Webinar: CCS for a competitive net-zero EU

Speakers for this event

• Cédric de Meeûs

  Cédric de Meeûs

  Vice-President, Group Public Affairs & Social Impact, Holcim

  Cedric is a sustainability and public affairs professional with 25 years of international
  experience spanning several sectors, senior leadership roles and cultures. He has extensive
  experience in embedding sustainability prerogatives in corporate strategies, alongside the
  integration of sustainability-related public policy in sectoral and corporate decision-making
  processes. Cédric is a recognized expert on the net-zero agenda, the transition towards
  circular models, industrial transformation and green growth, and sustainable construction
  ecosystems. He is responsible for Holcim’s Public Affairs and Social Impactfunction. In parallel,
  Cedric currently chairs Construction Products Europe. 

  Vice-President, Group Public Affairs & Social Impact, Holcim

• Chris Davies

  Chris Davies

  Director, CCS Europe

  Chris Davies is the Director of
  CCS Europe, a political advocacy and communications campaign body dedicated to
  pushing for urgent scale-up of carbon capture and storage technologies. Chris
  served three terms as an elected member of the European Parliament, leading the
  Liberal group within the Environment Committee and in his last term chairing
  the Fisheries Committee. He was previously a member of the House of Commons in
  London. His legislative work at the European level focused upon environment
  files from chemicals, waste and air quality to CO2 from passenger cars and the
  reform of the Common Fisheries Policy. He created the NER 300 facility under
  the EU Emissions Trading Scheme and has been instrumental in policy related to
  CCS over the last twenty years.

  Director, CCS Europe

• David Berman

  David Berman

  Head of EU Public Affairs, Air Liquide

  David
  Berman is -since 2020- Head of EU Public Affairs at Air Liquide, a world leader
  in gases, technologies and services for Industry and Health and a pioneer in
  Hydrogen for 60 years. Prior to that, David worked as Head of Group Public
  Affairs for a global leader in the environment sector, water management and
  circular economy.

  Head of EU Public Affairs, Air Liquide

• Hanna Biro

  Hanna Biro

  Policy Advisor, Bellona

  As
  a Policy Advisor at Bellona Europa, Hanna focuses on EU sustainable finance
  policy and advocates for CCS deployment in the EU. In particular, she is
  engaged in Bellona Europa’s just transition work and the public perception of
  CCS. Prior to joining Bellona, she worked in management consulting. An
  economist by degree, Hanna holds a postgraduate diploma from Vrije Universiteit
  Brussel (VUB) where she specialised in European Environmental Governance and a
  master’s degree in Comparative Public Policy from the University of Southern
  Denmark (SDU).

  Policy Advisor, Bellona

• James Watson

  James Watson

  Secretary General, Eurogas

  Dr Watson is the Secretary General of Eurogas, a role he has held since January 2019. Eurogas is the association representing the European gas wholesale, retail and distribution sectors.

  Prior to taking the helm at Eurogas, Dr Watson was the Chief Executive Officer of SolarPower Europe, the European solar industry association. Before joining SolarPower Europe, Dr Watson worked as the Director of Public Affairs for Weber Shandwick, specialising in energy and trade policy. Before coming to Brussels, Dr Watson worked for the Commonwealth Secretariat on a European Commission project on trade and sustainable development based in Ethiopia. Earlier in his career James worked for various UK government bodies in London and worked as a lecturer in Environmental Law at the University of Manchester.

  He holds a Ph.D in International Trade and Environmental Law from the University of Leeds, and is currently a Visiting Professor at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel.

  Secretary General, Eurogas

• Johanna Fiksdahl

  Johanna Fiksdahl

  DG ENER, European Commission

  Johanna
  Fiksdahl is a policy officer and a seconded national expert on CCS in DG Energy
  in the European Commission. She has more than 10 years of experience from
  working in the Norwegian Ministry of Petroleum and Energy, on different topics
  – most recently with the government follow-up of the Longship CCS project.
  Johanna is an economist by training, with a Master of Science in International
  Business and Politics from Copenhagen Business School (CBS).

  DG ENER, European Commission

• Judith Kirton-Darling

  Judith Kirton-Darling

  Secretary General, industriAll Europe

  Judith Kirton-Darling is the elected Secretary General of industriAll European Trade Union since July 2020. Prior to this appointment, she was a British Member of the European Parliament from May 2014-January 2020 and has previously held the elected position of ETUC Confederal Secretary.

  Judith built her European trade union experience both in the European Metalworkers’ Federation (EMF) and European Mine, Chemical and Energy Workers Federation (EMCEF), where she worked as policy adviser.

  Secretary General, industriAll Europe