Course: Renewable Energy Technology and Supply

Dr. Eric Martinot resides in Tokyo as senior research director with the Institute for Sustainable Energy Policies (ISEP). From 2005 to early 2008 he resided in Beijing as visiting faculty at Tsinghua University, where he taught classes on sustainable energy. He remains an affiliate of the Tsinghua-BP Clean Energy Research and Education Center and continues to teach there. He also teaches annually at Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand and maintains an affiliation as research fellow with the Worldwatch Institute. He is perhaps best known as lead author of the widely-used REN21 Renewables Global Status Report, produced annually since 2005 using a global network of researchers that he established.

From 2000 to 2003, Dr. Martinot was a senior energy/environment specialist with the World Bank in Washington DC. He managed the renewable energy program of the Global Environment Facility (GEF) and was responsible for reviewing and recommending approval of GEF grants for renewable energy projects in developing countries. He also guided the GEF's renewable energy program strategies and synthesized knowledge and experience with renewable energy markets and investments around the world.

While working at the World Bank, he taught part-time on energy and environment to graduate students as an adjunct professor of public policy at the University of Maryland. He also taught at Tufts University in 1999 as an adjunct professor of international relations. Earlier, he served as consultant to the Environment Department of the World Bank, as senior scientist with the Stockholm Environment Institute--Boston, as convening lead author for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), and as consultant to the United Nations, U.S. National Renewable Energy Laboratory, and International Energy Agency.

Dr. Martinot is author of 65 publications on renewable energy and energy efficiency, including works that are seminal in the field. He is a member of the Chairperson Committee of the World Council on Renewable Energy (WCRE), member of the editorial board of the interdisciplinary journal Energy Policy, editor of the renewable energy information site www.martinot.info, and advisor to several international organizations. He received M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in Energy and Resources from the University of California at Berkeley (1991 and 1995) and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1984).

Course: Energy and Environmental Economics

Dr. Michael Trachtenberg is the founder, Chairman, CEO, and Chief Technical Officer of Carbozyme, a company in the final stage of its state-of-the-art carbon dioxide separation and capture system. This process employs high efficiency, low energy, liquid membranes to capture and separate carbon dioxide, thereby combating greenhouse gases and global warming. Dr. Trachtenberg is the author of over 120 publications, has received three patents, and has several patent applications currently under review. Dr. Trachtenberg has held faculty positions at the Medical Schools of Harvard, Boston University, and the University of Texas. He earned his B.A. in Psychology and Biology from the City University of New York, and his Ph.D. in Anatomy and Neurobiology from UCLA.

Course: Energy Distribution

Wolfgang Kröger has been Ordinarius of Safety Technology at the ETH Zurich since 1990. Currently he is managing director of the Institute of Energy Technology and heads its Laboratory for Safety Analysis (www.lsa.ethz.ch). He is also Founding Rector and Board member of the International Risk Governance Council (IRGC; www.irgc.org) which is located in Geneva and has been established by a Swiss initiative in June 2003. Until then he headed research in nuclear energy and safety at the national Paul Scherrer Institut (PSI) where he was also on the board of directors.

Prof. Kröger (born in 1945 in the Ruhr district, Germany) studied mechanical engineering, specialized on nuclear engineering at the RWTH Aachen, completed his doctorate in 1974, and his habilitation thesis in 1986.

Amongst others he is chairman of the "Safety Review Group" of the EBRD, was member and vice-chairman of the Committee on the Safety of Nuclear Installations (CSNI) of the OECD-NEA until 2003, and was member of the International Committee on Nuclear Technology (www.ilk-online.de) until 2007. He is member of the Swiss Academy of Engineering Sciences (SATW), and honorary member of the Schweizerische Gesellschaft der Kernfachleute (SGK). He published a multitude of articles and contributed to numerous books mainly on risk and safety issues related to large scale engineered systems, in particular nuclear power plants, and sustainability of energy systems.

Course: Leadership and Management of Green Economy

Dr. Anil Malhotra is an international energy and management adviser to the private and public sector. He graduated from the Institute of Technology at Kharagpur, obtained a master's degree from MIT, a doctorate in engineering from the University of California in Berkeley and attended Harvard Business School. A science and technology adviser to Mrs. Gandhi in the seventies, he conceived, created and built the offshore oil capability in India. In the early eighties, he was directly responsible for the accelerated development of Bombay High, India's major offshore oil and gas fields as offshore director of Oil and Natural Gas Commission, India' national oil company. He went on to the World Bank to become the regional energy adviser for Asia and worked on problems of energy development in a number of countries in Asia including Myanmar, Philippines and Vietnam.

