Previous Fora / 2007 / Programme
Diana Ürge-Vorsatz
Professor and Director, Center for Climate Change and Sustainable Energy
Company: Central European University
Department: Environmental Sciences and Policy / Center for Policy Studies
Address: H-1051 Budapest, Nador utca 9.
Country: Hungary
Email:
vorsatzd@ceu.hu
Diana Ürge-Vorsatz is a Professor and Director of the Center for Climate Change and Sustainable Energy Policy (3CSEP) at the Central European University (CEU) in Budapest. She has conducted her Ph.D. studies at the University of California (Berkeley and Los Angeles), and has been a Fulbright Scholar.
After 4 years of dissertation writing and research at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in the USA, Diana Ürge-Vorsatz returned to Europe and has been devoting her research, and teaching activities to the promotion of sustainable energy policy for the Central and Eastern European region. She has worked on and directed several international research projects for organisations including the European Commission, the European Parliament, the Global Environment Facility, United Nation's Environment Programme, the World Energy Council and the World Bank. She has been regularly advising the Hungarian government on environmental, climate change and energy issues.
Dr. Ürge-Vorsatz has authored over 70 publications, and has been serving on several advisory and governing bodies of organisations including UK Energy Research Centre, REEEP (the Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Partnership), the, the Hungarian Energy Efficiency Cofinancing Program (HEECP), the European Council for an Energy Efficient Economy (ECEEE), and the Collaborative Appliance Labelling and Standards Programme (CLASP), among others. She acts as a Coordinating Lead Author for the Fourth Assessment Report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) for the chapter "Climate Change Mitigation in Buildings", serves on the United Nation's Special Expert Group on Climate Change, and is member of the United Nations Foundation's expert group on energy efficiency advising the German G8+5 process. She has been acknowledged to share the Nobel Peace Prize of 2007 that was awarded to the IPCC.