Argus Emissions Markets

Jane Hupe is the ICAO Director responsible for the environmental programme of the Organization. Ms. Hupe has been at the forefront of ICAO’s efforts to define and promote policies and standards for an environmentally sustainable aviation which encompasses aircraft noise and aircraft engine emissions, local air quality and climate change, sustainable energy and market-based measures. Her responsibilities include directing ICAO environmental activities, and serving as the Secretary of the ICAO Council’s Committee on Aviation Environmental Protection (CAEP). Ms. Hupe coordinates aviation and the environment activities with other International Organizations and she is also in charge of the Strategy on assistance and capacity-building of ICAO Member States in this area. Contributing to the IPCC work as a lead author on aviation-related issues, she received a certificate acknowledging her contribution to the IPCC’s award of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize. Prior to joining ICAO, Ms. Hupe served as advisor on environmental matters to the Brazilian Aviation Authorities for 15 years. Ms. Hupe has a Master’s degree in Aviation from the École Nationale de L’ Aviation Civile (ENAC), Toulouse, France, and many other post-graduate degrees, including in environmental auditing. Read less

Seehyung Lee has worked at the Korea Chamber of Commerce and Industry’s Business Institute since 2010. He represented industry in discussions on national climate change polices, and researched the implementation of greenhouse gas reduction strategies, monitoring the effect of policy on competitiveness. He has sat on various committees, including the Joint Working Group for the Korea Emissions Trading Scheme, and was part of the Korea Delegation for the UN dialogues on Clean Development Mechanisms. Read less

Stefaan Vergote is Advisor in DG CLIMA since April 2017. Previously, he was Head of unit for Economic analysis and Financial Instruments Unit in DG ENER since March 2014. From 2010 to 2014, he was Head of Unit A4 in DG CLIMA, responsible for development of strategic options for the EU's international and domestic climate action. His team was in charge of the 2050 Low Carbon Roadmap, and the 2030 framework for climate and energy policies. Previously, as Deputy Head of Unit on 'Energy and Environment' in DG Environment, he led a team coordinating the preparation and economic analysis of the 2020 Energy and Climate Package, which implemented the EU's independent commitment to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 20% by 2020, including the review of the EU Emission trading System, The Effort Sharing Decision and Directive on Renewable Energy. Mr. Vergote has a diploma of civil electrotechnical-mechanical engineer at the Catholic University of Leuven (KULeuven) and holds a Postgraduate Degree in Environmental Management and Technology (KULeuven). Prior to joining the Commission, Stefaan Vergote was, from 1990 to 1992 a Scientific researcher at the Engineering Department at the Catholic University of Leuven, followed, from 1994 to 1997, by a position of Scientific consultant at IWT (Flemish Institute for Science and Technology) in charge of the evaluation of industrial R&D projects and a Scientific researcher at VITO (Flemish Institute for Technological research). Read less

Dr. Felix Chr. Matthes joined Öko-Institut as a researcher in 1991, after holding different positions in the institute he has been Re-search Coordinator for Energy and Climate Policy since 2008. He has published numerous studies and publications on German and international energy, environmental and climate policy, served at several German and international advisory boards (e.g. the so-called German Coal Commission) and has been an invited expert at a number of hearings of the German and European Parliament as well as the US Congress. Key topics of his work include the design, the comparison and the implementation of emissions trading schemes, energy market modelling, energy market design and technology-specific policies as well as medium and long-term decarbonization strategies, the comprehensive assessment and monitoring of energy and climate policy packages and strategies. Read less

Trevor Sikorski is the Head of Natural Gas and Carbon Research at Energy Aspects. Trevor has been analysing European energy and environmental markets for more than 15 years, having held senior analytical research roles with Barclays Capital, Point Carbon, Global Insight and PwC. He has an in-depth understanding of the global markets for generation fuels and carbon, including their fundamentals, trading behaviours, and complex interactions. In 2010, he was named the top carbon market analyst by Environmental Finance magazine and was in Commodity Magazine’s commodities research team of the year in 2011. Trevor is frequently featured in leading media outlets, including the Financial Times, BBC News, Reuters, Bloomberg, CNBC, Wall Street Journal, and Sky News. Read less

After studying at the University of Budapest, Bernadett Papp took her MBA from the University of Lyon. She worked at several investment firms as an equity research analyst specialising in utilities and energy service companies, before joining Vertis Environmental Finance in Budapest, where she has been since January 2012. Read less

Jonathan Sims took over as Deputy Editor of Argus European Emissions Markets at the start of 2018, having spent the previous five years focusing on north western European power markets for Argus. In this time he has developed specific expertise on the UK and Irish markets during a period of significant transition owing to coal’s dwindling share in the country’s generation mix and growth in renewables. Jonathan spent two years working in the grains market for a small commodity broker before joining Argus. Read less