He is a "Distinguished Alumnus of IIT Kharagpur" and was awarded a Gold Medal by the government of Vietnam for his contribution to the energy sector in Vietnam and by the Minister of Industry for his work on rural electrification.

He is at present an international energy management consultant and with offices in New Delhi, India and Maryland, USA. He is a visiting professor at the Indian School of Business where he teaches a seminar on "Leadership and management in the oil industry".

Course: Climate Change Policy in a Globalizing World

Dr. Yda Schreuder has a rich background in Interdisciplinary and International Research and Teaching. In collaboration with her colleagues and students, she has committed her experience in research on land-use, watershed, and sustainable development issues to the Center for Energy and Environmental Policy, University of Delaware. She has also conducted research on climate change and water resources issues in Department of Geography and on international migration at Department of Political Science/International Relations.

Dr. Yda Schreuder is currently active as Senior Policy Fellow, Center for Energy and Environmental Policy at University of Delaware, Newark, DE. She had served as Assistant Professor of Geography, Department of Geography since 1982, and became Associate Professor of Geography in 1990. To date, she has contributed over 30 years to University of Delaware.

In Newark, Dr. Yda Schreuder regularly teaches "World Regional Geography", "Economic Geography", "Conservation Global Issues" and "Resources, Development and the Environment." Along with these, out of special interest she also teaches courses such as "Perspectives on Migration – An Interdisciplinary Approach", "The New World Order in Europe", and "Globalization and International Migration".

Before her association with University of Delaware she was Lecturer in Geography at Department of Geography, University of Wisconsin, Madison, between 1981 and 1982.

She had also served as Lecturer in Geography and Anthropology at Department of Geography and Anthropology, University of Maryland, European division (Heidelberg, Germany) between 1979 and1981.

Dr. Yda Schreuder has authored many publications on various subjects such as "Climate Change Policy in a Globalizing World", "Trade Relationships between Amsterdam and Barbados in the 17th Century", "EU Emissions Trading Scheme in the Corporate Greenhouse", "Flexible Mechanisms in the Corporate Greenhouse", "Global Corporations in the Greenhouse" and those related to pharmaceutical industry & business.

She has been honored with various educational grants and awards for her valued contribution in educational research, development of various educational courses and for her efforts in research for Geography and Regional Science Division.

Dr. Yda Schreuder graduated with B.A. in Geography from University of Groningen, the Netherlands in 1971. Then in 1975 she obtained her M.A. in Anthropology from University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI. In 1982 she was awarded Ph.D. in Geography at University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI.

Course: Innovations, Entrepreneurship, and Special Topics

Dr. Prakash is the founder and CEO of Bridging Nations, a global think tank founded in 2002 and based in Washington. Bridging Nations is a nonpartisan, nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization that empowers leadership for an interconnected world and concentrates on forming and executing innovative approaches to bridge peoples and nations. Bridging Nations follows the belief that a healthy economy at all levels is the ultimate bridge capable of spanning across divisions between nations and peoples. This economic bridge is upheld by two primary pillars, technological innovation and visionary leadership.

Under Dr. Ambegaonkar’s leadership, Bridging Nations has entered the education sector, embarking on an exciting project called the College of Energy Environment and Sustainability, which will offer Certificate Programs in Energy Technology and Policy. The mission of the College of Energy, Environment and Sustainability is to provide students with career-centric learning in an affordable global environment. The College of Energy, Environment and Sustainability’s distinguished faculty has expertise in all aspects of clean energy technology and policy, providing first-hand knowledge of the alternative energy industry. The program will thereby prepare students for the rapidly expanding green jobs sector.

Dr. Ambegaonkar’s nonprofit work follows his highly successful entrepreneurial career, which is highlighted by the formation of three high-tech companies, Frontier Technologies, Tellus Technologies, and E-Lock Technologies. Frontier is a pioneer in Internet networking protocols, and has been named one of Information Weeks Top 25 Intranet Companies, as well as one of Upside Magazine’s Hottest 100 Companies. Tellus is a fully owned subsidiary in India, and was one of the country’s first software companies. E-Lock works in the expanding field of information security, and created the digital signature product that President Clinton used when signing the E-signature law that makes transactions legally enforceable. In all, Dr. Prakash’s companies have won over 30 industry awards, including LAN Magazine’s Product of the year three times. Dr. Prakash was also named Inc. Magazine’s Regional Entrepreneur of the Year in 1995.

