His presentation: Recent Development of Renewable Energy Policies and Markets

Rainer HINRICHS-RAHLWES Rainer Hinrichs-Rahlwes is an experienced renewable energy expert. In May 2014, he was elected Vice- President of EREF (European Renewable Energies Federation), the voice of independent producers of energy from renewable sources, after serving as EREF s President for four years (2010 2014) and as a Vice- President (2008 2010) and a Board Member (2006 2008). He also was the President of the European Renewable Energy Council (EREC) from June 2012 until EREC s dissolution in March 2014. He has been a Board Member and the spokesperson for European and International Affairs for BEE (the German Renewable Energy Federation) since 2006. Rainer has been actively involved in shaped the EU s Renewable Energies Directive and 2020 Climate and Energy Framework and he is now focussing on advocating for stable and reliable framework for 2030. Mr. Hinrichs-Rahlwes is representing EREF in the Steering Committee of REN21 the global policy network for the 21 st century, and he is a Member of the Council of the World Renewable Energy Network (WREN) and presently serving as WREN s head of policy committee. He has been in close contact with the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) and the International Energy Agency (IEA) for nearly a decade. On behalf of EREF and as a member of the International Solar Energy Society (ISES), Rainer has been closely cooperating with the Global 100% Renewables campaign. Before engaging with the renewable energy sector, Rainer Hinrichs-Rahlwes served as a Director General and Deputy State Secretary in the German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Protection and Nuclear Safety from 1999 to 2005 he was a. In the ministry he was in charge of among other things financing mechanisms, renewable energies and the national climate protection programme. He was one of the two chairmen of the International Steering Committee preparing the Bonn renewables2004 conference. After the conference, he engaged in the follow-up process as member of the Steering Committee and the Bureau of REN21 (the Renewable Energy Policy Network for the 21 st Century), which was founded as one of the outcomes of renewables2004. Before being appointed Director General in the Federal Ministry of Environment, he held several post in the government administration and as parliamentary advisor and assistant in of the German Federal State of Lower Saxony. Rainer Hinrichs-Rahlwes graduated from the University of Göttingen with a degree in French Language and in Political Science in 1979. His presentation: Recent Development of Renewable Energy Policies and Markets

Dr Shaker Haji Chemical Engineer, specialized in chemical reaction engineering and thermodynamics within the application areas of renewable energy, fuel cell technology, wastewater treatment, and fuel processing. He organized several Seminars in Bahrain. Presently he is the Chemical Engineering Department Head and a member of the Organizing and Technical Committees as well as in charge of the exhibition in the World Renewable Energy Congress, WREC-17, Bahrain, 3-8 December 2016. He published more than 9 articles in well-known journals. His presentation: Feed-in Tariff Structure Development for the Kingdom of Bahrain for PV Electricity Dr. Jazaer Dawody Jazaer Dawody has MBA from Edinburgh Napier University in UK, PhD degree in Materials Science from Chalmers University of Technology and a M.Sc. degree in Physical Chemistry from Gothenburg University. She is currently working as Director for R&D laboratories at Volvo Group Trucks Technology in Gothenburg, Sweden. In her current position, Dr Dawody is responsible for the operation of a set of laboratories dedicated for validation of early development of technologies for heavyduty applications. Earlier, Dr Dawody has been working as manager for both European and Swedish projects for the development of Fuel Cell-based Auxiliary Power Units s as well as energy efficient low emission exhaust gas aftertreatment systems for mobile applications. She has also been working at Powercell Sweden as manager for the development of fuel converter systems and as senior researcher at Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg Sweden. Dr Dawody has a strong background in catalyst preparation, characterization, deactivation, performance optimization, reaction kinetics and modeling and has published several scientific papers in the field of catalysis for exhaust gas aftertreatment and fuel reforming for hydrogen generation. She has a strong collaboration with academia through her role as board member for the Competence Center for Catalysis (KCK) at Chalmers University of Technology and Centre for Combustion science and Technology (CECOST) at Lund University of Technology. Dr Dawody has been supporting several conferences during the last ten years through her work as member of the scientific committees such as CAPoC (Catalysis and Automotive Pollution Control) and WREC (World Renewable Energy Congress) conferences. Her presentation: Renewable energy in road transport: current status and future prospects

Dr. Hussein A Kazem Has received his BSc, MSc degrees in electrical engineering from University of Technology (UOT), Baghdad - Iraq also, PhD from Newcastle University (NCL), UK. In 1995 he joined Al- Mamon College and in 1996 he was appointed as Assistant Lecturer in UOT, Baghdad and from 1997 to 2002 he was a Lecturer and Program Coordinator with the Faculty of Engineering, Al Tahady University, Libya. In 2002 he became a Lecturer, Assistant Professor and Associate Professor with the Faculty of Engineering - Sohar University, Sultanate of Oman. Also, he is currently academic visitor at Newcastle University-UK and visiting scientist in University Kebangsaan Malaysia -Malaysia. Hussein is involved in academics and research, since the last 20 years and is associated with professional organization and engineering societies such as IEEE, IEE, Elsevier, IAENG and WSEAS. He organized and participates in many conferences, symposiums and workshops. He is a referee in IEEE, WSEAS, AMSE, Elsevier and IJCSER journals. Also, he is a referee and organizer for many international conferences and editor of few International Journals. He has authored several publications on electrical engineering, including more than 125 papers published in scientific journals and conferences, some 40 invited talks, and four books in Power Electronics, Electrical Machines, Photovoltaic and Renewable Energy. Dr Hussein is the winner of Sohar University Vice Chancellor award for Research and Industry. Also, He is the winner of some national and international awards: Tistahil Award-Majan Electricity Company-Oman, the Golden Medal Award-Pecipta 13 Malaysia, and Outstanding Renewable Energy Lab Award-World Renewable Energy Congress XIII, 3 8th August 2014 London, United Kingdom; is an inventor and co-inventor of 2 patents. Hussein had supervised and graduated more than 35 BSc, 7 MSc and 2 PhD students under his supervision in Al Tahady University, Sohar University, Newcastle University, University Kebangsaan Malaysia and Universityof Malaysia Perlis. Dr Hussein has completed two research projects granted as Principle Investigator and Co- Investigator by The Research Council of Oman (TRC). Also, he has new TRC-ORG grant and TRC-FURAP projects. His current researches interests are in the areas of Photovoltaic, Renewable Energy, Power Electronics, Power Quality and Electrical Power System. Hussein is chairman of the Renewable Energy & Sustainable Technology Research Group in Oman. Dr Hussein is the team leader of Generation & Storage taskforce in Oman Renewable Energy strategic programme His presentation: Photovoltaic Systems in Oman: Research Statusand Applications

