Our coordinators

I’ve been working on energy conservation and power supply issues since 1980. I graduated from Delft Technical University, majoring in electrical power supply. Since then I’ve gained considerable experience and expertise on the environmental aspects of the energy system and the policy tools available to government to promote energy conservation and clean energy. Read more >>  Check out the page devoted to Energy supply.

I started work as a senior researcher/consultant at CE Delft in July 2007. The main focus of my work is on general energy policy, smart energy distribution grids for the future, the market role of energy utility companies and city heating and cooling projects. Before I joined CE Delft I worked for 12 years with energy utility Nuon and its legal predecessors. Prior to that, I did my PhD on solar cell research at the Netherlands Energy Centre, ECN. Read more >> Check out the page devoted to Energy in the urban environment.

I have been working at CE Delft as a researcher/consultant since 2006, with responsibility for work on the theme of ‘industry’. Under this heading, and in teams of varying composition, we carry out projects for government agencies, industry and NGOs. The focus of this work is on developing strategies for achieving effective cuts in energy consumption and CO2 emissions. I also coordinate the European projects of CE Delft’s Energy sector. Read more >>
Check out the page devoted to Energy in industry.

The scope for making a practical contribution to solving environment problems is one of my main motives for working at CE Delft and the issues surrounding transport and the environment have my particular interest. With my background as an economist I’m keen to see the external costs of transport assigned a proper value, as one means of achieving a better balance between the economy and the environment. Read more >> Check out the page devoted to Transport economics.

For eight years now I have been working at CE Delft as a researcher specialising in transport emissions and air quality in the broadest sense, with particular focus on ports and shipping. With this  experience, I am fully conversant with the technical potential of a very wide range of measures and an now in a position to draw quick and nuanced conclusions. Read more >>
Check out the page devoted to Sustainable freight transport.

How can we create sustainable transportation systems over the next few decades, retaining our mobility without irreversibly damaging the earth’s climate? As CE Delft’s coordinator, Transport & Climate Policy, these are the bread and butter of my work. I try and approach the issue from two different angles, for what we need on the one hand are technical solutions – fuel-efficient vehicles, climate-neutral biofuels, hydrogen from renewable energy sources and so on Read more >>  Check out the page devoted to Transport climate policy.

My job is to analyse policy instruments for the improvement of the environmental performance of aviation and maritime shipping. I thrive on assisting policy makers in the design of policy instruments that have the maximum environmental results at the least economic costs. In the last couple of years, I have been very active in assisting policy makers and stakeholders in preparing for the inclusion of aviation in ETS. Read more >> Check out the page devoted to Aviation and ocean shipping.

My background is a good reflection of the breadth of my interests and expertise. I’m a technical physicist trained in business management as well as a professional actor. In the first place, then, I’m a generalist, with an analytical mind as well as communicative skills, happy to switch from science to policy-making to the communicative process and back again as needs dictate. I’ve been CE Delfts General manager, Transport since early 2004, Read more >>
Check out the page devoted to Mobility and infrastructure.

To my mind, there are two main challenges facing environmental policy-makers over the next three decades: climate change and global resource depletion. Having graduated as an economist, majoring in welfare theory, and gaining my PhD in applied environmental economics, I see it as my task to analyse these problems, unravel the driving forces and propose ways of preserving the natural environment and its services for future generations. Read more >>  Check out the page devoted to Environmental economics.

The environment is not something people automatically factor into their decision-making, certainly not when pollution carries no price tag. Goods and services that are priced too cheaply will be overconsumed, leading to degradation of the ‘commons’ and depletion of the world’s natural resources. At the same time, the consumption of materials and energy has become so complex and  Read more >>  Check out the page devoted to Financial instruments.

As a consultant  I advise government and industry and occasionally NGOs on strategies for sustainability. I’m most in my element at the interface between environmental policy implementation within industry and facilitating fruitful discussion on that policy between industry, government and NGOs.When tricky issues like packaging policies, biomass and underground CO2 storage are up for discussion,  Read more >> Check out the pages devoted to Biomass.& Raw material chains.

It is my conviction that we are living in one of the most momentous eras of history in terms of moving towarss a sustainable society. Over the next four decades we will be seeing both oil production and human population peak. This will lead to a shift from petrofeedstocks to biofeedstocks, which in environmental terms will involve opportunity as well as risk, both on a major scale. Read more >> Check out the page devoted to these issues: Food and Material Supply Chains.