Koko Warner© Koko Warner
Koko Warner
Koko Warner (United States): Head of the Environmental Migration, Social Vulnerability, and Adaptation Section at the United Nations University Institute for Environment and Human Security (UNU-EHS). Researcher at IIASA (1997-2003), ETH Zürich´s Swiss Federal Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research (2003-2006), and UNU-EHS since 2006, and a founder and executive board member of the Munich Climate Insurance Initiative (MCII). Warner´s research focuses on two climate adaptation paths: environmentally induced migration and environmental change, social vulnerability, and financial mechanisms to assist the poor including (micro)insurance and remittances. She is pursuing a Habilitation at the ETH Zürich, Department for Environmental Science and Economics, and serves as an assistant professor at the University of Richmond´s Emergency Service Management graduate program. She has published in Nature, Climate Policy, Global Environmental Change, Disasters, Environmental Hazards, Natural Hazards, The Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance – Issues and Practice, and other journals. She serves on the editorial board of the International Journal of Global Warming. Warner studied development and environmental economics at George Washington University, and the University of Vienna where she received her PhD in economics as a Fulbright Fellow.
Michael Nash© Nash
Film Climate Refugees© Nash
Michael Nash
Multi-award winning filmmaker Michael Nash has been involved in the entertainment industry for a decade. Recently Michael Nash was hand picked along with the likes of Steve Wozniak/co-founder Apple computers, John Chambers Founder/CEO-Cisco Systems, Carlos Santana/musician, and Richard Newton/Dean of UC Berkeley, to be the recipient of “THE GLOBAL INNOVATION AWARD”. It is Nash’s cutting edge innovation and his passion to tell stories that so few filmmakers will attempt that has garnished him such high accolades. Nash has recently directed the global documentary titled, Climate Refugees. A film the United Nations screened in Copenhagen, for the leaders of the world, they also highlighted Nash as an expert on panels regarding environmental migration. Climate Refugees will World Premiered at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival. Senator Boxer states, “it’s films like Climate Refugees and The Incontinent Truth that truly are the wind that will fill the sails to America signing a green energy bill. Nash’s first feature film, the critically acclaimed film titled “Fuel” which won top feature film honors, The Grand Jury Award in Europe. He has created a digital-video exploration montage for the Getty Museum, been involved in several television programs, development deals, music videos. Currently Nash has two tv shows in pre-production, one with Fremantle(American Idol and America’s got talent) and the second with Grosso/Jacobson.
Press Release Film Climate Refugees: Press Release Climate Refugees (pdf)
Further information: www.climaterefugees.com/
The film FUEL: www.fuelthefilm.com/
Alexis Passadakis© Alexis Passadakis
Alexis Passadakis
Alexis J. Passadakis is an active member of the nationwide coordination team of attac, the “directorate” of the network which is critical of globalization (www.attac.de). Since 2007 he is active in the climate equality movement, especially in the group “Gegenstromberlin” (www.gegenstromberlin.net). In 2008 he was one of the organizers of the climate camp in Hamburg 2008 (www.klimacamp08.net) against the new construction of the coal-fired power station in Moorburg and had to escape from the police when he was trying to squat the construction place.
During the last few years Alexis J. Passadakis had been working for several NGO’s. He is currently involved in political education. He gained his academic training in political science at the Free University in Berlin and acquired his Master’s degree in „Global Political Economy“ from the University of Sussex/GB.
Alexis J. Passadakis puts his current focus for his political work and his research on the topics global economic crisis, climate equality and growth criticism.
Jacob Bilabel© J. Bilabel
Jacob Bilabel
Jacob Bilabel is Founder of the Green Music Initiative, which provides a platform for the music and entertainment industry to coordinate projects in the fight against climate change – with the objective to create demand for innovative and sustainable strategies – both from the climate and business points of view.
Prior to that he worked as VP Communications and New Business at Universal Music Germany. In the following years he set up MySpace’s operations in Germany and became part of the social media advisory board of the Green Party. In the 2005 elections he was a personal consultant to Mr. Joschka Fischer, Germany’s Foreign Minister.
Jacob Bilabel holds a Magister Artium from University of Hamburg in Linguistics and Social Anthropology. Today, he is Managing Director of Berlin based Think-Do Tank THEMA1 specialized in accelerating the transition to a Low Carbon Society. He is a mentor at the Akademie der Künste (University of the Arts) in Berlin and Founding Member of the ReDesign Deutschland initiative.
Grit Kümmele
Presentation: Grit Kümmele
Grit Kümmele has been working as a teacher, trainer, lecturer, project-, conference and event manger, as conceptual designer and as an artist in national and international projects. She had been Study Site Director for Georgetown University, Washington, D.C. in Berlin for 15 years and works for open door international as area representative Berlin of the PPP exchange program of the German Bundestag and the U.S.Congress. Grit Kümmele is very experienced in designing and conducting international trainings and workshops. She is spokeswoman of the Berlin-Brandenburg International Studies Network (BISS), an active member of the New Traditions Network (NTN) and chairperson of the association circle of friends of the Amerika Haus Berlin. She has organized and curated numerous art exhibitions and projects and participated with her own artistic work. She works for the NYU Spring Program in Berlin as an instructor for art in public space projects.
