European Nuclear Forum

Philip Lowe

Director General, DG ENER, European Commission

Biography

Philip Lowe was born in Leeds in 1947. He read Politics, Philosophy and Economics at St John's College, Oxford and has an M. Sc. from London Business School. Following a period in the manufacturing industry, he joined the European Commission in 1973, and held a range of senior posts as Chef de Cabinet and Director in the fields of regional development, agriculture, transport and administration, before becoming Director-General of the Development DG in 1997. From September 2002 he was Director-General of the Competition DG until he took up his current appointment as Director-General of the Energy DG in February 2010.

Laurent Stricker

Chairman, World Association of Nuclear Operators

Biography

Mr. Stricker became Chairman of the WANO Governing Board in 2009 and was re-elected for a second term in July of 2010. A Senior Advisor to the Chairman and CEO of Electricité de France (EDF), he was Head of Nuclear Operations until 2005 and responsible for the operation of the French nuclear fleet and its staff of about 20,000.  Mr. Stricker has held numerous positions with EDF, including Director of the Grid and of Thermal and Hydraulic Generation, Head of the Radiation Protection and Environment Department, Plant Manager at Saint-Laurent-des-Eaux and Head of the Bugey training centre.

Mr. Stricker has had extensive formal training and education in chemical, metallurgical and nuclear engineering. He holds a “Diplôme d’Ingénieur” from both the “Institut Polytechnique de Grenoble” France, and the “Institut des Sciences et Techniques Nucléaires,” Saclay, France. He also holds a diploma from Nancy University in Eastern France. Mr. Stricker served as President of the French Society of Radiation Protection from 1991 to 1993.

Andrej Stritar

Director, ENSREG

Biography

Andrej Stritar is currently the Director of the Slovenian Nuclear Safety Administration, the Slovenian nuclear regulatory body. He holds this position from the year 2002. Before that he was nine years the Head of the Nuclear Training Centre at the Josef Stefan Institute in Ljubljana taking care of the Krško NPP initial operator training, radiological protection training and public information about nuclear energy. First 15 years of his career he has spent as the researcher at the Nuclear Engineering Department of Josef Stefan Institute dealing mainly with thermal hydraulic safety analyses of NPPs. He has graduated in 1997 in Electrical Engineering and defended his Ph. D. in mechanical Engineering in 1986.

He was one of the founders of the Nuclear Society of Slovenia in 1991 and was its president until 2002. He was active in the Board of European Nuclear Society and was elected its president for the period 2002-2003. Among numerous functions in the role of the director of SNSA it is worth mentioning the heading of the Slovenian delegation in the Board of Governors of IAEA in the years 2006-2007. Since 2007 he is the chairman of the ENSREG, European Nuclear REgulators Group, an advisory body to EU institutions in nuclear safety matters. He was chairing that group during the process of adoption of both EU Nuclear Safety Directive and Radwaste Directive. In 2011 the ENSREG under Mr. Stritar's leadership is playing the key role in prepration and implementation of EU Nuclear Power Plant Stress Tests.

Maxim Kozlov

Director for Special Projects, Inter RAO UES

Biography

Kozlov Maxim was born in 1964, graduated from Moscow Power Engineering Institute (Technical  university)  in 1987. He received his Ph.D. in electrophysics in 1994 and took MBA course at Bocconi University (Italy) in 1992 and  Project management course at George Washington University in 1995.

Job experience:

• 1987 – 1993: scientific researcher in Moscow Power Engineering Institute;
• 1993 – 1999: ABB Asea Brown Boveri; business development, sales, marketing;
• 1999 – present: RAO UES, INTER RAO UES; export of electricity, business development in Europe, engineering, project management. 

At present Mr. Kozlov is Inter RAO UES’s project director of a green-field Baltic NPP construction in the Kaliningrad region of Russia. Inter RAO UES is responsible for attracting external investors into the project and for energy export from the region.

