Rudi Anschober (born 1960) is an Upper Austrian politician for the Green Party and, since 2003, State Councillor of Upper Austria for the Environment, Water and Consumer Protection. An elementary teacher by profession, he also worked as a journalist in various media, and eventually his distinct engagement against the construction of the Temelín NPP got him into the politics, with a will to change something and point out other options than nuclear power. He has been on the political stage since 1986; he began as a speaker of the Green Alternative for Upper Austria.
Schneider works as independent international consultant on energy and nuclear policy. He is the initiator and convening lead author of the World Nuclear Industry Status Reports. He is the Coordinator of the Seoul International Energy Advisory Council that advises the Seoul Metropolitan Government, South Korea. In 2007 he was appointed as a member of the International Panel on Fissile Materials (IPFM), based at Princeton University, USA. Between February 2010 and June 2011, he acted as Lead Consultant for the Asia Clean Energy Policy Exchange, an ECO-Asia initiative, implemented by IRG, funded by USAID, with the focus of developing a policy framework to boost energy efficiency and renewable energies.
Professor Stephen Thomas lectures on energy policy at the University of Greenwich, where he has also headed the energy research since 2001. Between 1979 and 2000, he worked in the Energy Policy Programme of the University of Sussex. In 2001, he spent 10 months as a guest researcher in the Energy Planning Programme at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro.
Professor Dr. Franz Leidenmühler (born 1973) is Head of the Institute of European Law of the Johannes Kepler University Linz/Austria. Main fields of research are EU internal market law, EU competition law and international environmental law. Numerous books, journal articles and essays dealing with EU Law and international law.
Since 2009, Prof. Dr. Claudia Kemfert has been Professor of Energy Economics and Sustainability at the private University, Hertie School of Governance, in Berlin and Head of the department Energy, Transportation, Environment at the German Institute of Economic Research (DIW Berlin) since April 2004. Her research activities concentrate on the evaluation of climate and energy policy strategies. Claudia Kemfert advised EU president José Manuel Barroso in a "High level Group on Energy and Climate". She was awarded in 2006 as top German Scientist from the German research foundation, Helmholtz and Leibniz Association. In 2011she was awarded with the Urania Medaille as well as B.A.U.M. environmental award for best science.
Ing. Ivan Beneš studied energy science at the Faculty of Electrical Engineer of the Czech Technical University in Prague, and did additional post-gradual studies at the Faculty of Nuclear Energy and Physical Engineering and the University of Economics. He has over 40 years of experience in energy science in design and engineering organisations. At present, he is active as an independent consultant and deals with security aspects of energy supply, the economics of the energy industry and impacts of the energy industry on sustainable development. He is Vice-Chairman of the Czech National Committee for Disaster Reduction (CNCDR), and member of the Expert Council of the Czech branch of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (Czech BCSD/WBCSD).
Since 1998, Michal Šnobr has worked as an external advisor to the financial group J&T in the area of energy, which he has been following closely for the last ten years. He is an active investor, a minority shareholder of ČEZ, and has long been involved in major transactions of J&T in the area of energy.
Jan Ondřich is co-founder and Partner at Candole Partners. He is responsible for developing and managing Candole’s energy engagements, such as analysis, forecasting, due diligence, valuation, M&A and financing focused on electricity generation, transmission, distribution, trading and sales, gas transmission, distribution, sales and renewable energy in Central and Eastern Europe. He advises both strategic as well as financial investors on policy, regulatory and market risk to their businesses, projects and prospective transactions.
Michael Nagl (born 1972) graduated in Industrial Environmental Protection, specialization “Process Technology” at the Mining University of Leoben. After military duty and internship in Switzerland, Germany and the United Kingdom in 2000-2003, he worked in the Upper Austrian state energy consultation agency, the Upper Austria Energy Saving Association. His area of responsibility included management of green energy groups and consultation in the area of company energy and small hydropower plants.