Prof. Ahmed Ennaoui Ahmed Ennaoui currently serves as Research Director for PVtechnology at the Qatar Environment & Energy Research Institute (QEERI), part of the Qatar Foundation in Doha, Qatar. At QEERI, Ahmed Ennaoui is leading solar energy group and directs projects for Emerging Thin Film Photovoltaic solution. He is appointed in the rank of professor in Hamad bin Khalifa University (HBKU), Doha, Qatar, delivring courses on Solar Photovoltaic Technolgy at College of Science and Engineering. Prior to joining QEERI, Ennaoui conducted research for his Habilitation (from 1983 to 1987) on iron disulfide FeS2 for solar energy conversion working with Prof. Helmut Tributsch at Hahn-Meitner-Institut Berlin, Abteilung Solare Energetik und Materialforschung, then he worked as Postdoc, and senior scientist focusing on the development of highly textured 2D compounds (2H-WS2 and 2H-MoS2, EUproject Joule II), he gains expertise in the set-up and operation of a state-of-the-art laboratory at the Hahn-Meitner-Institute (HMI) with capabilities for low cost processing of novel materials, none vacuum and (photo)-electrochemical methods. He is appointed as head of a research group in the institute Heterogenious Material systems with Prof. Martha Lux-Steiner at Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie, HZB. His R&D activities are focused on low cost processing of thin film solar cells. Ennaoui has served as full professor of physics at University Mohamed V (Morocco), and was visiting Professor at Osaka University, he taught several courses in Material sciences, Photovoltaic and (Photo) -electrochemistry. Ennaoui was active in using scientific research as a bridge between Morocco and different countries and helped several Moroccan graduate students to work abroad. During his career at HZB, he managed in his group several European research projects, (JOULE II, CISLINE, NEBULES, ATHLET, CHEETAH), as well as several projects financed by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research, BMBF (NEUMAS, NANOPV). He worked on several feasibility studies with industry partners (Atotech, Avancis, Boch Solar). He invented and patented new Cadmium free buffer layers for thin film Cu-chalcopyrite solar cell and achieving high efficiency solar cells (above 16% efficiency for lab scale). He worked solving industryoriented topics and to reduce the Fab-to-Lab gap and obtained 13% for large-scale modules (120cmx60cm). His research interests include advanced materials, non-vacuum techniques, nanosynthesis, photoelectrochemistry, and solid-state devices. Recently, he is exploring ink formulation of Cu-Kesterite Cu2ZnSn(S,Se)4 and related printed solar cell and achieved in his group printed CZTS solar cell with efficiency above 6%. He authored and co-authored more than 200 research papers and 4 patents (with h-index 33). He is serving as president of the scientific council of IRESEN. He is permanently serving in the Editorial Board of Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells, Journal of New Technology and Materials, Journal of Optics and Photonics. He is member of EU-PVTP and served as referee for scientific evaluation and expertise of research proposal for Technology Foundation STW (Dutch funding agency for academic research in the field of applied sciences) and scientific evaluation and expertise of the program sinergia lunched by Schweizerische Nationalfonds(SNF). His presentation: Progress in Printed Solar Cells

Prof. Ilias Belharouak Dr. Ilias Belharouak is the Research Director of the Energy Storage Group at the Qatar Environment and Energy Research Institute (QEERI), and Professor at the College of Science and Engineering at the Hamad Ben Khalifa University (HBKU), Qatar Foundation, Doha, Qatar. His mission is to develop and implement durable, efficient and affordable stationary energy storage solutions for solar and desalination applications with a focus on the valorization of the Qatari natural resources. Before joining Qatar Foundation in 2013, Dr. Belharouak was a Senior Materials Scientist and Battery Expert at the Argonne National Laboratory, Illinois, USA, since 2001. Dr. Belharouak has extensive experience working with multiple government agencies and industry in applying battery research for projects ranging from medical to electric vehicles and grid applications. His research interests deal with high power and high energy lithium ion batteries, sulfur batteries and sodium batteries for consumer, transportation and grid applications; synthesis and design of battery materials, electrolytes and additives; engineering and scale up of battery materials and cells; multi-scale range characterization of battery components and interfaces; and diagnostics and probing of aging phenomena in batteries. Dr. Belharouak was recognized with several awards including the Oscar of Innovation (100 R&D) awards in 2012, 2009, 2008 and 2005; the U.S. Federal Laboratory Consortium Awards for excellence in technology transfer in 2008 and 2009; and Recognition Letters from the US. Secretary of State of the Department of Energy and the US. Congress in 2009. Dr. Belharouak published more than 100 peer-reviewed papers in international high impact journals such as Nature Materials, Advanced Energy Materials, Nature Communications etc.; 18 US. Patents and 3 books. Dr. Belharouak received Ph.D. Degree (1999) and Master s degree (1996) in Materials Science and Solid State Chemistry from the Institute for Solid State Chemistry (ICMCB), National Center for Scientific Research, Bordeaux 1 University, Bordeaux, France; and a Bachelor s Degree (1995) in Inorganic Chemistry from the Faculty of Sciences Semlalia, Cadi Ayyad University, Marrakech, Morocco. His presentation: Lithium Storage Batteries and their Progress

