Keynote Speakers

Norwegian University of Science and Technology

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Anne Neumann is full Professor at the Department of Industrial Economics and Technology at NTNU, Director of Research for NTNU’s Energy Transition Initiative (NETI), Adjunct Professor at NHH and MIT-CEEPR Affiliate. She is serving as President for the International Association for Energy Economics (IAEE) in 2024.

Her research experience of almost 20 years draws on industrial organization, competition economics and econometrics. From 2014 until 2018 she served as Vice-President for Publications in the International Association for Energy Economics (IAEE; The Energy Journal), am currently Senior Editor with Energy Policy and on the Editorial Board of Economics of Energy and Environmental Policy. Previously she has co-led a working group for the European Academy of Science Advisory Council (EASAC) on “The future of gas”, participated in several interdisciplinary EU projects, projects funded by the German Ministry for Education and Research and commissioned studies.

Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden

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Dabo Guan is a Distinguished Professor at Tsinghua University, China, and a Senior Member of St Edmund’s College, University of Cambridge. He was conferred on the title of Fellow of Academy of Social Sciences, UK in March 2019. He was elected as a Fellow of Royal Geographical Society in 2018. He serves as a Subject Editor of Applied Energy (Impact Factor: 8.426 and 4 million downloads in 2019) and board editor for Nature Sustainability, One Earth and ERL. He is a council member of the Rockefeller Foundation Economic Council on Planetary Health. He served as a Lead Author for the 5th Assessment Report of Working Group III, IPCC.

He is specialized in environmental economics for international climate change mitigation, climate change adaptation, scenario analysis on environmental impacts, water resources accounting and management, input-output modelling and their applications in both developed and developing countries.

Dabo Guan has published over 160 articles, including 40+ articles published in Nature, Science, PNAS and Nature research journals. His h index is 57 and has over 12,000 times citations. He received the PNAS Cozzarelli Prize 2014, the Leontief Prize 3 times and the Philip Leverhulme Prize. He is a Highly Cited Researcher for 2018, year in which his paper about climate change and beer drought received the Altimetric Top 100 award and was the most “talked about” climate change-related paper in media and social media. Dabo has been leading several international consortium projects and research fellowships funded by RUCK, Newton Fund, UK government, and National Science Research Foundation and Ministry of Science and Technology in China.