International Policy Director at the International Emissions Trading Association (IETA). He joined IETA in 2014, initially focusing on the EU ETS and UNFCCC negotiations. He currently heads IETA’s international work, covering the implementation of the Paris Agreement and international carbon markets. Leading IETA’s Business Partnership for Market Readiness (B-PMR) initiative, he also focuses on emerging carbon markets, particularly on Asia. Prior to joining IETA he focused on emissions trading in the Academia and for consulting companies. He holds a M.Sc. in Sustainable Development from the Utrecht University and a B.Sc. in Environmental Science from the University of Trieste. Read less

Brigitta studied chemistry at the Georg-August University in Göttingen. In 1991, she joined BASF´s plastics research and headed a laboratory where she developed products for new applications and improved production processes. After that, she initiated, led and accompanied a range of technical, communication and advocacy projects in various functions in the plastics department. Key focuses were plastics recycling, sustainability and energy efficiency of plastics. Since 2008 her focus is on energy and climate policy — such as energy efficiency of buildings and in industry, emissions trading and global climate policies. She is active in several industry and chemicals associations on international and national level, including ICCA, Cefic and BDI. Read less

Casper Elgaard Løvschal is an industry expert within the carbon space, with more than 7 years of experience at Danske Commodities where he is responsible for trading EUAs, CERs and voluntary markets. As part of the Climate Markets team at Danske Commodities he is also involved in the development of activities within Renewables Certificates, Carbon and Biofuels. Read less

Benedikt von Butler is currently leading the international business development of environmental markets at merchant energy trader Hartree Partners. He has been working in carbon markets since 2001, originating, structuring and trading European and international emission rights. He has been advising major financial institutions on carbon trading and is a frequent speaker at carbon conferences. His area of expertise is the EU emissions trading scheme (ETS). Prior roles include sales and trading positions at Citigroup and Mercuria Energy. Read less

Kate Abnett joined the Argus European Emissions report in 2017, where she works on the daily EUA price assessment and writes news and analysis on the EU Emissions Trading System, as well as on broader topics including climate policy and renewable energy. She spent three years as a journalist covering the luxury goods and retail sectors before joining Argus. Read less

Dave leads on Sandbag’s coal phaseout work. Dave spent 13 years at the power company E.ON analysing electricity and carbon markets, and since 2014 has been involved in a coordinated NGO campaign to bring an end to unabated coal in Europe. Read less

Matthew Monteverde has more than fifteen years of experience analysing global energy markets. His career began in New York where he focused on the rapidly changing US wholesale gas and power markets before shifting attention to Europe. Matthew was a long serving editor of Argus European Natural Gas, a leading source of analysis, news and prices for the European market and launched Argus LNG Daily. He has also served as Argus' senior analyst and vice president for generating fuels and now works as its vice president for commodities markets. Read less

Ioannis joined KEN S.A in November 2017 as Trading dpt. Director, sharing the vision to let KEN become a regional player with diversified activities. Driven by passion for this job, the most important goals among others were: the positive trading results, the setup of a modern power trading desk, the establishment of long term partnerships with major Balkan/Italian/Turkish trading companies, the participation in EEX, the extroversion of the company and its participation to European Energy Trading Forums as well as the first steps towards KEN’s presence to the western European energy markets and interconnections. Given these goals, Ioannis who has been a certified trader since March 2015 by EEX, works daily with his team of traders and analysts. Lastly Ioannis is member of the “Energy Commodities Conference” Committee since 2014. Nevertheless Ioannis’ together with his team at KEN S.A. is responsible for the price forecasting, the PnL reporting and budgeting as well as the Regulatory coordination in regards to the activities of the Group. Prior to this Ioannis worked for four years for Watt+Volt S.A., as Head of Power and Commodities Trading, before that for another four years for Elpedison Energy S.A. as a Business Development Manager, for two years for Verbund Hellas as Energy Trader and before that for Markedskraft GmbH (now Wattsight) as Junior Carbon Analyst, in Berlin. He is a holder of two Master of Science diplomas, the first from the 'TU-Berlin' in Energy Systems Engineering and the second one from the 'Athens University of Economics and Business' in Applied Economics and Finance for Executives. In September 2016 Ioannis acquired as well the Diploma in Negotiations offered by the ‘Athens University of Economics and Business’. Lastly, he speaks very fluently English and German. Read less

Julia Michalak is EU Policy Director at International Emissions Trading Association (IETA), a non-profit business organisation that promotes the establishment of a functional global framework for trading in greenhouse gas emission reductions. Prior to joining IETA, Julia worked for several years on EU climate policy in research institutes and the non-governmental sector. Read less

