Programme - IPIECA

Speaker Biographies
Dr Richard Betts
Dr Richard Betts is Head of Climate Impacts at the Met Office Hadley Centre, which is the UK Government research
centre on climate. He leads a team of research scientists, operational forecasters and consultants in understanding and
predicting the impacts of natural climate variability and anthropogenic climate change, for a wide range of customers
both in government and the private sector. He has a Bachelor’s degree in Physics and a Master’s in Meteorology and
Climatology, and his PhD thesis examined the role of the world’s ecosystems in climate change. He has worked as a
climate modeller for 15 years, and has pioneered a number of key developments in the extension of climate models to
include biological processes. He has published over 50 peer-reviewed scientific papers and other articles.
Richard was a lead author on the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC),
which shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize with former US Vice President Al Gore. He was also a lead author on the
Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, the authors which shared the 2005 Zayed Environment Prize with the UN Secretary-
General Kofi Annan. Richard is a member of the editorial board of the International Journal of Global Warming. Richard
was a leading peer-reviewer of the Stern Review of the Economics of Climate Change, and has previously served on the
Global Analysis, Integration and Modelling (GAIM) steering group of the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme
(IGBP), and on the World Meteorological Organisation’s Expert Team on the impacts of agriculture on climate.
Dr Nick Campbell
Nick has spent 20 years working primarily on the ozone issue and climate change. He works for ARKEMA SA, based
in Paris, as the Environment Manager for the Fluorinated Products Division. In the Climate Change area, Nick has been
involved in the international discussions since 1991 and has attended all the working groups meetings leading to the
Kyoto Protocol as well as all the conferences of the Climate Change Convention and its Subsidiary Bodies. He has acted as
a Coordinating Lead Author for the IPCC/TEAP joint Report on HFCs and PFCs (April, 2005), was an author of a section
of the IPCC ‘Good Practice Guidance and Uncertainty Management in National Greenhouse Gas Inventories’ and has
acted as an Expert Reviewer for the Working Group 3 and Synthesis Reports of the IPCC 4th Assessment Report.
Nick is Chairman of the BusinessEurope (formerly UNICE) Climate Change Working group, representing EU Employers’
federations; he is also the Chairman of the European Chemical Industry Council (CEFIC) Task Force on Climate Change.
Nick is the Chairman of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) Working Party on Climate Change and has led
this group at COP-6 in The Hague and subsequent COPs. He is deeply involved in both discussions concerning the EU
Emissions Trading Scheme and its review and has recently been an active member of the European Climate Change
Programme Working Group on the EU ETS review. He is also actively involved in the issues around the post-2012
discussions and has given many presentations on both this issue and the EU ETS. Nick was awarded a 1997 United States
EPA Stratospheric Ozone Protection Award for his role in the phase-out of ozone depleting substances.
Heleen de Coninck
Ms. Heleen de Coninck works as a manager of the International Energy and Climate group at ECN Policy Studies. Her
main focus of work is international climate policy and technology, particularly CO 2
capture and storage. Heleen worked
on a number of aspects of energy and climate policy: post-2012 climate issues, the Clean Development Mechanism, CO 2
capture and storage, and policy interactions in climate policy. She is one of the editors of the IPCC Special Report on
Carbon dioxide Capture and Storage and has been involved in a number of other projects in the field of CCS. Among
others, she worked as a consultant in the field of CCS and CDM for the UNFCCC, led the project leading to the integration
of CCS in the EU ETS and the Directive on Geological Storage of CO 2
for the European Commission, and worked on the
ACCSEPT project on social, economic and regulatory barriers to CCS.
Climate Change and Energy: To 2020 Onwards •