James Watson Chief Executive Officer, Solar Power Europe James Watson is the CEO of Solar Power Europe (formerly EPIA - European Photovoltaic Industry Association) based in Brussels. He joined Solar Power Europe in July 2014 after 7 years of working in the energy sector in Brussels with the consultancy Weber Shandwick. Prior to this he worked for the European Commission, posted for 2 years as an expert in Africa working on trade and sustainable development. Earlier in his career James worked for various UK government bodies in London and worked as a lecturer in Environmental Law at the University of Manchester. His presentation: Solar Power Europe PV Progress Prof. Riadh H. Al-Dabbagh Prof Al-Dabbagh obtained his first degree B Sc. in geology from Mosul University, Iraq in 1968, then his Diploma, MSc, PhD from University College, London in 1975. He has a very colourful courier prior to his present post in the UAE. President of 4 universities for 21 years, Faculty member for about 40 years in 7 universities Published Approximately 79 scientific papers in the field of water resources and hydrology, Environment, Pollution, Water management, Water Engineering 25 short papers in education and scientific contribution, Five textbooks in the field of hydrology, water management and engineering geology, Teaching graduate and undergraduate courses in water resource management, hydrology, environmental hydrology, basic ecology, environment water& energy and general geology, hydrochemistry, ground water resources, water quality, pollution, and environment, Attended 65 international conferences and 42 national and regional conferences, Received approximately 44 awards from regional, Arabic and international universities and organizations, Spent a total of 6 years as a visiting professor in 14 different universities in 10 different European, North and South American countries. In 2003- up to the present, He is a professor at Ajman University and advisor to the President of the University, UAE. His presentation: Sustainable Development and Green Buildings with special reference to the Gulf Region

Dr Arch. Ruxandra Crutescu Ruxandra Crutescu is a University Lecturer at the Faculty of Architecture, Spiru Haret University, Bucharest, and is the Head of the Research-Development-Innovation Department at Passive house Institute, Bragadiru, whose founder she is. Her contribution to the scientific activity consists of approx. 80 articles published in various scientific magazines or on the occasion of national and international scientific conferences and a number of books having as main subject the ecological architecture, the durable development in architectural matters, the use of renewable energies in buildings and architecture, in order to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions and protect nature. Her activity is also oriented towards the designing and execution of energetically efficient buildings, ecological and non-polluting, respecting the passive, zero energy and plus energy buildings standards. As member of Architects Order of Romania, the Register of Urbanist of Romania and the Passive house Institute of Darmstadt, Germany, she is involved in the research activity of passive buildings since 1997. Active participant to the life of the Romanian and the international scientific community, she is Reviewer and Associate Editor for different Romanian and international publications. Amongst her activity s results, there is the first Romanian passive house, in 2004, at Burlusi (Arges County), and the first Romanian passive office-building (2500sqm), in 2007, at Bragadiru (Ilfov County), which belongs to Amvic Romania. Her continuous and sustained activity, with an experience of 28 years in the research field of buildings and ecological architecture, her being an energetic audit specialist for buildings, authorized thermo-graph for buildings in EU, authorized designer for passive buildings, having planned and risen more than 3.500 buildings (family houses, kindergartens, schools, city halls, office-buildings, etc.), place her amongst the most active specialists in Romania and abroad. The main achievement of the present activity is implementing in Romania of a new building system for ecological and passive buildings, energetically efficient: Marc Insulated Concrete Forms, made of Neopor, produced at Bragadiru, Ilfov County, Romania. She obtained her Ph. D in 2009 in Architecture from Ion Mincu Architecture University, Bucharest. Her presentation : Thermal envelope for plus energy buildings - holistic approach and theoretical concepts for renewable energy systems integration

Prof Salam Darwish He is a visiting professor and lecturer at ESC La Rochelle, Groupe Sup de Co La Rochelle, La Rochelle, France. He holds an MSc Membership in Aeronautical Engineering from Cranfield Institute of Technology (UK) and a PhD in Aerodynamics from the University of Reading (UK). He holds Post Graduate Certificate in Education (PGCE) from Huddersfield University (UK). He is also a visiting lecturer at Loughborough University, Warrington Collegiate, Wigan & Leigh College and other UK academic institutions. He is a director for Phoenix renewable Energy Centre (UK). His main Interests are the design and operation of Solar/ wind energy Systems and is leading researches to locate wind and solar technologies for developing countries, Environmental Assessment techniques and strategic Analysis. He had supervised and graduated more than 11 PhD students and 33 MSc students under his supervision at Universities in UK and Middle East. He had published many articles related to his specialist. His presentation: Self-Powered and Eco-Friendly Sustainable Smart Buildings: Evolutions and Applications in the Kingdom of Bahrain Dr. Lawrence L. Kazmerski Dr. Lawrence L. Kazmerski is the Director of Science and Technology Cooperation at The National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) up to 2015. He was at (Electrical Engineering) of the University of Maine before coming to SERI (NREL) in 1977. His research at Maine included the report of the first thin-film copper-indium-diselenide (CIS) solar cell. He was SERI s first staff member in photovoltaics, hired specifically to establish efforts in the characterization of photovoltaic materials and devices; he led NREL efforts in measurements and characterization for more than 20 years. He has held adjunct professorships at the University of Colorado, Colorado School of Mines, and the University of Denver. Dr. Kazmerski has published over 300 journal papers and authored or edited four books, and currently serves on the editorial board of five journals and he has more than 160 invited presentations at international conferences, workshops, and seminars. He was co-founder and editor of the journal SOLAR CELLS, published by Elsevier-Sequoia (1979-1991). Kazmerski is Editor-in-Chief of the Elsevier journal, Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews. He has three R&D 100 Awards. Kazmerski was the recipient of the Peter Mark Memorial Award of the AVS in 1981 and IEEE William R. Cherry Award in 1993. In 2008, Kazmerski was elected as a member of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE). His presentation: Photovoltaic Progress and Future Development

