Governing Board

Governing Board Representatives as of November 8th, 2011

List of Member Countries

Country	Name	Affiliation	Email
Austria	Irene Gabriel	Austrian Federal Ministry for Science and Research
	Sebastian Helgenberger	BOKU Center for Global Change and Sustainability
Belgium	Thierry Vancauwenberg	Walloon Public Services, DG for Economy, Research and Employment
	Frank Monteny	Belgian Science Policy – Belspo
	alternate to F. Monteny: Martine Vanderstraeten	Belgian Science Policy – Belspo
Denmark	Lene Cividanes	Danish Council for Strategic Research
	alternate to L. Cividanes: Martin Serritslev Riis	Danish Council for Strategic Research
	Anja Skjoldborg Hansen	Aarhus University
Finland	Pekka Plathan	Ministry of Transport and Communication
	Paavo-Petri Ahonen	Academy of Finland
France	Corinne Borel	French National Alliance on Environment – AllEnvie
	Patrick Monfray	National Research Agency
Germany (Chair)	Wilfried Kraus	Federal Ministry of Education and Research
Ireland	Frank Mcgovern	Irish Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Climate Change Unit
Italy	Antonio Navarra	Euro-Mediterranean Centre for Climate Change – CCMC
	alternate to A. Navarra: Sergio Castellari	Euro-Mediterranean Centre for Climate Change – CCMC
	Clini Corrado	Ministero dell'Ambiente e della Tutela del Territorio e del Mare (MATTM)
Norway (Vice-chair)	Kirsten Broch Mathisen	Research Council of Norway
	Ingrid Bjotveit	Climate and Pollution Agency
Spain	Lourdes Armesto	Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness
	Joaquin Serrano	Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness
Sweden	Magnus Friberg	Swedish Research Council – Infrastructures Unit
	alternate to M. Friberg: Sven Stafström	Swedish Research Council – Executive Secretary for Science and Technology
	Lisa Almesjö	Swedish Research Council – Formas
	alternate to L. Almesjö: Jan Svensson	Swedish Research Council – Formas
The Netherlands	Robert Schoonman	Ministry of Infrastructure and Environment
	alternate to R. Schoonman: Vincent van den Bergen	Ministry of Infrastructure and Environment
	Frans Berkhout	VU University – Institute for Environmental Studies
United Kingdom	Ned Garnett	Natural Environment Research Council – NERC
	Adrian Broad	Met Office

List of Observer Countries

Country	Name	Affiliation	Email
Slovenia		Tatjana Švajger		Slovenian Ministry of Higher Education, Science and Technology
Turkey		Meltem Ünlü Tokcaer		The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (Tübitak)

List of further Institutions linked to the GB

Institution	Name	Institutional details	Email
European Commission (non-voting member)	Andrea Tilche	EC DG Research, Climate Change and Natural Hazards Unit I.4
	José Jimenez Mingo	EC DG Research, Climate Change and Natural Hazards Unit I.4
ERA-NET CIRCLE 2 (observer)	Tiago Capela Lourenço	ERA NET „Climate Impact Research & Response Coordination for a Larger Europe)
EEA (observer)	André Jol	European Environment Agency
	Martin Füssel	European Environment Agency
NORDFORSK (observer)	Michael Andersson	NordForsk
	Maria Nilsson	NordForsk
ECRA (observer)	Andreas Krell	European Climate Research Alliance
ESA (observer)	Pierre-Philippe Mathieu	European Space Agency
JPI Central Secretariat	Dagmar Bley	Project Management Agency, Part of the German Aerospace Center – PT-DLR
	Kirsten Hollaender	PT-DLR
	Armin Mathes	PT-DLR

First Meeting of the JPI Climate's Governing Board

The first meeting of the Governing Board of the JPI Climate took place in Helsinki on 30 and 31 May 2011.

• JPI Climate now has 13 member countries; the EC is a non-voting member. Observers are Slovenia and Turkey. Observer institutions are NordForsk, European Environment Agency (EEA), ERA-Net CIRCLE 2, European Climate Research Alliance (ECRA), and European Space Agency (ESA).
• Germany has been elected as chair and Norway as vice-chair of the Governing Board.
• An interim JPI Climate Secretariat has been established at PT-DLR (Germany).

 

This was the constitutive meeting of the European Joint Programming Initiative 'Climate' held in Helsinki May 30th / 31st 2011. Perfectly organized in a very pleasant atmosphere by our Finnish colleagues!

 

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