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Asher Minns, MSc is the Communication Manager of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research. His remit is to drive knowledge transfer about Tyndall's research to target audiences that are traditionally outside of academia. Mr Minns has a background in theoretical ecology, environmental consultancy and applied engineering, as well as science communication. Asher's formal qualifications for his role include an MSc in Science Communication, a BSc in Environmental Biology, a Diploma in Conservation Management, as well as being an apprentice-served Radar Engineer. His university career has spanned Imperial College at the University of London, Oxford University's Environmental Change Institute, and the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research.

Prof. RNDr. Bedřich Moldan, CSc. has been the Head of the Charles University Environment Center since its creation. He graduated from the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics of Charles University and acquired the title RNDr. in Analytical Chemistry before acquiring a CSc. in Chemical Sciences. He was appointed Associate Professor at Charles University in Geochemistry, and Professor at Charles University in Environment Science. At present, Bedřich Moldan is a member of many important organizations, including Chairman of the Scientific Council of the European Environmental Agency in Copenhagen; a member of the Czech Statistic Council, member of the Czech National Sustainable Development Council and Chairman of its working group on sustainable development indicators; Vice-Chairman of the Scientific board of the Ministry of the Environment; coordinating lead author of the international project “Millennium Ecosystem Assessment”.

In the early nineties, Bedřich Moldan took on a political role and helped to start a transformation process in Czechoslovakia. He was a Member of Parliament and held the position of the Minister of the Environment of the Czech Government. Currently, Bedřich Moldan is a Professor at the Charles University in Prague and a Senator of the Parliament of the Czech Republic. At the international scale he participated in the preparation of the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro and the formation and operation of the UN Commission for Sustainable Development (vice-chairman 1993, chairman 2001).

RNDr. Martin Bursík studied Conservation of the Environment at the Natural Sciences Fakulty, Charles University in Prague, where he earned his Doctor of Natural Science (RNDr.) degree in 1985. From 2005–2009 he was the Chair of the Czech Green Party. After the elections in 2006 he worked as Deputy Prime Minister and an MP. Prior to that, he was active in Prague municipal politics, where he devoted himself to the issues of waste management, transportation and corruption (inter allia as chair of the Committee for the Environment). Martin Bursík also worked as an Environment Minister in the government of Josef Tošovský (1998), which adopted his proposal for the State Program for Nature Conservation and the State Program for Support of Renewable Resources and Energy Savings. From 1998 to 2005 he worked as a consultant in the area of energy and environmental conservation and as a director of Ecoconsulting s.r.o. (focusing on energy and the environment).

Zsuzsanna Ivanyi, Ph.D. holds a Ph.D. from Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, and a CSc. in Earth Sciences, from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, in Dynamical Modelling of Meso-scale Atmospheric Circulation. Her present position is Senior Expert on Climate Change at the Regional Environmental Center for Central and Eastern Europe (REC). She has 25 years experience in dealing with numerical modelling of atmospheric circulations, the climate system, analyses of long-term surface temperature series on global and continental level to detect climate change, measuring carbon sequestration over forests and estimation of CO2 flux. Also, she has experience in reviewing IPCC Assessment reports and over 10 years experience teaching atmospheric physics and climate change in universities. She was a policy advisor for the Hungarian Ministry for Environment on air pollution and climate change related international conventions for three years and has 15 years extensive experience managing climate and energy related projects in Central and Eastern Europe. Under her supervision the Climate Change Topic Area in the REC has developed its own network of experts including the national focal points of the UNFCCC, governmental officials in the environmental and non-environmental bodies, NGOs, consultants in the CEE region, etc. Fields of expertise include climate policy, GHG mitigation strategies and options, the implementation of the UNFCCC and the Kyoto Protocol, analysis of effectiveness of policies and measures to reduce GHG emissions and tackle adaptation.

