Speakers 2013

Denny Ellerman

PhD. Political Economy and Government (Harvard), A.B. Public and International Affairs (Princeton) / Sloan Schoool of Management, MIT, USA.

A leading energy economist, Denny Ellerman is recognized internationally as an authority on emissions trading and coal economics. His research interests focus on the U.S. SO₂ emissions-trading program and emissions trading as a component of climate change policy. Denny Ellerman has been executive director of MIT’s Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research. Prior to MIT, Denny spent 18 years with the US Government (primarily the Department of Energy and its predecessors), the National Coal Association, and Charles River Associates, an economic consulting firm. In 1990, he was President of the International Association for Energy Economics. Currently, Denny formally serves in advisory capacities to the European Environmental Agency, Electricite de France, the US Energy Information Administration, and the Secretary of Energy for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. He is also part-time professor at Robert Schuman Center for Advanced Studies at the European University Institute and Director of the “Loyola de Palacio Climate Policy Research Unit” in Florence (Italy).

Ziad Haddad

PhD in mathematics (MIT), BA in mathematics and computer science (UCLA). UCLA Joint Institute for Regional Earth System Science and Engineering

Ziad Haddad taught mathematics at MIT, analyzed radar detection and tracking problems at the MIT Lincoln Laboratory, modeled wave propagation in complex media at AT&T/Bell Laboratories, and taught mathematics at the University of California at San Diego while pursuing research in nonlinear filtering and estimation. Current research activities include the development of stochastic algorithms for the estimation of precipitation and cloud parameters from remote sensing data, including Bayesian approaches to train passive microwave radiometers to retrieve the vertical distribution of condensed water. He is now group supervisor in the Radar Science & Engineering Section at UCLA Joint Institute for Regional Earth System Science and Engineering, a scientific collaboration between UCLA and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory to improve understanding and to develop future projections about global climate change and its effect on regional climates and environments.

Guido Ferrari

Global Research Centre for Low Carbon Analysis, Renmin University of China. Full Professor of Statistics, University of Florence , Italy.

Guido Ferrari is an applied statistician recognized internationally as a leading scholar and researcher in price indexes theory and practice, national accounts, demand models, equivalence scales and environmentally extended national and regional equilibrium models as a support to public and private policy makers’ decisions. He is an ISI Elected Member since 1989 and a member of a number of international scientific organizations. Expert and Team Leader for more than 20 years in EU PHARE, TACIS and Medstat, as well as FAO, WB and Istat, international projects for statistical assistance to developing countries. He is Professor of Statistics in the University of Florence and Chair of Quantitative Analysis for Business and Economics of the Renmin University of China and scientific advisor in its Global Research Centre for Low Carbon Analysis. Awarded as Leading Talent by Suzhou Government and Honorary Professor of the Chinese Academy of Social Science.

Nazario Martín

Professor at the University Complutense of Madrid and vice-director of the Institute for Advanced Studies in Nanoscience of Madrid (IMDEA-Nanoscience).

He is Dr. h.c. by La Havana University. Professor Martín’s research interests span a range of targets with emphasis on the molecular and supramolecular chemistry of carbon nanostructures in the context of electron transfer processes, photovoltaics applications and nanoscience. He has published over 450 papers, given over 290 lectures in scientific meetings and research institutions, supervised 28 theses and co-edited seven books related with carbon nanostructures. He has served as a member of the Editorial Board of well-known international journals. He is a member of the Royal Academy of Doctors of Spain as well as a fellow of The Royal Society of Chemistry. In 2006-2012 he has been the President of the Spanish Royal Society of Chemistry. He has received the “Dupont Prize of Science” in 2007, and the “Gold Medal and Research Award” in 2012, the highest distinction given by the Spanish Royal Society of Chemistry. He has been appointed with the Spanish national “Jaime I Award for basic research” 2012, and the recipient of the “Alexander von Humboldt Award” and “Richard E. Smalley Research Award” in 2013. He is the last chemist distinguished with the “EuCheMS Lecture Award” in 2012. Last year 2012 he has received the “Advanced Grant” of the European Research Council.