Committee

Peter Droege

Peter Droege is an expert on the role of renewable energy within the fields of urban design, development and urban infrastructure. He has directed and developed Solar City, a research development effort conducted under the auspices of the International Energy Agency. Droege has performed academic roles at major universities in the United States and Japan, and is presently holding professorial positions at the Universities of Newcastle, Australia and Beijing, China. He is a Chair of the World Council for Renewable Energy, for Asia Pacific, and directs Epolis, a Sydney-based consultancy active in sustainable urban change worldwide.

International Advisory Board - Scientific and Policy Committee

Energy and development
Chris Flavin
President, Worldwatch Institute

Renewable economic policy
Hermann Scheer
Member, German Parliament | President, Eurosolar | General Chairman World Council for Renewable Energy, Berlin, Germany

Urban renewable energy action
Janet Sawin
Director, Energy and Emissions Worldwatch Institute, Washington, USA

Urban carbon policy and programs
Steve Hammer
Director, Urban Climate Change Research Network Columbia University (co-managed with Goddard Space Centre, and the Center for Sustainable Cities, City University of New York) New York, USA

Communities and climate change
Jose Etcheverry
Climate and urban action expert, David Suzuki Foundation Toronto, Canada

Architecture and built environment
Nikos Fintikakis
Director International Union of Architects-ARES WP, Athens, Greece

Steffen Lehmann (local advisor)
Chair, School of Architecture and Built Environment, The University of Newcastle, Australia

Ken Yeang (efficiency and bioclimatic design advisor)
Llwellyn Davies Yeang,  Kuala Lumpur and London

Federico M. Butera (renewable urbanist and historical perspectives) Politecnico di Milano, Italy

Urban renewable power systems
Josep Puig University of Barcelona and Ecofys, Spain

Urban transport and other systems
William L Mitchell
The Media Laboratory Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, MA USA

Jeff Kenworthy
Murdoch University Bern, Switzerland

Terry Penney
Advanced Vehicle Technologies, National Renewable energy Laboratory, Golden, Colorado USA

Cities and climate change
Marco Keiner
UN Habitat - United Nations Centre for Human Settlements Nairobi, Kenya 

Global urban ecosystems policy
Peter Marcotullio
Institute of Advanced Studies, United Nations University, Japan

Urban Policy
Edward H. Ziegler
Professor of Law, University of Denver CO USA