manager, Federal Industrial
Association of Germany | House, Energy and
Environmental Technology (BDH), Cologne
Senior Advisor, Indo-German Environment
Programme (ASEM-GTZ), Bangalore
Deputy Director General, Federal Ministry for
the Environment, Nature Conservation and
Nuclear Safety, Germany
Editor-at-Large, DIE ZEIT, Hamburg
Currently, Dr Jürgen Porst is Senior Advisor of
Andreas Lücke, MA is the General Executive
the ASEM-GTZ Indo-German Environment ProManager of the BDH. After having previously
gramme. He also serves on the Karnataka State
held various managerial positions within the
Pollution Control Board (KSPCB). Jürgen Porst
BDI, including Head of Division (1988 to 1990) and holds a Doctorate in chemistry with a focus on
Executive Manager of the Committee on Eastern environmental analytical chemistry and physical
European Economic Relations (1990 to 1993),
chemistry. He is specialized in industrial polluMr Lücke in 1993 joined the BDH as Executive
tion control, environmental monitoring, cleaner
Manager and the Economic Commission of the
production and related fields. In 1982, Dr Porst
European Heating Industry (EHI) as Secretary
established a private analytical laboratory and
the same year.
chemical institute and a consulting company
with headquarters in Furth, Germany. Dr Porst
is an international expert for environmental
monitoring, industrial pollution control, cleaner
production, waste management and waste water
treatment.
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Dr Theo Sommer is currently Editor-at-Large of
the German weekly DIE ZEIT. From 1973 to 1992
Franzjosef Schafhausen is Deputy Director
he served as Editor-in-Chief and held the posiGeneral ‘Environment and Energy’ in the Federal tion of publisher from 1992 to 2000. Dr Sommer
Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conserva- headed the Policy Planning Staff of the German
tion and Nuclear Safety. Before that he served as Defense Ministry from 1969 to 1970, was responHead of the Division KI I ‘Fundamental Aspects
sible for the Defense Ministry’s White Book in
Environment and Energy, Climate Protection’.
1970, and since then has played a prominent part
Since 1995, he has been Head of the Interminis- in his posts as Vice-Chairman of the Commisterial Working Group ‘CO2 Reduction’, and since sion on Common Security and Future of the Ger2000 he has been the chairman of the Federal
man Army (Weizsäcker Commission). He was a
Cabinet’s ‘Working Group to fight Greenhouse
Member of the International Commission on the
Effects’. Mr Schafhausen started his career in
Balkans (1995-1996) and of the Independent In1978 as Head of the Institute on Public Finance
ternational Commission on Kosovo (1999-2000).
at University of Colonge. From 1983 to 1986, he
was Desk Officer at the German Federal Ministry
of the Interior. Mr Schafhausen studied Economics at the University of Cologne.
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DR WOLFGANG STINGLWAGNER
DR ARMIN VOGEL
DR JUR HELGE WENDENBURG
Head of Division, Federal Ministry of Economics
and Technology, Germany
Managing Director International Sales,
Marketing, Participation, FAUN Umwelttechnik
GmbH & Co. KG, Iserlohn
Director General, Federal Ministry for the
Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear
Safety, Germany
Dr Armin Vogel is Managing Director International Sales, Marketing participation of FAUN
Umwelttechnik GmbH & Co. KG the European
market’s leading manufacturer of garbage
trucks and sweepers. He is President of the German Standardization Committee for municipal
equipment in DIN and Vice President of the German association of manufacturers for municipal
equipment (VAK e.V.).
Dr Helge Wendenburg is Director General of
the Directorate “Water Management, Waste
Management and Soil Protection” in the Federal
Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety. He has been Head of
the German Delegation at the 8th and 9th Conference of the parties on the Basel Convention
on trans-frontier shipment of waste. He is board
member of the German Association for Water,
Wastewater and Waste (DWA) and member of
the Academy on Geological Science. From 1990
to 2005 he served in the Environmental Ministry
of Lower Saxony among others as Director of
the Directorate of Pollution Control and Waste
Management.
Dr Stinglwagner is chairman of the International
Energy Agency’s Working Party on energy efficiency (EEWP), Paris, and Vice-chair of the Energy Charter’s working party on energy efficiency
and related environmental issues (PEEREA),
Brussels. Dr Stinglwagner co-ordinates the
German government’s delegation on energy efficiency issues to the EU Council’s energy working
party and other international working groups.
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