Liv is Director in Norsk Hydro’s Climate Office and has been involved in climate change issues since the early 2000s. Before that she has work in Corporate Finance and thereafter with developing of renewable projects. She was a board member of the World Bank’s Prototype Carbon Fund, an initiative established in 2000. The Fund played an important role in establishing a framework for the UN approved international carbon credits. Since last year, Liv has been in the Board of IETA. Read less

Michiel ten Hoopen is Managing Director Advisory at ClearBlue Markets, which was voted best consultancy in North America for the last 2 years by Environmental Finance Magazine. Michiel has 20 years of experience in climate policy and carbon markets and has been involved in various offset and carbon markets since their inception. ClearBlue Markets is a cap & trade and carbon pricing and compliance advisory firm active in both the North American and European markets. Prior to starting at ClearBlue, Michiel led the Global Emissions desk at Vattenfall, and before that he led the CDM consultancy division at EcoSecurities. Michiel was also a member of the UNFCCC CDM Small Scale working group for 7 years. Read less

Bill Hemmings is Director of Shipping and Aviation at Brussels-based Transport and Environment Europe’s leading environmental NGO working on sustainable transport. T&E is a lead member of the Clean Shipping Coalition which for years has been at the forefront of initiatives to address shipping’s growing environmental and air pollution footprint. T&E played a key role in advancing the move to the 2020 global Sulphur cap and is now proposing ship speed reduction as an immediate measure to gain time for the sector to move to new low/zero carbon forms of propulsion. T&E published a pathway to decarbonize EU shipping late last year. Read less

Ji Bao has worked in China Emissions Exchange since 2013. At present, he has mainly engaged in the promotion of carbon trading and carbon financial products. Formerly he worked on trading mechanism design of Guangdong pilot carbon market and CDM project development. Read less

Fabricio is Argus’s lead analyst on emissions control technologies and on the global AdBlue®/DEF/ARLA 32 markets. Fabricio has significant work experience in fuels and biofuels quality, engines and emissions standards. Fabricio has contributed to emissions consulting projects, including studies related to due diligence and project feasibility. He holds a Chemical Engineering degree, a MSc in Transport and Sustainable Development, and an MBA in Agribusiness. He is fluent in French, Spanish and Portuguese. Read less

Tom Lord is Head of Trading and Risk Management at Redshaw Advisors having joined from Barclays Capital in 2014. During his 8 years at Barclays Capital he specialised in commodity confirmations, settlements, logistics and emissions trading. He was promoted to Head of the emissions trading desk in 2014 and was responsible for the execution and pricing of client trades and structured deals. Tom has extensive knowledge of emissions markets around the world which has, in particular, enabled him to lend expertise to the reform of the South Korean Emissions Trading Scheme. Read less

Neil Eckert is Chairman of IncubEx, a product and business development firm. The company works in conjunction with its global exchange partner, European Energy Exchange (EEX) and other leading service providers to design and develop new financial products in global environmental, reinsurance and related commodity markets. Neil also serves as Chairman of Aggregated Micro Power Holdings and was the co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Climate Exchange PLC until the sale of the company to Intercontinental Exchange in July 2010 for approximately £400 million. Neil was also previously the Chairman of Trading Emissions PLC, an AIM listed company and one of the world’s leading funds investing in emission reduction permits. Neil founded Brit Insurance Limited in 1995 and remained its CEO until March 2005. He then served as a non-executive director of the company from April 2005 until May 2008. Neil serves on the Board of six private and public firms and has interests in various property companies. Neil is the Chairman of Design Technology & Innovation Limited, a patenting and intellectual property company whose principal activity is in the field of irrigating plants with salty or brackish water. Neil is on the board of Directors of Ebix, a $2bn Nasdaq listed company. It is the world’s leading provider of electronic exchange services to the insurance industry and has been one of the fastest growing companies in the US over the last decade. Read less

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Mr. David Hill has been working in the energy markets since 2013 and currently works as a Trader on the proprietary trading and investment desk at Hartree Partners, covering European Union Allowances, as well as gas, power and coal. Previously he oversaw Hartree’s fundamental analysis and research team in the European energy space, and has worked for a specialized gas and power consultancy. He holds a Master’s degree in Energy and Environmental Economics. Read less

MARK LEWIS is Head of Climate Change Research at BNP Paribas Asset Management, having joined in January 2019. Previously, he was Managing Director and Head of Research at the Carbon Tracker Initiative (April-December 2018he was Managing Director and Head of European Utilities Research at Barclays (2015-18), Chief Energy Economist at Kepler Cheuvreux (2014-15), and Managing Director and Global Head of Energy Research at Deutsche Bank (2005-13). He was also a member of the Financial Stability Board’s Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures from May 2016 to April 2018. Mark is a UK and French Citizen and holds a BA (First-Class Hons) in Modern Languages and Economics from Sheffield University, an MPhil from Cambridge University, and an MA from London University. Read less