BLUEBIRD MARINE SYSTEMS - Key Persons
Anders Stouge, the deputy director general of the Danish Energy Association, said in an interview: "We are really worried about this situation. If we don't do something, we will in the future face higher and higher risks of blackouts."
Andrés Velasco Brañes was born on August the 30th 1960. He is an economist and professor. He served as the Finance Minister of Chile from March 2006 to March 2010, the whole of the first presidential period of Michelle Bachelet.
While serving as the finance minister, the price of copper reached all-time highs in 2006, boosting government revenues. As you can imagine, Velasco was put under intense political pressure from government workers and students to spend the windfall. Instead he opted to hold it in reserves equivalent to 30% of the country's GDP. After the copper price plummeted following the 2007-2010 global financial crisis, that threatened the Chilean economy, Velasco then used these reserves on stimulus spending for subsidies and tax cuts policies now being praised for their positive social impact. As a result of his shrewd tactics, his popularity reversed from one of the most reviled politicians to one of the most admired.
Job Titles:
- Founding Member of the Albright Group
Carol Martha Browner was born on December the 16th, 1955. She is an American lawyer, environmentalist, and businesswoman, who served as director of the White House Office of Energy and Climate Change Policy in the Obama administration from 2009 to 2011. Carol previously served as Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) during the Clinton administration from 1993 to 2001.
Carol grew up in Florida and graduated from the University of Florida and the University of Florida College of Law. After working for the Florida House of Representatives, she was employed by Citizen Action in Washington, D.C. She became a legislative assistant for Senators Lawton Chiles and Al Gore. Browner then headed the Florida Department of Environmental Regulation from 1991 to 1993, where she turned it into one of the most active departments in the state government.
She was the longest-serving administrator in the history of the EPA, staying through both terms of the Clinton presidency. During her tenure, she reorganized the agency's enforcement structure and oversaw two new programs designed to create flexible partnerships with industry as an alternative to traditional regulation. She started a successful program to deal with contaminated lands in urban areas. She took the lead within the administration in defending existing environmental laws and budgets, and was the driving force behind a stringent tightening of air quality standards that led to a prolonged political and legal battle.
Afterward, Carol Browner became a founding member of the Albright Group and Albright Capital Management during the 2000s (decade). She also served on a number of boards of directors and committees dealing with environmental issues. Her director role in the Obama administration was sometimes informally referred to as the "Energy Czar" or "Climate Czar". Her efforts towards getting comprehensive climate and energy legislation passed in Congress came to no avail, but she assumed a prominent role in the federal government's response to the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill during 2010. She left her position in 2011 and the job itself was abolished shortly thereafter. Following that she rejoined the Albright Stonebridge Group, continued being active in several boards of environmental organizations, and became an advocate for nuclear energy in response to the dangers of global warming. But then, nobody is perfect.
THE GUARDIAN JAN 2011 - The White House energy and climate adviser is due to step down in the next few weeks, in a departure seen as the collapse of Barack Obama's ambitious green agenda. Officials told reporters on Monday night that Carol Browner, who had served as the first White House energy and climate change "tsar", would be leaving and that she may not be replaced. Reports of Browner's exit - barely 24 hours before Obama was to set out his priorities for the coming year in his state of the union address - reinforced concerns expressed by environmental groups that he was preparing further compromises on his once-ambitious green agenda to try to build a working arrangement with Republicans.
Chris Close is the SeaVax project director for which no salary is payable.
Job Titles:
- General Administration for Which No Salary Is Payable
Christina Dusart heads up general administration for which no salary is payable.
Clare Brennan has worked for more than 15 years in international affairs. She joined the Commission from the Mayor of London's office, where her role as Senior International Relations Officer entailed providing advice and support to the Mayor as a means of delivering and shaping his international policy agenda. She also spent a year seconded to the C40 secretariat as Senior Coordinator.
Cristina Narbona was born on the 29th of July 1951 in Madrid. She is a Spanish Socialist Workers' Party politician. Since 18 April 2004 until April 2008, she was the Minister of Environment in the government of José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero. She is a trustee of the Fundacion IDEAS, Spain's Socialist Party's think tank.
In a 2002 interview with Telemadrid, Narbona argued that the price of housing in Spain was excessive and out of reach of young people, and called for more government aid in the housing sector.
Narbona is an opponent of nuclear power and supports the gradual closure of nuclear plants in Spain. She has also supported the implementation of the Kyoto Protocols in Spain.