Mr. Martin Alder Renewable energy is Martin s main career interest and expertise. At university he studied wind power as part of his thesis and joined Wessex Water in 1979, where he became expert in anaerobic digestion and bio-gas generation. In 1992 he joined a small team that put together the UK waste joint venture, where he specialised in technology transfer and waste-to-energy technology. In 1995 he co-founded The Renewable Energy Company, the first supplier dedicated to renewable electricity. In 1999 he became Operations Director of Cinergy Renewables, developing contracts for new renewable generation. He is Director of Optimum Energy, specialising in renewable energy contracts, trading and renewable market economics and MD of Wind Direct, a developer, owner and operator of on-site wind energy generation. In addition, Martin is Vice-Chairman of the Association of Electricity Producers and Chairman of their Renewable Energy Committee. He represents the AEP as the UK member of the Eurelectric workgroup for Renewables and Embedded Generation. He is also a Trustee and Chairman of the World Renewable Energy Network. In 1999 I became Operations Director of Cinergy Renewables and concentrated on developing contracts for new renewable generation under the RO (Renewable Energy Obligation). I have my own consultancy company Optimum Energy Ltd. which specializes in renewable energy contracts, trading and renewable market economics. OEL is a partner with Wind Prospect and Econnect in the Wind Direct joint venture. He is visiting professor at Kingston University, London since 2010. His presentation: Wind Energy Development in the UK

Prof. Siham Yousuf AlQaradawi Prof. S. AlQaradawi is currently a Prof. of organic Chemistry at Qatar University. She received her undergraduate degree in Chemistry with High Honors from Qatar University and her PhD from University of Reading, United Kingdom in 1992. She served as Dean for College of Arts & Sciences for five years. During her deanship she guided the College towards a number of significant milestones. Prof. S. AlQaradawi has received the prestigious William Fulbright Award as visiting Scholar at Temple University, Pennsylvania, USA in 2010/2011 and the German Award (The German Academic Exchange Service) DAAD in 2003. She is a member in several prominent Associations & Societies as: ACS & CSC and a Fellow at the RSC. Prof. Siham AlQaradawi is the author of more than 30 academic papers in organic and nanomaterials with H index 11. She is the Lead PI in several research grants with more than $five million American Dollars. Her research interest is mainly about Carbon dioxide conversion, organic Solar Cells and Lithium Battery. She is a Reviewer for several prestigious Journals as Journal of Molecular Structure, Journal of Molecular Liquids & journal of Spectrochimica Acta. Prof. Siham AlQaradawi is a member in the organizing committee and Reviewer for the International Arab Conference on Quality Assurance in Higher Education, IACQA, under the Association of Arab Universities, since 2011. Her presentation: Metal/Metal Oxide Nanostructured Catalysts for Energy and Environmental Applications

Prof Dr Manuel Correia Guedes Dept of Civil Engineering & Architecture Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisbon, Portugal Professor, Director of the Architectural Research Centre (ICIST- N8), Portugal He is Director of the Architectural Research Centre of the Instituto Superior Tecnico (ICIST - Group 8). He is Responsible for several Disciplines of the courses of Architecture, Civil Engineering and Territorial Engineering. He is supervising several Ph D and M Sc students. Participation in various research projects: Chief Coordinator of a COOPENER E.U. project (SUREAFRICA), National Coordinator of an ASIA-LINK project, Dr Guedes, participated in various international and national conferences, seminars and workshops. His Ph. D was on Environmental design in Southern European Office Buildings covering sustainability, passive design, energy efficiency, and thermal comfort. Both his Ph D and M Phil were done at Cambridge University, Martin Centre. The M Phil thesis was sponsored by the E.U. "Praxis" scholarship on Environmental Design, "Aspects of Environmental design of Office Buildings in Portugal". Since 1985 he participated in various projects, namely the Portuguese Pavilion in Seville's EXPO 92, two residential buildings in Vila Real, the competition for the National Assembly building, and the building of the Agronomy Faculty (UTL). He worked as an architect in several Portuguese architectural companies. He published many articles and papers in the fields of bioclimatic architecture and the built environment. His presentation: Bioclimatic Architecture in extreme hot and cold climates: comparing contrasts Dr Abdul Hai Alami Currently an Assistant Professor at the Sustainable and Renewable Energy Engineering Program at University of Sharjah, Dr Alami has received his PhD from Queen s University in Kingston, Canada in 2006. Since then, he had held the position of Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the Hashemite University in Jordan, till he moved to the UAE in 2010 where he worked as a Mechanical Engineering Faculty at the Higher Colleges of Technology, Al Ain. The current area of interest of Dr Alami is the synthesis and analysis of mesoporous materials for third generation photovoltaic solar cells, solar thermal energy utilization and augmentation (selective solar absorbers, evaporative cooling of PV modules), novel ways of mechanical energy storage (buoyancy force), producing insulation materials from solid (e.g. olive husk, palm tree fronds and dates pits) that are both effective and biodegradable. He has published more than 10 papers in various journals and conferences. His presentation: Evaporative cooling of PV Modules

