Environment

Expert on German, European, and trans-Atlantic foreign and security policy and strategy. She is the director of the Center on the United States and Europe and the inaugural holder of the Fritz Stern Chair on Germany and trans-Atlantic Relations at Brookings. She held the Kissinger Chair on Foreign Policy and International Relations at the Library of Congress from October 2019 to March 2020, and served as the inaugural Robert Bosch Senior Fellow at Brookings from 2014 to 2019.
Her areas of expertise include: trans-Atlantic relations; German foreign policy; NATO; the European Union’s foreign, security, and defense policy; international law; and human rights.
Stelzenmüller’s essays and articles, in both German and English, have appeared in a wide range of publications, including Foreign Affairs, Internationale Politik, the Washington Post and Süddeutsche Zeitung. She writes a monthly column in the Financial Times.
She holds a doctorate in law from the University of Bonn (1992), a master’s degree in public administration from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University (1988), and a law degree from the University of Bonn (1985).

Last update: july 2024

Director of the Energy Security and Climate Initiative and a fellow in Foreign Policy. Her work is focused on the intersection of energy, environment, and policy, including climate policy and international cooperation, the transition to net-zero emissions energy system, energy geopolitics, and global energy markets. Se has more than 25 years of experience in energy and environmental affairs.
In 2021, Samantha Gross was a Brookings Robert Bosch Foundation Transatlantic Fellow in Berlin. She has been a visiting fellow at the King Abdullah Petroleum Studies and Research Center, where she authored work on clean energy cooperation and on post-Paris climate policy. She was director of the Office of International Climate and Clean Energy at the U.S. Department of Energy.
She holds a Bachelor of Science in chemical engineering from the University of Illinois, a Master of Science in environmental engineering from Stanford, and a Master of Business Administration from the University of California at Berkeley.

Last update: july 2024

He is an environmental engineer with a degree from Universidade Nova de Lisboa, a master's degree from Virginia Tech in the United States, and a PhD from Universidade Nova de Lisboa.
He is an Associate Professor in the area of the environment at the Faculty of Science and Technology of Universidade Nova de Lisboa (NOVA FCT) and a member of CENSE (Centre for Research into the Environment and Sustainability), part of the CHANGE Associated Laboratory.
President of Associação Zero – Sustainable Earth Association, created in 2015 to advocate for sustainability in Portuguese society.

Historian of science, with significant contributions to the philosophy and sociology of science. She published a hugely influential article (in Science magazine in 2004) quantifying the scientific consensus on climate change. She co-authored the book «Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from «Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming» (2010) and recently published Why Trust Science?» (2019). She is a columnist for «Scientific American» magazine.

Last updated: October 2020

Head of Sustainability at The Navigator Company, the largest private forestry producer in Portugal, responsible for 107,000 hectares of forest.

Executive Chairman of the Mestre Casais Foundation and Professor of Regional and Urban Systems at the University of Minho.
He was Secretary of State for the Environment, Secretary of State for Mobility, Secretary of State for Planning and Member of Parliament.
He was Chairman of the Transport Decarbonization Alliance (2017-2019), a global alliance of countries, cities and companies promoting decarbonisation of transport by 2050. He was a consultant and evaluator for the European Commission (2000-2015). As a professor and researcher, he has worked at various universities in Italy, Poland, the US, Brazil and Mozambique. He is a civil engineer, with a doctorate and habilitation in regional and urban systems, as well as postgraduate degrees from the University of Oxford, Harvard and University Institute of Lisbon (ISCTE).

An agronomist with a degree from the University of Évora, he owns Herdade da Parreira, an estate of over 800 hectares in Montemor-o-Novo, as well as the company Bovicer – Bovinos e Cereais, Lda., which produces 220 hectares of irrigated fodder crops and autumn-winter cereals, rears beef cattle and manages a considerable area of cork oak and holm oak forests. The company follows conservation agriculture practices, prioritising soil conservation.

Manager and Founder of Do Zero, an online business that has grown into a physical shop serving the needs of environmentally conscious consumers concerned with reuse and recycling.

Architect and Founder of Do Zero, an online business that has grown into a physical shop serving the needs of environmentally conscious consumers concerned with reuse and recycling.

Professor in the Department of Landscape, Environment and Planning at the University of Évora. She is a geographer with a degree from the Faculty of Letters of the University of Lisbon, an MSc from Arlon, Belgium (Diplome Européen en Sciences de l'Environment), and a PhD in Geography from the University of Copenhagen.
She is Director of MED – Mediterranean Institute for Agriculture, Environment and Development, Course Director of the Doctoral Programme in Interdisciplinary Landscape Management and of the Doctoral Programme in Landscape Biodiversity and Society.