Dr Narbona recently served as a member of both the UN Secretary-General's High-Level Panel on Global Sustainability and the High-Level Taskforce for Climate Services of the World Meteorological Organisation. She holds a doctorate in economics from the University of Rome, and was a Professor at the University of Seville for seven years.
Job Titles:
- President and CEO of the International Rescue Committee
PM - Helle Thorning-Schmidt (born 14 December 1966) is a Danish politician who has been the Prime Minister of Denmark since 3 October 2011, and the Leader of the Social Democrats since 12 April 2005. She is the first woman to hold either post. Helle served as a Member of the European Parliament for Denmark from 1999 to 2004 before being elected to the Danish Parliament in 2005. She replaced Mogens Lykketoft as Leader of the Social Democrats after the 2005 parliamentary election, leading her party through the 2007 parliamentary election, which was won by the centre-right alliance, and the 2011 parliamentary election, after which she was appointed Prime Minister by Queen Margrethe II. Helle Thorning-Schmidt holds degrees in political science from the University of Copenhagen and the College of Europe.
Inés de Águeda's background is in international environmental policy. She is an associate at The Varda Group environmental consultancy. Previously, Inés worked with the non-profit group Islands First and the Permanent Mission of Nauru to the United Nations, with a focus on climate change negotiations and preparations for Rio+20.
Inés took up a position with the Varda Group in January, 2013 as a Communication and Research Officer. She holds a degree in environmental sciences with the Autonomous University of Madrid and a Master of Science in environmental policy with Wageningen University in the Netherlands where she focused her thesis research on the strategic approach of Small Island Developing States in the climate negotiations.
Prior to working with the Varda Group, Inés undertook an internship at United Nations Headquarters, New York with the Permanent Mission of Nauru and the NGO Islands First, and worked as a junior consultant at ERM, an international consulting firm. With double French and Spanish nationalities, Inés worked out of the Varda Group office in Madrid. She operates fluently in her two mother tongues as well as in English.
FORMER PM John Fredrik Reinfeldt was the 32nd Prime Minister of Sweden from 2006 to 2014. He has been chairman of the liberal conservative Moderate Party since 2003 and was the last rotating President of the European Council in 2009.
Job Titles:
- Carbon War Room As Its First Chairman
- Chairman of the Global Fairness Initiative
- Founding Member of the Club De Madrid
- Managing Director of the World Economic Forum
José María Figueres Olsen was born in San José, Costa Rica, on December the 24th 1954. He is a Costa Rican businessman and politician. After he left the presidency of Costa Rica in 1998, Figueres has also been involved in global issues such as climate change, sustainable development, and technology. He started his career as an engineer working in agribusiness. After a decade, he entered public service as Minister of Foreign Trade and then Minister of Agriculture. In 1994, he was elected President of Costa Rica, as the nation's youngest elected president of the 20th century. In 2000, he joined the World Economic Forum in Switzerland, and later he worked with Concordia 21 in Madrid. Since 2010, he has been Chairman of the Carbon War Room, an independent non-profit organization focused on the global transition to a low-carbon economy. On March 27, 2012, Sir Richard Branson announced that he was appointed as the new President of the Carbon War Room.
Figueres is a founding member of the Club de Madrid, an independent non-profit organization composed of more than 100 democratic former Presidents and Prime Ministers from all over the world. The Club de Madrid's objective is to promote "Democracy that Delivers".
KING OF SWEDEN Carl XVI Gustaf (full name: Carl Gustaf Folke Hubertus, born 30 April 1946) is the reigning King of Sweden. On 15 September 1973, he succeeded his grandfather Gustaf VI Adolf. He is the only son of Prince Gustaf Adolf, Duke of Västerbotten, and Princess Sibylla of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. The King's heir apparent, upon passage on 1 January 1980 of a new law establishing absolute primogeniture (the first such law passed in European history), is Crown Princess Victoria, the eldest child of the King and his wife, Queen Silvia. The King does not normally look so stern.
PRIME MINISTER Kjell Stefan Löfven (born 21 July 1957) is a Swedish politician who has been Prime Minister of Sweden since 3 October 2014. He is also Leader of the Social Democratic Party since 2012. He had worked as a welder before becoming an active trade unionist and rising to lead the powerful IF Metall from 2006 to 2012. Löfven led the Social Democratic Party to election victory in the September 2014 election by carrying 31 percent of the vote. Löfven announced on election night that he would form a government with the Green Party. After a budget defeat the PM called a news conference, telling reporters that new elections would enable voters to "make a choice in the face of this new political landscape". Under the constitution he cannot officially call a national poll until 29 December 2014.