RNDr. Ing. Jaroslav Rožnovský, Csc., is the manager of the Brno branch of the Czech Hydrometeorological Institute and the author or co-author of more than 150 original papers, monographs and university textbooks on the the issue of climate change, landscape and agriculture. He attended the University of Agriculture in Brno (now Mendel University of Agriculture and Forestry in Brno) in the Faculty of Agriculture, specializing in the field of phytotechnics. Then in l984 at Masaryk University in Brno Jaroslav Rožnovský specialized in Hydrology, Meteorology and Climatology, receiving his Csc. in General Field Crop Production in l982. He now lectures in Bioclimatology, Agrometeorology and Climatology at the Mendel University of Agriculture and Forestry in Brno, and at the University of Ostrava Faculty of Science he lectures in Micrometeorology and Bioclimatology. He is currently President of the Czech Society of Bioclimatology (ČbkS) and President of the Czech Committee ICIDU.

Prof. Pim Martens, Ph.D. is Director of the International Centre for Integrated assessment and Sustainable development (ICIS), Maastricht University. He holds the chair of 'Sustainable Development' at Maastricht University, is a research professor of Globalisation at the KOF Swiss Economic Institute, ETH Zurich, and an honorary professor at the Institute of Biological, Environmental and Rural Sciences at Aberystwyth University, Wales. Prof. Martens is project-leader and principal investigator of several projects related to sustainable development, globalisation, environmental change and society, funded by, amongst others, the Dutch National Research Programme, the United Nations Environment Programme and the European Community. Pim Martens is Co-editor-in-chief of the International Journal Ecohealth. Dr. Martens is a Fulbright New Century Scholar within the programme 'Health in a Borderless World' and winner of the Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel-Forschungspreis. Furthermore, he has been a visiting scholar at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (UK), Harvard University (USA), Heidelberg University, (Germany), ETH Zurich (Switzerland), and Aberystwyth University (Wales).

Prof. Andreas Matzarakis Ph.D. studied Meteorology at the Ludwig-Maximilians University Munich. He attained a doctorate in 1995 from the Aristoteles University of Thessaloniki in the bioclimate of Greece. From 1995 to 2001 he was a scientific assistant at the Meteorological Institute of the Albert-Ludwigs University of Freiburg and earned his habilitation about the "thermal component of the urban climate”. Since 2001 he has been a scientific co-worker at the University of Freiburg. He was appointed Professor at the University of Freiburg in October 2006. His research is mainly focused on Urban Climatology, Biometeorology, Tourism Climatology and Climate Impact research. Dr. Matzarakis is the founder and editor of the Urban Climate website. Since 1996 he has been Chair of the Commission on Climate, Tourism and Recreation of the International Society of Biometeorology, and is Vice-President of the International Society of Biometeorology. He is the developer of several tools in applied climatology i.e. RayMan software and Climate Mapping Tool and CTIS (Climate-Tourism-Information-Scheme).

RNDr. Petr Voříšek, Ph.D. studied Zoology at Charles University Prague, Faculty of Natural Sciences, where he obtained a MSc. and Ph.D. in the Zoology of Vertebrates (1998). He worked for the Czech Society for Ornithology, BirdLife Czech Republic as a director, as well as a research assistant at the Ornithological Laboratory, Department of Zoology, University of Palacky, Olomouc. Since January 2002 he has worked as a coordinator of the Pan-European Common Bird Monitoring Scheme. Field work on research of the Ecology of the Common Buzzard in South Moravia, collaboration with the Department of Parasitology, Charles University, on a project of research of coccidia and blood parasites of Burda are among some of his activities. He participates in monitoring programmes in the Czech Republic – breeding and wintering Atlases, Common Bird Monitoring and International Waterbirds Census. Coordination of the Working Group on Birds of Prey and Owls, Czech Society for Ornithology, coordination of a programme monitoring raptors' breeding populations in the Czech Republic. Member of Czech Society for Ornithology, Czech Zoological Society and the Raptor Research Foundation.

Doc. Mgr. Martin Konvička, Ph.D. holds an MSc in Zoology from Palacký University, Olomouc and a Ph.D. and Doc. in Zoology from the University of South Bohemia, České Budejovice. He is currently Associated Professor at the Faculty of Science, University of South Bohemia and researcher at the Biological Centre CAS (Institute of Entomology), České Budějovice. His main fields of expertise are Insect Biodiversity and Conservation, with particular interest in butterflies; Patterns of Historical and Current Biodiversity Change; Restoration and Reconciliation Ecology; and Societal and Political Reflections of Conservation. He teaches Introductory Zoology and Conservation Biology; is the author or co-author of 42 scientific papers in ISI covered journals and over 50 further papers; co-editor of 2 and author of further 2 books; and has so far supervised over 20 diploma theses.

