The Co-Presidents of the Global Energy Assessment Council are Mr. Ged Davis and Prof. Jose Goldemberg.

Ged Davis is currently advisor to a number of international institutions, and has wide experience of global business, energy and environment matters. He was until March 2007 Managing Director of the World Economic Forum, responsible for global research, scenario projects, and the design of the annual Forum meeting at Davos, Switzerland, which brings together 2,400 corporate, government, and nonprofit leaders to shape the global agenda. Before joining the Forum Ged spent 30 years with Royal Dutch Shell, which he joined in 1972. He was the Vice President of Global Business Environment for Shell International in London, and head of Shells scenario planning team.

Ged is a director of Low Carbon Accelerator Limited, a governor of the International Development Research Centre in Ottawa, a member of the INDEX Design Awards Jury and a member of the International Advisory Board of the National Bank of Kuwait. He was a member of the InterAcademy Council Panel on Transitions to Sustainable Energy and the director of the UNAIDS AIDS in Africa scenario project from 2002 to 2003. Ged has led a large number of scenario projects during his career, including the multiyear, multi-stakeholder scenarios on the future of sustainability for the World Business Council for Sustainable Development and was facilitator of the last Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change emissions scenarios. Ged holds a degree in Mining Engineering from Imperial College, London, and postgraduate degrees in Economics and Engineering from the London School of Economics and Stanford University.

Jose Goldemberg recently served as Secretary for the Environment of the State of Sao Paulo, Brazil, and is currently a Professor at the University of Sao Paulo, from which he earned his PhD in Physical Science. He has also served as Rector and full Professor of the University of Sao Paulo from 1986-89. From 1983-86 he was Director of the Energy Company of the State of Sao Paulo and from 1990-92 served the federal government in various capacities: as the Secretary of State for Science and Technology; as interim Secretary of the Environment, where he administered Brazil’s participation in the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro; and as Minister of Education. He has authored many technical papers and books on nuclear physics, environment, and energy and has served as president of the Brazilian Association for the Advancement of Science. Jose Goldemberg also served as Chairman of the Editorial board and a lead author of the World Energy Assessment.

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