Dr Stefanos Fotiou
Director, Environment & Development Division
United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP)
Stefanos Fotiou is an accomplished and well renowned expert on sustainable development and currently serving in the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UN-ESCAP) as the Director of the “Environment and Development” Division. Under his he is planning, coordinating and managing the work of UN-ESCAP on sustainable development, climate change, quality of growth, urban development, natural resources management, and the post-2015 UN development agenda. Prior to this assignment Stefanos worked for 10 years in the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) under various roles including as Head of the “Cities and Lifestyles” Unit.
His professional experience includes assignments for International Organisations, work for the private sector and posts in research and academic institutes. Throughout his professional career, which began in research and has included lecturing assignments at some of Greece’s most important universities, Stefanos has taken leading roles in international forums and initiatives and his individual and joint works have been widely published.
He holds a PhD in Natural Resource Economics from Aristotle University in Greece, an Executive MSc in Information Systems from the University of Macedonia, and a combined Bachelor and Master Degree in Forestry and Natural Environment from Aristotle University.
Conference presentation title: Natural resources Management and the 2030 Development Agenda
Ms Chikako Takase
Director
United Nations Centre for Regional Development (UNCRD)
Chikako Takase assumed the position of Director of UNCRD in February 2012, after serving as Acting Director since March 2011. Prior to coming to UNCRD, she served as Deputy Chief of the Policy Coordination Branch, Office for ECOSOC Support and Coordination, Department of Economic and Social Affairs at the United Nations (UN DESA). She began her career at the UN in 1984, after serving as Associate Expert Officer in Jakarta for UNIDO. She first worked for the Projections and Perspective Studies Branch, Department of International Economic and Social Affairs, where she was in charge of medium-term forecasting, and at the Macroeconomic and Social Policy Analysis Division, Department of Economic and Social Information and Policy Analysis, where she was involved in monitoring developed country economies and in drafting the Department’s flagship annual publication, World Economic Survey. She later worked for the Division for Sustainable Development (DSD), Department of Policy Coordination and Sustainable Development, during which time she had an opportunity to work for the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity from 1996-1999. While at DSD, she was involved in the preparation as well as organization of the World Summit on Sustainable Development, held in Johannesburg, South Africa in 2002. At DSD, her work mainly focused on changing consumption and production patterns. She holds B.A. in Liberal Arts (Economics) from International Christian University, Japan, and M.A. in Development Economics from the University of Sussex, UK.
Conference presentation title: TBA
Prof Chris Kennedy
President of the International Society for Industrial Ecology
University of Victoria
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Prof Heinz Schandl
Senior Science Leader
Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO), Canberra, Australia
Heinz Schandl is a senior science leader at the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) based in Canberra, Australia and an adjunct professor at the Graduate School of Environmental Studies at Nagoya University. His research links social theory, social metabolism and public policy to explore pathways for sustainable consumption and production and green economy based on measuring and modelling of sustainability and policy analysis.
He is a member of UNEP’s International Resource Panel and a member of the UNCRD expert group of the Regional 3R Forum in Asia. He is an associate editor of the Journal of Industrial Ecology and editorial board member for the Journal of Material Cycles and Waste Management. He is the chair of the 2016 Gordon Research Conference for Industrial Ecology. He has been leading projects for UNEP, ESCAP, and the European Commission and has been a consultant for the OECD, the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank.
Conference presentation title: Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals with Ambitious Policies for Climate Mitigation and Resource Efficiency
Prof Dipl. Ing. Architect Clemens Deilmann
Head of Research Area Resource Efficiency of Settlement Structures
Leibniz-Institute of Ecological and Regional Development (IOER)
Clemens Deilmann is Head of Research Area Resource Efficiency of Settlement Structures at the Leibniz Institute of Ecological and Regional Development, Dresden, Germany and Professor of Ecological Design and Construction, Dresden University of Applied Sciences. He has his first degree (Diploma) in Architecture at RWTH Aachen (1979) and a Post-graduate diploma in energy studies at Architectural Association School of Architecture in London (1980). His professional experience he started as Architect. From 1984-1989 he was Research assistant at Technical University Darmstadt (Focus on ecological sound design and construction). His research career started 1992 as Head of the dept. Housing and Sustainable Construction at Leibniz Institute of Ecological and Regional Development Dresden. Research interests were LCA, energy balance tools, building assessment and certification. In 2006 he found the new Research department Resource Efficiency of Settlement Structures. His research specialty is the analyses of material flows and stocks in the building sector, urban-structural-type-analyses and urban infrastructure issues linked to development scenarios of cities till 2060.
Conference presentation title: Built environment – limits for downsizing the metabolism