Mr. Kozlov is a member of CIGRE (International Council on Large Electric Systems), EURELECTRIC (European Union of the Electricity Industry), participant of numerous international conferences and symposiums.

Stephan Döhler

Director Atomic Energy, Axpo

Biography

Stephan W. Döhler, Ph.D. in mechanical engineering and executive MBA, is the head of Axpo Nuclear Division, managing director of Kernkraftwerk Leibstadt AG and member of the executive board of Axpo AG since the beginning of November 2007. From September 2008 to June 2009 he assumed the position of CEO ad interim of Resun AG. He was the head of Döhler Consulting GmbH from 2006 to 2007. In the previous years, from 2003 to 2006, he was professor for engineering fundamentals at the University of Applied Sciences Northwest Switzerland, where he still has a teaching assignment in the field of thermodynamics. Stephan W. Döhler was in various management positions at Alstom Power (Schweiz) AG from 2000 to 2003 and at ABB Kraftwerke AG starting in 1991.

Stephan W. Döhler is member of the following boards of directors and organizations: ENELA München AG (president), Zwilag AG (president), Ersatz Kernkraftwerk Mühleberg AG (VP), Enertrag AG (president), Ersatz Kernkraftwerk Beznau AG (VP), Kernkraftwerk Gösgen-Däniken AG (member), Kernkraftwerk Leibstadt AG (member), Swissnuclear (president), Nagra (VP), Nuklearforum Schweiz (VP), eidg. Stillegungs- und Entsorgungsfonds (member).

Igino Chellini

Mochovce 3&4 Project Director, Enel

Biography

Igino is Project Director of the Mochovce units 3 and 4 construction Project for Slovenské Elektrárne, Bratislava (SK), heading a team of 280 professionals. The Team is acting ad General Contractor and Architect Engineer for the completion of two 471MWe Pressurized Water Reactor Units at Mochovce (Slovakia). The task is to complete the Units 3 and 4 in 50 and 58 months respectively meeting all safety and quality targets and within the authorized budget.

Previous assignments in Enel Group, where Igino spent the last 10 years of his career, included responsibility for Feasibility Studies and Siting of Nuclear Power Plants, Project Management and Project Development.

Before Joining the ENEL Group Igino worked as Project Manager for ABB Equity Ventures (ABB Group) and api – anonima petroli italiana SpA.

Aziz Dag

VP Marketing and Sales EMEA, Westinghouse

Biography

Aziz Dag has been with Westinghouse since 1992. He has held various managerial positions within engineering, marketing including his prior role as Vice President Product Management within the Nuclear Fuel Business Unit.

His current position is Vice President, Marketing and Sales for the EMEA region. His responsibility is to provide leadership and coordination of marketing and sales activities for key strategic opportunities in the EMEA region.

Aziz Dag holds a Masters of Science degree in Engineering Physics from Uppsala University, a MBA from Stockholm School of Economics and is Six Sigma Black Belt certified.

Ewoud Verhoef

Deputy Director, COVRA

Biography

Ewoud Verhoef obtained its PhD in Applied Earth Sciences from Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands. He joined the radioactive waste management agency, COVRA, in 2005. In 2009 he was appointed as Deputy Director.

He was co-ordinator of the EC SAPIERR II project and co-ordinates the Dutch National Research Programme into geological disposal, OPERA. Since 2010 he is vice-chair of the ERDO working group that studies the feasibility of setting up a not-profit European Repository Development Organisation (ERDO) that would implement one or more shared geological repositories in Europe.

Jean Llewellyn OBE

Chief Executive, National Skills Academy for Nuclear

Biography

Jean Llewellyn was appointed to be the first Chief Executive of the National Skills Academy for Nuclear, on the Skills Academy's formation in November 2007. She came to the role having led the Project Team which developed the Skills Academy's Business Plan on a year's secondment from the Northwest Development Agency (NWDA). Jean is an Honorary Fellow of the Nuclear Institute.