Kristian Teleki was most recently Vice President of SeaWeb, responsible for its sustainable markets, science and Asia Pacific programmes. He was previously Director of the International Coral Reef Action Network and led the Marine Programme at UNEP-WCMC. Kristian chairs the reference user group of the MEDSEA ocean acidification project, and is on the boards of several environment, development and social initiatives.
While on holiday in Spain Kristian recalled that he watched as his daughter walked down a stretch of sandy beach taking an interest in the Mediterranean shoreline. He watched her stop every so often to collect little items she was finding in the sand and along the surf line. This scene reminded him og his own childhood he did exactly the same thing: picking up stones, driftwood and shells.
Kristian says that: "as a marine biologist he was proud that his offspring was taking an interest in the ocean. But, when he emptied her pockets and she opened her hands, there were no little shells or stones, but cigarette butts, pieces of plastic and chewed popsicle sticks." At which point he felt a great sense of disappointment. It was "a stark reminder of what we are doing to the ocean." This has become a challenge for Kristian, as although the ocean covers more than 70 percent of the planet, less than 4 percent remains unaffected and more than a third suffers or has suffered serious human impacts.
To add to ocean pollution Kristian recalled that it was now one of his tasks to educate his children about climate change and the effect that this will have on all aspects of life for generations to come. Most immediately that this global warming could lead to the extinction of the polar bear and to the extinction of many of the 700 species of coral.
Job Titles:
- MEDIA CONTACT
- Director of Administration / Executive Assistant and Media
Luiz Furlan was Co-chairman of the board from 2009 to 2011 of BRF Brasil Foods, the second largest food company in Brazil and the 10th largest globally. He is a member of their board.
Luiz was educated in engineering and business, with a Degree in Chemical Engineering from the School of Industrial Engineering (FEI) and in Business Administration from FEA / PUC-SP. He specialized in Financial Management at the Getulio Vargas Foundation in São Paulo and Business Improvement at the University of São Paulo.
He became a Director of the Sadia food company in 1978, and Chairman in 1993. Ten years later he left Sadia on the invitation of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva to become Minister of Development, Industry and Foreign Trade. During his four-year tenure, Brazilian exports rose from US$60bn to US$160bn per year.
In December 2007 he became president of the Board of Directors of Amazonas Sustainable Foundation (FAS), an institution founded by the state government of Amazonas and Bradesco Bank, with mission to reduce deforestation in the Amazon forest and improve the living conditions of people living the state of conservation units.
Among many other posts, Mr Furlan has been President of the Brazilian Social Leaders Forum and the Brazilian Association of Publicly Owned Companies, and Vice-President of the Brazilian Foreign Trade Association and the Latin American Entrepreneurs Council. He has chaired the World Economic Forum's Global Agenda Council on the Future of Latin America, and currently chairs the Amazonas Sustainability Foundation. His civic interests include education, digital inclusion, and corporate contribution to social issues.
Job Titles:
- Member of the French Socialist Party
Pascal Lamy was born on the 8th of April 1947. He is a French political consultant and businessman. He was the Director-General of the World Trade Organization (WTO) until 1 September 2013. His appointment took effect on 1 September 2005 for a four-year term. In April 2009, WTO members reappointed Lamy for a second four-year term, beginning on 1 September 2009. He was then succeeded by Roberto Azevêdo. Pascal Lamy was also European Commissioner for Trade and is currently the Honorary President of the Paris-based think tank, Notre Europe, apart from his role as am Ocean Commissioner.
Lamy has been a member of the French Socialist Party since 1969. Lamy is married and has three sons. His hobbies include running and cycling.
Paul Joy, a lifelong fishermen who chairs the Hastings Fishermen's Society, lobbied the government for larger fishing quotas for smaller boats (2009). Paul was seeking a larger proportion of the quota to be given to the under 10-metre fleet in order to sustain fishing industries (and heritage) across the South East. He says that in Hastings, 93% of the boats are under 10-metres and they employ 83% of the town's fishing workforce, yet they are only allowed to catch about 30% of the area's cod quota. Paul fears that without a change in policy, fishing communities in Hastings and elsewhere could die out within the next decade, leaving just big commercial trawlers in the industry.