Prof Adel Sharif Adel Sharif is Professor of Water Engineering and Process Innovation, and Founder Director of the Centre for Osmosis Research and Applications, (CORA) at the University of Surrey, UK. Prof. Sharif is a winner of The Queen s 2011 Anniversary Prize for Water Research and the 2005 UK Royal Society Brian Mercer Senior Award for Innovation in Science and Technology. He is also the winner of the 2008 Science Business first pan-european Academic Enterprise Award in the category of Energy/Environment. CORA water technologies were also awarded the Institute of Chemical Engineers 2011 Innovation and Excellence award in the Water Supply and Management category. He is a founder of Modern Water plc, a London Exchange AIM Market listed company specialised in desalination and renewable power generation. Prof. Sharif is a member of the Qatar Foundation s Expatriate Arab Scientists Forum. He obtained his first degree in Chemical Engineering from Baghdad University in 1986, followed by M.Sc and PhD from University of Wales Swansea in 1989 and 1992 respectively. He has over 100 publications; is an inventor and co-inventor of more than 15 patents and has supervised over twenty PhD projects and more than 40 MSc dissertations. His presentation: Innovative Osmotic Heat Engine for Clean Water and Power Production. Dr Marta Szabo Dr. Marta Szabo graduated in Hungary as agricultural and mechanical engineer specialized in Building Service engineering. She received a PhD in engineering in 1998 in he field of energy and renewable energy utilization in greenhouses. She worked as an university teacher and researcher at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering of Szent Istvan University Hungary, from 2004 as an associate professor, from 2008 as a habilitated associate professor. Her field is the utilization of renewable energy and energy management in buildings. In 2009 she acted as a Faculty Director for the International Relations as well. In 2006-2007 Dr Szabo was seconded as a national expert to the Institute of Environment and Sustainability of the Joint Research Center of the European Commission, and in 2010-2011 has been senior researcher in the Institute of Energy of the Joint Research Center of the European Commission working on the technical assessment of Renewable Energy in the EU and on the policy support of the Cost optimal methodology of energy performance of buildings. She has authored and coauthored more than 120 papers and research reports, published in journals and international conferences. She was member of organization committee for many international conferences and workshops. Dr. Szabo is member of the WREN and has been awarded as young scientist in renewable energy in 2006. Her presentation: Achievements and gaps of Renewable Energy in the European Union

Prof. Khaled A. Al-Sallal Khaled A. Al-Sallal is currently a professor of architectural engineering and the director of the Daylighting Simulation Laboratory at UAE University. His area of expertise is sustainable design with emphasis on building energy. He has a Ph.D. from Texas A&M University and a Master s degree from Arizona State University. His teaching and research has focused on building performance and simulation, carbon-neutral design, daylighting, and climatic responsive architecture. In 2011, he established the state-of-the-art Daylighting Simulation Laboratory at UAE University that runs under his technical management. He has taken major roles in many research and design/consulting projects that introduced new sustainable building design ideas and technologies to the Middle East. He has been very active in soliciting research funds; a total value of U.S. $952,000 has been granted in 16 different research projects in the last decade. Among his innovations, he developed a novel methodology to measure and simulate trees interception of natural lighting in architectural spaces useful for sustainable design applications; and he created a new concept of high performance cool skylights for hot climates; which is currently being investigated. He has supervised several Ph.D. and M.Sc. students and helped them to complete their dissertations/theses and publish from their work in reputable journals. He has produced numerous publications in international refereed journals and scientific conference proceedings, and wrote several chapters in edited books by reputable scientific publishers (Taylor & Francis, Elsevier, Hogrefe & Huber). He has given numerous lectures and presentations in various conferences, meetings, and scientific forums. He is currently the Editor-in-Chief of the EJER and served in the editorial board of four scientific journals. He has been active in professional and scientific societies. He is a member of the IBPSA Board of Directors and founder and president of IBPSA-UAE Affiliate (IBPSA-UAE) since 2005. He is the WSSET Vice President, Middle East since 2009. He is an active full member of ASHRAE, Vice President of ASHRAE Falcon Chapter: since 2011, and a Member of Board of Governors since 2009. He received several awards including: Best research project award of Engineering for 2007; Award of Excellence in Teaching 2000, UAEU. His presentation: Learning from Vernacular Architecture

Prof Dr Derya Oktay Prof. Dr. Derya Oktay (BArch, GU; MSc, METU; PGDipUD, Oxford Brookes; PhD, YTU - Assoc. Research Programme: Oxford Brookes Univ.) is currently the Dean of the Faculty of Architecture at Ondokuz Mayıs University, Samsun, Turkey. Prior to her current position, she was the Director of the MS in Urban Design Programme and a professor at Eastern Mediterranean University, North Cyprus, and the Founding Director of the Urban Research & Development Center. She was a Visiting Scholar at UC Berkeley, Politecnico di Milano, University of Michigan, and Oxford Brookes University, a team member in various urban/architectural design projects, and jury member in a number of national and international design competitions. She has carried out research on sustainable urbanism and architecture, and quality of urban life funded by the EU, EC, USAID, TUBITAK, and EMU. She has authored more than 100 publications, has spoken at various national and international platforms as an invited speaker, and has been serving on the editorial board of various refereed journals, i.e. Urban Design International, Urban Design and Planning, Journal of Civil Engineering and Architecture,... She is the champion editor of the themed issues of UDP on Quality of Life in Cities and Urban Identity in the Era of Globalisation, and the author of the book Planning Housing Environments for Sustainability (YEM, 2001). Her presentation: Redefining Essentials for Sustainable Architecture in Future Cities