During Jean's 5 years at the NWDA, she held the position of Head of Skills Policy. In this role she led on the Northwest approach to addressing sector skills challenges facing the region and implementing national skills policy at a regional level. The employer led proposal to establish a National Skills Academy for Nuclear came as a result of Jean's work with employers and partners in the Nuclear Sector, including Chairing the Nuclear Skills Advisory Group, to identify the key skills and training challenges/issues facing the sector.

Throughout her varied career, Jean has embraced the four themes of people, skills, leadership and policy, which come together in her role as Chief Executive of NSA-Nuclear.

Since taking up the CEO role at NSA-Nuclear, Jean's expertise, experience and influence have been recognised in many ways including:

• Member of the Government's Nuclear Development Forum, chaired by the Secretary of State
• Chair of the UK Nuclear Energy Skills Alliance
• Invited to give evidence to several Parliamentary Select Committee Inquiries
• Appointed as the inaugural Chair of the UK National Skills Academy Strategic Network
• Invited to accompany Lord Mandelson on a UK Trade Mission to the United Arab Emirates
• Invited speaker at dozens of nuclear industry conferences in the UK and abroad
• Asked to represent the UK at the International Conference on Access to Civil Nuclear Energy organised and hosted by President Sarkozy, to present on the progress and achievements of the Skills Academy 

Peter Baeten

Andvanced Nuclear Systems Institute Manager, Belgian Nuclear Research Centre

Biography

Prof. Baeten lectures "Nuclear Reactor Physics" at the Faculty of Engineering, Department of Electrical Engineering & Energy Technology of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel and is the Institute Manager of the Institute for Advanced Nuclear Systems within the SCK•CEN. He has a master degree in Applied Physics Engineering and a PhD in Nuclear Engineering.
For 10 years, he was responsible for the exploitation and experimental programmes of the VENUS (zero power critical facility) and BR1 (4 MWth graphite-gaz-natural uranium reactor) research reactors at the Mol-site. As the MYRRHA Technical Manager, he is responsible now for the technical design of the 100 MWth research reactor MYRRHA to be built at the SCK-CEN Mol site and hence he is the project coordinator of the FP7 project "Central Design Team" for MYRRHA.
He is also the Vice-chair of ESNII (European Sustainable Nuclear Industrial Initiative) launched last November 2010 at the SET-plan conference.

Tomasz Kwiatkowski

Investment Director, PGE Energia Jądrowa

Biography

Investment Director at PGE Energia Jądrowa. Previously, director in PwC Warsaw Office responsible for Utility Sector and a manager at Accenture Warsaw working for energy clients in Poland and overseas. Specializing in strategy development and performance improvement, cooperated with main Polish utility, oil&gas and mining companies as well as a number of foreign clients. In the 1990’s, before career in consulting, worked in the area of oil&gas exploration for Schlumberger and Baker Hughes in Europe and the Americas. Holds MBA qualification from Warwick University and Mechanic Engineering degree from Newcastle University.

Jong Kyun Park

Director- Nuclear Power Division, IAEA

Biography

Dr. Jong Kyun PARK acquired his BS in Nuclear Engineering from Seoul National University in Korea in 1973, and his Masters and Ph.D. degrees in Nuclear Engineering and Science from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in USA in 1979 and 1981, respectively.

He had served in the Republic of Korean Army as first Lieutenant from February 1973 till June 1975. And he had started his career at KAERI in July 1975 as a researcher in the field of Nuclear Engineering and continued extended research in USA at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute from September 1978. After his degrees, he had been working for Combustion Engineering, which was one of the US nuclear vendors(which is now merged into Westinghouse), for 5 years in the field of nuclear engineering and reactor design and for Long Island Lighting Company at Shoreham Nuclear Power Station(which was sold to NY State and later dismantled) for 1 year as a nuclear engineer.