Martin served as the Member of Parliament for the riding of LaSalle-Émard in Montreal from his election in the 1988 election to his retirement in 2008. He served as Minister of Finance from 1993 to 2002. He oversaw many changes in the financial structure of the Canadian government, and his policies had a direct effect on eliminating the country's chronic fiscal deficit by reforming various programs including social services.
Siddharth Chakravarty, the captain of the Sam Simon, is quoted as saying in a telephone interview on the 6th of April, that the captain of the rogue ship Thunder, a Chilean, had told him that it sank because it had suffered a collision ..... an unlikely story. "We had crew on their boat and they noticed that all the doors had been tied open, which is the opposite of what you do if you're taking on water after a collision," he said. "Then the officers had neatly packed bags, so I have no doubt this was a planned, very intentional scuttling designed to remove evidence," Chakravarty said.
Job Titles:
- Director
- Retired from All Executive Responsibility in the Tata Group
Ratan Naval Tata was born on the 28th of December 1937. He is an Indian businessman and chairman Emeritus of Tata Sons. He was the chairman of Tata Group, a Mumbai-based conglomerate from 1991-2012. He stepped down as the chairman of Tata Group, on 28 December 2012 but continues as the chairman of the Group's charitable trusts.
He is currently the chairman Emeritus of Tata Sons. He continues to serve as the chairman of the main two Tata trusts Sir Dorabji Tata Trust and Sir Ratan Tata Trust and their allied Trusts, which together hold 66% of shares in the group holding company Tata Sons.
TELEGRAPH DEC 2012 - Since assuming control of the family company in 1991, Tata has transformed Tata Sons from an underperforming Indian conglomerate into a global brand and Britain's biggest manufacturing empire. It has now bought steel maker Corus and the luxury car group Jaguar Land Rover.
"When we came there was a great deal of apprehension that we were going to close down plants, that we were going to move manufacturing to India," says Tata during one of his final visits to Jaguar Land Rover's offices in Gaydon, Warwickshire.
Ratan Tata has served in various capacities in organisations in India and abroad. He is a member of the Prime Minister's Council on Trade and Industry and the National Manufacturing Competitiveness Council. He is on the jury panel of Pritzker Architecture Prize - considered to be one of the world's premier architecture prizes.
Ratan Tata is a director on the boards of Alcoa Inc., Mondelez International and Board of Governors of the East-West Center. He is also a member of the Board of Trustees of University of Southern California, Harvard Business School Board of Dean's Advisors, X Prize and Cornell University.
Ratan Tata is also a member of the Harvard Business School India Advisory Board (IAB) since 2006, and previously a member of the Harvard Business School Asia-Pacific Advisory Board (APAB) 2001-2006.
Ratan Tata himself asked the families and dependents - as to what they wanted him to do. In a record time of 20 days, a new trust was created by the Tatas for the purpose of relief of employees. A 4 year old granddaughter of a vendor got 4 bullets in her and only one was removed in the Government hospital. She was taken to Bombay hospital by the Tatas until her to fully recover her. On a lesser level, new hand carts were provided to several vendors who lost their carts. Tata then took responsibility of the life education of 46 children of the victims of the terror - and in all this, Ratan kept a low profile.
Ratan Tata has retired but he is still seen working. Recently, he invested his personal savings in Snapdeal- one of India's leading e-commerce website. Mr Tata is working closely with Jaguar Land Rover and some of the new models launched by the British marquee have several inputs from Mr Tata. In April 2015, it was reported that Tata had acquired a stake in Chinese smartphone startup Xiaomi, with specific terms undisclosed.
Ratan is the son of Naval Tata, who had been adopted from the family of a distant relative by Navajbai Tata after the death of her husband, Ratanji Tata. Ratan Tata's parents Naval and Sonoo separated in the mid-1940s when Ratan was ten and his younger brother, Jimmy, was seven years old. Both he and his brother were raised by their grandmother Navajbai Tata. Ratan also has a step brother Noel Tata from Naval Tata's second marriage to Simone Tata.
Ratan began his schooling in Mumbai at the Campion School and finished his secondary education at the Cathedral and John Connon School. He completed his B.S. in architecture with structural engineering from Cornell University in 1962, and the Advanced Management Program from Harvard Business School in 1975. Tata is a member of the Alpha Sigma Phi fraternity.
Ratan Tata retired from all executive responsibility in the Tata group on 28 December 2012, his 75th birthday, and he was succeeded by Cyrus Mistry, the 44-year-old son of Pallonji Mistry and managing director of Shapoorji Pallonji Group.