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Markku Rummukainen is professor in climatology at Lund University, and the Director for the Climate-KIC partnership of Lund University. He has more than 20 years' experience in climate research with focus on climate models and scenarios. He has held various key advisory roles in Swedish climate efforts. Most recently, he was appointed a member in the Swedish Climate Policy Council. The task of the council is to evaluate how the policy of the Swedish government is compatible with the Swedish climate goals. Markku has also been a Lead Author of IPCCs 5th Assessment Report and he is currently also Sweden's Focal Point for IPCC at the Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute. 

Markku will introduce the debate

Prof. Lars j. Nilsson

Professor Lars J. Nilsson has more than 25 years of experience in the fields of energy efficiency and renewable energy, energy and transport systems, as well as energy and climate policy analysis. Recent research has been on different aspects of low carbon transition policy strategies. He was a lead, contributing and SPM author in the 2011 IPCC Special Report on Renewable Energy Sources and Climate Change. Lars is a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Wuppertal Institute and the City of Seoul International Energy Advisory Council.

Lars will moderate the debate

Lena Ek

Lena is the chair of the board of Södra. Södra is co-owned by 51 000 individual forest owners and one of the largest players in the Swedish forest industry.  Lena had a long political carrier that included serving as the Swedish Minister for the Environment from 2011 to 2014. Before that, she was a member of the European Parliament 2004-20011 where she had a leading role in the parliament’s Committee on Industry, Research and Energy. Lena also served in the Swedish parliament during the years 1998-2004.

Prof. Lennart Olsson

Lennart is Professor of Geography at Lund University. His current research fields include human-nature interactions in the context of land degradation, climate change and food security in Africa and globally. He participated in several international assignments and was Lead Author on the IPCC report on Good Practice Guidance for LULUCF (2002 – 2003) and Lead Author on the GEO-4 Global Environmental Outlook. More recently, he was Coordinating Lead Author (CLA) for the chapter on Livelihoods and Poverty and a Cross Chapter Box on Heat Waves and Heat Stress in the Fifth Assessment Report of the IPCC, Working Group II (2011 – 2014), and CLA on the chapter on Land Degradation on the IPCC Special Report on Land (SRCCL), (2017 – 2019).

Prof. Semida Silveira

Semida is Professor in Energy Systems Planning at KTH. Present focus of her research is on energy systems planning and policy, bioenergy, electrification and development. She won the Jaboti Literature Prize 2001 in the category physical sciences, technology and informatics for her book Electricity for Sustainable Development, published in Portuguese. She is also the author of an anthology of the Swedish energy development “Building sustainable energy systems – Swedish experiences” and the book “Bioenergy – realizing the potential”. Semida coordinates KTH cooperation with Brazil and UN organisations, such as UNCTAD and UNFCCC.

Bharadwaj Kummamuru

Bharadwaj Kummamuru is the Executive Director of the World Bioenergy Association - a global organisation with a mission to promote the sustainable development of bioenergy. Since its foundation in 2008, WBA has been working to address a number of pressing issues including certification, sustainability criteria, bioenergy promotion, data and the debates about bioenergy ́s impact on food, land use and water supply. Bharadwaj is a graduate from KTH Royal Institute of Technology in the master program SELECT, funded by KIC Innoenergy. His background is in Chemical Engineering.

Gustaf Egnell

Gustaf Egnell is a Researcher at the Department of Forest Ecology and Management; Forest-based Bioenergy Unit at The Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences. His research, focus is on long-term sustainability issues of biomass for energy from conventional long-rotation forestry with main focus on forest production and carbon balance. Gustaf is also National Team Leader for International Energy Agency Bioenergy Task 43, Bioenergy Feedstocks for Energy Markets.

Prof. Henrik Smith

Henrik Smith is professor of Ecology at Lund University and director of the Centre of Environmental and Climate Research. The current focus for his research group is how intensified use of human-modified landscape and climate change, separately and in concert, affect biodiversity and associated ecosystem services. Henrik promotes cross-disciplinary research addressing urgent environmental issues in a rapidly changing world and is highly engaged in making use of environmental science for decision making in society. He is, for example as a member of the executive committee for the Mistra Council for Evidence-based Environmental Management and extensively contributes to dialogue with stakeholders.