Dr. Ambegaonkar has been active for many years in philanthropic, civic, and political affairs. Together with his wife, Nunda, he has contributed to numerous causes including the Center for Strategic and International Studies, the Asia Society, the Smithsonian, the Orphan Foundation, Habitat for Humanity, the National Museum of Women and the Arts, the World Affairs Council, George Washington University, and Georgetown University.

Dr. Ambegaonkar obtained two Masters degrees in electrical and industrial engineering from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He received his Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Marquette University. Dr. Ambegaonkar currently lives with his wife, Nunda Ambegaonkar, in McLean, VA.

Course: Energy and Environmental Policy in Developing Countries

Dr. Carla Freeman is the Associate Director of the China Studies program at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) in Washington DC. At SAIS she teaches courses on her current research areas: the international relations of Asia, the link between China's domestic policy and its international behavior, and China's environmental policymaking.

Prior to joining SAIS, she served as the Director of Global Studies and International Affairs at Alverno College in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and was also a Visiting Scholar at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and Parkside, as well as a Visiting Professor at Beloit College. Before joining the academic world, she was Program Officer for Civil and Civic Community at The Johnson Foundation (Wingspread), where she led the Foundation's portfolio on international civil society and democracy and sustainable community-building. In addition to her work in the academic and the non-profit sectors, Dr. Freeman spent the first part of her career as a political risk analyst, focused on China, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan and Vietnam.

The daughter of a foreign service officer, she spent her childhood and young adult life in Asia, first living in China in 1981. She is the author of numerous papers on China and Asia and is currently working on a book on China's relationships with its territorial neighbors. Her most recent publications include a study of the local face of China's North Korea policy, which draws on her longtime research on China's Northeast region, and an analysis of new developments in China's water policy.

She is a graduate of Yale University (BA) and Johns Hopkins SAIS (MA and PhD) and also holds a certificate in political science from the Institut d'Etudes Politiques (Sciences Po) in Paris.

Course: Environmental Impact

Dr. Michael Willingham is an energy and environmental analyst, with experience in policy, technology, educational program design, and professional training. His work experience includes the Navajo Tribe, the Peace Corps, US Congress, the United Nations, the World Bank and the private sector.

He has an undergraduate degree in Mathematics from MIT and a PhD in Energy Management from the University of Pennsylvania. Since April 2000, Dr. Willingham has been attached to Virginia Tech's Advanced Research Institute (ARI) as an Adjunct Professor working with the ARI Critical Infrastructure and Modeling Program (CIMAP), which was established to provide Virginia state policymakers and legislators - along with citizens, state and federal agencies as well as industry partners - with long-term perspectives and guidance on the various issues that affect the planning, commissioning and operation of critical infrastructures.

As a member of the Virginia Tech Disaster Risk Reduction Program (DRR), he also is working with the Governor's Office of Commonwealth Preparedness to assess the resilience of critical infrastructure sectors in selected jurisdictions throughout the Commonwealth.

Course: Embodied Energy Analysis (Emergy)

Dr. David Tilley is an Associate Professor of Ecological Engineering. Dr. Tilley defines ecological engineering as "the emerging field that combines natural and applied sciences, especially systems ecology, with the discipline of engineering to design, build, and operate new ecosystem-types that connect society with nature for the benefit of both." Dr. Tilley is also President of the International Society for the Advancement of Emergy Research, which was formed in 2008.

Dr. Tilley teaches graduate courses and performs research in the theory and application of embodied energy (i.e., emergy) analysis. His most recent work, published in the journal Energy (2009) showed that the manufacture of ethanol from switchgrass-cellulose has a small or negative energy return on energy invested.

He is interested in understanding what new ways natural systems can be re-integrated into our daily lives as the world passes its peak in global petroleum production. He received his Ph.D. and masters degrees from the University of Florida's Environmental Engineering Sciences program in 1999.

Course: Nonrenewable Energy Technology and Supply

Dr. Maria Papadakis is currently teaching in the Energy, Geography, and Instrumentation and Measurement sectors at James Madison University. She is also a Visiting Scholar for the National Institute of Science and Technology Policy (Japan).

Dr. Papadakis has served as a trade analyst for the US International Trade Commission, economic analyst for the US Embassy to Zimbabwe, and international R&D analyst for the National Science Foundation. She earned her Ph.D. in Political Science from Indiana University.