Create successful ePaper yourself
Turn your PDF publications into a flip-book with our unique Google optimized e-Paper software.
Opening Keynote Session<br />
Tuesday 12 June 2012<br />
09:30 – 11:00<br />
Konrad Adenauer Saal, Congress Centre, Ground Floor<br />
Start your visit to <strong>POWER</strong>-<strong>GEN</strong> <strong>Europe</strong>, Renewable Energy World <strong>Europe</strong> and Nuclear Power <strong>Europe</strong> by joining your fellow power industry<br />
professionals at the scene-setting joint opening keynote session.<br />
The keynote takes place in the Konrad Adenauer Saal, Congress Centre, Ground Floor, prior to the opening of the exhibition �oor and all<br />
attendees are welcome.<br />
Introduction and Opening Remarks:<br />
Nigel Blackaby<br />
Director of Conferences, PennWell International Power Group, UK<br />
8 www.powergeneurope.com<br />
Keynote Speakers:<br />
Michael Süß,<br />
Chief Executive O�cer, Siemens Energy Sector, Germany<br />
Dr. Michael Suess (born 1963) was appointed Chief Executive O�cer of the Siemens Energy Sector and<br />
Member of the Managing Board of Siemens AG in April 2011. Michael previously served as Chief Executive<br />
O�cer of the Fossil Power Generation Division of the Energy Sector from 2008 to 2011 and was a member<br />
of the Group Executive Management of the Siemens AG Power Generation Group from October 2006<br />
to December 2007. Before joining Siemens, Suess worked in the aero engine and automotive industries,<br />
holding various management positions at BMW, Porsche and MTU. Michael graduated with a degree<br />
in Mechanical Engineering from the Technical University of Munich and completed his doctorate at the<br />
Institute for Industrial Science/Ergonomics at the University of Kassel (Dr. rer. pol.) in 1994.<br />
Philip Lowe,<br />
Director General for Energy, <strong>Europe</strong>an Commission, Belgium<br />
Philip Lowe was born in Leeds in 1947. He read Politics, Philosophy and Economics at St John’s College,<br />
Oxford and has an M. Sc. from London Business School. Following a period in the manufacturing industry,<br />
he joined the <strong>Europe</strong>an Commission in 1973, and held a range of senior posts as Chef de Cabinet and<br />
Director in the �elds of regional development, agriculture, transport and administration, before becoming<br />
Director-General of the Development DG in 1997. From September 2002 he was Director-General of<br />
the Competition DG until he took up his current appointment as Director-General of the Energy DG in<br />
February 2010.<br />
Bernhard Fischer<br />
Chief Executive O�cer, E.ON Generation GmbH, Germany<br />
Dr. E.H. Bernhard Fischer was born 1955 in Barsinghausen, Germany. After studying mechanical<br />
engineering he worked between 1982 and 2002 for energy companies like PreussenElektra and E.ON<br />
Kraftwerke GmbH in di�erent plant related position, for example as plant manager and, in the end, Board<br />
member of German based E.ON Kraftwerke. From 2005 to 2009, Dr. Fischer joined the board of E.ON<br />
Energie AG, Munich, being responsible for the generation business. And since 2010 Dr. Fischer serves as<br />
CEO of the Generation Board in E.ON’s Global Unit Generation.
Change language