Simon Dietz is an environmental economist with particular interests in climate change and sustainable development. He has published research on a wide range of issues and works with governments, businesses and NGOs on topics of shared interest, such as carbon pricing, institutional investment, and insurance. Simon is based at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), where he is Professor of Environmental Policy in the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, and the Department of Geography and Environment.  He is also co-editor of the Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, Vice President of the European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, a CESifo Research Network Fellow, a Principal consultant at Vivid Economics, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, and research lead for the Transition Pathway Initiative.

His research interest are decision-making under uncertainty, questions of equity/social justice within and between generations, the links between economic growth and the environment, international environmental agreements.

For more information see his website.

Simon Dietz will giva a keynote with the title 'What are big corporations doing on climate change?'.

Thomas Dederichs received a degree in industrial engineering and a degree in electrical engineering from the university of Aachen (RWTH Aachen). He is currently Head of Energy Policy at Amprion GmbH, one of the four transmission system operators in Germany. Previously, he worked as a senior expert at innogy SE and was Head of Energy Networks and European Regulatory Management at the German Association of Energy and Water Industries (BDEW).

Thomas Dederichs will giva a keynote with the title 'Systemvison 2050'.

Dr. Zareipour received his Ph.D. degree from the University of Waterloo in 2006. He is currently a Professor with the Department of Electrical and Software Engineering at the University of Calgary. Dr. Zareipour’s research focuses on the operation, planning and economics of electric energy systems in a competitive electricity market environment. In particular, he is interested in the integration of non-conventional technologies (e.g., energy storage, wind/solar power and hydrogen) into electricity markets, utility business models, and the applications of data science in electricity markets. He is the current Chair of IEEE Power and Energy Society’s Working Group on Energy Forecasting, the past Chair of IEEE Working Group on Business Models for Energy Storage, a member of the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI)’s Energy Storage Integration Council, and a contributor to the International Energy Agency’s Initiative on Modeling Energy Storage for Simulation Optimization of Energy Systems. He is a Fellow of the IEEE. 

For more information see his website.

Hamid Zareipour will give a keynote on 'Grid transformation: lessons from history to imagine a future grid'.