Speakers

Ray S. Bradley, Climate System Research Center
University of Massachusetts, U.S.A.

Dr. Ray S. Bradley is a professor at the Department of Geosciences
and Director of the Climate System Research Center at the University of Massachusetts, located in Amherst, Massachusetts, U.S.A.. His interests are in climate variability across a wide range of time scales. He is particularly interested in how present day climate differs from climates of the past, and what may have caused climates to change. Ray S. Bradley has written or edited thirteen books on climatic change and paleoclimatology and authored over 180 referenced articles on these topics. Other books include: Global Warming and Political Intimidation.

Martin Claussen, Max Planck Institute for Meteorology
Hamburg, Germany

Dr. Martin Claussen is a managing director of the Institute for Meteorology, Hamburg, Germany. He is head of the Department “The Land in the Earth System”. In addition, he is a professor for Meteorology at the Meteorological Institute of the University of Hamburg. His research group focuses on the role of the land surface and the terrestrial biosphere in the Earth system. Key questions he focusses on are: Does the interaction between terrestrial biosphere, atmosphere and ocean amplify or stabilize global climate change - or is this interaction important only for regional and local climate? Does the biosphere - geosphere interaction lead to abrupt climate and vegetation change? How does anthropogenic land use and land cover change alter the climate?

Gabriele C. Hegerl, School of Geosciences
University of Edinburgh, UK

Dr. Gabiele C. Hegerl is a professor of Climate System at the School of Geosciences, University of Edinburgh, U.K. Her research interests are in climate diagnostics and statistical climatology, variability and changes in temperature, precipitation, climatic extremes, constraining future climate change by estimating the magnitude of forced climate change from observations, as well as the use of palaeo proxy data to study climate variability and change during the last millennium. Gabriele C. Hegerl is a member of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, has received a Royal Society Wolfson Merit Award and is on the 2014 Thompson Reuters list of world’s most influential scientific minds (list of most highly-cited scientists).

Erich M. Fischer, Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science
ETH Zurich, Switzerland

Dr. Erich M. Fischer is a Senior Scientist at the Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science, ETH Zurich, Switzerland. He is part of the Climate Physics group which has its focus on climate modeling, uncertainty and probability of climate change, the use of observations to constrain climate feedback, atmospheric and oceanic variability and extreme events.

Simon Caney, Department of Politics & International Relations
University of Oxford

Dr. Simon Caney is a Professor in Political Theory at the University of Oxford, and a Fellow and Tutor at Magdalen College.  He currently co-directs an Oxford Martin School programme on 'Human Rights for Future Generations'. He works on issues in contemporary political philosophy and has recently worked on the ethical issues surrounding global poverty, inequality, climate change, and our obligations to future generations. Simon Caney e is the author of Justice Beyond Borders (2005) and many other articles published in politics and philosophy journals. His research interests are primarily in contemporary political philosophy. He has a particular interest in the ethical issues raised by global climate change and has written a series of articles on equity and climate change - in particular, the relationship between human rights and climate change, the fair share of greenhouse gas emissions, the allocation of the burdens of combating climate change, intergenerational justice and climate change, and the objections to emissions trading. He is currently writing two books entitled  Global Justice and Climate and  Cosmopolitanism.

Miranda Schreurs, Bavarian School of Public Policy
Technical University of Munich, Germany

As of October 2016, Prof. Dr. Miranda Schreurs will be the chair of Environmental and Climate Policy at the newly founded Bavarian School of Public Policy at the Technical University of Munich, Germany. Prior to this she was the director of the Environmental Policy Research Centre and Professor of Comparative Politics at the Freie Universität Berlin. Her work focuses on comparative environmental politics and policy in Europe, the U.S., and East Asia. She was born and raised in the United States and has also lived for extended periods in Japan and Germany. In 2008, Prof. Schreurs was appointed to the German Advisory Council on the Environment.

Roda Verheyen, Rechtsanwälte Günther, Hamburg and former Director of the Climate Justice Programme

Dr. Roda Verheyen, LL.M. (London) is a partner at the law firm Günther Rechtsanwälte, Hamburg, Germany. She studied law in Hamburg, Oslo, and London and is a practicing attorney. Roda Verheyen worked as an independent consultant for organisations such as Friends of the Earth International, Foundation for International Environmental Law and Development (FIELD, London) und Germanwatch. In 2002, she co-founded the international network Climate Justice Programme (www.climatelaw.org) which seeks to encourage enforcement of the law to combat climate change.