Prof Arch Fernando Recalde He is a Senior Research Scholar at ABITA Interuniversity Center Headquarters in Florence. University Bachelor Suma Cum Laude in Architecture & Urban Planning, University of Florence 1983; Member Architectural Board Florence since 1984; PhD University of Rome, La Sapienza 1990; Post PhD University of Rome & University of Grenoble, France 1994. Holds advanced qualifications and expertise with over 20 years of robust increasingly responsible expertise in conceptualizing, designing and supervising the development of Urban Planning & Green Architecture,, eco solar cities & eco resorts design, under Environmental Architectural Design methods, triggering education strategies for developing countries, within Agenda 21 UN Participatory and RES + RUE European Union Eco-efficient strategies. Supported by a consistent curriculum of publications (Web, Cd-Rom, Video, etc), design workshops, and teaching experience. Extensive professional & academic overseas experience: Mozambique 1990, Colombia 1993, Brazil 1994, Ecuador 1995_1999-ongoing, Peru 2004-ongoing, Chile 2009- ongoing, Colombia 2009-ongoing, China 2009-ongoing, Montenegro 2011-ongoing. Suma Cum Laude in Architecture & Urban Planning University of Florence 1983; Registered architect in Italy since 1984; Post PhD University of Rome & Grenoble, France 1994. Over 30 year s professional & academic experience in spatial /urban planning & environmental architectural design, fostering sustainable development within UN policy & strategy, SDG (sustainable development goal). Expert on Multimedia" as teaching aids, "Green "or "Eco Technology" and "Urban & Architectural Environmental Design", in a logic of development cooperation. Since 2005 responsible of ABITA s International Relationships, promoting "Eco technological collaboration between Italy_UNASUR (Colombia, Peru Ecuador, Bolivia) & ACP (Asia, Caribbean & the Pacific) countries. Mozambique 1990, Colombia 1993, and Brazil 1994, Ecuador 1995-1999-ongoing, Perú 2004-ongoing, Chile 2009-ongoing, Colombia 2009- ongoing, China 2011-ongoing, and Montenegro 2012_ongoing. CEO of ABITARGREEN enterprise since 2013 and Executive Director of IGD Italian Innovation Green Design Urban and Architectural Studio Florence since 2015, with the mission to establish ties between the European eco industry for Eco and Renewable Technologies" transference to Asia, Latin America & Africa. He is promoting Green Architecture", with the integration of renewable energy and eco technologies for the environment. Yoga practice with Wanda Schiaravelli Florence 1979 / Tai Chi Chuan practice with Bronwyn Hipking Cambridge England 1980. Tai Chi Chuan Master, Yang style since 1985 in Florence. Speaks English, Spanish, Italian, French and Portuguese. Published many papers and articles. His presentation: Achieving Sustainable Growth Globally

Marco Sala: Florence Marco Sala, graduated from University of Florence in Architecture in 1972 is registred architect since 1973, principal of Marco Sala Associates, Architecture and Energy Consultants, he specialises in passive solar systems in architecture, environmental design and energy conscious building design. Full Professor in Architectural Technology at the University of Florence. Fonder and Director of ABITA Interuniversity Research Centre based in Florence University, Director of European Master ABITA in Sustainable Architecture, has extensive experience in European research projects, as group leader and coordinator (JOULE, ALTENER, SAVE, VII FW, EIE) Visiting Professor at London Metropolitan University and Lecturer in energy topics in post-graduate Course many Italian Universities. Professor Marco Sala authored some 70 scientific papers/conference reports, produced about 20 books, proceedings volumes and organised and chaired many International Conferences and Exhibitions on renewable energy and sustainable architecture such TIA-Network (Florence 1996, 98, Oxford 2000, Krems 07, 08 WREC (Florence 1998 and 2006, Brigthon 2000). Past vice President of Eurosolar (The European Association for Solar Energy). Fonder member of TIA (Teaching in Architecture Energy and Environment World Network). Member of the Bioclimatic Committee of ISES Italia, WREN (World Renewable Energy Network) and Associate Member of PLEA (Passive and Low Energy Architecture). His role as a teacher of Architectural Technology in the University of Florence works in tandem with the office research base and practice with many realised bioclimatic buildings and consultancies for public administrations and international companies. Recent projects: Technology Park in Lucca, Multiplex and Commercial Centre in Prato, Rotating Tower in Dubai. Family status: Married with two children Languages : Italian,English, French, Spanish His presentation: Examples of Sustainable Buildings, in Hot Climate

Prof Issa Batarseh Dr. Issa Batarseh is a Professor and Chair of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University Central Florida (UCF). He received the Ph.D., and M.S. in Electrical Engineering and the B.S. in Computer Engineering and Science from the University of Illinois at Chicago in 1983, '85 and '90, respectively. Dr. Batarseh was a visiting Assistant Professor at Purdue University, Calumet, from 1989 to 1990 before joining UCF in 1991. Dr. Batarseh power electronics research focuses on the development of advanced systems for solar energy conversion to improve cost, power density, efficiency and performance. The research includes the analysis and design of high frequency dc-ac inverters, resonant converter topologies; low-voltage dc-dc converters, small signal modeling and control of PWM and resonant converters; power factor correction techniques; power electronic circuits for distributed power systems applications. His has published several patents, and many journal and conference papers and a textbook entitled: Power Electronic Circuits, in 2003 with John Wiley. He is also a fellow member in AAAS, IEEE, and IEE. He served as an Associate Editor for IEEE Transaction on Aerospace and Electronic Systems and Transaction on Circuits and Systems. He served as a reviewer for the National Science Foundation and several IEEE- Transaction Journals and served on the program committees of IEEE-APEC, PESC, IECON, IAS and ISCAS. He is a registered Professional Engineer in Florida. He served as the general chair for IEEE-PESC? 07, a Chairman of the PE/AES/PEL Chapter of the Orlando IEEE Section. Dr. Batarseh supervised 26 Ph.D. Dissertations, 39 MS Theses, and 13 Undergraduate Honor Theses. More than twenty U.S. patents were produced and licenses were granted to commercialize products. He is a co-founder for two start-up companies: Advanced Power Electronics Corp. (APECOR) and Petra Solar. RESEARCH AREAS: Power Electronics, Energy Conversion, Grid-tied Inverters, Solar Energy Photovoltaics His presentation: Recent Advances on Single-phase and Three-phase Micro-inverters for Distributed Smart Solar

