Board of Directors

Kent Nyström, President of World Bioenergy Association, former MD of Svebio, Swedish Bioenergy Association. Svebio promotes Bioenergy and consists of around 400 members, most of them enterprises active in producing/providing and using biofuels (solid, liquid, gaseous) or manufacturing and using bioenergy equipment. Read more here.

Sribas C. Bhattacharya, International Energy Initiative NGO, information and training, analysis and action, dissemination. International journal, project on global clean cooking. Read more here.
 
Douglas R. Bradley, Climate Change Solutions and Canadian Bionergy Association NGO, membership. Focus on development of bioenergy. Read more here.
 
Laércio Couto, President of RENABIO, Brazilian network of biomass for energy.
   
Jennipher Handoondo, Zambia National Farmers Union’s Oil Seed Commodity Unit. Promoting Jatropha on farm level in Zambia. Project coordinator at Zambia Bio Energy Association. Read more here.
 
William Holmberg, ACORE, American Council of Renewable Energy Non-profit organization based in Washington, D.C. with paying members from every aspect and sector of the renewable energy industries and their trade associations. ACORE accomplishes much of its work by convening the leaders in each of these sectors, publishing collaborative research and facilitating communications among members, their stakeholders and the media. With a focus on trade, finance and policy, ACORE promotes all renewable energy options for the production of electricity, hydrogen, fuels and end-use energy. Read more here.
     
Tetsunari Iida, ISEP, Institution for Sustainable Energy Policies. ISEP is an independent, non-profit research organization, founded in 2000 by energy experts and climate change campaigners. Through our work we aim to provide resources and services to realize sustainable energy policies. Main areas of our activities include promotion of renewable energy, improvement of energy efficiency, and restructuring energy market.
 
Kai Johan Jiang, Chairman of Dragon Power Group Co., Ltd, and National Bio Energy Group Co., Ltd and the economic advisor to Shandong provincial government. Mr. Jiang is an important founder of China Bio Energy by establishing NBE to control above 90% biomass power generation market in China.

Heinz Kopetz, European Biomass Association. Representing 32 national biomass organisations in Europe. Lobby organisation based in Brussels. Promoting bioenergy by influencing decision makers at the EU institutions. Read more here.

Andrew Lang, Chairman, SmartTimbers Cooperative, Australia. Read more here.

Judi W. Wakhungu, African Centre for Technology Studies (ACTS). ACTS is a Nairobi-based international intergovernmental science, technology and environmental policy think -tank that generates and disseminates new knowledge through policy analysis, capacity building and outreach.

Secretariat at Torsgatan 12, SE 111 23 Stockholm

Executive Director Karin Haara