Senior Scientific Officer
Policy Director
Rachael has been working in the bioenergy sector since 2014, joining Hawkins Wright in 2017 where she writes and edits Hawkins Wright’s monthly Forest Energy Monitor report and co-authors the quarterly Outlook for Wood Pellets service. She is also a regular contributor to other multi-client and consultancy projects, covering all regions. She presents frequently at industry gatherings. Rachael holds a biological sciences degree from the University of Leicester.
DirectorFiona is a bioenergy consultant a...
DirectorFiona is a bioenergy consultant and market analyst with more than fifteen years' experience in the renewable energy industry. She joined Hawkins Wright in 2013 and is now responsible for overseeing the company's bioenergy activities. She is the co-author of Hawkins Wright’s market-leading Outlook for Wood Pellets service and Editor of Forest Energy Monitor. Fiona regularly undertakes consultancy projects for clients in Asia, Europe and North America on topics including wood pellet and biomass markets, sustainability, and energy policy.
She has a degree in Physics from the University of York and is an APMP qualified Project Manager.
Founder&CEO
Louis has been advising on carbon markets...
Louis has been advising on carbon markets for more than 20 years.He has been a true ‘first mover’ in the carbon markets, driving forward innovative and ground-breaking products.Louis helped shape the industry, leading Barclays, environmental markets team for a decade. He created, and more importantly, shared with the whole trading community, standardised trading documentation that allowed the secondary Certified Emissions Reduction (CER) market to start. He later repeated the initiative in the US by standardising terms that led to the first trades in California Carbon Allowances (CCAs). Both standards were subsequently adopted by exchanges active in carbon trading.Louis has fought hard to protect the integrity of the carbon markets – most notably with his stance on VAT fraud and carbon credit theft in 2009/10. Here he personally assumed a leadership role in educating his financial peer companies and various authorities, including the European Commission, UK Treasury, the FCA and HMRC, on the problems and the potential solutions.He has twice given evidence to the UK Parliament’s Environmental Audit Committee as an expert in carbon trading.Louis holds an MSc from Imperial College in Environmental Technology and Energy Policy.
Vice-President Development
Engineering & Technical Director at Alfanar
Manager Biomass-Coal Procurement
Global Lead Buyer Alternative Reductants (Biomass and Wa...
Global Lead Buyer Alternative Reductants (Biomass and Waste)
Steve started his career in the pharmaceutical industry at Sanofi followed by 2 years at Total in La Defense, Paris. Steve has been working at Arcelor Mittal since 2015 and has been responsible for sourcing liquid fuels for Arcelor Mittal's sites across Europe. Steve has recently moved towards decarbonised sources of alternate fuels such as biomass for the the use in greener steelmaking.
Chief Commercial Officer
Patrick...
Patrick Lapointe is Chief Commercial Officer for Airex Energy, leading the company’s business development and marketing activities. Patrick has 25 years of experience in the development and sales of technology. After graduating in Engineering Physics from Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal and earning an MBA degree from INSEAD in France, he held product development and marketing roles within the L’Oreal Group and Sony Electronics. Prior to joining Airex Energy, he headed the product development strategy for Walter Surface Technologies, an industrial metal working equipment manufacturer, as Vice-President R&D.
Damien has 25 years’ experience in trading global commodit...
Damien has 25 years’ experience in trading global commodities, previously managing a $4 Billion Commodities Portfolio. An accomplished asset manager, Damien has managed both fossil and renewable generation assets. Whilst he was the Head of Trading at Drax Power, the business transitioned from 100% coal to become a world leader in biomass production and biomass power generation. Prior to joining Javelin, he was Head of Markets Innovation at Orsted a world leader in renewables, where his team focussed on the emerging market opportunities in biogas, hydrogen and the wider opportunities across renewable fuels.
Carsten Huljus is Chief Executive O...
Carsten Huljus is Chief Executive Officer of the Sustainable Biomass Program (SBP), a not-for-profit multi-stakeholder organisation that has developed an independent third-party certification system to provide assurance that woody biomass is sourced from legal and sustainable sources. Initially trained as a forester he has been working in the voluntary sustainability certification sector with schemes like FSC, PEFC and SBP in global forest industries for more than 21 years, in various management positions.
Managing Director BTG Bioliquids
Gerhard Muggen is managin...
Gerhard Muggen is managing director and shareholder of BTG Bioliquids since 2008. As managing director, he is responsible for the strategy of BTG Bioliquids, the business development and the worldwide marketing and sales of the pyrolysis technology. Before BTG Bioliquids Gerhard has been working for Stork, Wartsila Diesel and Holec for more than 10 years in several positions in project management and international sales management.