Professor Hassan Nfaoui Dr Hassan Nfaoui has a MSc in Solar Energy and a PhD in Wind Energy from the University of Mohammed-V (Morocco) in cooperation with the University of Reading (UK) sponsored by British Council. Since 1982, he has been at the Solar Energy & Environment Laboratory, developing and managing programs on renewable energy resource assessments and analysis. He is currently a Professor of Renewable Energy at University of Mohammed V, Morocco. Besides his current main area of research in wind energy, he has several projects in solar and environmental area. He was appointed as an Academic expert in Solar and wind energy resource assessments by the Government. He has published several scientific research papers in International peer reviewed Journals and supervised several MSc students with their research. He is currently reviewer in several International Journals in the Energy and Environment Sector, among them is the Renewable Energy Journal, Solar Energy, wind Energy. Prof Nfaoui is also a member of several domestic and International Societies including WREN and The Moroccan Fulbright Alumni Association. His presentation: Moroccan Strategies of using Hydro-power, Wind Energy and Solar Energy Systems to Combat Climate Change Prof Donald Swift-Hook After military service as a Lieutenant Royal Signals, he obtained a degree in Maths and Electronics from Trinity College, Cambridge followed by an MSc in Maths from London University and a career in industrial research. After five years in microwave research with GEC he joined the Central Electricity Generating Board where he became head of a Research Division. He obtained a PhD from Cambridge University on the basis of his research publications in plasmas and gas discharges and he has numerous other publications, mainly in the field of renewable energy, especially in wind power. While he was Chairman of the British Wind Energy Association he founded the Council of the European Wind Energy Association of which he was subsequently Honorary Treasurer. He represented the UK in the International Energy Agency on Wind Energy Agreements and led (as Operating Agent) major international research projects (or Annexes) on Off-Shore Wind Power, Wakes & Clusters, etc. He was a Visiting Professor at Kings College London for more than 20 years and is now a Visiting Professor at Kingston University London. He is a Director and Secretary of the World Renewable Energy Network which has organized successive World Renewable Energy Congresses since 1990. His presentation: Renewables are for saving fuels

Mr Bill Watts He is BA MSc CEng FCIBSE, and Max Fordham Senior Partner. Following a university education in biological science, Bill Watts has spent 26 years developing Max Fordham LLP s reputation for designing elegant buildings with a thorough understanding of how they are put together, how the environment affects comfort, in particular, how energy can be used and minimised to make buildings comfortable. Bill has worked with leading designers on a range of projects including new and refurbished offices in mixed use developments in the West End, refurbished and new build social housing on large high rise estates, schools including the new City Academy in Bermondsey, community and elite training pools and dry sports venues, theatres and galleries. The innovative Beaufort Court zero emissions building for RES in Kings Langley was completed in 2003 and its carbon emissions have been monitored. This provided great lessons on the potential of renewable energy systems and how they work. Bill has been candidly sharing the findings at conferences on achieving zero carbon buildings. Bill has recently provided advice on sustainable issues in the PFI schools procurement process as an assessor for Belfast Schools and Library Board, and as a bidder for the Islington schools BSF. More recently he advised a developer seeking planning for a large mixed use development in Stockwell Green, setting out an energy strategy that the client was comfortable with for presentation to the Mayor s office to ensure the renewable energy commitments were met. Recently, Bill carried out wider studies of how the UK could be self -sufficient for its energy needs from local renewable energy resources and tied this into a study of the use of land to produce food and energy and the use of waste as a resource. This has been presented at the 2006 World Renewable Energy Conference (WREC) in Florence. This informed his thinking about how we should be moving the design of buildings and transport to accommodate this strategy. He is currently working with commercial growers on insulated greenhouses to make vegetable food production in the UK possible without additional heating. He has worked with the Carbon Trust in Northern Ireland investigating methods of utilising waste to produce energy and other resources. His presentation: Flashing the Gulf

Prof Giuliano C Premier Giuliano C Premier of the Faculty of Computing, Engineering and Science, University of South Wales (USW), UK, is a senior members of the Sustainable Environment Research Centre (SERC) at the University of South Wales (USW) with over 25 years of academic and industrial collaboration experience in energy related processes; including digestion, dark fermentative hydrogen production and bioelectrochemical systems (BES)/microbial fuel cell (MFC); the Hydrogen Economy dealing with several associated technologies (http://www.southwales.ac.uk/). He contributes expertise in mechanical and control/systems engineering, bioelectrochemical systems, environmental and biotechnological system modelling and design. He has contributed to several collaborative projects with national and international partners, ranging from EU Regional Development Funded and British Council projects, to Carbon Trust, EPSRC, NERC, UKERC, EU Marie Curie and FP6 STREP, invariably involving both academic and industrial partners and including elements of Knowledge Transfer. He has participated in three UKERC SUPERGEN Consortium and follow-on projects, the Biological Fuel Cell, in which he led Microbial theme; and the SHEC- Sustainable Hydrogen Energy Consortia. He is currently a CoI on flexible funding from the SUPERGEN H2&FC Hub, bringing expertise, knowledge and experience in bioprocess engineering design, particularly with regard to bioelectrochemical system engineering, optimisation, scale-up and control. He leads the USW contribution to the NERC RRfW MeteoRR project, the IB Catalyst Innovate UK/BBSRC funded project to develop a BOD sensor, as well as the EPSRC Lifes-CO2R Multidiciplinary fuels project (as from March 2016), led USW efforts in the bioprocess technology modelling of the RCUK, NERC (lead) TSEC BioSys consortium and Chairs the BBSRC NIBB ADNetwork Working Group on Modelling and Integration and sits on the EPSRC SUPERGEN H2&FC Science Board. He has sat on several Scientific Committees including chairing the World Renewable Energy Congress Biomass and Waste to Energy theme, and has delivered Knowledge Transfer Partnerships. His presentation: Microbial bioelectrochemical systems: What s their place in bioenergy?

