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    14/04/10:
    BIG-STEP day one: Energy and the Environment

    Introduction from host

    Keynote presentations:

      • Prof. Jacqueline McGlade
        Executive Director of the European Environment Agency

        ‘How systems approaches are informing and assisting industry and government decision-making’

        Download presentation [PDF, 2,5 MB]

    • Prof. Chris Barrett
      Virginia Tech & Institute for Scientific Interchange Foundation (Turin)

    Panel Discussion:
    The Energy and Environment Policy Process

    Featuring keynote speakers & Ambassador Leonidas Rokanas, Permanent Representation of Greece to the European Union & Bas Eickhout MEP, chaired by Prof. Lord Julian Hunt

    Roundtable Discussion:
    The Future of Energy

    chaired by Prof Steven Bishop, UCL

      • Prof. Paul Ekins
        University College London Energy Institute

        ‘Policy and Modelling Related to the Energy System’

      • Dr. Jean-Yves Caneill
        Project Manager of EDF Sustainable Development Division

        ‘Interactions between Environmental and Energy Policies’

      • Dr. Jonathan Köhler
        The Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research

      • Roland Kupers
        Visiting Fellow Oxford University, Royal Dutch Shell

    • Video of discussion 

    Roundtable Discussion:
    The Requirements of Policy-makers: Government & Industry

    Featuring Prof. Andrzej Nowak, University of Warsaw, Prof. Ricardo Baeza-Yates, Head of Research Division for Europe and South America, Yahoo) & Prabhat Agarwal, Scientific Officer FET open, European Commission chaired by Dr. Kedar Pandya, Head of the Cross-disciplinary Interfaces Programme, Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, UK

    • Video of discussion

    Summary from host

    15/04/10: BIG-STEP day one: Risk and the Economy

    Introduction from host:

    • Prof. Carlo Jaeger
      Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research

    Keynote presentations:

      • Dr. Jean-Philippe Bouchaud
        Science & Finance Capital Fund Management

        ‘Why do Asset Prices Move?’

    Panel Discussion:
    Systemic Risk in Finance

    Featuring keynote speakers & Dr. Dougal Goodman, Chief Executive of The Foundation for Science and Technology, UK and Prof. Luciano Pietronero, University La Sapienza Rome, chaired by Prof. Carlo Jaeger

    • Video of discussion

    Roundtable Discussion:
    From Risk Assessment to Systemic Risk Governance

    Featuring Dr. Zoran Stančič, Deputy Director-General, Directorate-General Information Society & Media, European Commission, Prof. Vittorio Prodi, MEP, Caroline Gover, Head of Business Continuity, BBC, Prof. Bert de Vries, Utrecht University & Dr. Angela Wilkinson, University of Oxford. Chaired by Prof. Diana Mangalagiu, University of Oxford

    • Dr. Zoran Stančič
      Deputy Director-General, Directorate-General Information Society & Media, European Commission

    Roundtable Discussion:
    Tackling Large Scale Economic Uncertainties

    Featuring Dr. Aris Karytinos, General Director of the Real Estate Department of the National Bank of Greece, Prof. Pedro Prieto, Vice-President of the Spanish Association for the Study of Energy Resources, Robin Wilkinson, Director of Arium Risk Architecture & Dr. Rainer Sachs, Munich Re. Chaired by Dr. Armin Haas, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research

      • Prof. Pedro Prieto
        Vice-President of the Spanish Association for the Study of Energy Resources

        ‘Tackling Large Scale Economic Uncertainties’

        Download presentation [PDF, 2,7 MB]

    • Video of discussion