SPEAKERS at the Global Energy Transition Journalism Conference 2019 #GETJO19

Twitter: @_richardblack

Richard Black is a British journalist and Director of the Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit (ECIU), a non-profit think-tank based in London. For more than two decades he was Environment Correspondent for the BBC World Service.

Twitter: @LMicalBuchsbaum

Michael Buchsbaum has been a journalist since 2005. In his career he has been serving as a contributor and editor to a variety of trade and industry publications including Coal Age Magazine, EnergyBiz, the Coal Transporter, Mining Magazine, Power Magazine and others while working directly with various mining companies, energy producers, trade groups and suppliers. Beginning in 2011, while working with groups like Occupy, Clean Energy Action and Frack Free Colorado, Buchsbaum changed his focus towards renewable energy solutions, looking towards Germany’s on-going Energiewende as a model. In 2018, he began writing for the Heinrich Böll Stiftung’s Energytransition.org and editing for the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) among others.

Twitter: @sclavennagtm

Scott Clavenna serves as Chairman of Greentech Media (www.greentechmedia.com) and Wood Mackenzie Power & Renewables, where he contributes to the strategic guidance of Wood Mackenzie’s work in the global Energy Transition. Mr. Clavenna was the co-founder and CEO of Greentech Media and helped develop it into the leading source of integrated news, industry research, conferences and executive councils in the clean energy economy.  Greentech Media was acquired by Wood Mackenzie in 2016 and is currently part of its Power & Renewables breakout. Prior to Greentech Media, Mr. Clavenna was a market analyst in the broadband telecommunications industry in various media and research organizations.

Twitter: @CdeBoisredon

Christian de Boisredon is the founder of Sparknews, a social enterprise whose mission is to shed light on the many innovative and inspiring solutions to take action for a more sustainable future. For the past six years, Sparknews has spearheaded and coordinated many international and collaborative programmes, such as the Impact Journalism Day, to show that, beyond the simple observation of global issues, solutions exist all around the world. The group works with more than 70 leading news media across the world in various fields (generalist, business, innovation, etc). De Boisredon also frequently appears as a speaker at conferences on change leadership and positive innovation. He was appointed Ashoka Fellow (Ashoka is the biggest international organisation of social entrepreneurs) and co-wrote the bestseller L’Espérance Autour du Monde.

Twitter: @PIK_Climate

Ottmar Edenhofer is Director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), Professor for the Economics of Climate Change at the Technical University Berlin, as well as founding director of the Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change (MCC). He is also a member of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina and of the National Academy of Science and Engineering acatech. Edenhofer has published numerous articles in leading journals and authored various books. From 2008 to 2015 he served as Co-Chair of Working Group III of the IPCC, substantially shaping the Fifth Assessment Report on Climate Change Mitigation, which has been considered a landmark report and provided the scientific basis for the Paris Agreement.

Twitter: @GarrigouAnneSo

Anne-Sophie Garrigou is a journalist and eco-feminist. She is currently the Editor-in-Chief of The Beam Magazine, a Berlin-based print and digital publication that takes a modern approach to sustainable development and climate change information, and Director of Beam Media. 

Twitter: @isabelhilton

London-based international journalist and broadcaster Isabel Hilton is founder and editor-in-chief of the independent, non-profit news website chinadialogue.net. The bilingual online publication on the environment and climate change aims to promote a wider understanding of China’s urgent challenges in this respect. Initiated and run by the China Dialogue Trust, Hilton furthermore oversees the online publications and media services www.thethirdpole.net, www.indiaclimatedialogue.net, www.dialogochino.net, as well as www.chinadialogueocean.net. Hilton has authored several books, as well as worked for a number of renowned news outlets, including the Sunday Times, the Independent, the Guardian, the New Yorker and the BBC. She is also currently a Visiting Professor at the Lau Institute, Kings College London.

Twitter: @wjakobik

Wojciech Jakóbik has been an energy analyst since 2009 and is currently the editor in chief of BiznesAlert.pl. Jakóbik is also the author of multiple publications in Polish and English. His specialties are natural gas, energy transition and energy union.

Twitter: @Vattenfall_De

Alexander Jung is the Director of Public & Regulatory Affairs for Vattenfall in Germany. He studied law at the University of Heidelberg and universities in Spain. After the reunification he worked as a lawyer at VEAG Vereinigte Energiewerke AG helping to build up the East-German energy sector. Afterwards he held various positions at the Berlin utility Bewag AG before he became Head of management board office at Vattenfall as consequence of a merger of four energy companies. Since 2010, Jung is responsible for the governmental relations and regulatory affairs of the company in Germany. In addition he has been Vattenfall’s representative for the City of Berlin since 2013.

