Green innovation: dringend & wichtig zugleich
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Elisabeth-Herz-Kremenak-Saal
Plenary
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in englischer SpracheEisenhower hat einmal gesagt, dass seine Probleme entweder dringend, aber nicht wichtig, oder aber wichtig, aber nicht dringend wären. Europa hat jedoch ein Problem, das wichtig und dringend zugleich ist: Wie schaffen wir die Transformation zu einer ressourcenschonenden, grünen, dekarbonisierten Gesellschaft? Zwei führende TheoretikerInnen diskutieren mit der Politik, warum diese Transformation Sinn macht und welche Möglichkeiten sich durch grüne Innovation für uns auftun.
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Mag. Christian KERN
Chancellor, Republic of Austria, Vienna
| Christian Kern was sworn in as Austria's Federal Chancellor on 17th May 2016. After working as a journalist and in the Austrian Parliament and Federal Chancellery, Mr. Kern launched a career in the energy sector in 1997. At Verbund AG, Austria's largest energy utility, he was appointed to the group's management board in 2007. He then switched to the Austrian Federal Railways Group, where he served as Chairman of the Management Board from 2010 onward. In this capacity, he also became Chairman of the Brussels-based Community of European Railways (CER) in 2014. Under Mr. Kern's leadership, the Austrian Federal Railways investigated the railway operator's role during the Nazi era in a project entitled "Suppressed Years". Mr. Kern was born in Vienna on 4th January 1966, and he graduated from an academic secondary school in Vienna's 11th district (Simmering). He then went on to study sociology, political science and communications at the University of Vienna. |
Ph.D. Mariana MAZZUCATO
Professor in the Economics of Innovation and Public Value, UCL - University College London, and Director, IIPP - Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose, London
| 1984-1998 | US Foreign Service Officer |
| 1998-2001 | Senior Associate, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace |
| 2001-2002 | Associate Director, Policy Planning Staff, US Department of State |
| 2002-2007 | Senior Director for Russia, US National Security Council staff |
| 2011-2017 | Senior Fellow, Jackson Institute for Global Affairs, Yale University |
| since 2007 | Managing Director, Kissinger Associations, Inc. |
Mag. Wilhelm MOLTERER
Managing Director, EFSI - European Fund for Strategic Investments, Luxembourg
| 1974-1980 | Studies, Social Economics, Johannes Kepler University Linz |
| Chairman of Student's Union, Johannes Kepler University Linz | |
| 1979-1981 | Assistant, Department of Agricultural Policy, University of Linz |
| 1981-1984 | Head, Economic Policy Division, Austrian Farmers' Federation |
| 1985-1986 | Employee, Provincial Government of Upper Austria |
| 1985-1987 | Municipal Councillor in Sierning |
| 1987-1989 | Secretary of the Office, Federal Minister Dr. Josef Riegler |
| 1989-1990 | Head of the Office, Federal Minister Dr. Franz Fischler |
| 1990-1993 | Director, Austrian Farmers' Federation |
| 1990-1994 | Member, National Council of Austria |
| 1993-1994 | Secretary-general, Austrian People's Party |
| 1994-2000 | Austrian Federal Minister of Agriculture and Forestry |
| 2000-2003 | Austrian Federal Minister of Agriculture, Forestry, Environment and Water Management |
| 2003-2007 | Chairman, Austrian People's Party Parliamentary group |
| 2007-2008 | Vice Chancellor and Federal Minister of Finance of the Republic of Austria |
| Chairman, Austrian People's Party | |
| 2008-2011 | Member, National Council, Spokesperson on Constitutional Matters |
| 2011-2015 | Vice-President, European Investment Bank, Luxembourg |
| since 2015 | Managing Director, EFSI - European Fund for Strategic Investments, Luxembourg |
Gregor ROBERTSON
Mayor, City of Vancouver
Dr. Jeffrey D. SACHS
Professor of Economics; Leader in Sustainable Development; Senior UN Advisor; Bestselling Author; Syndicated Columnist, New York
| 1973 | Staff Assistant to the Subcommittee on Antitrust and Monopolies, Judiciary Committee of the United States Senate |
| 1974 | Staff Assistant to United States Senator Phillip A. Hart |
| 1977 | Student Intern at Federal Research Board, Washington, DC |
| 1978 | Visiting Scholar, Institute for International Economic Studies, Stockholm |
| 1978-1980 | Junior Fellow, Harvard Society of Fellows, Cambridge, MA |
| 1979-1980 | Research Associate, Falk Institute of Economic Research, Jerusalem, Israel, Collaboration with Michael Bruno |
| 1981 | Visiting Research Associate, London School of Economics |
| 1982 | Consultant, International Monetary Fund, Washington, DC |
| 1983 | Consultant, OECD - Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development and Visiting Professor, Ecole des Haute Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris |
| 1984-2002 | Galen L. Stone Professor of International Trade, Harvard University (Assistant Professor, 1980-1982, Associate Professor, 1982-1983, Full Professor 1984-2002) |
| 1984-1986 | Visiting Professor, Institute of World Economics, Kiel |
| 1986-1987 | Visiting Scholar, Bank of Japan and Japan Ministry of Finance, Tokyo |
| 1990-1992 | Visiting Professor of Macroeconomic Policy, WIDER - World Institute of Development Economics,Research, United Nations University, Helsinki |
| 1994-1996 | Founder and Chair, Executive Committee, Institute of Economic Analysis, Moscow |
| 1995-1999 | Director, Harvard Institute for International Development, Cambridge, MA |
| 1998-2002 | Director, Center for International Development, Harvard University |
| 1999-2000 | Member, International Financial Institutions Advisory Commission appointed by U.S. Congress |
| 2000-2001 | Chair, Commission on Macroeconomics and Health for the World Health Organization, Geneva |
| 2002-2006 | Special Advisor to U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan on Millennium Development Goals; Director, United Nations Millennium Project |
| 2002-2016 | Director, The Earth Institute and Quetelet Professor of Sustainable Development, Colombia University, New York |
| 2007-2016 | Special Advisor to U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon on Millenium Development Goals and Sustainable Development Goals |
| 2010-2015 | Member, UN Secretary General's MDG Advocacy Group |
| Current functions: | |
| Director, Center for Sustainable Development, Columbia University, New York | |
| Special Advisor to United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres | |
| University Professor, Columbia University, New York | |
| Director, UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network | |
| Distinguished Fellow, IIASA - International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis | |
| Co-Founder and Director, Millennium Promise | |
| Founder and Chair, SDG USA | |
| Economic Advisor to governments in Latin America, Eastern Europe, Africa and Asia | |
| Research Associate, National Bureau of Economic Research, Cambridge, MA | |
| Member, Brookings Panel of Economists, Brookings Institution, Washington, DC | |
| Co-Chair, Asian Economic Panel of Economists |
Dr. Alexandra FÖDERL-SCHMID
Correspondent, Israel and Palestine Territories, Süddeutsche Zeitung, Tel Aviv
| Alexandra Föderl-Schmid, born in 1971, has been with the Süddeutsche Zeitung since September 2017 and reports on Israel and the Palestinian territories. Before that, she was editor-in-chief for ten years and later co-editor of the Austrian daily newspaper Der Standard and the news portal derStandard.at. She has studied journalism, political science and history and earned her doctorate on the dual broadcasting system in Germany. Furthermore, she was 2005 Reuters/APA-Geiringer-Fellow in Oxford. She was awarded with the Austrian Kurt-Vorhofer-Prize for politcal journalism, the Constitutional Award and the Ari-Rath-Prize. In addition, she was instrumental in the reestablishment of the Press Council in Austria. |