John Ingram, Ph.D. from Oxford University's Environmental Change Institute, received his training in Soil Science and gained extensive experience in the 1980s working in Africa and Asia in agriculture and forestry research projects. In 1991 John was recruited by NERC to help organise, coordinate and synthesise research on Global Change and Agroecology, part of IGBP's international global change research programme. In 2001 he was appointed the Executive Officer for the international research project "Global Environmental Change and Food Systems" (GECAFS), then based in NERC's CEH Wallingford site. The GECAFS International Project Office was relocated to ECI in October 2006. Promoting, coordinating and integrating international research related to the interactions between global environmental change and food security, as researched through analysis of food systems. Vice-Chair of the COST Domain Committee for Earth System Science and Environmental Management (ESSEM).

Ing. Jiří Nekovář, CSc. began studying Agriculture at the Forestry Faculty, Brno before completing postgraduate studies of Water Economy and Management, Air Pollution, French and Arabic languages. In 1986 he was awarded a Second Scientific Technical Qualification Degree by the Qualification Committee of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences in Prague. After two years of forest practice he entered the Northern Moravia regional branch office of the Czech Hydrometeorological Institute and worked as Air Conservation Department head. In September 1974 he went to CHMI Prague and held the positions of Branch Centre for Air Conservation Protection Chief, Director of Regional Branch Office in Prague for the central Bohemia region and CHMI International Contacts Department Leader. From 1990 Jiří Nekovář worked as a climatologist/phenologist in the Department of Climatology, Section of Biometeorological Applications. Here he worked in the methodical leadership of phenology networks, data collection and processing, the evaluation of phenology series and also in cooperation with corresponding partners abroad. He is currently serving as Manager of a superstructure Project named OC185 Method development of phenology database use for climate change studies. He published a book named “The history and current status of Plant Phenology in Europe” in May 2008 in Finland. He is also a member of the Management Committee of COST action ES0603 “Assessment of production, release, distribution and health impact of allergenic pollen in Europe (EUPOL)”; this action will run until 2011.

Prof. Bernard Seguin, Ph.D. has worked at INRA (Institut National de la recherche agronomique) since 1967 after obtaining the diploma of Agronomic Engineer from the National Agronomical Institute of Paris, completed with a Ph.D. thesis in 1971 on Fluid Mechanics/Atmospheric Physics) at the Université de Provence in Marseille. From 1968 to 1998 he participated in research work at INRA's Station of Bioclimatology in Avignon, mostly in the fields of Micrometeorology, Climatology and Remote Sensing applied to Agriculture and the Continental Biosphere. After 1998, he was mainly involved in scientific management within INRA, as Deputy Chief of the Environment and Agronomy department until 2002, when he became responsible for the coordination of INRA research work on climate change and the greenhouse effect, which is his present position. He was a lead-author for the 4th report of the IPCC in 2007 (WG II on impacts, chapter 1 observed changes), and a member (2004–2008) of the IPCC Task Group on Data and Scenario Support for Impact and Climate Analysis (TGICA). He participated in the scoping meeting for the special report on extreme events and disasters in Oslo (23rd–26th March 2009). He has contributed to the working groups of the Commission for Agricultural Meteorology of WMO and published about 50 scientific papers in international reviews.

JUDr. Jan Dusík, M.Sc., First Deputy Minister, Director of the Foreign, Legislative and State Administration Section graduated from the Charles University Faculty of Law, where he became a Doctor of Laws in 2002. In addition, he also completed a course in Environmental Change and Management at the Oxford University (M.Sc.). In the 1990s he worked as the Head of the Central Office of the Hnutí Brontosaurus, then as a consultant on European environmental law. He has worked at the Ministry of the Environment since 1998, all the time chiefly dealing with the relations between the Czech Republic and the European Union in the area of environmental policy. Over time he has held various managerial positions from Deputy Director of the European Integration Department to the Director of the European Union Department, to Deputy Minister for Foreign Relations, to his current position of the First Deputy Minister of the Environment, which he has held since April 2007. In 2003–2004 he worked at the European Commission Directorate-General for the Environment.

