Members of Energy Crossroads DENMARK
Piret Liivak, President (Board Member)
M.Sc. in Environmental and Natural Resource Economics (KU)
piret.liivak@energycrossroads.org
Piret from Estonia wrote her master's thesis on environmental impact assessment at Copenhagen University. She has been a member of Energy Crossroads Denmark since 2008 and have been very active in organizing the Summits "Our Opportunity" and "RETHINK".
Piret has a rare talent for structuring group work and building leadership; which she has especially put into practice as the leader of ECDK's Sustainable Innovators Project, April 2010- March 2011. Besides her new position as the President of our organization, she's also involved in the development of our Changing the Game project.
Allison Wing Shan Man, Vice-President (Board Member)
PhD student in Astrophysics (KU)
Allison was amazed by the creativity and vibrancy of youth when participating in EC Denmarks Our Opportunity summit in 2009. She has decided to join ECDK in September 2009, envisioning to spread the awareness of sustainability development and clean energy, and is excited to engage more young people in this process.
Originally from Hong Kong, China, Allison is interested in innovative technologies in creating a sustainable future. She aspires to gain experience in the Danish chapter of EC, and later brings home a lot of ideas and empowers more youth to create a difference.
Allison is part of the ECDK stoves team and communicates with the stoves team in Nepal. Together with the team, she is organizing an Innovation Camp for 80 university students, which is a part of a year-long project of Miljøpunkt Østerbro that aims at urban-driven innovation by the residents in Østerbro district. She is also involved in the strategic planning of Changing the Game. In the past, Allison was the Project Manager of the ECDKs participation at the Bright Green Expo, the largest side event at COP15.
Sascha Schroeder, Vice-President (Board Member)
PhD candidate in Energy Systems Analysis (Risoe DTU),
MSc in Energy and Environmental Management
Impressed by the professional action and positive spirit among Energy Crossroaders, Sascha joined in 2009, in time for the COP15 activities. He enjoys the varied personal and educational backgrounds within the group. Moreover he is in stand to voice a qualified opinion on various technical and economic options, towards a cleaner future.
At ECDK, he focuses on spreading Changing the Game: he hosted game sessions in Copenhagen as well as in Flensburg, Germany, and has also being supporting a number of games in other German and Baltic locations. As new Vice-President, he would like to strengthen internal and external educational activities. Furthermore, he will pursue the development of Changing the Game and spread the word about it to new shores.
Alejandro Garcia Ceballos, Secretary (Board Member)
LIFE Sciences - Copenhagen University (KU)
Alejandro is involved in developing and hosting Changing the Game. He organizes playing sessions at the Faculty of Life Sciences in Copenhagen.
Lana Sukhodolska
ECDK Alumni
As with many of the best pursuits in her life, Lana has become an Energy Crossroader before realizing it when an intuitive inquiry into the grassroots of student coalition standing for the "clean, prosperous and secure energy future" motivated her to sign up for organizing a workshop in the Our Opportunity summit - March 2009. In the workshop "Smart Grid: Lessons from the industry" Lana shared her observations on energy systems innovation and their self-sustaining adoption from the business perspective, having been involved professionally with industries that are playing important role in development of Smart Grids and other energy efficiency solutions.
Being passionate about solving the problems in the crowded, hot and immensely unequal world, Lana believes that youth involvement into sustainable energy and sociotechnical innovation is ultra-necessary for the future world to be a better place.
Karsten Capion
Civil Engineer, Energy Engineering (DTU)
karsten.capion@energycrossroads.org
As a strong believer in knowledge being the key to choosing the best energy solutions and behaviour, Karsten is mainly engaged in the teaching activities of Energy Crossroads - both internally and externally. Karsten is leading the efforts on developing "Changing the Game" and in close collaboration with the Danish "Skoletjenesten" he will work spearhead the effort on EC DK's ambitious school campaign
Karsten holds a M.Sc. in Energy Engineering and a B.Sc. in Chemistry from the Technical University of Denmark.
Kai Heussen
Phd Student Electrical Energy Systems, MSc. Control Engineering (DTU)
kai.heussen@energycrossroads.org
Following his intuition that the Energy Crossroads logo must stand for a good idea, Kai joined the team in early 2009. It was about two months before our first major event "Our Opportunity" and he was inspired by the high spirited and interdisciplinary team. After assisting in the development of Changing the Game Kai became Energy Crosssroader at heart. At the moment Kai is mainly working on internal issues of EC DK and focuses on driving and coordinating the development of Changing the Game and EC Denmark as a thriving organization.