Gerhard has a passion for export and sustainable energy.
Chairman of World Thermal Solution (WTS AB)
CEO Invica Industries ltd
Jason has vast experience a...
Jason has vast experience as a passionate business leader, demonstrating a keen focus on developing high-quality business strategies in complex and diverse international businesses. Jason holds the position of CEO of Invica Industries Ltd. The groups business activities are underpinned by a drive towards a better environment and accelerated level of decarbonisation within hard to abate sectors. The group has interests in businesses spanning sectors such as Filtration and Purification, Smokeless and renewable solid fuels and Refractories.
Martin Junginger (1976) is Full Professor Bio-Based Economy and ...
Martin Junginger (1976) is Full Professor Bio-Based Economy and chair of the Energy & Resources (E&R) group of the Copernicus Institute, Utrecht University. He has a background in chemistry and environmental science, and joined the staff of E&R in 2001 as PhD student, doing extensive research on the technological development and associated cost reductions of several renewable energy technologies, including onshore and offshore wind farms, biomass CHP plants in Sweden and biogas plants in Denmark. After obtaining his PhD in May 2005, he has mainly been working Sustainable International Bioenergy Trade. between 2013-2018, he was leader of IEA Bioenergy Task 40 on Sustainable International Bioenergy Trade (see www.bioenergytrade.org), in which topics like biomass sustainability assurance frameworks, bioenergy markets, logistic chains are investigated. He works amongst others on charting and projecting international trade in biomass and biofuels (with a special focus on wood pellets), and identifying limitations and opportunities for bioenergy trade. His expertise includes solid biomass logistic supply chains and GHG balances including forest carbon accounting. The topics mentioned above are also covered by past and ongoing projects, e.g. the ongoing EU-funded projects ESCIB, HARMONITOR, 3-Co and CBE4I. Past EU- projects with WP leads from UU also include Biotrade2020+, BioSustain, Pellets@las, EUBIONETIII, Re-shaping, DiaCore, and SolidStandards. Within the frame of these projects, Martin has organized several workshops (in the Netherlands and abroad) and given numerous presentations and lectures, amongst others in Brazil, Canada, the USA, Malaysia and more than 10 European countries. He also was contributing author to the bioenergy chapter of the IPCC Special Report on Renewable Energy Sources (SRRES). He is editor of two books, on international bioenergy trade and mobilisation of woody biomass from boreal and temperate forests.
Martins other major research interest covers technological development and cost reductions of (renewable) energy supply and energy demand technologies (which was also the main topic of his PhD thesis). Since 2005, he has acquired and worked several projects focusing on technological learning of energy demand technologies, 1st and 2nd generation biofuel production, and implementing experience curves in energy models. These efforts have recently culminated in the book “Technological learning in the Energy Sector: Lessons for Policy, Industry and Science” of which he is the first editor (together with Wilfried van Sark and Andre Faaij). For this book, more than 25 co-authors from amongst others Belgium, France, Germany, Sweden, Switzerland and the US made contributions, covering the technological development of a large variety of energy technologies. Martin has been supervising a large number of junior researchers over the past decade. To date (November 2023) this has led to six co-promotorships, fifteen promotorships and several ongoing promotor positions with expected finalization of the theses between 2024-2027. Furthermore, Martin is actively teaching the master-level course “Bio-Based Economy" with each about 30-50 students attending each year, and supervises several MSc students writing their thesis. He also coordinated the course 'Toolbox 1 - environmental assessment and management approaches' in the sustainable business and innovation (SBI) master, and involved in several courses of the Energy Science master. Finally, he is reviewer for a variety of scientific journals, industry and government bodies. He (co-) published more than 130 articles in peer-reviewed journals, and currently has an H-index of 49 (Scopus). In addition he has published more than 120 titles in reports and conference proceedings, (co-) organized a range of international workshops and conferences and is frequently invited to scientific, policy and industry conferences.
Founder and CEO for almost 20 years, I'm passionate about energy...
Founder and CEO for almost 20 years, I'm passionate about energy issues, particularly biomass (combustion, gasification, pyrolysis, biogas, methanation...), and keep a watchful eye on the world of waste, agriculture and industrial technology. A firm believer in “effectuation”, the day-to-day life of our group is fuelled by the challenges our customers entrust us with: every problem is different, and each one enables us to progress by devising sensible, coherent solutions in line with our values.
Vice President & Head of Business Development
Mark McConnell is the Director of Sales at Graanul Invest, Europ...