Twitter: @AJK_Kuhlmann

Andreas Kuhlmann has been the Chief Executive of the German Energy Agency (dena) since July 2015. In 2010, Kuhlmann became the Director of Strategy and Politics at the German Association of Energy and Water Industries (BDEW), where he was responsible for the association's strategic and political development, its communications with government, businesses and the public, and the coordination of all activities relating to the energy transition. Previously, the graduate physicist held positions at the German Embassy in Stockholm, the European Parliament, the German Parliament and the Federal Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs. 

Twitter: @TweshMishra

Twesh Mishra works at The Hindu BusinessLine - India's second most read English business news daily - as a Senior Reporter where he covers energy and infrastructure. He was awarded the first Clean Energy Wire Grant for cross border collaboration projects. Mishra has also been a World Wildlife Fund India Fellow where he focused on reporting climate innovations, enhancing clean energy access, reducing greenhouse gas emissions, and generating awareness on climate and energy themes. 

Komila Nabiyeva is a freelance journalist and writer covering climate change and energy issues. Her recent study, published by the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, examines the prospects for an energy transition in South East- and Eastern Europe, the South Caucasus and Central Asia. Komila has previously worked as a communications consultant, moderator and trainer for the United Nations and political foundations. From 2014 until 2019, Komila coordinated the work of the Energy Watch Group, an international network of scientists and parliamentarians.

Twitter: @atayibabs

Atâyi-Babs is CLEW ambassador for Nigeria and West Africa. As a journalist, he helped establish the Hausa Service of Radio France Internationale (RFI) and implemented the station’s start-up media strategy for West Africa. Additionally, Atâyi launched and administered RFI’s website and first radio magazine programme on climate change in the Hausa language called Chanji Yananyi. In 2013 Atayi-Babs established Climate Reporters, Africa’s first bilingual online newspaper dedicated to the coverage and reporting of climate change and the region’s environment. Atâyi-Babs was a 2018 Berlin Energy Transition Dialogue Media Fellow and he considers being a CLEW Journalism Network ambassador an opportunity to advance the frontiers of energy transition while addressing the sustainable development needs of people in Nigeria, West Africa and the entire African continent.

Twitter: @kerstin_rippel

Kerstin Maria Rippel graduated in law at the Saarland University (First State Examination) and completed her legal education at the Higher Regional Court in Stuttgart with the Second State Examination in 1998. She further holds a postgraduate master’s degree in Commercial Law (LL.M.) which she acquired at the University of Stellenbosch in South Africa. Previously, she worked as a lawyer at a law firm which was specialised in renewable energy law, as an editor and later chief editor for a publishing house and as the spokesperson for the German Association of Energy Market Innovators. In 2013 she joined 50Hertz as Teamlead Energy Policy and took over her current position as Head of the Communications and Public Affairs division in March 2016.

Twitter: @sbschulz

Dr Sabrina Schulz is Head of the Berlin office of KfW, the German national promotional and international development bank. Before joining KfW, Sabrina was the Director of the Berlin office of Third Generation Environmentalism (E3G), a European not-for-profit think tank working to accelerate the global transition to sustainable development. She also worked in various policy capacities in Germany, the UK, the US and Canada. Sabrina holds an MA in Public Policy and Management from the University of Potsdam and took parts of the degree at the University of Konstanz and l’Université catholique de Louvain. She also holds an MA in International Politics as well as a PhD from Aberystwyth University.

Twitter: @petrasorge

Petra Sorge is a freelance journalist based in Berlin. She contributes regularly to German and English media such as Der Spiegel, Die Zeit and USA Today. Petra has done cross-border research on the lung disease silicosis in Indian mines, and on the toxic consequences of battery recycling in Nigeria. She received the Otto-von-Habsburg Prize for Minority Reporting in Europe in 2018, and has twice been awarded Global Health Grants from the European Journalism Centre. Petra previously worked with the magazine Cicero and the weekly Der Freitag.

Twitter: @TsanovaREN

Tsvetomira Tsanova has been part of the journalist team of Renewables Now nine years. Currently the editor-in-chief for the renewable energy-focused newswire, she has been following the ups and downs of the global clean energy industry and the progress of the energy transition for a decade.