List of participants

Name

Institution

Country

1.         

H.R.H Crown Prince Haakon of Norway

Norway

Name

Institution

Country

2.         

Tora Aasland

Minister of Research and Higher Education

Norway

3.         

Maria Otero

Under Secretary of State for Democracy and Global Affairs

USA

4.         

Gro Harlem Brundtland

Former Prime Minister of Norway and Former Director General of WHO

Norway

5.         

Robert W. Corell

Principal for the Global Environment Technology Foundation

USA

6.         

Rafe Pomerance

President of the Climate Policy Center and a founder and chairman of Americans for Equitable Climate Solutions

USA

7.         

Katherine Richardson

Professor in Biological Oceanography at the University of Copenhagen

Denmark

8.         

Gunnar Myhre

Senior Researcher at CICERO

Norway

9.         

Anne Jorun Aas

Chief Operating Officer, Scatec

Norway

10.      

Lars-Erik Liljelund

Special Envoy on Climate Change

Sweden

11.      

Nils Anders Røkke

Vice President CCT Sintef

Norway

12.      

Tom Brookes

Head of Energy Strategy Center (ESC), the communications unit of the European Climate Foundation

Belgium

13.      

Subramanian Ramadorai

Vice Chairman of Tata Consultancy Services Limited (TCS)

India

14.      

Fridtjof Unander

Director, Division  for Strategic Priorities, Departement for Energy and Petroleum Research. The Research Council of Norway.

Norway

15.      

Knut M. Ore

Chairman Kings Bay and Chairman of The Ny-Ålesund Symposium

Norway

Name

Institution

Country

16.      

Osvald Bjelland

Chairman Xynteo Ltd.

Norway

17.      

Jørgen Randers

Professor BI, The Norwegian School of Management

Norway

18.      

Karin Lochte

Director of the Alfred Wegener Institute

Germany

19.      

Patrice de Martin de Viviès

Senior Vice President, Total Exploration Production

France

20.      

Anne Cathrine Frøstrup

Director General at Norwegian Mapping Authority

Norway

21.      

Kjell Bendiksen

Research Manager, Institute for Energy Technology. Professor of Energy Technologies, University of oslo

Norway

22.      

Christian Rynning-Tønnesen

CEO Statkraft

Norway

23.      

Jan-Gunnar Winther

Director Norwegian Polar Institute

Norway

24.      

Odd Olsen Ingerø

Sysselmann (Governor) on Svalbard

Norway

25.      

Cecilie Mauritzen

Senior Scientist and Director, Norwegian Meteorological Institute

Norway

26.      

Signhild Arnegård Hansen

Former President of Confederation of Swedish Enterprise

Sweden

27.      

Ellen Hambro

Director General of Climate and Pollution Agency

Norway

28.      

Ragnvald Nærø

Executive Vice President, Statkraft

Norway

29.      

Audun Rosland

Special Adviser and acting head of the Norwegian delegation to the negotiations under the UNFCCC

Norway

30.      

Frederic Hauge

Leader of Bellona

Norway

31.      

Kim Holmén

Research Director Norwegian Polar Institute

Norway

32.      

Eivind Heder

Director General, Ministry of Higher Education

Norway

33.      

Johan Petter Barlindhaug

Chairman of the Board, North Energy

Norway

34.      

Jesper W. Simonsen

Avdelingsdirektør for avdeling for Globale utfordringer, Norges Forskningsråd

Norway

35.      

Håvard Toresen

Avdelingsdirektør i Miljøverndepartementet

Norway

36.      

Hege Marie Norheim

Head of Statoils Strategic Agenda of Arctic and Subarctic Business Development Activities

Norway

37.      

Pål Prestrud

Director, Center for International Climate and Environmental Research - Oslo (CICERO)

Norway

38.      

Asbjørn Braanaas

Senior Advisor with the Section for the High North, Resources and Russia in the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Norway

39.      

Dr. Uwe Nixdorf

Head of Logistics. Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research (AWI)

Germany

40.      

MinR Reinhold Ollig

Head of Section: System Earth, Federal Ministery of Education and Research (BMBF)

Germany