Mark McConnell is the Director of Sales at Graanul Invest, Europe’s leading sustainable biomass and bioenergy producer. Mark spearheads the company's sales initiatives, bearing full responsibility for managing the existing product portfolio and customer base. He plays a crucial role in guiding the company's strategic expansion into new regions and directly reports to the CEO. Drawing from hands-on involvement in the UK power and gas markets, Mark brings a wealth of experience to the table. His journey in the industry has equipped him with invaluable insights into the intricacies of the biomass and bioenergy markets.
Director International Business Development
Svenja Baetz i...
Svenja Baetz is an accomplished marketing and sales strategist and the director of international business development of Brüning Group, a leading service provider for sustainable energy-supplying bulk materials.
Before Brüning, she was director of product management and strategy for commercial vehicles at Bosch Group. Starting out as sales acquisition manager and expanded into product management, driving innovative topics and finding tailored solutions for her globally acting customers.
Svenja draws upon an extensive, more than fifteen years background in sustainable portfolio management and internationalization to drive strategic growth and innovations supporting decarbonisation. She is passionate about enabling a worldwide greener future.
Head of R&D Advanced fuels
Management Board Member, Chief Sustainability Officer
Mihk...
Mihkel Jugaste is a civil engineer turned environmental engineer turned multinational value chain quality manager. Jugaste started his career in engineering and process design and for the last 7 years has been applying those skills in the bioenergy sector. His focus has been on developing post-harvest/post processing sustainable sourcing systems to demonstrate sustainability without having a role in forest management or pre-processing. Mihkel Jugaste oversees all aspects of ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) at Graanul Invest Group.
Head of Alternative Biomass Portfolio, CM Biomass.
Victo...
Victor Smith is the Head of Alternative Biomass at CM Biomass, a role he has held since 2020. His work focuses on expanding the presence of agricultural biomass in the European market. Victor oversees the sourcing and commercialization of agricultural biomass feedstocks, playing a crucial role in bringing these products into the European market. He has been particularly influential in establishing a strong presence in the processing industry, responding to the sector’s increasing demand for bioenergy.
VP Commercial
John heads up the sales and development grou...
John heads up the sales and development group at TSI, where he focuses on the commercialization of the company's proprietary torrefaction equipment. With a background in engineering and diverse experience in bringing cutting edge technology from early development to market, he spearheads TSI's contributions toward a greener future.
Policy Manager
Elisabeth serves as the Policy Manage...
Elisabeth serves as the Policy Manager at the Negative Emissions Platform (NEP), an association representing a diverse portfolio of carbon dioxide removal (CDR) technologies. NEP operates at the EU, national, and international levels, advocating for policies that enable the scale up of permanent CDR.
Martin Kessler is the Chief Business Officer of Flowca...
Martin Kessler is the Chief Business Officer of Flowcarbon, a financial services company dedicated to facilitating institutional capital deployment into high-impact decarbonization projects. Flowcarbon specializes in innovative financing solutions spanning project finance, tax credits, and environmental commodity markets, empowering project owners to maximize environmental impact and deliver strong returns for stakeholders in the low-carbon economy.
With over two decades of investment banking experience, Martin has a distinguished track record of leadership and expertise in private credit, capital markets, structured credit, and derivatives. Prior to joining Flowcarbon, he spent 11 years at HSBC in New York and London, where he built and led regional and global businesses in Derivatives and Structured Credit Sales. His career also includes senior roles at Bank of America, Lehman Brothers, and JP Morgan.
In addition to his work at Flowcarbon, Martin serves as an advisor to Capture6, a company advancing direct air capture technologies to address climate change risks. A graduate of Dartmouth College with an AB in History, Martin combines deep financial expertise with a commitment to environmental innovation, bridging the gap between institutional investors and transformative sustainability projects.
Chairman & CEO - BIOJET
CEO - Warmeston
Strategic Business Development Manager, Circular Carbon: Gasific...
Strategic Business Development Manager, Circular Carbon: Gasification
Since gaining his doctorate in bioenergy systems from Aston University in the UK and being part of the EU Bioenergy Network of Excellence back in 2007, David has been working with various different world leading gasification and thermochemical conversion technologies and companies over the past 20 years in a project development and sales role. He is now the Strategic Business Development Manager in SHI-FW’s “Circular Carbon” division responsible for the growth globally of its project pipeline and Gasification business focusing on project and solution development in partnership with world-leading synthesis and technology partners”.
Global pulp prices rise in January, but the outlook for 2025 remains challenging
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