He returned back to KAERI in 1987 taking significant leading roles of research and development in nuclear science and engineering, such as Manager of reactor safety analysis, Directors of nuclear fuel and reactor core design project, nuclear policy research, Korean Next Generation Reactor (APR1400) Development, and Nuclear Training Center. He has served as Vice President at KAERI from May 2002 till September 2009 in the area of Advanced Reactor Technology Development, Advanced Nuclear Technology Development, VHTR and Nuclear Hydrogen Development, and Nuclear Policy and International Relations.

He joined the IAEA in October 2009 as Director, Division of Nuclear Power.

He is a member of American Nuclear Society and Korean Nuclear Society.

Charles McCombie

Executive Director, Arius Association

Biography

Dr. Charles McCombie is an advisor to various national and international waste management programmes. Currently one of his chief responsibilities is as Executive Director of the Arius Association. For many years, he was scientific and technical director of Nagra, the Swiss Cooperative for the Disposal of Radioactive Waste.

He currently chairs Nuclear Advisory Committee of the Swiss Paul Scherrer Institute. Until recently, he was the Chairman of the International Technical Advisory Committee of NUMO (the HLW organisation of Japan) and was earlier Vice-Chairman of the U.S. National Research Council's Board on Radioactive Waste Management.

Jan Haverkamp

EU Policy Campaigner, Greenpeace

Biography

Jan Haverkamp was born on the Wadden Sea coast in the North of the Netherlands and graduated with a candidates (bachelors) degree in biochemistry at Leiden University and a masters degree (ir. or in the German system Dipl.Ing.) in Environmental Sciences at Wageningen University. During his studies he specialised in energy policy, air quality, nuclear physics and social and communication psychology.

In 1980, Jan was co-founder of the first local support group for Greenpeace in the Netherlands and was a volunteer until 1992.

Since 1987, he supported the build-up of environmental organisations in the GDR (Eastern Germany), first over the churches, later as part of the Dutch foundation Milieukontakt Oost-Europa, which was founded by the Dutch environmental movement to facilitate co-operation between the Netherlands and Central and Eastern Europe. In 1992 he continued his work in Czecho-Slovakia, from 1993 to 1995 in Romania, from 1995 to 1997 in Ukraine and worked shorter periods in Croatia and Albania.

In 1997 he emigrated to the Czech Republic, where he supported NGOs in the strategic use of the upcoming Internet before he coordinated the International Energy Brigades, a network of energy efficiency organisations throughout Central and Eastern Europe. From there he became nuclear / energy campaigner for Friends of the Earth Czech Republic / Hnutí DUHA and Greenpeace. After two years as Campaign Director for Greenpeace in the Czech Republic, he worked for the organisations WISE / NIRS and Greenpeace as consultant on energy issues in Central Europe.

Since 2007, he is EU policy campaigner dirty energy for the Greenpeace EU Unit in Brussels. His focus is on the development of nuclear power, with an emphasis on the energy sector in Central Europe. Next to this, he is a professional group facilitator and has introduced facilitation techniques to the social and environmental movements in Central and Eastern Europe. He teaches 'facilitation of environmental communication processes' at the Masaryk University in Brno, Czech Republic. He lives in Prague with his 15 year old daughter and has an 18 year old son in the Netherlands.

Ir. Jan Haverkamp (51) is EU policy campaigner dirty energy for the Greenpeace EU Unit in Brussels. His previous work as energy campaigner and developer of environmental organisations in Central Europe brought him in contact with nuclear power in Bulgaria, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Hungary, Lithuania, Netherlands, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Switzerland and Ukraine.

His academic background is in biochemistry, nuclear physics, environmental sciences and social and communication psychology. He has two children and lives in Prague.

Malcolm Grimston

Associate Fellow, Energy Environment & Development Programme, Chatham House

Biography

Educated at Scarborough College and Magdalene, Cambridge, graduating in 1979 having read Natural Sciences and specialised in psychology.  He worked as a chemistry teacher before joining the Atomic Energy Authority in 1987.  In 1995 he joined Imperial College as a Senior Research Fellow and in 1999 became a Senior Research Fellow at Chatham House, where he is now an Associate Fellow, conducting an investigation into the future of civil nuclear energy.  He is a regular media contributor on energy and nuclear matters.  Among his publications are two books co-written with the late Peter Beck: Double or Quits – the global future of civil nuclear energy and

Civil nuclear energy – fuel of the future or relic of the past? 

