Lower Saxony – Scotland Joint Forum
21 + 22 November 2022

Ivan McKee is Scottish Minister for Business, Trade, Tourism and Enterprise. Previously he was Minister for Trade, Investment and Innovation. He studied at the University of Strathclyde and his career has involved a number of senior roles in manufacturing and business, managing companies in the UK as well as Poland, Finland, Croatia and Bosnia.

terhechte@ecas-academia.org

Jörg Philipp Terhechte is Professor of Public, European and International Law at and Vice President of Leuphana University Lüneburg.

principal@glasgow.ac.uk

Sir Anton has been Principal and Vice-Chancellor, University of Glasgow since 1 October 2009. From 2007-2009 he was Principal and Vice-Chancellor of Heriot-Watt University. An economist, his research interests are monetary economics, central bank independence, fiscal policy, international finance and macroeconomics.
Prior to 2007 he held various roles at the University of Glasgow including Vice-Principal – Strategy, Budgeting and Advancement (2004-07); Daniel Jack Professor of Political Economy (1994-2007); and Professor and Lecturer, Department of Economics (1984-94).
Sir Anton is a member of the Scottish Government’s Emergency Budget Review group chaired by the Deputy First Minister. He is a Board Director of USS Ltd (Universities Superannuation Scheme), Adviser to the National Institute of Economic & Social Research, and a member of the AHRC-UKRI Creative Industries Advisory Group. Sir Anton is also a member of the Scoping Group convened by Sir Paul Nurse for the UK Government’s Research, Development and Innovation (RDI) landscape review. He chairs the Commission on Economic Growth for the Glasgow City Region and is a member of the Board of Glasgow Life. Previously he chaired the Russell Group of research-intensive UK universities and the Scottish Government’s Standing Council on Europe. He was previously a member of the Scottish Government’s Advisory Council on Economic Transformation, the Advisory Group on Economic Recovery and Council of Economic Advisers. He has also been a special adviser to the House of Commons Treasury Select Committee on monetary policy, and an adviser to the European Commission and the World Bank. He has held visiting appointments in numerous Universities around the world, and has an honorary doctorate from McGill University (Canada).

gioia.falcone@glasgow.ac.uk

Professor Gioia Falcone is Rankine Chair at the University of Glasgow, where she is Head of the Energy and Sustainability Research Group, Associate Director of the Centre for Sustainable Solutions and member of the University’s Sustainability Working Group. She is also Visiting Professor at Imperial College London and Guest Professor at TU Berlin. Prof. Falcone is Vice-Chairperson of the Bureau of the Expert Group on Resource Management of the United Nations Commission for Europe (UNECE), Member of its Renewables Sub-Group and its focal point for the UNECE Pathways to Sustainable Energy & Carbon Neutrality Project. She sits on the BEIS (UK Government Department of Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy) Energy Working Group, chaired by the Chief Scientific Advisor to BEIS, advising on the development of Technical Screening Criteria in the energy sector for the UK Green Taxonomy. She serves on the Board of Directors of the International Geothermal Association (IGA), on the Board of the Energy Technology Partnership (ETP) and on the Directorate of Scottish Carbon Capture and Sequestration (SCCS). She is Member of the Net Zero Technology Centre Academic Advisory Panel, of the European Geothermal Energy Council (EGEC) and the UK Carbon Capture and Storage Research Centre (UKCCSRC).
Between 2011 and early 2016, Prof. Falcone held the W3 Endowed Chair and Professorship in Geothermal Energy Systems at Clausthal University of Technology, Germany, where she was Head of the new Department of Geothermal Engineering and Integrated Energy Systems, and Director of the now Institute of Subsurface Energy
Systems.

stephenmark.williams@strath.ac.uk

Stephen-Mark Williams is Executive Director of ETP. ETP is Scotland’s independent academic research alliance in energy, representing 14 Scottish universities with world-class capability in energy research and innovation. ETP’s mission is to translate excellent research and innovation in the energy sector into impact for Scotland through collaboration, both at home and abroad. ETP targets strategic international collaborative opportunities with key partners, and acts as an initial point of contact for international organisations looking to engage with the Scottish academic research community in the energy sector.

karen.turner@strath.ac.uk

Karen Turner is Professor and Director of the Centre for Energy Policy at the University of Strathclyde, where she leads a portfolio of work funded by UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), philanthropic organisations and various government and industry bodies. Karen’s main research interests lie in investigating and modelling the economy-wide and macroeconomic consequences of energy policy and industry developments, and considering how these may be effected, and consensus built around policy narratives, to enable the deployment of different decarbonisation solutions. She has published extensively in policy and economics literatures on topics such as making the case for public support of residential energy efficiency programmes and addressing public policy challenges in unlocking value from the deployment of large scale decarbonisation solutions such as electric vehicles and carbon capture and storage. Karen has previously held academic posts at Glasgow and Heriot Watt Universities and is a member of an expert advisory panel on net zero established by the UK National Infrastructure Commission.

Jaime is Director of the Centre for Sustainable Solutions and a Professor of Environmental and Climate Science. She leads the BECS research group that is focused on developing an understanding of organic molecules in modern organisms and environments that can be applied to analysing and interpreting past environments and climates. She is Principal Investigator of the NERC Strategic Programme: GALLANT: Glasgow as a Living Lab Accelerating Novel Transformation.

markusexenberger@h2-global.org

Markus Exenberger is the Executive Director of the H2Global Stiftung and Managing Partner of H2Global Advisory GmbH. He is an economist and engineer and spent 20 years managing large and complex energy portfolios in Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Americas, dealing in particular with the development of large-scale energy and infrastructure projects. Among others, he worked for the German Society for International Cooperation (GIZ) GmbH and international consulting companies.

ds@dsconsulting.de

Originally a Scots lawyer David Scrimgeour has over 30 years of consulting experience in Germany across a wide range of activities and industries. He is now a senior adviser to European developers, customers and investors for the supply of green hydrogen and derivatives to southern Germany. The focus is on producers in Scotland, Denmark and, in the future, Ireland.

David.Flynn@glasgow.ac.uk

David Flynn is a Professor of Cyber Physical Systems (CPS) at the University of Glasgow. He has expertise in energy systems, data analysis, sensors, and autonomy. He is a Visiting Professor at Heriot-Watt University (Edinburgh) and the Chair of the Institute of Engineering and Technology (IET) Scotland. Professor Flynn’s research interests relate to CPS for complex systems, critical infrastructure and services, and scalable autonomy. His degrees include a BEng (Hons), 1st Class in Electrical and Electronic Engineering (2002), an MSc (Distinction) in Microsystems (2003) and a PhD in Microscale Magnetic Components (2007), from Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh.

conroy@ecas-academia.org

James Conroy is Professor of Religious and Philosophical Education (Pedagogy, Praxis & Faith) and Dean of Global Engagement for Europe at the University of Glasgow.