Frank Jotzo
Director CCEP

Frank Jotzo is an environmental economist specialising in the economics and policy of climate change. He has worked and published on these and other aspects of international and development economics since 1998. He has worked and consulted for several governments and international organisations. Frank is deputy director of the ANU Climate Change Institute and theme leader climate change of the Environmental Economics Research Hub.
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Regina Betz
UNSW

Dr Regina Betz is Senior Lecturer at the UNSW Australian School of Business and Joint Director of the Centre for Energy and Environmental Markets (CEEM). Her work focuses on climate change policies and their associated instruments, particularly emissions trading. She has been a consultant to the German Federal Ministry of Environmental, and has been closely involved with European Union and United Nations negotiations on climate change (UNFCCC).
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Howard Bamsey
Department of Climate Change

Mr Howard Bamsey is Deputy Secretary of Australia's Department of Climate Change and Energy Efficiency, and Australia's Special Envoy on Climate Change and is one of Australia's most experienced negotiators, playing a key role in international climate change negotiations. Mr Bamsey was Deputy Secretary in the Department of the Environment and Water Resources from 1997 to 2002 and head of the Australian Greenhouse Office until 2006. In 2006–07, he co-facilitated the United Nations Dialogue on Long-term Cooperative Action on Climate Change, which formed the basis for negotiations under the Bali Action Plan.

Tony Beck
Australasian Emissions Trading Forum

Dr Tony Beck is Chairman of the Asia-Pacific Emissions Trading Forum (AETF), an information service and business network for companies and agencies with an interest emissions trading developments and issues. He is also an independent consultant specialising in energy, climate and emissions market issues. Tony has over 25 years of experience in economic and policy analysis with the focus in the last 15 years on climate change, energy and emissions trading related issues.
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Paul Burke
The Australian National University

Paul Burke is involved in empirical research in the fields of energy economics and climate change economics. He holds a Bachelor of Agricultural Economics (Honours I) from the University of Sydney and a PhD in Economics from the Australian National University. Paul is a Research Fellow in the Arndt-Corden Department of Economics at the Australian National University's Crawford School of Public Policy.
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Andreas Loeschel
Centre for European Economic Research

Andreas Löschel is head of the department "Environmental and Resource Economics, Environmental Management" at the Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW) Mannheim. He has worked with wide range of universities and research institutions in Europe and the United States, and has advised the European Commission, the European Parliament, and national ministries in Germany and the UK on environmental, energy and climate change issues, and is a lead author for the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report. His research interests are international environmental economics, especially the economics of climate change and energy policy, and quantitative economic modelling.
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Jonathan Boston
Victoria University

Prof Jonathan Boston is Professor of Public Policy and Director of the Institute of Policy Studies at the School of Government, Victoria University of Wellington. He has published widely in the fields of public management, tertiary education, research funding, social policy, comparative government, New Zealand politics, and climate change policy, including 25 books and over 180 journal articles and book chapters.
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Harry Clarke
La Trobe University

Harry Clarke is Professor of Economics at La Trobe University. Harry obtained his PhD from The Australian National University. His main teaching and research interests are in applied microeconomics - particularly climate change, population, environmental and transportation economics. In the climate change area Harry has worked mainly on agricultural and biodiversity adaptation problems, strategic issues of international policy design and the design of carbon taxes. He recently co-authored the Henry Taxation Review's report 'Reforming Taxes and Charges in the Australian Transport Sector' and has authored major reports on population and immigration economics. He edits Economic Papers: A Journal of Applied Economics and Policy.
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John Freebairn

John Freebairn holds the Ritchie Chair in the department of economics at the University of Melbourne. He obtained his bachelor and master degrees from the University of New England and a PhD from the University of California, Davis. John is an applied microeconomist and economic policy analyst. His current research interests include environmental economics, and especially climate change and water policy issues, and reform options for the taxation and social security systems.

Kathryn Smith

Kathryn Smith is a Senior Economist with Vivid Economics, a London-based economics consultancy with a specialisation in energy and climate change economics. Her research interests and expertise focus on the economics of climate policy design and assessment. They include the effective mix of price- and non-price policies to address different mitigation issues, potential tensions and synergies between efficiency and equity in national and global climate and energy policies, and technical issues associated with using cost benefit analysis to assess global and national mitigation strategies.

ZhongXiang Zhang

ZhongXiang Zhang (张中祥) is Senior Fellow at East-West Center. He also is a distinguished professor at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing and Fudan University, Shanghai; an adjunct professor at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Peking University and University of Hawaii at Manoa; and a research associate at School of International Service, American University, Washington, DC.