Kai is a Ph.D. student in Automation and Electric Energy Systems at the Technical University of Denmark. He studied in control engineering in Stuttgart (Germany) and Toronto (Canada). He is fueled by people, knowledge, distributed control architectures and lot's of renewable energy.
Elsa Salvadore
Master student in Energy (DTU)
Elsa has been involved in different projects in Energy Crossroads, including the Sustainable Innovators and she has contributed to the facilitation of Changing the Game playing sessions. She believes in the capacity for youth to make a difference, through sincere engagement and effective action steps.
Caroline Julie Ney
Msc. International Management & Sustainable Development,
Research on Environment, Ecodesign and Innovation
Caroline has been participating in the Changing the Game and Sustainable Innovators projects. She is further involved in the organization's external communication. Having a background within organization and management, she is interested in international issues, ecodesign and the environment. She joined our team in May 2010.
Atam C Achu
Masters student Technological & Socio-Economic Planning (RUC)
dukeatams@energycrossroads.org
Atam joined Energy crossroads in 2009. He is particularly interested in the implementation of Energy Efficient cooking Stoves in developing countries.
Jesper Juul Hansen
M.Sc. in Business Administration and Philosophy
jesper.hansen@energycrossroads.org
Jesper likes to be part of the project managing teams of EC Denmark and has been working with the group since 2008. He has been working with sponsoring, developing EC DK's partnership strategy and running the logistics for the Our Opportunity Summit. He is involved with the Sustainable Innovators and Changing the Game projects.
Edimar de Oliveira Filho
Edimar is contributing to our organization on various levels, and especially regarding human resources.
Camille Palumbo
Master in International Affairs
camille.palumbo@energycrossroads.org
Camille from France is holding a Master in International Affairs with a specialization in Environment and Development Policies from Sciences-po Paris. Camille has mostly been working with the content of the Copenhagen Summit and with contact and coordination of speakers. In regards to the Energy and Environment area, Camille is very interested in the multifaceted links between development and environment, in the critics of our growth model and its alternatives and in international environmental politics, especially climate diplomacy.
Camille is currently working at the Danish Ministry of Finance on the preparation of COP 15 and hopefully of a comprehensive Copenhagen climate agreement to replace the Kyoto protocol after 2012. She is looking more closely at how to bring the developing countries into the agreement and how to finance it.
Ricardo L. T. Carvalho
Master student of Sustainable Energy Systems
Ricardo has been working with engineering without borders, capacity building and community development. He is currently collaborating with Danish and Portuguese research institutions, developing investigations within the area of renewable energy systems and indoor climate in buildings.
He has been into contact with the EC-DK team during COP15 and klimaforum in 2009, when he was studing and working in Copenhagen. Ricardo is currently involved in the stoves project - aiming to implement an international collaborative platform for african communities empowerement and technological development - and with community building in the fields of sustainable energy and permaculture.
Michael Plesner
Graduate Student, Economics (KU)
When serving as vice-president in the period September 2007 to March 2009, Michael was handling external relations and the funding of EC Denmark. As president, Michael was focusing on internal aspects of the Danish chapter, setting and reaching goals and working to secure important collaborations. Now, Michael is serving as project coordinator for the EC DK stoves team aiming to facilitate the implementation of energy efficient cook stoves in Africa and Nepal.
For the past years, Michael has been heavily involved in understanding and mitigating the global climate and energy challenges. He has helped in forming the climate strategy of the University of Copenhagen where he also developed the webplatform www.spoergomklima.ku.dk. Michael has been participating in the past UN Climate Summits; COP14 in Poland and as team leader and speaker at COP15 in Copenhagen. Further, he has been actively engaged in establishing organized student networks on climate, energy & sustainability in Africa and other less represented regions.
Catarina Silva Fernandes
Research Fellow, M.Sc. in Physics
catarina.fernandes@energycrossroads.org
Although I am studying Physics I am much aware of global issues like Climate Change, Environment, Energy, Mobility and this basically translates for me as "live in a sustainable way as much as possible". I am still very young in the organization with a strong will to become more active.
I never joined an NGO so this was an opportunity for me to change from individual action and discussions with the small circle of people surrounding me to something bigger than me along with others with more experience on the field. An important factor was also the view I share with EC: that by educating people and giving them the appropriate tools then something can actually happen.
Catarina is taking part in the Stove project, Innovation Camp and are part of the team that are trying to establish an Energy Crossroads chapter in Brazil.