Doc. RNDr. Ladislav Miko, Ph.D. graduated in General Biology and Cytology from the Faculty of Science of Charles University in Prague in 1984. In 1996, he obtained his Ph.D. at the same faculty in the field of Systematic Zoology and Ecology. This year, he became Assistant Professor (docent) at the Faculty of Environmental Science of the Czech University of Life Sciences in Prague. He began his professional career at the Institute Landscape Ecology of the Slovak Academy of Sciences. In 1992–2001, he was employed by the Czech Environmental Inspectorate and worked for some time as the Deputy Director. In 2001, he assessed EU projects as an independent consultant within the PHARE program. From 2002 to 2005, he was the Deputy Minister of the Environment for Nature Conservation and Landscape Protection. After being chosen in a demanding international selection procedure, he was appointed as the Director of the Protecting the Natural Environment Directorate of the EU Commission (DG Environment).

Mgr. Aleš Kuták, Deputy Minister, Director of the Climate and Air Protection Section studied Environmental Protection and Management at the Palacký University, Olomouc. After graduation, he worked on projects of citizen involvement in solving local environmental problems at Hnutí Duha and Centre for Community Work in Plzeň. In 1997–2002 he was an external lecturer at the University of West Bohemia Faculty of Education Department of Geography in Plzeň. In 1998–2004 he worked at the Centre for Transport and Energy in addition to co-ordinating transportation for the 21st Century programme at the Czech Environmental Partnership Foundation in 2000–2003. Since 2005 he has worked at the MoE, first as Deputy Minister of the Environment for Transport; he was appointed Deputy Minister for Climate and Air Protection on 23rd April 2007.

Éric Darier, Ph.D. is the Director of Greenpeace in Québec and is currently on sabbatical. Since 2000, he has focused on Genetic Engineering and agricultural issues for Greenpeace. He has a Ph.D. in Political Studies from McGill University (Canada) and an MA in European Studies from Reading University (UK). He also did a post-doctorate at Queen's University (Canada). He was also a university researcher on environmental issues like Climate Change at the University of Lancaster, UK on an EU research project, Toxics, Waste and Transport. He is the author and co-author of many scientific publications, including the book “Discourses of the Environment” (Blackwell, Oxford). He taught courses on Environmental Studies at universities in Canada, Britain and Catalonia. His current research focus is on Agroecology, Agricultural Policy and Climate Change.

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John Novis’ photographic career started in London in the 60s years when he began working with many renowned photographers for Vogue, Apple Corporation (Beatles), Top Fashion and industrial photographic studio Adrian Ensor Labs. In the 80's he worked primarily as a commercial freelance photographer. In the 80s he worked primarily as a commercial freelance photographer. Photography was a tool of advertising and for profit making, however it didn't satisfy him and so in 1989 he joined Greenpeace where he began working as a photographer. This enabled him to highlight critical environmental situations using his photographs and to use his expertise for worthy causes. Gradually, pictures have become very important for the organisation and John Novis became Director of Photography at Greenpeace International, which is responsible for the main visual projects, such as: Amazon - illegal logging; Yunnan - the Chinese rice company; the Climate Crisis – the Drying of the Yellow River; Vanishing Everest Ice; Climate and Poverty in the Province of Gansu, China; and the Production of Palm Oil in Indonesia's Riau. He also collaborated on many successful publications, including one about the nuclear industry in Russia by the Dutch photographer Robert Knoth and in 2005, the famous book Exposure: Portrait Of A Corporate Crime by Raghu Rai of Magnum Photos. In addition, John organised photo master-classes for the World Press Photo Foundation in Beijing, worked on the jury CHIPP (China International Photojournalism Competition) in 2007 and was a member of the Fotopub jury in Slovenia in 2008. In 2009, John was also on the jury of the Czech Competition Štíty Viléma Heckla. In 2001 he took three months off to work on his personal project – a testimony to the largest known Hindu pilgrimage, Khumb Mela.