Dr Hossein Mirzaii He is a senior lecturer at the Faculty of Engineering, in Aerospace Materials Engineering and a Programme Director for M Sc. in Renewable Energy Engineering, since 2006. From 1999 to 2006, Dr Mirzaii was a senior lecturer and course director for the B Sc. (Hon.) in Aeronautical Engineering at Farnborough College of Technology, Surrey University. In the period 1995-1999 he was lecturing at South East Essex College as full- Time. The college affiliated to Greenwich University. In 1990-1994 he worked at British Aerospace and in 1995 he was a senior scientific advisor, Ministry of Agriculture, Tehran, Iran. In the period 1986-1990 Dr Mirzaii was a full time research assistant at Imperial College, London, UK and prior to that from 1983 to 1986, he worked as research assistant at City University, London, UK. Dr Mirzaii attended several courses and seminar in various field of engineering. He is a member of the Royal Aeronautical Society MRAeS. He published several papers in refereed journals. His presentation: Feasibility Study of the use of Micro wind turbine in electric cars. Dr Mohamed Saied Mohamed Saied was born in K. El-Sheikh, Egypt, on 1973. He graduated from the Electrical Engineering Dept., Faculty of Engineering, university of Alexandria, Egypt in 1995. By July 2000, he got his M.Sc. degree, and by July 2007 he received the Ph.D. degree from the same department. His PhD specialty is the direct torque control of induction machines using multilevel inverters. By April, 2010, Dr. Mohamed finished the Post Doc training matrix for PhD holders from the Faculty and Leadership Development Center, Alexandria University, Egypt. Dr. Saied has been elevated to the IEEE senior member grade in 2013, he published 13 technical papers in refereed journals and conferences, and conferred several national and international conferences and workshops. His research fields of interest cover; AC-drives, direct torque control of Induction and synchronous machines, HVDC transmission, power quality, active power filters, harmonic elimination, PWM modulation techniques, multi-level voltage source and DC/DC converters, wind and solar renewable energy, and deadbeat control. As a lecturer since 2008, Dr. Mohamed is responsible for designing and delivering several electrical power and automatic control courses in different Engineering faculties in Egypt. He is an advisor for several M.Sc. dissertations in different universities. In addition to his academic background, Dr. Mohamed is working for Abu-Qir Fertilizers & Chemical Industries Company, Alexandria Egypt. He is now the general manager of the Electrical Engineering Dept. He has 20 years of industrial experience, that he is a consultant for several factories and companies science 1995. In addition, through 2013-2014 he studied for the professional certificate of Business Administration, in the Arab Academy for Science and

Technology. Also, by the middle of 2016, he is going to finish his Master of Business Administration MBA. His presentation: Offshore wind technology foundations: Challenges and Opportunities Prof Islam Professor A.K.M Sadrul Islam did his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from University of London, UK in 1988. At present he is the Head and Professor of Dept. of Mechanical and Chemical Engineering of Islamic University of Technology (IUT), a subsidiary organ of OIC. Before joining IUT he was the Professor and Head of Mechanical Engineering Department, Bangladesh University of Technology (BUET). He is the member of different professional organizations like, Institution of Engineers, Bangladesh, Bangladesh Society of Mechanical Engineers, and Asian Congress of Fluid Mechanics. He is currently the Secretary General of Bangladesh Society of Mechanical Engineers and past chairman of Mechanical Engineering Division of Institution of Engineers, Bangladesh. He has published more than 180 papers in reputed journals and conference proceedings and edited and contributed chapters in several books. His research interest is Renewable Energy, CFD, and Heat Transfer. His presentation: Solar thermal chimney technology for ventilation and power generation: A review Miss Sara Abdourraziq Sarah Abdourraziq has a MSc in Industrial Engineering from Sciences and Technologies Faculty in Fez, Morocco 2011. She is currently a PhD in the electrical engineering department, LESSI Laboratory, at Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah University. My research study is based on the improvement and optimization of the efficiency of the water pumping systems driven by the photovoltaic panel. Photovoltaic pumping has become one of the most promising fields in photovoltaic applications. She works in the modeling of the system, and the improvement of the efficiency of each component of the system (MPPT Command, Inverter, Motor-Pump group). Her presentation: Photovoltaic Water Pumping Application in Morocco

Dr Hasila Jarimi Dr Hasila is a first class Physics graduate from the University of Manchester United Kingdom, and has obtained her Ph.D in Applied Sciences specialising in Solar Energy Technology (Photovoltaic/Thermal Solar Collector) from Universiti TeknoIogi Mara (UiTM) Malaysia. She is also a visiting researcher at The University of Nottingham, United Kingdom from December 2015 to March 2016. Dr Hasila is a passionate physicist who has skills and knowledge essential in any fundamental Physics area, Renewable Energy Studies and in any area of computational, and mathematical skills. She has published more than 5 articles of her four-year research on Photovoltaic/Thermal technology in well-known publications and has involved in many international conferences organised by World Renewable Energy Network. Her presentation: Bi-Fluid photovoltaic/thermal solar collectors: Potential applications. Mr Mohamed Amine Abdourraziq Mohamed amine abdourraziq has a MSc in electronic air safety and a PhD student in solar energy from the University of Mohammed-V (Morocco). Since 2012, he has been at Power and control Research Team at Mohammadia School of Engineers,. He is currently an engineer at national agency for Airport.. He is currently reviewer in energy conversion and management journal. His presentation: Renewable energy in Morocco: Social and environmental impact

Dr Yue ping Fang Dr Yue ping Fang is a Research Fellow in the Centre for Sustainable Technologies at Ulster University. He has a BEng in Electrical Engineering and a PhD in Advanced Vacuum Glazing, member of International Solar Energy Society and a fellow of UK Higher Education Academy. Dr Fang has significant experience in the thermal modelling and experimental analysis for advanced glazing systems, in addition to a broad experience in solar energy technologies and fenestration. He has extensive experience in the thermal evaluation of advanced glazing and thermal insulation systems and technologies through experimental characterisation and theoretical evaluation. His extensive experience and excellent work in nonimaging optics area has been recognised by his publication on top journals Applied Optics. He has published his research widely in journal and conference contributions in this and related areas. He has continuously completed Advanced Glazing projects funded by European Union, UK DTI and Irish government and completed several KTP Innovation Projects with local companies. He has been a reviewer for proposals by UK EPSRC, National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) and Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) and a regular reviewer for over ten international journals and a reviewer for international conferences. His presentation is on: The effect of glass thicknesses and dimensions on the thermal performance of triple vacuum glazing