Elisabeth Westerman
Master in Political Science (KU)
elisabeth.westerman@energycrossroads.org
Elisabeth has been working on the 'Our Opportunity' summit, held by Energy Crossroads Denmark on March 10-12 in Copenhagen. She has primarily been responsible for contacting and coordinating participants for the summit.
Elisabeth works for the Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Fisheries.
Kenneth Mungu Fobezih Mujih
Graduate student at the university of Copenhagen, faculty of Humanities, studying the master of Arts in Applied Cultural Analysis
Kenneth's first encounter with EC Denmark was an invitation to attend the RETHINK our future energy conference. He was greatly touched by Changing the Game played there and became interested in clean energy and sustainability.
He was again happy to be invited for the Bright Green Expo event which took place at Forum as part of the events marking the COP 15 by EC Denmark and that was when he decided to join EC Denmark. As a member, he will be supporting various projects.
Sabrina Azaiez
Master in International Management
sabrina.azaiez@energycrossroads.org
Sabrina from France joined the team in 2009 and worked intensively on the Our Opportunity summit. Sabrina holds a Master degree of International Management, and focussed on environmental international projects. In Denmark, she has been working for the French Embassy during the French Presidency of EU, creating and organizing the project CafÈ Climat (series of informal conferences about climate change).
Sabrina has been involved in green associations since 2006.
Torben Frandsen
Undergraduate student, Natural Resources (KU)
torben.frandsen@energycrossroads.org
Torben is working on preparing EC DK for the UN Climate Summit. Besides this, Torben has also been organizing a climate student press team, which covers big climate events (incl. the IARU Climate Congress as well as the Our Opportunity Summit) and reports back their fellow university students.
Sibel Arnes
Undergraduate Student, International Business and Politics (CBS)
sibel.arnes@energycrossroads.org
Originally from the hydro-powered (...and oil producing) land of Norway, Sibel is currently completing her Bsc in International Business and Politics at Copenhagen Business School. Her lifelong interest in global issues has over recent years become more focused on climate change and eventually lead her to join EC DK in July 2009 where she hopes to make a valuable contribution to the group's efforts in educating and fostering debate on clean technology.
She is currently managing the Outreach Group, aimed at increasing ties between ECDK and various stakeholders in the local and global community, and is actively involved in the preparations towards the COP15 in December.
Sibel will be working for the Danish Foreign Ministry during the COP15
Andreas Skov Petersen, Designer
Graduate Student, The Danish Academy of Fine Arts, School of Architecture
andreas.petersen@energycrossroads.org
Andreas has been a Crossroader since August 2009. From the beginning he has been part of organising the 'Rethink Our Energy Future' conference - an event co-organised with the University of Copenhagen. Andreas is specifically working with the graphical and logistic tasks. He is also designing an Energy Crossroads stand for the Bright Green Expo side event under the COP15.
Andreas has a strong belive in sustainability as an indispensable parameter in the design process.
Kira Petersen
Dual Master in Language and International Relations
kira.petersen@energycrossroads.org
Kira recently completed a dual language/dual Masters of International Relations from the American University of Paris and l'Institut Catholique de Paris. She spent 6 months in Dakar, Senegal as a Field Researcher examining the impact of foreign aid on poverty reduction through clean water initiatives and is hoping pursue a PhD in Sustainable Development.
Kira moved from US to Copenhagen, DK in April '09 looking to become actively involved in the COP15 and global climate debate. She joined the Energy Crossroads team and is hoping to make a significant impact using her previous experiences but also by expanding her broad base of abilities in communication/PR and web design.
Carlos Garcia-Robles
Graduate student, Technological and Social-Economic Planning (RUC)
Carlos from Mexico is an experienced activist and part-time guitarrist. Carlos studies at the TekSam program at Roskilde University. He advises and inspires the EC Denmark group with his beliefs and visions for an empowered youth movement.
Jakob Gaard Nielsen
Graduent student, Modern Culture (KU)
jakob.nielsen@energycrossroads.org
Jakob was participating in the meetings in Stockholm in the summer of 2007 where EC-Global was founded and served as president of EC DK in the period September 2007-March 2009. Jakob put a great effort into seeing through the success of EC DK's first big event, the Our Opportunity Summit which has defined EC DK. It is his strong believe in the young generations capabilities as regards to solving the future energy challenges that have been the main drives behind Jakobís work in EC. He always believed that EC will play a vital role in bringing together the young generations in a joint, cross-national, and interdisciplinary effort for a better energy future.