Biography
Prof. Dr. Nasir El Bassam is a Director of the International Research Centre for Renewable Energy (IFEED), Sievershausen, Germany. He has BSc, MSc, and a PhD in Chemistry, from the University of Bonn, Germany 1967. The centre has established 2 Branches: 1. Indian IFEED: Manav Institute of Technology, Hisar. India 2. USA-IFEED: Columbus, Ohio USA Responsibilites: Overall coordination of the IFEED activities in the field of research, education, training, transfers of technologies and co-operation with national and international organizations. Integration and application of renewable energy resources available in various regions for electricity, water and food supply. Development of renewable energy management strategies. Implementing of Solar Desert Oases. Integration and application of all renewable energy resources available in various regions for electricity, water and food supply and development of renewable energy management strategies. Promoting the development of Concentrated Solar Thermal Power (CSP) in cooperation with German Aerospace Centre (DLR), and German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature and Nuclear Safety, Berlin: He served in several committees and has been board member WCTE. He is EU adviser & Chairman of working group SREN, FAO. Prof El Bassam, is a recipient of WREN Pioneer award and a award in science and technology for a Sustainable Rural Development of Energy and Water Supply from Chinese Science Academy. He published and contributed papers in several books and journals. His presentation is on: Fast growing crops for biomass and biogas production
Research Interest
Development of renewable energy management strategies. Implementing of Solar Desert Oases. Integration and application of all renewable energy resources available in various regions for electricity, water and food supply and development of renewable energy management strategies.
Biography
David Koranyi is the director of the Energy Diplomacy Initiative at the Atlantic Council. He has been a nonresident fellow at the Johns Hopkins University SAIS Centre for Transatlantic Relations since 2010. Mr. Koranyi speaks and publishes on the geopolitics of energy, and Hungarian, European, and US foreign and energy policy. Mr. Koranyi served as undersecretary of state and chief foreign policy and national security advisor to the Prime Minister of the Republic of Hungary, Gordon Bajnai (2009-2010). He worked in the European Parliament as chief foreign policy adviser and head of cabinet of a Hungarian MEP (2004-2009). Previously he was a political adviser at the Hungarian National Assembly and a junior researcher at GKI Economic Research Institute, in Budapest, Hungary. Mr. Koranyi is a member of the European Council on Foreign Relations, the Pacific Council, the Hungarian Europe Society, and a Concordia Advisor. He was a recipient of the French Foreign Ministry's Personalities of the Future Fellowship (2012) and of the German Marshall Fund's Marshall Memorial Fellowship (2010), an Aspen Institute Socrates Fellow (2011), and a member of the Hungarian NATO Strategic Concept Special Advisory Group (2009). Mr. Koranyi obtained his master's degree in international relations and economics, with a major in foreign affairs from Budapest Corvinus University.
Research Interest
Energy & Environment, European Energy Security, Transatlantic and Eurasian Energy Security, US Energy Policy
Biography
Prof. Dr. Ramchandra Bhandari has been working as a professor for Renewable Energy Systems at ITT, TH Köln (University of Applied Sciences) in Cologne, Germany since March 2013. Since May 2014, he is serving as a vice director for Cologne Institute for Renewable Energy at the TH Köln. Dr. Bhandari, born in 1979 in Nepal, obtained his Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from Tribhuvan University, Nepal in 2002 and he further received his Master’s degree in Renewable Energy Management from ITT, Germany. Dr. Bhandari wrote his dissertation at the University of Kassel in the field of renewable energy in 2010. Since then he worked at the Centre for Renewable Energy of the University of Freiburg and Institute for Energy and Climate Research of the Research Centre Jülich before he came to TH Köln in 2013. He already holds a decade long experiences in renewable energy sector and has published articles in peer-reviewed journals. He is also a reviewer in a few renowned journals such as Applied Energy, Progress in Photovoltaics, etc. He led the development of MOOC module in the field of energy and agriculture in cooperation with GIZ and USAID under the umbrella project Powering Agriculture (May 2015-Sept. 2016). Prof. Bhandari currently leads different research projects (e.g. Higher Education Cooperation Project with Pan African University– PAUWES, Water and Energy Security for Africa - WESA-ITT, Partnerships for Sustainable Solutions in Sub Sahara Africa - RARSUS from ITT, TH Köln side.
Research Interest
His research interests are sustainable renewable energy transition (technology, economics, policy), rural electrification and environmental life cycle assessment.