His latest paper, Electricity – social service or market commodity was published in July 2010; previously he published a study looking at the differences between the political and technical mindsets and how this impacts on major industries such as nuclear energy (available at http://www.chathamhouse.org.uk/pdf/research/sdp/Dec05nuclear.pdf), and he is currently part of a consortium including Manchester, Southampton and City Universities carrying out a government-funded project on sustainable nuclear energy.  He is an elected Member of Wandsworth Council and until 2009 had executive responsibility for environment and leisure.

Dr Colin Elcoate

Managing Director, Nuclear Business Unit, ClydeUnion Pumps

Biography

His early industrial experience was with Rolls-Royce Aerospace before he joined Frazer Nash Consultancy where he enjoyed over ten years working in all aspects of the nuclear industry.  His experience includes providing specialist engineering services in support of operating civil reactors, nuclear submarines, naval facilities, decommissioning sites, research reactors and fission and fusion new build projects in the UK and internationally. 

As Managing Director of ClydeUnion Pumps’ Power Business Unit Colin is responsible for leading their extensive worldwide nuclear activities. 

Bernadette Hackett

Partner, Global Nuclear Practice, JLT Specialty Ltd

Biography

Bernadette is the co-ordinator of our Global Nuclear Practice Group, bringing specialists from around the world to provide the best service to our nuclear clients, be it New Build, Operation or Decommissioning.  Bernadette has worked on solutions for clients in the nuclear sector most recently in Eastern Europe.

Bernadette has 18 years experience in the international insurance and reinsurance industry working in the Australian, London and European Insurance markets.  Bernadette arranges international insurance placements, provides advice on contractual issues, indemnity clauses and insurance purchasing for contractors and owners of major infrastructure projects around the world.  Bernadette has presented on the importance of contractual language and insurance purchasing around the world, to ensure her clients have the best commercially available solution.

Ian Maciulis

Nuclear Risk Management Consultant, JLT Global Nuclear Practice Group

Biography

A former nuclear submarine officer, Ian has eight years of operational experience with shipboard nuclear reactors, power generation and propulsion, earning the qualification of Naval Nuclear Engineer, and leads the JLT Global Nuclear Practice.

Ian provides risk management and consulting services and nuclear insurance for clients. He additionally delivered loss control and inspection services for fleets of reactors as one of the few brokers to enter beyond containment controls.

Specialising in International Civil Nuclear Liability, Ian has provided numerous discussions and seminars on nuclear insurance and the application of the international nuclear conventions. Ian has developed innovative coverage for various nuclear construction, liability and decommissioning risks, particularly with respect to contractors.

Mark Newbery

Partner, Energy and Natural Resources, Herbert Smith

Biography

Mark has over 20 years' experience in the energy sector. Starting in 1988, he led the team advising the twelve regional electricity companies in England and Wales on the restructuring and privatisation of the industry. In recent years, Mark has focused on projects in the nuclear sector where he has gained extensive experience working both in the UK and internationally. 

An expert on all aspects of the nuclear fuel cycle, Mark led the team advising EDF on its high profile takeover of British Energy and the subsequent sale of 20% of British Energy to Centrica in the UK. Other highlights of his nuclear experience include advising: EDF on its plans to build new nuclear generating stations in the UK, Societatea Nationala Nucleareletrica S.A. on its programme to finance, construct and operate Units 3 and 4 at the Cernavoda plant in Romania, Visagino Atomine Elektrine on its plans to develop a new nuclear plant in Lithuania and the Department of Energy and Climate Change (formerly Department of Trade and Industry) on the establishment of the Nuclear Decommissioning Agency (NDA) and the development of its site operations and clean-up contracts in the UK.